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"And the young woman of the house," asked Dr. Hood, with huge and silent amusement,
 "what does she want?" "Why, she wants to marry him," cried Father Brown, sitting up
 eagerly. "That is just the awful complication." "It is indeed a hideous enigma," said
 Dr. Hood. "This young James Todhunter," continued the cleric, "is a very decent man 
so far as I know; but then nobody knows very much. He is a bright, brownish little
 fellow, agile like a monkey, clean-shaven like an actor, and obliging like a born
 courtier. He seems to have quite a pocketful of money, but nobody knows what his
 trade is. Mrs. MacNab, therefore (being of a pessimistic turn), is quite sure it
 is something dreadful, and probably connected with dynamite.
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Chesterton Gilbert - The Wisdom of Father Brown

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