This process has obscured fine shades of thought and deprived the evidence of its original flavour.
Sometimes the clerk contents himself with saying that the depositions of a witness were like those of his predecessor.

Thus on the raising of the siege of Orleans all the burgesses depone like the woollen draper, who himself was not thoroughly conversant with the circumstances in which his town had been delivered.

Thus the Sire de Gaucourt, after a brief declaration, gives the same evidence as Dunois, although the Count had related matters so strikingly individual that it seems strange they should have been common to two witnesses.[69] [Footnote 69: _Trial_, vol.iii, pp.

2 and 35.] Certain evidence would appear to have been cut short.

Brother Pasquerel's abruptly comes to an end at Paris.