"You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
"You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer."
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