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Such nice people, the Hillingdons, though she's not really very easy to know, is she? I mean, she's always very pleasant and all that, but one never s...more

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It's all very well to talk like that,” said Mr. Rafiel. “We, you say? What do you think I can do about it? I can't even walk without help. How can you...more

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There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hy...more

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Mrs. Baker's social manner was almost robotlike in its perfection. All her comments and remarks were natural, normal, everyday currency, but one had a...more

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And families now, families who have been separated throughout the year, assemble once more together. Now under these conditions, my friend, you must a...more

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For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back.

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In fact,' said Poirot, 'she stabbed him in the dark, not realising that he was dead already, but somehow deduced that he had a watch in his pyjama poc...more

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A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought and felt about things. He liked that about her. He h...more

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Oh! Do not excite yourself. Shall I say that he interested me because he was trying to grow a mustache and as yet the result is poor." Poirot stroked ...more

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Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's d...more

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Edna restored the toffee to the centre of her tongue and sucking pleasurably, resumed her typing of Naked Love by Armand Levine. Its painstaking eroti...more

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What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

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There! Now we're friends!" declared the minx. "Say you're sorry about my sister -""I am desolated!""That's a good boy!

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A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in lo...more