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makes the carpet represent. ‘Oh, that he is a great man! Oh,
yes, superb! Oh, heaven! Bah!’
‘Well, Sir Leicester Dedlock,’ proceeds Mr. Bucket, ‘this
intemperate foreigner also angrily took it into her head
that she had established a claim upon Mr. Tulkinghorn,
deceased, by attending on the occasion I told you of at his
chambers, though she was liberally paid for her time and
trouble.’
‘Lie!’ cries mademoiselle. ‘I ref-use his money all togez-
zer.’
‘If you WILL PARLAY, you know,’ says Mr. Bucket par-
enthetically, ‘you must take the consequences. Now, whether
she became my lodger, Sir Leicester Dedlock, with any de-
liberate intention then of doing this deed and blinding me,
I give no opinion on; but she lived in my house in that ca-
pacity at the time that she was hovering about the chambers
of the deceased Mr. Tulkinghorn with a view to a wrangle,
and likewise persecuting and half frightening the life out of
an unfortunate stationer.’
‘Lie!’ cries mademoiselle. ‘All lie!’
‘The murder was commttted, Sir Leicester Dedlock, Bar-
onet, and you know under what circumstances. Now, I beg
of you to follow me close with your attention for a minute
or two. I was sent for, and the case was entrusted to me. I
examined the place, and the body, and the papers, and ev-
erything. From information I received (from a clerk in the
same house) I took George into custody as having been seen
hanging about there on the night, and at very nigh the time
of the murder, also as having been overheard in high words

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