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Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. "How in Tartarus, " cried Flambeau, "did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet?" -- "Oh, one's little flock, you know!" said Father Brown, arching his eyebrows rather blankly. "When I was a curate in Hartlepool, there were three of them with spiked bracelets." * Not long after he publish...

And the young woman of the house, " asked Dr. Hood, with huge and silent amusement, "what does she want?" "Why, she wants to marry him, " cried Father Brown, sitting up eagerly. "That is just the awful complication." "It is indeed a hideous enigma, " said Dr. Hood. "This young James Todhunter, " continued the cleric, "is a very decent man so far as I know, but then nobody knows very much. He is a bright, brownish little fellow, agile like a mo...