The Secret Adversary AGATHA CHRISTIE CHAPTER 17 docx

... surrounded by THE LITTLE PRINCESS Chapter 17 17. "It Is the Child!" The next afternoon three members of the Large Family sat in the Indian gentleman's library, doing their best ... proclaimed. "But there is no little girl." All three of them incontinently fled from the room and tumbled into the hall. It was in this way they always welcome...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 13:20

... both of his inquest-statements with the fight, without confessing the grave-robbery that preceded it; therefore it was deemed wisest not to try the case in the courts at present. -126- ... SAWYER CHAPTER 11 CLOSE upon the hour of noon the whole village was suddenly electrified with the ghastly news. No need of the as yet undreamed-of telegraph; the tale f...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 14:16

... was Tom, she watched the bottle clandestinely. She found that the medicine did really diminish, but it did not occur to her that the boy was mending the health of a crack in the sitting-room floor ... sight, and hating the owner of it as soon as he saw she was not the right one. At last frocks ceased to appear, and he dropped hopelessly into the dumps; he entered the empt...

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... started up the Illinois shore in the canoe just after dark. I started across to the town from a little below the ferry-landing, and the drift of the current fetched me in at the bottom of the town. ... worth a good deal over at the village. They peddle out such a fish as that by the pound in the markethouse there; off the snake's head and throw it away, and th...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 16:15

... next day they found out the nigger was gone; they found out he hadn't ben seen sence ten o'clock the night the murder was done. So then they put it on him, you see; and while they was ... far enough to make the head of the island, and then started across. I took off the sun-bonnet, for I didn't want no blinders on then. When I was about the middle I heard the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 16:15

... ahead in the canoe, with the line to make fast, there warn't anything but little saplings to tie to. I passed the line around one of them right on the edge of the cut bank, but there was ... ahead all the time. I did wish the fool would think to beat a tin pan, and beat it all the time, but he never did, and it was the still places between the whoops that was maki...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 16:15

... them tributes. The neighbors said it was the doctor first, then Emmeline, then the undertaker the undertaker never got in ahead of Emmeline but once, and then she hung fire on a rhyme for the ... of them smoked cob pipes, except the nigger woman, which was gone, and the two young women. They all smoked and talked, and I eat and talked. The young women had quilts around th...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 16:15

... They sprang to their feet and hurried to the shore toward the town. They parted the bushes on the bank and peered out over the water. The little steam ferry-boat was about a mile below the ... upon cold ham, and then threw themselves down in the shade to talk. But the talk soon began to drag, and then died. The stillness, the solemnity that brooded in the woods, a...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 20:20

... that at the time they occurred they had seemed rank rascalities, well deserving of the cowhide. The congregation became more and more moved, as the pathetic tale went on, till at last the whole ... conscience. The villagers conducted their concerns with an absent air, and talked little; but they sighed often. The Saturday holiday seemed a burden to the children. They had...

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... thicker and thicker was the wagons and horses in the streets, and more coming all the time. Families fetched their dinners with them from the country, and eat them in the wagons. There was took a ... would see all the loafers get up and watch the thing out of sight, and laugh at the fun and look grateful for the noise. Then they'd settle back again till there was a...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 21:20