Do not aggravate it by this culpable reticence.

You are here to tell everything, sir." "My own affairs, yes, not those of others." Albert gave this last answer in a dry tone.

He was giddy, flurried, exasperated, by the prying and irritating mode of the examination, which scarcely gave him time to breathe.

The magistrate's questions fell upon him more thickly than the blows of the blacksmith's hammer upon the red-hot iron which he is anxious to beat into shape before it cools.
The apparent rebellion of his prisoner troubled M.Daburon a great deal.
He was further extremely surprised to find the discernment of the old detective at fault; just as though Tabaret were infallible.

Tabaret had predicted an unexceptionable _alibi_; and this _alibi_ was not forthcoming.