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THE TUESDAY NIGHT CLUB
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THE TUESDAY NIGHT CLUB
“ U nsolved mysteries.”
Raymond West blew out a cloud of smoke and repeated the words with a kind of deliberate self-consciouspleasure.
“Unsolved mysteries.”
He looked round him with satisfaction. The room was an old one with broad black beams across the ceiling and itwas furnished with good old furniture that belonged to it. Hence Raymond West’s approving glance. By profession hewas a writer and he liked the atmosphere to be flawless. His Aunt Jane’s house always pleased him as the right settingfor her personality. He looked across the hearth1 to where she sat erect2 in the big grandfather chair. Miss Marple wore ablack brocade dress, very much pinched in round the waist. Mechlin lace was arranged in a cascade3 down the front ofthe bodice. She had on black lace mittens4, and a black lace cap surmounted5 the piled-up masses of her snowy hair. Shewas knitting-something white and soft and fleecy. Her faded blue eyes, benignant and kindly6, surveyed her nephewand her nephew’s guests with gentle pleasure. They rested first on Raymond himself, self-consciously debonair7, thenon Joyce Lemprière, the artist, with her close-cropped black head and queer hazel-green eyes, then on that well-groomed man of the world, Sir Henry Clithering. There were two other people in the room, Dr. Pender, the elderlyclergyman of the parish, and Mr. Petherick, the solicitor9, a dried-up little man with eyeglasses which he looked overand not through. Miss Marple gave a brief moment of attention to all these people and returned to her knitting with agentle smile upon her lips.
Mr. Petherick gave the dry little cough with which he usually prefaced his remarks.
“What is that you say, Raymond? Unsolved mysteries? Ha-and what about them?”
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legacy
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v.敲弯,钉牢;确定;扭住对方 [参]clench | |
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stoutness
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noted
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utterly
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impatience
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obstinately
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