casuistries, notwithstanding his dislike to the man himself, he had a certain admiration, founded on a secret affinity of nature.  Indeed it was wonderful to observe how, with all Jack’s hatred to Peter, real or pretended, he took after him in so many points—­insomuch that at times, their look, voice, manner, and way of thinking, were so closely alike, that those who knew them best might very well have mistaken them for each other.  The usher having produced the Squire’s copy of the indenture, pointed out the clause by which Jack became bound to examine and admit to the schools on North Farm any qualified usher whom the Squire might send—­as the condition on which he was to retain his right to the tabernacle and his own mansion upon the Farm—­at the same time showing Jack’s seal and signature at the bottom of the deed.  Jack, being called upon by the justices to show cause, pulled out of his pocket an old memorandum-book—­very greasy, musty, and ill-flavoured—­and which, from the quantity of dust and cobwebs with which it was overlaid, had obviously been lying on the shelf for half a century at least.  This he placed in the hands of his friend Snacks the attorney, pointing out to him a page or two which he had marked with his thumb nail, as appropriate to the matter in hand.  And there, to be sure, was to be found, among a quantity of other nostrums, recipes, cooking receipts, prescriptions, and omnium-gatherums of all kinds, an entry to this effect:—­“That no ushere be yntruded intoe anie schoole against ye wille of ye schooleboys in schoole-roome assembled.”  Whereupon the attorney maintained, that, as this memorandum-book of Jack’s was plainly of older date than the indenture, and had evidently been seen by the Squire at or prior to the time of signing, as appeared from some of the entries which it contained being incorporated in the deed, it must be presumed, that its whole contents, though not to be found in the indenture per expressum, or totidem verbis, were yet included therein implicitly, or in a latent form, inasmuch as they were not per expressum excluded therefrom;—­this being, as you will recollect, precisely the argument which Jack had borrowed from Peter, when the latter construed their father’s will in the question as to the lawfulness of their wearing shoulder-knots; and very much of the same kind with that celebrated thesis which Peter afterwards maintained in the matter of the brown loaf.  And though he was obliged to admit (what indeed from the very look of the book he could not well dispute) that no such rule had ever been known or acted upon—­and on the contrary that Jack, until this last occasion, had always admitted the Squire’s ushers without objection whatsoever; yet he contended vehemently, that now that his conscience was awakened on the subject, the past must be laid out of view; and that the old memorandum-book, as part and parcel of the indenture itself, must receive effect; and farther, that whether he, Jack, was right or wrong in this matter, the Justices had no right to interfere with them.