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November 29 - December 5, 2022
The look that then fell upon her was Maigret through and through! Completely calm! Completely unruffled! It was as if he’d just noticed the buzzing of a bee. As if what he had before him was something quite ordinary.
what he waited and watched out for, was the crack in the wall. In other words, the instant when the human being comes out from behind the opponent.
Like many Jewish women of her age, she had put on weight,
It could have sounded merely grotesque. But it did not! It was fearsome! Tragic! Terrifying!
Maigret hung up, remaining as unnaturally calm as he ever was.
He looked like a tourist in a historic church trying to work out without the help of a guide what there was to inspect.
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