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 *sions that she was never known to permit herself when perfectly sober?"

"Yes, sir."

"The same would apply to her statements when in this excited condition?"

"Yes, sir."

"They were obvious exaggerations?"

"Yes, sir."

"And some were pure inventions? You knew they were wholly untrue?"

"Yes, sir."

"You and her other friends were well acquainted with her habit of giving way to exaggeration, and even to palpable untruth when under the influence of drink?"

"Yes, sir."

"The habit was so well known that it was amusing to you? You have often laughed about it among yourselves?"

"Yes, sir."

"You were known to say yourself on one occasion when she was what you call particularly 'merry,' 'Emma would do for anybody on a quartern of gin'?"

"Yes, sir."

"You have a distinct recollection of saying that?"

"Yes, sir."

"Your meaning was that when your friend had had that quantity of alcohol the airs of bravado she assumed were quite ridiculously out of keeping with her character?"

"Yes, sir."

"And the point of your saying lay in the fact