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Miss and Gilchrist
Other television roles include Pamela Flitton in A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1997 ), Miss Gilchrist in St. Ives ( 1998 ), Bettina the obsessive-compulsive interior decorator in Absolutely Fabulous, the sadistic Queen Elspeth in Hallmark's Snow White: The Fairest Of Them All ( 2001 ), and the emotionally repressed Queen Mary in The Lost Prince ( 2003 ).
These had been overheard by her paid companion, the timid Miss Gilchrist.
Poirot warns Entwhistle that Miss Gilchrist may herself be a target for the murderer.
She noticed that Cora has been copying postcards: one of her paintings, which Miss Gilchrist claims were all painted from life, features a pier that was destroyed in the war ; however the painting was completed quite recently.
That evening, Miss Gilchrist is nearly killed by arsenic poison in a slice of wedding cake apparently sent to her through the post.
Perhaps identifying the murderer may depend on finding a nun whom Miss Gilchrist claims to have noticed twice?
This lures even the reclusive Timothy from his home, back to the family mansion of Enderby, bringing his wife Maude and Miss Gilchrist, who is now assisting them.
It was Miss Gilchrist, who disguised herself as Cora as part of a complicated plot for her own gain, leaving Cora home asleep from a sedative in her tea.
Miss Gilchrist had successfully copied her mannerisms, well enough to fool those who had known her as adults.
Miss Gilchrist had rehearsed a characteristic turn of the head in a mirror, where the reflection is a reverse of reality.
Miss Gilchrist had further given herself away to Poirot, by referring to the wax flowers on the green malachite table the first day the relatives gathered to select objects before the auction.
These were on display on the day of the reading of Richard's will but had been put out of sight by the time Miss Gilchrist, as herself, visited Enderby Hall.
Miss Gilchrist saw what Cora had missed among the paintings that Cora had bought at the local sales.
Miss Gilchrist felt sure one was a painting by Vermeer, yet Cora had no idea how valuable the artwork was, and thus Miss Gilchrist began her desperate plot.
Miss Gilchrist loathed Cora ; even more, she loathed life as a dependent.
He had Mr. Entwhistle take it from the Timothy Abernethie home where Miss Gilchrist had left it.
Added to Poirot's explanation, these nuns became witness to the real Cora's presence in her own home as Miss Gilchrist was impersonating her at Enderby Hall.
There is a motif of nuns in this mystery, appearing at each house where Miss Gilchrist stayed.
Miss Gilchrist had invented what she overheard about Richard's fear of poisoning, for the furtherance of her plot.
Once accused, Miss Gilchrist broke down in a flood of complaints of the unbearable hardships of her life, her convoluted justification for the murder of an innocent woman.
Miss Gilchrist is found guilty as the murderer of Cora at the Assizes.

Miss and covered
The song " You're Gonna Miss Me " was covered by influential Australian group Radio Birdman on their 1977 album Radios Appear.
Later that year, Primal Scream and Miss Kittin covered the song " Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne " for a limited-edition 10-inch vinyl pressing.
At the BBC he began presenting a number of other programmes such as the series Come Dancing, Crackerjack, Ask Aspel, and the Miss World beauty contest, which he covered 14 times.
Williams is best known for writing and recording some rock and roll classics from 1957 to 1959 for Specialty Records, including " Bony Moronie ", " Short Fat Fannie ", " High School Dance " ( 1957 ), " Slow Down ", " Dizzy Miss Lizzy " ( 1958 ), " Bad Boy " and " She Said Yeah " ( 1959 ), which were later covered by British Invasion groups and other artists.
The song " Things I Will Not Miss " was covered by Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye during recording sessions for the 1973 album Diana and Marvin.
It has also been reported that the character of Miss Honey began as a well-intentioned alcoholic whose misdemeanors repeatedly had to be covered up by Matilda from the attentions of her headmistress.
This could, however, make sense on the assumption that Windibank was not only interested in Miss Sutherland's money but also in her person ; that the bogus engagement covered an illicit and effectively incestous which might have been mutual, even if not ; that Miss Sutherland on at least some level knew all along who ' Hosmer Angel ' truly was ; and that Holmes was acting in her best interest in not bringing all this out in the open and avoiding a traumatic and shattering breakup of her family in the glare of sensational publicity.
Pop punk band Lucky Boys Confusion later covered " Do You Miss Me " on their 2001 album the Game.
The song " Tell Me If You Still Care " was covered in 1995 by fellow Atlanta native Monica on her debut album Miss Thang and sampled by Janet Jackson in her 2006 hit " Call On Me.
* Montell Jordan and saxophonist David Koz covered this song live during the Evening Gown Competition of the 2000 Miss Universe Pageant in Cyprus.
Shirley Bassey also covered the song on her 1969 album Does Anybody Miss Me.
Among the events Edwards covered as a reporter in those years were the Miss America Pageant ( five times ), the attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman in November 1950, and the coronation of Elizabeth II in June 1953.

Miss and with
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
Miss Langford, in a fresh white dress and low-heeled white sandals, without socks, was out there with them, trying to get them inside.
`` Oh, come on Miss Langford, play with us just onct '', one of the little girls begged, smiling wistfully.
`` Miss Langford, come out and play with us like you promised '', several of the little girls called.
`` Will you play with us again, Miss Langford ''??
You've already sent your daughter to Miss X's select academy for girls and your son to Mr. Y's select academy for boys, and you can be as liberal as you please with strict impunity.
Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;
Yet this passion for passion, now that I look back on it with passion spent, seems somewhat overblown and operatic, though as a diva Miss Millay perfectly controlled her notes.
But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.
There was a little blood on the hem of her dress, for the assassin had slashed Miss Harris's companion, Major Rathbone, with a knife.
She had taken him out of the schoolhouse and closed the school for the summer, after she saw Miss Snow crack Joel across the face with a ruler for letting a snake loose in the schoolroom.
Going downstairs with the tray, Winston wished he could have given in to Miss Ada, but he knew better than to do what she said when she had that little-girl look.
In the living room, Miss Ada was standing by the window with a sheaf of lists in her hand.
He had only agreed with Miss Ada about getting the valet, but he had actually suggested the photograph to Mr. Jack.
and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of June 11th to 17th, 1961, as Miss Rhode Island Pageant Week, with deep appreciation to the Jaycees, local and statewide, for the presentation of their beautiful Pageants and the encouragement of all Rhode Island girls to participate.
Flick Nipe's and Neil Engle's Miss Phone ( Galophone-Prissy Miss ) is a fine-looking filly with good disposition and good gait, and she has worked up to date in 2:46.
Miss Pulova has a voice that Maria Callas once described as `` like chipping teeth with a screw driver '', and her round, opalescent face becomes fascinatingly reflective of the emotions demanded by the role of Rosalie.
The vulture-like attendance of the Pocket family upon Miss Havisham is summed up in the hypocritical gestures of Miss Camilla Pocket, who puts her hand to her throat in a feigned spasm of grief-stricken choking, then lays it `` upon her heaving bosom '' with `` an unnatural fortitude of manner '', and finally kisses it to Miss Havisham in a parody of the lady's own mannerism toward Estella.
What was called an `` accidental meeting '' with Miss Packard in Washington turned her attention to Spelman.
After correspondence with Miss Packard and to the joy of Miss Packard and Miss Giles, she came to Atlanta, in the fall of 1888, to help wherever needed, although there was then no money available to pay her a salary.

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