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December 30 - December 31, 2023
a frock that looked (but only looked) simple.
He was popularly supposed “to write,” but it was
understood among his friends that inquiries as to literary output were not encouraged.
All three wore the air of superiority assumed by people who are already in a place when studying new arrivals.
She was aware of the keen glances bent upon her—and at the same time almost unaware of them; such tributes were part of her life.
She came ashore playing a role, even though she played it unconsciously.
It was a well-bred, assured voice, a charming voice, although perhaps a trifle arrogant.
Be heroically noble
and marry a woman he does not care for—and thereby probably ruin three lives—for it is doubtful whether he could make Jackie happy under those circumstances?
her complete assurance—her habit of command.
She’s so sure of herself that she makes other people sure.
There are a lot of people on this boat I’d say the world could do without.”
“I am not a middle man. I am a top man,” declared Hercule Poirot with a slight arrogance.
“I am a detective,” said Hercule Poirot with the modest air of one who says “I am a king.”
Linnet was used to unqualified admiration of all she was or did. Hercule Poirot had sinned noticeably against this creed.
“Fey?” Mrs. Allerton put her head on one side as she considered her reply. “Well, it’s a Scotch word, really. It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know—it’s too good to be true.”
His rotten health, never bad enough to be really interesting, yet not good enough for him to have led the life he would have chosen. Very little money, no congenial occupation.
“A thoroughly lukewarm, tame existence,”
world’s greatest menace.
If I am right, and after all I am constantly in the habit of being right”—Race
“Don’t you realize—and you an American—that everyone is born free and equal?” “They’re not,” said Cornelia with calm certainty. “My good girl, it’s part of your constitution!”
“I can do what you tell me,” said Cornelia eagerly.
He felt secretly ashamed of the superior fortitude exhibited by Cornelia.
The night nurse, always, she is astonished to find her patient alive in the evening; the day nurse, always, she is surprised to find him alive in the morning!
See you, around a person like Linnet Doyle there is so
much—so many conflicting hates and jealousies and envies and meannesses.
It is like a cloud of flies, buzzing, b...
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If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.
She was so beautiful when she came into a room that it made a lump come in your throat. I’m homely myself, and that makes me appreciate beauty a lot more.
She was as beautiful—just as a woman—as anything in Greek Art. And when anything beautiful’s dead, it’s a loss to the world. So there!”
“You’re unbelievable. Just haven’t got a bit of natural female spite in you anywhere.”
you’re the only nice woman I’ve ever come across. Will you marry me?”
I’ve deliberately offered marriage to this female—against all my principles, because I don’t believe in legal contracts between the sexes;
You laugh at all sorts of serious things. Education and Culture—and—and Death. You wouldn’t be reliable.”
I believe she really means it. She wants a man to be reliable. Reliable—ye gods!”
“I can assure you, sir, that I shall take steps to see that my young cousin is not subjected to any such persecution,”
“Come now,” persisted Mr. Ferguson, “what have you got against me?” “I should think that was quite obvious, Mr—er—I don’t know your name.”
“In what way am I not good enough?” Miss Van Schuyler again did not answer. “I’ve got two legs, two arms, good health, and quite reasonable brains. What’s wrong with that?”
“Social position is bunk!”
disreputable knees
He’s so childishly simple. He’d have no kind of subtlety about it—and he’s got no imagination.
He always thought things would go right.
“She is a woman of an original mind,” he said. “It is probably the first time you have met one.”
“Well, it didn’t seem fair, her having everything.”
“Well, it doesn’t seem to have done her much good, poor lass.”
