[Penrod by Booth Tarkington]@TWC D-Link bookPenrod CHAPTER XVII RETIRING FROM THE SHOW-BUSINESS 4/13
These were the conditions when a crested victoria arrived at a gallop, and a large, chastely magnificent and highly flushed woman descended, and progressed across the yard with an air of violence. At sight of her, the adults of the waiting line hastily disappeared, and most of the pausing vehicles moved instantly on their way.
She was followed by a stricken man in livery. The stairs to the auditorium were narrow and steep; Mrs.Roderick Magsworth Bitts was of a stout favour; and the voice of Penrod was audible during the ascent. "RE-MEM-BUR, gentilmun and lay-deeze, each and all are now gazing upon Roderick Magsworth Bitts, Junior, the only living nephew of the great Rena Magsworth.
She stuck ars'nic in the milk of eight separate and distinck people to put in their coffee and each and all of 'em died.
The great ars'nic murderess, Rena Magsworth, gentilmun and lay-deeze, and Roddy's her only living nephew.
She's a relation of all the Bitts family, but he's her one and only living nephew.
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