I took note of every turn of his mind as he gave evidence.

He will go on for a time, pulling his strings, doing this and doing that, and then, all at once, when he has got a train of complications, his brain will not be big enough to see the way out.

Tell me, has he a balance-wheel in his home--a sensible wife, perhaps ?" The Clerk of the Court shook his head mournfully and seemed to hesitate.
Then he said, "Comme ci, comme ca--but no, I will speak the truth about it.

She is a Spaniard--the Spanische she is called by the neighbours.

I will tell you all about that, and you will wonder that he has carried on as well as he has, with his vanity and his philosophy." "He'll have need of his philosophy before he's done, or I don't know human nature; he'll get a bad fall one of these days," responded the Judge.