Author: MonkeyBard
Rating: PG
Summary: Don't judge a floozy by her façade.
Date: 4 July 2013
Prompt: Oh say can you see… the alliteration in this lyric? Use at least one alliterative sentence in today's entry - and the more alliterations, the better!

Her lower lip quivered querulously and she pulled the quilted coverlet close, playing up the picture of pathos. "I ain't done nothin' I weren't asked to," she protested.

Pitiless, Holmes silenced her with stare. "And paid a pretty penny, perhaps, to perform outside your usual practises."

She waggled her head at the wardrobe, hinting. "Not nearly enough to do as dastardly a deed as that!"

"Holmes, you can't conceive that this connubial--"

"Naturally not, Watson. However--" He flung open the wardrobe and fetched out a fellow with fierce eyes and frightful features. "She has fed us our felon!"

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