Every orator knows when he is beating the air, even when his audience is quiet and apparently attentive.
The crown attorney was a man of the serenest method and of cold, unforensic logic.

He had a deadly precision of speech, a very remarkable memory, and a great power of organising and assembling his facts.

There was little left of Burlingame's appeal when he sat down.

He declared that to discredit Crozier's evidence because he chose to use another name than his own, because he was parted from his wife, because he left England practically penniless to earn an honest living--no one had shown it was not--was the last resort of legal desperation.

It was an indefensible thing to endeavour to create prejudice against a man because of his own evidence given with great frankness.