text:  But then this argued inversely; one chance to twenty-five that my friend might be _un_hanged and knocking about the streets of London; in which case it would have been a perfect god-send to him that here lay an opening (of _my_ contrivance not _his_) for requesting the opinion of a jury on the amount of _solatium_ due to his wounded feelings in an action on the passage in the Confessions