[The Club of Queer Trades by G. K. Chesterton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Club of Queer Trades CHAPTER 3 30/48
We will get her quietly home.
She does drink too much, but she is quite a lady--only eccentric.' "'She butted me in the stomach,' said the policeman briefly. "'Eccentricities of genius,' said Sam earnestly. "'Pray let me take her home,' reiterated Bill, in the resumed character of Miss James, 'she wants looking after.' 'She does,' said the policeman, 'but I'll look after her.' "'That's no good,' cried Bill feverishly.
'She wants her friends.
She wants a particular medicine we've got.' "'Yes,' assented Miss Mowbray, with excitement, 'no other medicine any good, constable.
Complaint quite unique.' "'I'm all righ'.
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