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"But she did say something to you, didn't she?" I asked finally, with the gentleness of a cross-examining lawyer. "Yes after that moment." "Well, what was it?" "She said, 'Not now! That was all." "I suppose that was all she had breath for! It was just the inconsequent and meaningless thing a frightened woman WOULD say!" "Meaningless?" he repeated, and looked up wonderingly.
"He taught that it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong; and that the gods wished men to know them, not by beliefs and observances, but by doing good." This teaching, which was misunderstood by many, together with the dislike not to say hatred which such a "cross-examining missionary" would inevitably excite, caused his trial for impiety or rejection of the popular deities.
He had made up his mind on the previous evening that he would talk to Charlie as a father ought to talk to a son, that is to say, like a cross-examining barrister and a moralist combined. He had decided that it was more than his right it was his duty to do so.
He may have spent twenty minutes there, chiefly cross-examining Micky on particulars, before he got up to go. He forgot the odious coat, for Susan Burr called him back, and tried to persuade him to put it on. He resisted all entreaties. Such a little distance! was it worth the trouble? He threw it over his arm, and again departed.
When he awoke Mamuliekala and many of the braves were gone." This was all the old man would say, and the other aged Indian said he had been away in the woods, digging roots and herbs, for three days. The stories were probably not true, but nothing was to be gained by cross-examining the pair, and White Buffalo did not try it.
Gildersleeve gazed across at her with the countenance which had made so many a nervous witness quake at the Old Bailey. "Are you QUITE sure of that, Minnie?" he asked, in his best cross-examining tone. "Quite sure she said Mambury, all of her own accord? Quite sure you didn't suggest it to her, or supply the name, or give her a hint of its whereabouts, or put her a leading question?"
Priestly in the divorce courts " Sally struggled to her feet. "Mrs. Priestly?" "Yes; what about her? Do you know her?" "What do you know about her?" she asked. "I'm counsel for her husband." "You're cross-examining her?" Straight through her mind leapt that scene in the divorce court when she had witnessed his attack upon the miserable woman whom the law had placed out for his feet to trample on.
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 Universities.
She lay awake of nights cross-examining herself as to what precise words she had spoken that day, as to what things she had done, what gestures even she had made, in the vain and torturing effort to find out whether she had done anything which might betray her secret.
I could not resist the opportunity she had offered to ask that too pointed question; but I looked down at the floor as I spoke; I wanted her to understand that I was not cross-examining her. "I knew you saw us," she returned in the same even tone that she had used all through this conversation of ours. She had not once raised or lowered her voice.
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