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VII
In leaving the room Poirot almost cannoned1 into a tall figure outside the door.
He said: “I beg your pardon, Mademoiselle.”
Jane Olivera drew apart a little.
She said. “Do you know what I think of you, M. Poirot?”
“Eh bien—Mademoiselle—”
She did not give time to finish. The question, indeed, had but a rhetorical value. All that it meant
was that Jane Olivera was about to answer it herself.
“You’re a spy, that’s what you are! A miserable2, low, snooping spy, nosing round and making
trouble!”
“I assure you, Mademoiselle—”
“I know just what you’re after! And I know now just what lies you tell! Why don’t you admit it
straight out? Well, I’ll tell you this—you won’t find out anything—anything at all! There’s
nothing to find out! No one’s going to harm a hair on my precious uncle’s head. He’s safe enough.
He’ll always be safe. Safe and smug and prosperous—and full of platitudes3! He’s just a stodgy4
John Bull, that’s what he is—without an ounce of imagination or vision.”
She paused, then, her agreeable, husky voice deepening, she said venomously: “I loathe5 the
sight of you—you bloody6 little bourgeois7 detective!”
She swept away from him in a whirl of expensive model drapery.
Hercule Poirot remained, his eyes very wide open, his eyebrows8 raised and his hand
thoughtfully caressing9 his moustaches.
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vi.与…猛撞(cannon的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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