On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be -- as here they are -- mistily engagedengagein one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause , trippingtripone another up on slippery precedents , gropinggropeknee-deep in technicalities , runningruntheir goat-hair and horsehair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretencepretenceof equity with serious faces , as players might .
Everything went wrong that triptrip, and to top up with I got the feverfeverbadly .
One triptripthey did take ; when Anthony was eleven they wentgoabroad , to England and Switzerland , and there in the best hotel in Lucerne his father dieddiewith much sweatingsweatand gruntinggruntand cryingcryaloud for air .