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 The sure sign of a [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyer]] who was soundly, but not sufficiently, beaten as a clerk.
-The “next following” day speaks to that nervousness that the day you have in mind — the one immediately following the one at hand — might not be the one your adversary does. For a day following this one might, conceivably, fall some indeterminate time — four days, eight days, who knows, even three hundred and fifty-seven days? — in the future. all of these are days following this one; if you mean one cannot be sure it will be the one tomorrow.
+The “next following” day speaks to that nervousness that the day ''you'' have in mind — the one immediately following the one at hand — might not be the one ''your adversary'' does. For ''a'' day following this one might, conceivably, fall some indeterminate time — four days, eight days, who knows, even three hundred and fifty-seven days? — in the future. All days after this one “follow” this one; if you mean one cannot be sure it will be the one tomorrow.
-This is the kind of argument you'd expect from that posh ginger girl on Just William, and it pains me to think an adult learned in the ways of the law could be vexed by it.
+This is the kind of argument you'd expect from that posh ginger girl on ''Just William''.
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 “Tho I did. But not this following day. Another one. In Theptember, I shouldn't be thurprised.”
+It pains me, readers, to think an adult learned in the ways of the law could be vexed by such a thought. Firstly, ''a'' following business day is not the same thing as ''the'' following business day. That definitive article restricts you to a single day.
+But if you remain unsatiated; if you fear you may never see your india-rubber again, then use the word [[next]].
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