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Again and again she questioned me with the skill and zeal of a professional cross-examiner. Nor would she let me omit a syllable. And when at the most fearful and heartrending point, her soft, dimpled chin sunk down on her breast, and her fair, babyish hand knocked at the tender bosom "Mea culpa! Oh, mea culpa!"
Guy's counsel failed utterly to elicit anything of importance, except and here Sir Gilbert's face grew whiter than ever except that another gentleman whom the lad didn't know had asked at the gate about the path, and gone round the other way as if to meet Mr. Nevitt. "What sort of a gentleman?" the cross-examiner inquired, clutching at this last straw as a mere chance diversion.
There is compassion for the peculiar state of the poor boy, who, perhaps, only burned a family in their beds; benevolence to prompt the generous effort in his behalf; disinterestedness to run the risk of becoming an involuntary absentee; fortitude in encountering a host of brazen-faced lawyers; patience under the unsparing gripe of a cross-examiner; perseverance in conducting the oath to its close against a host of difficulties; and friendship, which bottoms and crowns them all.
He had nothing but the truth to tell and his cross-examiner ere long came to the conclusion that it was futile endeavouring to get him to tell anything else; and so, with rather bad grace, he gave it up, and said he might go.
Then, one afternoon," his breath pulled sharp, "Tom Langdon came into my office." "He was your cousin?" Ba'tiste's voice was that of a friendly cross-examiner. "Yes. I hadn't seen him in five years. We had never had much to do with him; we," and Houston smiled coldly with the turn that Fate had given to conditions in the Houston family, "always had looked on him as a sort of a black sheep.
There were the usual preliminaries, name, age, residence, and so on, Coroner Goldberg asking the questions. He was a really good cross-examiner, and soon came to the core of the matter. "What is the position of your desk in Mr. Holladay's office?" he asked. "There is an outer office for the clerks; opening from that, a smaller room where my desk is placed. Opening from my room was Mr.
If it were a dinner-table jest, made over the walnuts and the wine, I would willingly sing ditto; but alas and alack, it is uttered without a smile, in a solemn and magisterial manner, as the last word in science! Toussenel, in his day, asked the naturalists an insidious question. No one, so far as I know, had an answer for the teasing cross-examiner: evolution had not been invented then.
Lincoln, with the training of the lawyer, the wily cross-examiner, the profound jurist, the farsighted statesman, forced Douglas into a dilemma between the northern Democrats of Illinois and the southern Democrats of the slave states.
"And what did you do, then?" George demanded in the hard tone of a cross-examiner. "I drove straight on," said M. Defourcambault, returning George's cold stare. This close glimpse into history into politics and passion excited George considerably.
"Hush, hush! pray, Frank. Now, if I do own it " "It what? Let me hear! I'm very stupid, you know!" said Frank, in a voice of exulting comprehension, belying his alleged stupidity. "What you have been to me " "Have been eh?" said this cruel cross-examiner. "Do not let us waste time," said Eleonora, in a trembling voice; "you know very well." "Do I?" "Now, Frank!"
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