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I ask all of you to accept this apology as an explanation which is final." "I for one shall do no such thing!" cried The Author, hotly. "Are we impertinent children to be thus lightly dismissed? Of course, if Miss Smith herself " "You have neither right nor authority to cross-question Miss Smith," interposed Mr. Jelnik, sharply.
Here he came back from a place where civilization toppled, where deadly misery, deadly bravery, heroism that couldn't be uttered, staggered month after month among ruins, and found America untouched, comfortable, fat, still with time to worry over the suspected amorousness of the rich, still putting people into uniforms in order to buttonhole a man on landing and cross-question him as to his private purities.
"Alone at sea before the dawn it is a wonderful hour for a man to cross-question himself, Simon; and not many nights of late years that I haven't seen the first light of dawn creeping up over the edge of the ocean. You marry Mary Snow, Simon." He knew. What could I say? "I never thought to talk like this, captain, to a living man." In the growing light we now stood plain to each other's sight.
In reply to his question, "Well, children, what do you want?" they tell their story in a confused, rambling way, several of them speaking at a time, and he has to question and cross-question them before he comes to understand clearly what they desire.
But Colwyn silenced him with an imperative glance. "At the time you came to see me, you believed that Captain Nepcote had murdered your wife?" he said, facing Phil. "I did." "Do you mind telling me now on what ground you based that belief?" "I fail to recognize your right to cross-question me," replied the young man haughtily, "but I will answer your question.
If what you report is antecedently improbable, I shall want concrete proof before accepting it, and I shall cross-question your witness sharply. If you tell me you have seen apples and acorns, or pears and plums, growing upon the same tree, I shall discredit you. The thing has never been known and is contrary to nature.
He was shaking with laughter, and his comical little nose was wrinkled up until it nearly met his eyes. "Good for you!" he cried. "That Wolverene is a terror I know him well. He would question and cross-question you about the Beavers until you were nearly addled, and then he would persuade them that you had been telling tales.
For the first time within my recollection my appetite quite failed me, and I merely played with my knife and fork. Captain Carey regarded me pitifully, and said, "Come, come, Martin, my boy!" several times. Johanna made no remark; but her quiet, searching eyes looked me through and through, till I almost longed for the time when she would begin to question and cross-question me.
Some of us who were Moneyed had retained Counsellors from London to cross-question the witnesses; for to speak to the Jury in aid of Prisoners, who could not often speak for themselves, the Gentlemen of the Law were not then permitted. And this I have ever held to be a crying Injustice.
On another occasion I laughed at a recent nature writer for his credulity in half-believing the story told him by a fisherman, that the fox catches crabs by using his tail as a bait; and yet I read in Romanes that Olaus, in his account of Norway, says he has seen a fox do this very thing among the rocks on the sea-coast. One would like to cross-question Olaus before accepting such a statement.
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