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There is, in the former, a versatility of talent that keeps him always ready; a happiness of retort, generally disastrous to the wit of the most established cross-examiner; an apparent simplicity, which is quite as impenetrable as the lawyer's assurance; a vis comica, which puts the court in tears; and an originality of sorrow, that often convulses it with laughter.
I was always opposed to this process as against an accused person, because I know how difficult it is under the most favourable circumstances to avoid the pitfalls which a clever and artistic cross-examiner may dig for the unwary.
It is no discredit to Nathan Goodbody that he lacked the skill and cunning of an astute cross-examiner. Unlike poets, they are made, not born, and he found the Swede to be a difficult witness to handle to his purpose. He succeeded in doing little more than to get him to reaffirm the damaging testimony he had already given.
"My dear sir, I did not ask you if you disliked Paris, but if there were anything that made you dislike coming back to it on a visit." "What a notion! and what a cross-examiner you would have made if you had been called to the bar!
Converse settled himself into the tone and pose of the cross-examiner. "I have been a vagrant, hiding myself in the highways and byways of this country, for a long time." "What happened to drive you out like that?" "Right there, Mr. Converse, is where I must halt. It is a family matter. I cannot go into it." "Look here, Thornton, you are in trouble. If you are in trouble, so is your father.
"Oh, well, engaged, Dick," she replied, with a little blush. "With a view, I presume. Then I suppose it follows that you are in love h'm?" "Why, Dick, what a cross-examiner you are!" The blush increased. "Well, my dear girl, surely it's a natural assumption, is it not?" "Oh, I suppose so. But " "Yes?"
Let him go!" "He objected to the light in the workroom, didn't he?" went on the cross-examiner, carefully piecing the situation together bit by bit. "He could see for thirty-seven years, till everybody talks about moving; then he goes crazy," blurted Ersten. "Won't you look at this place?" he was urged. "Let me show it to you to-morrow." "I stay where I am," sullenly declared Ersten, still angry.
"You're another answer to the advertisement then, I suppose?" the lady's voice unceremoniously interrupted. He confessed himself Another Answer, and in that capacity proceeded now to reply as best he might to a merciless and rapid fire of questions. She would have made an excellent cross-examiner for the prosecution; Mr. Heatherbloom did not seem to enjoy the grilling.
There was hardly a trick forbidden to the cross-examiner and hardly a defense permitted to the witness. And yet that very helplessness gave the witness a certain shadowy aide at his side. Jim's heart was beating high with his fervor to defend Charity, but it stumbled when Beattie rose and faced him. And Beattie faced him a long while before he spoke.
He, the expert cross-examiner, had to admire her skill at that high science and art. "I felt sorry for her," he said. "She seemed such a forlorn little creature." She laughed with a constrained attempt at raillery. "I never should have suspected you of such weakness. To give confidential things to a forlorn little incompetent, out of pity." He was irritated, distinctly.
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