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Is this the full purpose of the young man of the name of Guppy, or has he any other? Do his words disclose the length, breadth, depth, of his object and suspicion in coming here; or if not, what do they hide? He is a match for my Lady there. She may look at him, but he can look at the table and keep that witness-box face of his from telling anything.
He came up to the bar of the witness-box and deposited upon the ledge his gloves, his cross of St. Louis, and his scarf. 'Gentlemen of the jury, he said. 'I can only put these on again if you tell me to do so; my honour is in your hands. She is the culprit, but she is not a thief. She is ill. The poor fellow burst into tears, and his utterance was choked with them.
Bumptious little man, and yet and yet there's something in him. There's a sense of things which everyone doesn't have a glimmer of life beyond his own orbit, a catching at the biggest elements of being, a hovering on the confines of deep understanding, as it were. Somehow I feel almost sorry for him, though he annoyed me while he was in the witness-box, in spite of myself.
And you think he went." "None so long ago, I should say. He never see her not alive. I couldn't say why, only I feel that was the way of it." "When did you see him last?... No old girl! I won't do that. It's mean after sayin' I wouldn't witness-box! Don't you tell me nothing." "I won't grudge telling you that much, Mo. It's a tidy long time back now. I couldn't say to a day.
He balanced this across his open palms for a moment, so that the court might see it then he passed it over to the witness-box. "Now, doctor," he said, "look at that which is one of the latest forms of the ice-ax. Could that wound have been caused by that or something very similar to it?" The witness put a forefinger on the sharp point of the head. "Certainly!" he answered.
I stood up and reminded the justice respectfully that there was as yet no evidence against the prisoner, so, as a matter of form, he condescended to hear the constable, who went into the witness-box and proved his case to the hilt.
He was not disappointed, for he heard Charley say: "One person in the witness-box at a time, Madame. Till Jo Portugais is cross-examined and steps down, I don't see what I can do!" "But you are a Protestant!" said the woman snappishly.
With a flushed face he moved away to the seat assigned to him. He kept repeating to himself: “How was it I forgot? How could I have forgotten it? And what made it come back to me now?” Katerina Ivanovna was called to the witness-box. As she entered something extraordinary happened in the court. The ladies clutched their lorgnettes and opera-glasses.
'Sir, said Mr Rugg, taking him by the hand, 'you are a young man that it does one good to come across. You are a young man that I should like to put in the witness-box, to humanise the minds of the legal profession. I hope you have brought your appetite with you, and intend to play a good knife and fork? 'Thank you, sir, returned Young John, 'I don't eat much at present.
This question, as by previous arrangement between attorney and witness, opened up the way for a narration of facts, and old Simon, clearing his throat, leaned across the railing of the witness-box and began.
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