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Henri Matisse Painting Inspector Craddock smiled.
"Because I can look it up myself if I want to, at Somerset House."
Against his will, Mr. Wimborne gave a crabbed little smile.
"Quite right, Inspector. I was merely protesting that the information you ask for is quite irrelevant. As to Josiah Crackenthorpe's will, there is no mystery about it. He left his very considerable fortune in trust, the income from it to be paid to his son Luther for life, and after Luther's death the capital to be divided equally between Luther's children, Edmund, Cedric, Harold, Alfred, Emma and Edith. Edmund was killed in the war, and Edith died four years ago, so that on Luther Crackenthorpe's decease the money will divided between Cedric, Harold, Alfred, Emma and Edith's son Alexander Eastley."
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And the house?"
"That will go to Luther Crackenthorpe's eldest surviving son or his issue."
"Was Edmund Crackenthorpe married?"
"No."
"So the property will actually go –?"
"To the next son - Cedric."
"Mr. Luther Crackenthorpe himself cannot dispose of it?"
"No."
"And he has no control of the capital."
"No."
"Isn't that rather unusual? I suppose," said Inspector Craddock shrewdly, “that his father didn't like him."
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Henri Matisse Painting Inspector Craddock smiled.
"Because I can look it up myself if I want to, at Somerset House."
Against his will, Mr. Wimborne gave a crabbed little smile.
"Quite right, Inspector. I was merely protesting that the information you ask for is quite irrelevant. As to Josiah Crackenthorpe's will, there is no mystery about it. He left his very considerable fortune in trust, the income from it to be paid to his son Luther for life, and after Luther's death the capital to be divided equally between Luther's children, Edmund, Cedric, Harold, Alfred, Emma and Edith. Edmund was killed in the war, and Edith died four years ago, so that on Luther Crackenthorpe's decease the money will divided between Cedric, Harold, Alfred, Emma and Edith's son Alexander Eastley."
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And the house?"
"That will go to Luther Crackenthorpe's eldest surviving son or his issue."
"Was Edmund Crackenthorpe married?"
"No."
"So the property will actually go –?"
"To the next son - Cedric."
"Mr. Luther Crackenthorpe himself cannot dispose of it?"
"No."
"And he has no control of the capital."
"No."
"Isn't that rather unusual? I suppose," said Inspector Craddock shrewdly, “that his father didn't like him."
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I shall be quite close at hand," said Miss Marple. "An old maidservant of mine, my faithful Florence, lives in Brackhampton. She has looked after her old parents for years. They are now both dead, and she takes in lodgers - all most respectable people. She has arranged for me to have rooms with her. She will look after me most devotedly, and I feel I should be close at hand. I would suggest that you mention you have an elderly aunt living in the neighbourhood, and that you want a post within easy distance of her, and also that you stipulate for a reasonable amount of spare time so that you can go and see her often."
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Again Lucy nodded.
"I was going to Taormina the day after to-morrow, she said. The holiday can wait. But I can only promise three weeks. After that, I am booked up."
"Three weeks should be ample," said Miss Marple. "If we can't find out anything in three weeks, we might as well give up the whole thing as a mare's nest."
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Poirot said gently: "Ah!I think it is you who are Miss Mary Drower，the parlourmaid here?" "Yes，sir，that's right.I'm Mary，sir." "Then perhaps I can talk to you for a few minutes if your mistress willnot object.It is about your aunt，Mrs Ascher." "The mistress is out，sir.Shen wouldn't mind，I'm sure，if you came inhere." She opened the door of a small morning-room.We entered and Poirot，seating himself on a chair by the window，looked up keenly into the girl'sface. "You have heard of your aunt's death，of course?" The girl nodded，tears coming once more into her eyes. "This morning，sir.The police came over.Oh!
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It's terrible!Poor auntie!Such a hard life as she'd had，too.And nowthis-it's too awful." "The police did not suggest your returning to Andover?" "They said I must come to the inquest-that's on Monday，sir.But I'venowhere to go there-I couldn't fancy being over the shop-now-and what withthe housemaid being away，I didn't want to put the mistress out more thanmay be." "You were fond of your aunt，Mary?"said Poirot gently. "Indeed I was，sir.Very good she's been to me always，auntie has.I wentto her in London when I was eleven years old，after mother died.I started inservice when I was sixteen，but I usually went along to auntie's
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"This is all true," said Dorothy, "and I am glad I was of use to these good friends. But now that each of them has had what he most desired, and each is happy in having a kingdom to rule besides, I think I should like to go back to Kansas."
"The Silver Shoes," said the Good Witch, "have wonderful powers. And one of the most curious things about them is that they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps, and each step will be made in the wink of an eye. All you have to do is to knock the heels together three times and command the shoes to carry you wherever you wish to go."
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"If that is so," said the child joyfully, "I will ask them to carry me back to Kansas at once."
She threw her arms around the Lion's neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly. Then she kissed the Tin Woodman, who was weeping in a way most dangerous to his joints. But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.
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"You are certainly as good as you are beautiful! But you have not yet told me how to get back to Kansas."
"Your Silver Shoes will carry you over the desert," replied Glinda. "If you had known their power you could have gone back to your Aunt Em the very first day you came to this country."
"But then I should not have had my wonderful brains!" cried the Scarecrow. "I might have passed my whole life in the farmer's cornfield."
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And I should not have had my lovely heart," said the Tin Woodman. "I might have stood and rusted in the forest till the end of the world."
"And I should have lived a coward forever," declared the Lion, "and no beast in all the forest would have had a good word to say to me."
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Arthur; my other brother, Hugh-but I will crack his crown, an he interfere, the fox-hearted, ill-conditioned animal! Yes, thither will we fare-and straightway, too."
A servant entered with a smoking meal, disposed it upon a small deal table, placed the chairs, and took his departure, leaving such cheap lodgers as these to wait upon themselves. The door slammed after him, and the noise woke the boy, who sprung to a sitting posture, and shot a glad glance about him; then a grieved look came into his face and he murmured to himself, with a deep sigh
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"Alack, it was but a dream. Woe is me." Next he noticed Miles Hendon's doublet-glanced from that to Hendon, comprehended the sacrifice that had been made for him, and said, gently:
"Thou art good to me, yes, thou art very good to me. Take it and put it on-I shall not need it more."
Then he got up and walked to the washstand in the corner, and stood there waiting. Hendon said in a cheery voice:
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"Ho, Sir William Herbert! Hie thee hither, and list to the strangest dream that ever.... Sir William! Dost hear? Man, I did think me changed to a pauper, and... Ho there! Guards! Sir William! What! is there no groom of the chamber in waiting? Alack it shall go hard with-"
"What aileth thee?" asked a whisper near him. "Who art thou calling?"
"Sir William Herbert. Who art thou?"
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"I? Who should I be, but thy sister Nan? Oh, Tom, I had forgot! Tbou"rt mad yet-poor lad thou"rt mad yet, would I had never woke to know it again! But, prithee, master thy tongue, lest we be all beaten till we die!"
The startled prince sprang partly up, but a sharp reminder from his stiffened bruises brought him to himself, and he sunk back among his foul straw with a moan and the ejaculation:
"Alas, it was no dream, then!"
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Yes. They believe they've found the weapon what he does his awful deeds with," said Chandler. "At any rate, within a hundred yards of that little dark passage where they found the bodies - one at each end, that was - there was discovered this morning a very peculiar kind o' knife - 'keen as a razor, pointed as a dagger' - that's the exact words the boss used when he was describing it to a lot of us. He seemed to
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think a lot more of that clue than of the other - I mean than of the description people gave of the chap who walked quickly by with a newspaper parcel. But now there's a pretty job in front of us. Every shop where they sell or might a' sold, such a thing as that knife, including every eating-house in the East End, has got to be called at!"
"Whatever for?" asked Daisy.
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Henri Matisse Painting "A clue, Bunting?" Mrs. Bunting spoke in a soft, weak, die-away voice, and again, stooping somewhat, she grasped the edge of the table.
But her husband was not noticing her now. He was holding the paper close up to his eyes, and he read from it, in a tone of considerable satisfaction:
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"'It is gratifying to be able to state that the police at last believe they are in possession of a clue which will lead to the arrest of the - '" and then Bunting dropped the paper and rushed round the table.
His wife, with a curious sighing moan, had slipped down on to the floor, taking with her the tablecloth as she went. She lay there in what appeared to be a dead faint. And Bunting, scared out of his wits, opened the door and screamed out, "Daisy! Daisy! Come up, child. Ellen's took bad again."
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Look!" said Rouletabille, "here again are the footmarks of the escaping man; they skirt the lake here and finally disappear just before this path, which leads to the high road to Epinay. The man continued his flight to Paris."
"What makes you think that?" I asked, "since these footmarks are not continued on the path?"
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What makes me think that? - Why these footprints, which I expected to find!" he cried, pointing to the sharply outlined imprint of a neat boot. "See!" - and he called to Frederic Larsan.
"Monsieur Fred, these neat footprints seem to have been made since the discovery of the crime."
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Henri Matisse Painting `In another moment we were standing face to face, I and this fragile thing out of futurity. He came straight up to me and laughed into my eyes. The absence from his bearing of any sign of fear struck me at once. Then he turned to the two others who were following him and spoke to them in a strange and very sweet and liquid tongue.
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There were others coming, and presently a little group of perhaps eight or ten of these exquisite creatures were about me. One of them addressed me. It came into my head, oddly enough, that my voice was too harsh and deep for them. So I shook my head, and, pointing to my ears, shook it again. He came a step forward, hesitated, and then touched my hand. Then I felt other soft little tentacles upon my back and shoulders. They wanted to make sure I was real. There was nothing in this at all alarming. Indeed
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虽然如睛的音乐基础蛮厚实的，但是古时候的音律和现在的毕竟还是有很大的不同的，古代音律是以宫、商、角、徵、羽来弹奏的，而现在哆、来、咪、发、嗦等才是主旋律，并且现在懂音乐的人都看的懂五线谱，而如睛当前任务就是要明白她所掌握的音律相对应现在的哪些音律，再学习看五线谱。昊川帮如睛找到一位音乐老师来教她，如睛本就是聪明伶俐的人，没用多久就会了。因为她的天资聪颖，外在条件优越，那位音乐老师希望她在音乐的舞台上越走越远，可惜如睛志不在此，只想平淡的生活着。
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在昊川的引荐下，如睛进入了朝花夕拾幼儿园任音乐老师，教古筝。和那些天真、可爱的小孩在一起，会觉得自己的心态也会变的年轻，而且也没有那么大的压力和竞争，做的好或不好从小孩子们对你的态度就可以看出来的。也不会去刻意讨好谁，也不会有人在背后暗箭伤人，以前的后宫生活给如睛还是留下了很深的印象。相互间以姐妹相称，背地里就想着怎么算计你，花样层出不穷，防不胜防，一个不留神就会踏进去万劫不复。只有远离暴风圈才能远离是非，不过走在海边哪能不湿鞋的。想着往昔，如睛无奈的摇摇头，现在想来仿佛是前世的事了。
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绿放下纱缦，把灯放在梳妆台那，看少妇入睡了方才离去。待小绿轻轻把门关上后，少妇才睁开眼望着床顶，想着前尘往事，想着远在苏州的家，那里有太多太多自己开心的回忆了。虽然父亲不准女孩子爬树，可自己却总是在自己心情不好时爬上枝头，任下面仆人找的人仰马翻的，听着鸟儿的欢叫，看着蝴蝶在花丛中嬉戏，风儿轻抚脸颊，一切一切都是那么的美好，如果没有皇上选召秀女的圣旨下下来，自己大概会在双亲的关爱下找个门当户对的书生嫁掉吧，虽然没有荣耀，没有权贵，但却能平淡、安详的度过。
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想起自己在宫也曾快乐过，也曾独的龙宠。“皇上，快来呀！快点！”如睛在前面边跑边回头催着后头追着她来的皇帝。“爱妃，不要跑那么快呀，小心摔着了！”崇贞帝追的时候还不忘提醒爱妃。“哈哈，朕捉到爱妃了，看你这下往哪跑！”看着手中的如玉小手，轻轻抚摸着这柔弱无骨的，不忘低下头深深的嗅着，“爱妃，好香呀！来，让朕多闻一下。”如睛装着躲避，不过身子却是往崇贞帝怀里靠去。软玉温香，崇贞帝当然不会把送上口的肥肉推出去。搂着如睛的水蛇腰就凑向她脸亲去。
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额娘！”兰吟扑到少妇的怀中，欣喜的嚷道：“您可以离开盛京了？您的病好了吗？”
少妇倾身抚着兰吟的小脸，浅笑道：“我的兰儿比去年来盛京又长高了，快是个大姑娘了！”
朗氏未想自己冲撞的竟是嫡福晋董鄂氏，她进府以来只听闻这位嫡福晋身虚体弱，素年来都在盛京老家养病，也有传言说这位福晋其实是被胤禟假借养病之名打入冷宫，强行遣送去盛京的。思及此，她抬头看向胤禟，见他神情凝重，似有不悦之色，心下宽慰许多。
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少妇将视线从兰吟的脸上转向胤禟，停留片刻，又缓缓看向他身后道：“八哥，十弟，十四弟！几年不见，大家可都安好？”
“尘芳姐姐！”不待他人回答，胤祯的嫡福晋完颜氏沂歆，已按捺不住跑过去拉着她的手嘟囔道：“你倒好，这些年一个人躲在盛京过安生日子，也不知我有多记挂你！更可恨的是九哥，将你丢在脑后置之不理。我几次——”
“沂歆！”胤祯见她口无遮拦，忙呵斥道：“你休要胡说！”
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“不会啊，我觉得甘大人为人正直，绝不会做那种始乱终弃之事。”金多多意有所指。
“识人识面不识心，说不定他是知道了你和皇上的关系，想借机攀龙附凤。”
“那就更不用担心他会始乱终弃了。”
“你……你不是一向自诩不靠男人也可以活下去的吗？”
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活下去是没问题，只是突然觉得有个男人也许会活得更快乐些。”
“那也不一定要找那个甘草啊。”
“那世子爷的意思是找谁好呢？”
“找……”龙飞玉哑口了，找谁都不好。
“唉，既然世子爷也没有个好推荐，这事还是不劳您费心了。”
“你……”
“哦，对了，”金多多不等他开口，“今日一月之期已满，世子爷尽可放心来看孩子，只是千万别忘了，这府里的主人还是我。”
“你……”
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既然她早两年也看得上，如今魏进也勉强算成功人士了，哪怕在古代背上个职业媒婆的名声，我也认了，为了她们的幸福，我自当全力促成。
见我再度走神，魏进终于出言相询：“伶兄来江南也有两三月了，京城发生了大事，想必兄台也不知道了？”
我回神一笑：“哦？都有什么大事？”
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他见我神色不似作伪，有一瞬间的呆住，半晌张口结舌地问：“今年五月时分，黄丞相上表病退，陛下同意黄大人辞官归隐，本以为新丞相是在六部尚书中选任，哪知陛下下令撤了中书省及丞相一职，留太师、太傅、太保，只设六部尚书，由陛下直接管辖。”说罢深深地看了我一眼。
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车的陈一、陈二早就跪了下来，蔚蓝、绿萼一左一右跳了下去，然后利索地扶我和长公主下车。刚下车，可以感觉得到所有跪着的人都松了一口气。在我们下车的同时，那龙船上的明黄身影也正同步下船。
当我和长公主整理衣裳准备行礼时，那个浑身明黄的伟岸身影不迟不早正好走到跟前，又正好托住了欲行大礼的我。我不敢侥幸以为他心情不错，鬼都看得出他此刻很不爽，尤其是他托我的手用的那个力，妈呀，要不是人多，我差点就要呼痛耍泼了。
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一脸不悦的嘉靖皇帝终于开圣口了：“不必多礼，都起吧。”所有人都解脱般慢吞吞地爬了起来——任谁在地上跪一个小时都不能活蹦乱跳。
但是我的心情仍很郁闷，是受前面这个男人的影响。大汉朝最伟大的嘉靖皇帝此刻正面无表情地死盯着我，托住我的手已经改变策略：改托为抓了。眼中偶尔略过的怒意仿佛控诉我的不归。
皇帝很生气，后果很严重。
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不管怎样，先攀攀交情总是好的，于是也客气地说：“有劳公公了，请公公先进来喝口茶吧，不知公公如何称呼？”他略福了福，谦虚地说：“喝茶就不必了，老奴还有公务在身。老奴是太后宫里的何先，承蒙太后照顾，在仁寿宫领了个管事的闲差。姑娘要不先进去准备准备，一会儿便随老奴前去复命？”好一个厉害角色，滴水不漏的，不愧是总管太监。
于是进里间换了身素裳，披了件同色狐狸袍子。为了礼貌稍做打扮，带上红绿二姝随着何总管一起坐上了马车，半个时辰就到了宫门口，改换轿子进入内宫。
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一路顺畅地来到仁寿宫口，何总管侧身说道：“还请姑娘稍等，老奴进去禀告娘娘再来请姑娘。”我点了点头，看了看身边的红、绿二人，一路忐忑的心才算好了些，总算不是孤单一人。
片刻后，只听见前边传来撩帘子的声音，一个着翠绿马甲，素色襦裙的宫女带着几个小宫女、太监走到跟前。福了福身道：“太后娘娘请姑娘进去说话。这两位姐姐跟奴婢去侧厅喝茶，休息一下可好？”我对绯红、绿萼二人鼓励地笑了笑，回头对绿衣宫女笑答：“有劳了。”
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那一晚上雨辕和二枪抓了十几个爬蝉，衣服兜儿装满了，按他们两个小朋友的习惯，该去雨辕家里做着吃了，因为在谁家里做着吃，谁的母亲就可以跟着娃娃一块吃几个。
　　雨辕说：“今晚还是去你家吧，我妈不在。”
　　二枪不同意，因为牵扯到家里人一起吃的事情，总是要谦让的：“你妈不在你姐在嘛。”
　　“我姐也不在。”
　　“弄啥去了？”
　　雨辕就说了。
　　二枪看着雨辕：“雨辕你真是个糊涂虫，哪有半夜盖手印的？银行是国家的银行，又不是谁家里开的，半夜还办事？！”
　　二枪这一分析，雨辕急了，“难道他们真敢卖我姐？！”
　　二枪：“咱也说不清，咱赶快去寻他们。”
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