John Jarndyce

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    Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
    —Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 2:10.

    Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)