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The Claverings

CHAPTER XX
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I don't like that.

I don't like that at all.

No; if my husband had put me into the country to look after de pills and de powders, he should have had them all, all--himself, when he came to see me." As she said this with great energy, she opened her eyes wide, and looked full into Archie's face.
Captain Clavering, who was sitting with his hat in his two hands between his knees, stared at the little foreigner.

He had heard before of women poisoning their husbands, but never had heard a woman advocate the system as expedient.

Nor had he often heard a woman advocate any system with the vehemence which Madam Gordeloup now displayed on this matter, and with an allusion which was so very pointed to the special position of his own sister-in-law.


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