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THE COMPANION
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Eight
THE COMPANION
“ N ow, Dr. Lloyd,” said Miss Helier. “Don’t you know any creepy stories?”
She smiled at him—the smile that nightly bewitched the theatre-going public. Jane Helier was sometimes calledthe most beautiful woman in England, and jealous members of her own profession were in the habit of saying to eachother: “Of course Jane’s not an artist. She can’t act—if you know what I mean. It’s those eyes!”
And those “eyes” were at this minute fixed1 appealingly on the grizzled elderly bachelor doctor who, for the lastfive years, had ministered to the ailments2 of the village of St. Mary Mead3.
With an unconscious gesture, the doctor pulled down his waistcoat (inclined of late to be uncomfortably tight) andracked his brains hastily, so as not to disappoint the lovely creature who addressed him so confidently.
“I feel,” said Jane dreamily, “that I would like to wallow in crime this evening.”
“Splendid,” said Colonel Bantry, her host. “Splendid, splendid.” And he laughed a loud hearty4 military laugh. “Eh,Dolly?”
His wife, hastily recalled to the exigencies5 of social life (she had been planning her spring border) agreedenthusiastically.
“Of course it’s splendid,” she said heartily6 but vaguely7. “I always thought so.”
“Did you, my dear?” said old Miss Marple, and her eyes twinkled a little.
“We don’t get much in the creepy line—and still less in the criminal line—in St. Mary Mead, you know, MissHelier,” said Dr. Lloyd.
“You surprise me,” said Sir Henry Clithering. The ex-Commissioner of Scotland Yard turned to Miss Marple. “Ialways understood from our friend here that St. Mary Mead is a positive hotbed of crime and
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疾病(尤指慢性病),不适( ailment的名词复数 ) | |
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