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Heathcliff's lip quivered slightly, and she returned to her seat in the window. Her husband took his stand on the hearthstone, near me, and began to put questions concerning Catherine. I told him as much as I thought proper of her illness, and he extorted from me, by cross-examination, most of the facts connected with its origin.
She turned her swimming eyes on him. "My husband!" she whispered in return. Rose came out, and found them billing and cooing. "You MUST not be so happy, you two," said she authoritatively. "How can we help it?" asked Camille. "You must and shall help it, somehow," retorted this little tyrant. "Mamma suspects. She has given me such a cross-examination, my blood runs cold.
D'Odd in the distance, and at once plunged at her with another string of inquiries as to her health, delivered so volubly and with such an intense earnestness that I half expected to see him terminate his cross-examination by feeling her pulse and demanding a sight of her tongue.
"You have been expecting me?" she asked eagerly. Granet was a little taken aback. "I have been hoping to hear from you," he said. "You told me, if you remember, not to write." "It was better not," she assented. "Even after you left I had a great deal of trouble. That odious man, Major Thomson, put me through a regular cross-examination again, and I had to tell him at last " "What?"
"That doll, there, on the table," said the porter, "was stolen from me on New Year's eve, and now that man" he pointed to the Count, who stood stiffly looking on "that man has got possession of it." "And who stole it from you?" inquired the policeman with that acuteness in the art of cross-examination for which the police are in all countries so justly famous.
He seed two men come out of Schroeder's back door and meet one man standing at the gate. When they got closter he knowed Pearson by his wooden leg and the master by his hat. On cross-examination he was a little confused when asked why he hadn't told of it before, but said that he was afraid to say much, bekase the folks was a-talkin' about hanging the master, and he didn't want no lynchin'.
When Barbara asked her escort where his home was, he said it was going to be in Suez, and on cross-examination explained that Flatrock was only a small plantation where his sister lived and took care of his father, who was old and sick. He seemed to Barbara to be very easily amused, even laughing at some things she said which she did not intend for jokes at all.
Every wandering merchant was welcome at Kerfol, and when the master was called away he never came back without bringing his wife a handsome present something curious and particular from Morlaix or Rennes or Quimper. One of the waiting-women gave, in cross-examination, an interesting list of one year's gifts, which I copy.
In cross-examination he stated that although Provis had two sons, named John and Thomas, he only knew the younger, and had but little intercourse with John, who was the elder.
The answer was curt, and the minister saw that the young man resented any cross-examination of his private affairs. He therefore turned the conversation at once to impersonal matters. "How do you like Canada? How does it strike you?" "Fine!" answered Dean, relieved at the turn of the conversation. "So big." "You mean the extent of the country?" "It's not that, quite.