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Sidney Webb and others moved the National Liberal Club to action; we led a procession of the girls to the House of Commons, and interviewed, with a deputation of them, Members of Parliament who cross-questioned them. The girls behaved splendidly, stuck together, kept brave and bright all through. Mr. Hobart of the Social Democratic Federation, Messrs.
Helm listened attentively to Dutremble's lively sketch, then cross-questioned him with laconic directness. "Send Mr. Jazon to me," he said to M. Roussillon, as if speaking to a servant. The master Frenchman went promptly, recognizing Captain Helm's right to command, and sympathizing With his unpleasant military predicament if the news should prove true.
It sounded, however, so quite like a dictum which she herself would have liked to make, that she cross-questioned Sylvia afterwards as to its meaning; but Sylvia lied fluently, asserting that it was just some of Professor Kennedy's mathematical gibberish which had no meaning. In the growing acquaintance of Sylvia and Jermain, Mrs.
"Nothing," said Jeanne at first, after the manner of little girls, and boys too, when they do not want to be cross-questioned; but after a while she confessed that she had run into the tapestry room on her way down, and that the moonlight made the figures look as if they were moving and and that Dudu came and stood on the window-sill and croaked at her.
Jack had no cause to complain of any want of hospitality on the part of those to whom he delivered Mr Harwood's letters, but in several instances he was received with an air of stiffness and formality which showed that full confidence was not placed in him. Indeed, when on one or two occasions he was cross-questioned, having really no information to give, he was speedily again dismissed.
Clark, editor of a literary magazine, who, with the view of making a little article out of his visit, questioned and cross-questioned Clare in the most minute way as to his financial circumstances, and the number of his patrons.
When you told me about your home it was like something that I had often seen before. I shall be dreaming about it next!" Beverley cross-questioned her from every possible point of view; he was fascinated with the mystery; but she gave him nothing out of which the least further light could be drawn.
"You two can have the next chance," smiled Dick. "As for me, I am certain that I can never catch Amos Garwood unless he and I happen to be running toward each other." "All in favor of supper," proposed Dan Dalzell, glancing at his watch, "say 'aye' and turn homeward." "But shan't we try, for a while, to trail Garwood?" queried Greg. "What's the use?" cross-questioned Dick disconsolately.
I'm not going to be cross-questioned," said Fleda laughing. "He did not prevent my sending them." "And if they take them, do you expect they will give anything for them? the Magazine people?" "I am sure if they don't they shall have no more that is my only possible inducement to let them be printed. For my own pleasure, I would far rather not." "Did you sign with your own name?" "My own name!
Varennes listened gravely, and cross-questioned her in his unbelief for it seemed, indeed, monstrous that a man of La Boulaye's position should ruin so promising a future as was his by an act for which Varennes could not so much as divine a motive.
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