日期：2023-08-07 Nadina, the Russian dancer who had taken Paris by storm, swayed to the sound of the applause, bowed and bowed again. Her narrow black eyes narrowed themselves still more, the long line of her scarlet mouth curved faintly upwards. Enthusiastic French... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Everybody has been at me, right and left, to write this story from the great (represented by Lord Nasby) to the small (represented by our late maid of all work, Emily, whom I saw when I was last in England. Lor, miss, what a beyewtiful book you migh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Every one was very kind to me. Dazed as I was, I appreciated that. I felt no overwhelming grief. Papa had never loved me, I knew that well enough. If he had, I might have loved him in return. No, there had not been love between us, but we had belong... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 In the succeeding weeks I was a good deal bored. Mrs. Flemming and her friends seemed to me to be supremely uninteresting. They talked for hours of themselves and their children and of the difficulties of getting good milk for the children and of wh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Nobody came forward to identify the dead woman. The inquest elicited the following facts. Shortly after one oclock on January 8th, a well-dressed woman with a slight foreign accent had entered the offices of Messrs. Butler and Park, house-agents, in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 In the first heat of indignation I found my next step unexpectedly easy to tackle. I had had a half-formed plan in my head when I went into Scotland Yard. One to be carried out if my interview there was unsatisfactory (it had been profoundly unsatis... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I went home with a feeling of exultation. My scheme had succeeded far better than I could possibly have hoped. Lord Nasby had been positively genial. It only now remained for me to Make good, as he expressed it. Once locked in my own room, I took ou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Shaking off the feelings that oppressed me, I went quickly upstairs. I had no difficulty in finding the room of the tragedy. On the day the body was discovered it had rained heavily, and large muddy boots had trampled the uncarpeted floor in every d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 (Extracts from the diary of Sir Eustace Pedler, M.P.) It is an extraordinary thing that I never seem to get any peace. I am a man who likes a quiet life. I like my Club, my rubber of Bridge, a well-cooked meal, a sound wine. I like England in the su... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 (Annes Narrative Resumed) It is most undignified for a heroine to be sea-sick. In books the more it rolls and tosses, the better she likes it. When everybody else is ill, she alone staggers along the deck, braving the elements and positively rejoici... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I was violently excited. I was sure that I had hit on the right trail at last. One thing was clear, I must not move out of the cabin. The asaf?tida had got to be borne. I examined my facts again. To-morrow was the 22nd, and at 1 a.m. or 1 p.m. somet... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 There were no further excitements that night. I had breakfast in bed and got up late the next morning. Mrs. Blair hailed me as I came on deck. Good-morning, Gipsy girl, sit down here by me. You look as though you hadnt slept well. Why do you call me... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 (Extract from the diary of Sir Eustace Pedler) There is something to be said for life on board ship. It is peaceful. My grey hairs fortunately exempt me from the indignities of bobbing for apples, running up and down the deck with potatoes and eggs,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 It has been a curious evening. The only costume that fitted me in the barbers emporium was that of a Teddy Bear. I dont mind playing bears with some nice young girls on a winters evening in Englandbut its hardly an ideal costume for the equator. How... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 (Annes Narrative Resumed) It was on the night of the Fancy Dress dance that I decided that the time had come for me to confide in some one. So far I had played a lone hand and rather enjoyed it. Now suddenly everything was changed. I distrusted my o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Diamonds! I stared, fascinated, at the glassy heap on the bunk. I picked up one which, but for the weight, might have been a fragment of broken bottle. Are you sure, Suzanne? Oh, yes, my dear. Ive seen rough diamonds too often to have any doubts. Th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I got an opportunity of tackling Colonel Race on the following morning. The auction of the sweep had just been concluded, and we walked up and down the deck together. Hows the gipsy this morning? Longing for land and her caravan? I shook my head. No... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 (Extract from the diary of Sir Eustace Pedler) Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town. It is really the greatest relief to get off the Kilmorden. The whole time that I was on board I was conscious of being surrounded by a network of intrigue. To put the lid... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 (Annes Narrative Resumed) I dont suppose that as long as I live I shall forget my first sight of Table Mountain. I got up frightfully early and went out on deck. I went right up to the boat deck, which I believe is a heinous offence, but I decided t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 It reminded me forcibly of Episode III in The Perils of Pamela. How often had I not sat in the sixpenny seats, eating a twopenny bar of milk chocolate, and yearning for similar things to happen to me. Well, they had happened with a vengeance. And so... 阅读全文>>