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She'd say it was a case of intuition. She's very strong on intuition and superstition generally." There was a mixture of tenderness and bitterness in his tone. "Chance brought that advertisement to her eyes. A hat-pin she'd dropped stuck through it, or something of the sort. Enough for her. Nothing would do but that I should chase over to see the Owl Building bunch.
With the other pikers, they sat in the free seats, with those who sat coatless and tucked their handkerchiefs inside their collars, and with those who mopped their perspiring countenances with rice-paper and marked their cards with a hat-pin. Their lunch consisted of a massive ham sandwich with a top dressing of mustard.
In reply to the questions of Paredes and the doctor he told of the discovery of the evidence and of the stout hat-pin that had, unquestionably, caused death. The man made it clear enough, however, that he didn't care to have Paredes know of Bobby's plan to spend the night in the old room, and Rawlins, Bobby, and Graham indicated that they understood.
One afternoon at six, when Dulcie was sticking her hat-pin within an eighth of an inch of her medulla oblongata, she said to her chum, Sadie the girl that waits on you with her left side: "Say, Sade, I made a date for dinner this evening with Piggy." "You never did!" exclaimed Sadie admiringly. "Well, ain't you the lucky one? Piggy's an awful swell; and he always takes a girl to swell places.
"I'm never tired," averred his sister, readjusting a hat-pin and gathering up her reins. "I always want to go everywhere that you'll take me, Dick. Consider that point settled for the summer. Are you coming, Sir Redmond?" "I think not, thank you," he said, not quite risen above his rebuff of the morning. "I told Mary I would be back for lunch."
When she spoke to Griggs again the tone of her voice had changed. 'Please tell me how it could have been done, she said. 'Easily enough. A steel bodkin six or seven inches long, or even a strong hat-pin. It would be only a question of strength. Margaret remembered Mr. Van Torp's coarse hands, and shuddered again. 'How awful! she exclaimed.
But having once given vent to them, he made no effort to retract them, but proceeded to take me into his confidence so far as to explain: "The woman who was killed in that room owed her death to the stab of a thin, long pin. We had not thought of a hat-pin, but upon your mentioning it, I am ready to accept it as the instrument of death.
For Natacha: Her eyes when she looks at her father." And this bizarre phrase: "We mustn't be rash. This evening I have not yet spoken to Matrena Petrovna about the little hat-pin. That little hat-pin is the greatest relief of my life." "Good morning, my dear little familiar spirit. The general slept splendidly the latter part of the night. He did not touch his narcotic.
"Most abnormally modest people are. If I were to stick you with this hat-pin, for instance, you would accept the matter as a positive insult." "I certainly should," I said, laughing; "and, besides, it would be painful." "There you are," said she, exultingly; "I knew it. But I flatter myself there are men who would go into an ecstasy of delight if I ran a hat-pin into them.
When Flint picks a bloomer like you to ornament the back office it will be because his eyesight's failed him. ...By the way, how do you manage to stand him off with religious tracts or a hat-pin?" She hardly waited for Claire's reply, but plunged at once into another monologue. "Do you know what I'm up to? I got my eye on the swellest fur-lined coat you ever saw ... at Magnin's.
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