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And yet, " said Poirot, "suppose an accident-"" Ah, no, my friend-"" From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.Agatha Christie
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At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.Agatha Christie
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You've a pretty good nerve, " said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett."What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett, " he said.Agatha Christie
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But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.Agatha Christie
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I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.Agatha Christie
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Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.Agatha Christie
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I like to see an angry Englishman, " said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.Agatha Christie
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You are the patient one, Mademoiselle, ' said Poirot to Miss Debenham.She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.'That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.Agatha Christie
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When he passed me in the restaurant, " he said at last, "I had a curious impression. It was as though a wild animal — an animal savage, but savage! you understand — had passed me by."" And yet he looked altogether of the most respectable."" Précisément! The body — the cage — is everything of the most respectable — but through the bars, the wild animal looks out."" You are fanciful, mon vieux, " said M. Bouc. "It may be so. But I could not rid myself of the impression that evil had passed me by very close." (1.2.52-56) .Agatha Christie
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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 pocket, took it out, put back the hands blindly and gave it the requisite dent.Agatha Christie
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I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.Agatha Christie