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Honor Student

The Halls of Ivy · 1950 · 28 min · 3,803 words

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Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, presents the Hors of Ivy starring Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Coleman. Your best thought is Shlitz, the beer that made Milwaukee famous. More people like the taste of Shlitz than any other beer. That's why Shlitz is the largest selling beer in America. The US are being oppressed to the college. Dr. William Todd

Godmother Hall has achieved the full measure of content. And now witness this peace and contentment this evening. Dr. Hall and transfer the fingers of flame in his fireplace. Mrs. Hall profoundly absorbed in the book.

There indeed is a part of a tranquil, fruitful domesticity. From mind darling, I think I... Please, Tati, just a minute. I'm really going to say that I think I'll turn in now. Good God. I'm on the last page.

Come on darling, read it aloud or I'll fall asleep in my chair. Well you won't know what it's all about. Well, that's the acid test of a mystery novel, Vicki. If I can't ever go to talk about it on the last page, then you being led wickedly astray by an unscrupulous author.

I thought you'd ever read murder stories. Oh, I once read them with a gross. But my very wholesale consumption of them defeated me. I acquired such a facility as putting the culprit halfway through the book that the front was gone.

I don't mind this gate-literature, but it should amuse or relax, not frustrate it and annoy. I'm not being frustrated or annoyed. I'm loving every word of it. I'm sure I don't know who done it.

The lack of experience, my darling, when the element of surprise is identity, there can be only a limited number of suspects. My objection to the who done it is the who. I've always preferred the how done it or the why done it, with their infinite possibilities.

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