| Hilda Wade Contributor(s): Allen, Grant (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798575044802 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5" W x 7.99" (0.46 lbs) 208 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Book Excerpt: ...ess to stand it."Hilda Wade smiled her sphinx-like smile. "Not quite that, I fancy," she answered. "It will kill cats, I feel sure; at least, most domesticated ones. But it will NOT kill weasels. Yet both are carnivores.""That young woman knows too much " Sebastian muttered to me, looking after her as she glided noiselessly with her gentle tread down the long white corridor. "We shall have to suppress her, Cumberledge. . . . But I'll wager my life she's right, for all that. I wonder, now, how the dickens she guessed it ""Intuition," I answered.He pouted his under lip above the upper one, with a dubious acquiescence. "Inference, I call it," he retorted. "All woman's so-called intuition is, in fact, just rapid and half-unconscious inference."He was so full of the subject, however, and so utterly carried away by his scientific ardour, that I regret to say he gave a strong dose of lethodyne at once to each of the matron's petted and pampered Persian cats, which lounged abou... |
