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She told me.
Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!
She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed.
`` She told me he was in Germany ''.
She told the sheep, ' The world is coming to an end '!!
She said it was after she returned from her vomiting spell in the back yard that Mrs. Borden told her to wash the windows.
She told police about the prospective tenant she had heard quarreling with her father some weeks before the murders, but she said she thought he was from out of town because she heard him mention something about talking to his partner.
) She snarled terribly but intuition told him, again, that she was bluffing, and he could see that half her attention was distracted by the dogs.
She paused at the kitchen door, caught her breath, told herself firmly that the opium was only an attempt to frighten her and went into the kitchen, where Glendora was eyeing the chickens dismally and Maude was cleaning lamp chimneys.
She calmly repeated what Moore had told me.
She found herself wishing an old wish, that she had told Doaty she was running away, that she had left something more behind her than the loving, sorry note and her best garnet pin.
She felt mindless, walking, and almost easy until the church spire told her she was near the cemetery, and she caught herself wondering what she would say to Doaty.
She told herself rebelliously, and with pride, I am an American!!
`` She should have told me herself.
She told everyone that the money came from her father, who died at about the same time.
She later told the Avalanche-Journal:
She had run out of things to say to Noel and so she told him a story about " four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter.
She had earlier told the House of Commons that if she had been aware of such facts she would have done something about it.
She was not aided by memories of Queen Constance, the Provençal wife of Robert II, tales of whose immodest dress and language were still told with horror.
She chose that name after being told by producer Lee Shubert to drop her real name and claims she was inspired by two cosmetics bottles in her dressing room, one labeled Evening in Paris and the other by Elizabeth Arden.
She had to hurdle a barbecue pit to touch Lady Bird Johnson, she accidentally knocked Pat Nixon down, and Nancy Reagan told her to get out of her face or she'd have her arrested.
She was foiled by Galanthis, her servant, who told Hera that she had already delivered the baby.
She told a Japanese person that she would like to have an Akita dog ; one was given to her within a month, with the name of Kamikaze-go.
She appeared in a silent film, Deliverance ( 1919 ), which told her story in a melodramatic, allegorical style.
She later testified that she experienced her first vision around 1424 at the age of 12 years, when she was out alone in a field and saw visions of figures she identified as Saint Michael, Saint Catherine, and Saint Margaret, who told her to drive out the English and bring the Dauphin to Reims for his coronation.

She and Poirot
" She first met Poirot in the story Cards on the Table and has been bothering him ever since.
She begs Poirot to let her take the blame for the crime: she will die soon anyway, and Anne will be free to live her young life.
She is a mystery novelist and a friend of Hercule Poirot.
She is more usually used for comic relief or to provide a deus ex machina through her intuitive or sudden insights, a function that is especially apparent in Third Girl, in which she furnishes Poirot with virtually every important clue, or in The Pale Horse, where she inadvertently helps the investigators to determine the type of poison used to kill the murder victims, saving the life of another character.
She comes down, after initially refusing, when Poirot sends his card.
She is living at one of the two nearby cottages, the other of which is currently occupied by Hercule Poirot, who has been invited for lunch on Sunday.
She hides it in a clay sculpture of a horse in her workshop, then gets it handled by a blind match-seller, and places it in Poirot ’ s hedge.
She has written a confession, but Poirot found her library book about magic, melted wax and a pin, and realized she mistook piercing a voodoo image for murder.
She ’ s the sort of woman, I think, that men would get tired of very easily .” In Evil under the Sun, Poirot says of Arlena Marshall “ She was the type of woman whom men care for easily and of whom they easily tire .”
She published thirteen Poirot novels between 1935 and 1942 out of a total of eighteen novels in that period.
She sends her young companion, Lily Margrave, to Poirot to employ him on the case and Poirot accepts, partly because he senses that Lily does not want Poirot to investigate the matter and that she has something to hide.
She gives the game away by attempting to attack Poirot but is held back by Stillingfleet.
She invites her friend Hercule Poirot to solve the disquieting puzzle.
She has guested on The Bill ; Doctor Who ; Dr Finlay's Casebook ; Wycliffe ; Agatha Christie's Poirot ; and also appeared in The Sinners ; Holly, as the title character Holly Elliot ; Adam Smith ; Bizarre and Rummage ; The Master of Ballantrae ; Jackanory ; Holding The Fort ; Tom, Dick, and Harriet ; Waiting ; Dangerfield ; Running Wild ; The Visit ; Graham's Gang ; I Told You, Didn't I?
She goes to stay with Miss Lawson, but Poirot tells her to go to a certain hotel, and read some papers he has prepared for her.
She killed herself because the papers Poirot had given her contained a description of how she had murdered her aunt.
She is not doing her most brilliant work in Poirot Loses A Client, but she has produced a much-better-than-average thriller nevertheless, and her plot has novelty, as it has sound mechanism, intriguing character types, and ingenuity.
She appears in five of the last nine Christie novels featuring Poirot to be written, and appears on her own without Poirot at all in The Pale Horse ( 1961 ).
She now offers to help Poirot who takes up her offer by getting her to pose as a maid in the house of Mrs Wetherby, a resident in the village for whom Mrs McGinty worked as housekeeper, and whose daughter, Deirdre, Poirot suspects may have some connection with the circumstances surrounding Mrs McGinty's murder.

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