Ah, Amelia Peabody. There is nobody in the world now like Amelia Peabody. A combination of the high-handed confidence of a Victorian lady who is assured of her rightness, the compassion for underdogs that comes from noblesse oblige, and the intellect of an only daughter and youngest child, raised on classical scholarship. I want Amelia …

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