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DUFFER
She talked incoherently, did she?
SELLERS
Why you couldn't make one word out of two, [besides, I've known her so long.] she never could have done it in her right mind.
([He turns to jury.])
Why Gentlemen of the jury!
[CLERK]
Attend to the court!
DUFFER
Has she ever shown a tendency to insanity in former years?
SELLERS
O yes sir, frequently, frequently. Habitually.
DUFFER
What seemed to be the particular form of her mania?
SELLERS
A desire to find her father, her other father, the author of her being.
DUFFER
How did this usually affect her?
SELLERS
Well sir, in various ways. You know, as I said before, she never saw her father, but there were some letters left behind which described him as a man with one eye and a wooden leg. Well, when ever she saw a man with these trademarks, as a body might say, it used to fill her with excitement. She could never look at a one-eyed man without emotion and a one-legged man used to set her in a perfect whirlment of joy, but if she happened to flush a stranger with one eye and a game leg, she'd hound that cripple to the end of the earth, but what she brought him to cover and made him show up. Why, sir, a sound man was a sorrow to her. To see the pain and sorrow depicted upon that benign countenance when she looked upon a thoroughly sound man, was some thing awful to behold, but there was a charm in her gentle spirit over a green patch and a patent leg, that was perfectly beautiful to—
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
(Interrupting.)Well, sir, never mind your green patches and patent legs now. Am I to sit here all [day] and be deluged with a torrent of intolerable rubbish—
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