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Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels

CHAPTER V
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The mesodenum was gibbous.

There was a certain quantity of flab in the binomium and the proscenium was wide open.
One striking fact, however, was decided from the testimony of the expert, namely, that the stomach of the deceased was found to contain half a pint of arsenic.

On this point the questioning of the district attorney was close and technical.

Was it unusual, he asked, to find arsenic in the stomach?
In the stomach of a club man, no.

Was not half a pint a large quantity?
He would not say that.


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