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I merely presented her as Rose Flowers, and left it to be inferred from her baby face that she was so." "But why Rose Flowers when her name was Ann White?" "What a cross-questioner you are, Corona! but I will answer you. Again it was by her own desire that I presented her as Rose Flowers, which was not an alias, as she explained to me, but a part of her true name.
And there is yet another obstacle in dealing with such people, their intense and childish sensitiveness and secretiveness. They are not, as some have foolishly supposed, ashamed of their tenets or their practices, but they are unwilling to speak about them. They fear the intentions of the cross-questioner, and they hold themselves safest behind a crooked answer.
How long had I known the poor lady upstairs? and where did I meet her? She would have made a famous cross-questioner. I answered her with such frankness that she seemed to take a fancy to me. "Some say that the poor lady upstairs is demented," she volunteered. "Whoever says so lies," I replied. "She has more sense than nine-tenths of the people you meet."
"It is my impression you are a lawyer." At this Van Berg laughed outright and said: "You are indeed mistaken. I have no connection with the influential class whose business it is to make and evade the laws. I am only one among the humble masses who aim to obey them. But perhaps you think your intuition goes deeper than surface facts and that I OUGHT to have been a cross-questioner."
Why those tears came I knew not; and to a strict cross-questioner I would probably have given some explanation having nothing to do with the Gayatri. The fact of the matter is that what is going on in the inner recesses of consciousness is not always known to the dweller on the surface. A journey with my Father My shaven head after the sacred thread ceremony caused me one great anxiety.
"Do," said I, very glad to dismiss the topic, and especially glad to have baffled the sagacity of my cross-questioner if, indeed, I had baffled it; for though his words now led away from the dangerous point, his eyes, keen and watchful, seemed still preoccupied with the former idea. "You want to hear news from X ? And what interest can you have in X ? You left no friends there, for you made none.
The very first thing he did when he came home again was to make her repeat the set task from beginning to end. Such a method is infallible. A servant-maid, a governess, may deceive the cleverest cross-questioner, the ancient folios never. They tell him at once whether the damsel's eyes have been fixed on the book all the time, or whether they've been straying about elsewhere.
"The only way to get information," mused the gentleman with the carpet-bag, still standing on the pavement, "is to have your eyes about you and ask questions. It's what I always do since I have begun to travel for improvement I got all the waiter knew out of him in a moment I ought to have been an Old Bailey barrister there ain't such a cross-questioner as I am in the whole profession."
"There's room for us and a half-dozen of ghosts in it," says Rebecca. "Tell me all about Lady Crawley and Sir Pitt Crawley, and everybody, my DEAR Mrs. Tinker." But old Tinker was not to be pumped by this little cross-questioner; and signifying to her that bed was a place for sleeping, not conversation, set up in her corner of the bed such a snore as only the nose of innocence can produce.
"Since yesterday," Marion said, blushing and laughing. "Eurie, you would do for a cross-questioner." "And I have been on this side since Saturday," Eurie answered, significantly. "A great many things can happen in a week." At this point, Ruth turned and came towards them. She looked quiet and grave. "It is a year, isn't it? since we stood here together for the first time," she said.
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