"You are quite positive it is not your bag?" repeated the coroner once more. "I'm positive it is not mine," returned Miss Lloyd, without undue emphasis, but with an air of dismissing the subject. "Is your maid present?" asked the coroner. "Let her be summoned." Elsa came forward, the pretty, timid young girl, of German effects, whom I had already noticed. "Have you ever seen this bag before?" asked the coroner, holding it up before her. "Yes, sir." "When?" "This morning, sir. Lambert showed it to me, sir. He said he found it in Mr.英文原著 · 《The Gold Bag》
Monroe did. Of course the coroner's inquest was not formally conducted as a trial by jury would be, and so any one spoke, if he chose, and the coroner seemed really glad when suggestions were offered him. At this point Philip Crawford rose. "It is impossible," he said, "not to see whither these questions are tending. But you are on the wrong tack, Mr. Coroner. No matter how evidence may seem to point toward Florence Lloyd's association with this crime, it is only seeming. That gold bag might have been hers and it might not.英文原著 · 《The Gold Bag》
I have a delicate wife, Mr. Coroner. Such a state of things - the state of things I imagine - might cause her death - indeed, I hope she will never read a report of these proceedings. Fortunately, she has an excellent trained nurse - "
"You will now take the oath," said the coroner sharply. He already regretted having allowed this absurd person to have his say. Cannot took the oath with a gravity and decorum which had been lacking in most of those who had preceded him. "I will, address myself to the jury," he began. "You will do nothing of the sort," broke in the coroner.英文原著 · 《The Lodger》
Rook matter? Or her husband either? Bony, Bony, you're frightened about nothing. Where's the danger of those two people turning up? Do you know how many miles away the village is? Oh, you fool--a hundred miles and more. Never mind the coroner, the coroner must keep in his own district--and the jury too. A risky deception?英文原著 · 《I SAY NO》
"Did you happen to notice, Mrs. Pierce, whether Miss Lloyd was wearing a yellow rose when you saw her in her room?" Mrs. Pierce hesitated. She looked decidedly embarrassed, and seemed disinclined to answer. But she might have known that to hesitate and show embarrassment was almost equivalent to an affirmative answer to the coroner's question. At last she replied "l don't know; I didn't notice." This might have been a true statement, but I think no one in the room believed it. The coroner tried again. "Try to think, Mrs.英文原著 · 《The Gold Bag》
"Don't leave Jimmie lying there; take him to his room, doctor," turning entreatingly to Stone. The physician looked at her compassionately. "I will, just as soon as the coroner views the body," he promised. "But come away now, Babs; this is no place for you and Helen." He signed to the deputy marshal to open the door as he walked across the room, Barbara keeping step with him, and her sister following in their wake. At the door Barbara paused and looked back. "Will there be an inquest?" she asked. "That's for the coroner to decide," responded Ferguson. "As long as Mr.英文原著 · 《The Red Seal》
His body was transferred to the D.C. Coroner's office where an autopsy is expected to confirm his death as a suicide.美剧 · 《House of Cards》