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Here I asked him I was cross-examining now and felt at home: "You say you thought I was the thing you fired at. What thing?" The man scratched his head, but made no reply. "Come, sir," I said, "what thing; what was it like?" The answer came in a low voice: "I don't know, sir. I thought there was something; but what it was, or what it was like, I haven't the faintest notion.

"Yes, my boy, yes it's taken all the time since I first went; but they're slow, they're slow; and there's the counsel they've got for her puts a spoke in the wheel whenever he can, and makes a deal to do with cross-examining the witnesses and quarrelling with the other lawyers. That's all he can do for the money they give him; and it's a big sum it's a big sum.

"Perhaps," he said keenly, "you have also an idea who the lady was." Gifford shook his head. "Not at all," he returned promptly. "Then why should the idea have suggested itself to you," came the cross-examining rejoinder. "Your brother was not a member of the Hunt, and it seemed to us curious." Henshaw took him up quickly. "That he should come to the ball? No doubt.

After cross-examining him in the best manner I was able, I could find no inconsistency in his account. I asked Dixon how the captain came to treat the surgeon's mate in particular so ill. He said he had treated them all much alike. A person of the name of Bulpin, he believed, was the only one who had escaped bad usage in the ship.

Then in a sudden sharp cross-examining tone: "You mean you had a vision? Actually saw 'um?" "It was in the form of a vision." Scrope was now mentally very uncomfortable indeed. The doctor's lips repeated these words noiselessly, with an effect of contempt. "He must have given you something It's a little like morphia. But golden opalescent?

For instance it is the day of judgment. When the man is called up by the recording secretary, or whoever does the cross-examining, he says to his soul "Where are you from?" "I am from the world." "Yes sir. What kind of a man were you?" "Well, I don't like to talk about myself." "But you have to. What kind of a man were you?" "Well, I was a good fellow; I loved my wife, I loved my children.

Her own went lovingly to meet it where it was. "Ah, never mind all that, Harry. Tell me all that's been happening to you. How is it going, Harry?" Dear Harry! Most mannish man! He sat upright. He grabbed for a cigarette and inhaled it tremendously. "It's going like cutting butter with a hot knife. I started cross-examining today.

Even the deaf little child, who is not as intelligent as the witness, will not admit that he was untruthful. But still he goes on cross-examining. If the witness is finally shown a paper which he or she signed when the investigator of the railroad came to see her, and in which she said she was sitting on the sixth seat, there is not such a great deal to be proud of.

Considerably vexed that Random should be so cheerful, Lucy cast round to learn the truth. She could scarcely ask the baronet himself, and Archie professed himself unable to explain. Miss Kendal did not dream of cross-examining Braddock, as it never entered her mind that the dry-as-dust scientist would know anything. It then occurred to this inquisitive young lady that Mrs.

"Get her to swear to those hobnailed shoes," said he, "and we shall shake them." He then let Sir George know that he had obtained private information which he would use in cross-examining a principal witness for the crown. "However," he added, "do not deceive yourself, nothing can make the prisoner really safe but the appearance of Griffith Gaunt. He has such strong motives for coming to light.