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And then he asked, with a cross-examining air, "How much money might there be in the bags, Master Marner?" "Two hundred and seventy-two pounds, twelve and sixpence, last night when I counted it," said Silas, seating himself again, with a groan. "Pooh! why, they'd be none so heavy to carry.
"And is that the handkerchief which disappeared in your rooms, at your second dinner?" Peter nodded his head. "And both times you helped me hunt for them?" Peter nodded his head. He at last knew how prisoners felt when he was cross-examining them. "I knew you had them all the time," said Leonore laughing.
Simonov looked at me ironically. Trudolyubov left off eating and began looking at me with curiosity. Zverkov winced, but he tried not to notice it. "And the remuneration?" "What remuneration?" "I mean, your sa-a-lary?" "Why are you cross-examining me?" However, I told him at once what my salary was. I turned horribly red. "It is not very handsome," Zverkov observed majestically.
The ship is in a powerful tidal current, and it is high-water at 5.30 A.M. At a rough estimate, Hanover Island is twenty knots distant. Now you know all. The outcome is mere guesswork." "Why did the furnaces blow up?" "I was cross-examining Joey on that point when you came in. He reserved his opinion.
Drawing herself up a little, and proceeding in a more neutral tone than before, she proceeded to put him through a catechism on Oxford, alternately cross-examining him and expounding to him her own views and her husband's on the functions of the Universities.
Now having started, Dick told his story in full. The incidents were not told consecutively, and he needed considerable cross-examining before the tale was properly fitted together and his audience of four had grasped the full details. Then Mrs.
"Oh, the Stockheath breach-of-promise case? I did more than that. I was in court all three days." R. Jones emitted a cozy chuckle. "Is he a pal of yours? A cousin, eh? I wish you had seen him in the witness box, with Jellicoe-Smith cross-examining him! The funniest thing I ever heard! And his letters to the girl! They read them out in court; and of all " "Don't, old man! Dickie, old top please!
He turned himself into cross-examining counsel, proud of his discrimination and his immunity against the insidious appeal of the supernatural. He succeeded. The medium was confounded, she lost her power; the phenomena did not occur. The atmosphere was chilled. Some of us felt we would rather have been visited by the village blacksmith than by this priestly exponent of sweet-faced materialism.
"Do you go so far as to say she returns this this feeling you attribute to him?" he asked abruptly. He was relieved to see Blanche shake her head. "No; I can't say that I've detected any response on her part," she said lightly. "But she's very old-fashioned and reserved. She certainly enjoys Sir Lyon's rather dull conversation, and she likes cross-examining him about the life of the poor.
"I want to hear what you have to say about the death of your wife. You forced the cross-examining role on me. I'm doing my best." Ingerman kept silent during many seconds. When he spoke, his cultured voice was suave as ever. "Perhaps it was my fault, Mr. Furneaux," he said. "You gave me a strong hint. I should have taken it, and we might have started an interesting chat on pleasanter lines.
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