Status Updates From Dumb Witness (Hercule Poiro...

AI-experts zouden angstig worden van de hoeveelheid koppeltekens en gedachtestreepjes in dit verhaal, en ik geniet van de hoeveelheid “…,’ cried Poirot”, want dat schijnt hij nogal vaak te doen

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"'Oh, she's crazy about him!' said Charles with confidence. 'Odd taste, but there it is. I think it must be the way he looks at her, as though she were a scientific specimen and not a live woman. That's rather a novelty for Theresa. Pity the fellow's so poor. Theresa's got expensive tastes.'"

"It was poor Bella's fate in life to be passionately fond of clothes without having any clothes sense."

"Bob and Spot, the butcher's dog, circled slowly round each other, hackles raised, growling gently. Spot was a stout dog of nondescript breed. He knew that he must not fight with customer's dogs, but he permitted himself to tell them, by subtle indication, just exactly what mincemeat he would make of them were he free to do so.
Bob, a dog of spirit, replied in kind."