日期：2023-08-07 I had arrived at Styles on the 5th of July. I come now to the events of the 16th and 17th of that month. For the convenience of the reader I will recapitulate the incidents of those days in as exact a manner as possible. They were elicited subsequen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 To make this part of my story clear, I append the following plan of the first floor of Styles. The servants rooms are reached through the door B. They have no communication with the right wing, where the Inglethorps rooms were situated. It seemed to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 The house which the Belgians occupied in the village was quite close to the park gates. One could save time by taking a narrow path through the long grass, which cut off the detours of the winding drive. So I, accordingly, went that way. I had nearl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 It isnt strychnine, is it? Where did you find this? I asked Poirot, in lively curiosity. In the waste-paper basket. You recognise the handwriting? Yes, it is Mrs. Inglethorps. But what does it mean? Poirot shrugged his shoulders. I cannot say--but i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 In the interval before the inquest, Poirot was unfailing in his activity. Twice he was closeted with Mr. Wells. He also took long walks into the country. I rather resented his not taking me into his confidence, the more so as I could not in the leas... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 As we came out of the Stylites Arms, Poirot drew me aside by a gentle pressure of the arm. I understood his object. He was waiting for the Scotland Yard men. In a few moments, they emerged, and Poirot at once stepped forward, and accosted the shorte... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 There was a moments stupefied silence. Japp, who was the least surprised of any of us, was the first to speak. My word, he cried, youre the goods! And no mistake, Mr. Poirot! These witnesses of yours are all right, I suppose? Voila! I have prepared... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I HAD had no opportunity as yet of passing on Poirots message to Lawrence. But now, as I strolled out on the lawn, still nursing a grudge against my friends high-handedness, I saw Lawrence on the croquet lawn, aimlessly knocking a couple of very anc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 To my extreme annoyance, Poirot was not in, and the old Belgian who answered my knock informed me that he believed he had gone to London. I was dumbfounded. What on earth could Poirot be doing in London! Was it a sudden decision on his part, or had... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 The trial of John Cavendish for the murder of his stepmother took place two months later. Of the intervening weeks I will say little, but my admiration and sympathy went out unfeignedly to Mary Cavendish. She ranged herself passionately on her husba... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 POIROTS abrupt departure had intrigued us all greatly. Sunday morning wore away, and still he did not reappear. But about three oclock a ferocious and prolonged hooting outside drove us to the window, to see Poirot alighting from a car, accompanied... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Poirot, you old villain, I said, Ive half a mind to strangle you! What do you mean by deceiving me as you have done? We were sitting in the library. Several hectic days lay behind us. In the room below, John and Mary were together once more, while A... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-07-06 CHAPTER XLVIII Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody, not greatly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest. My Fanny, indeed, at th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-07-06 CHAPTER XLVII It had been a miserable party, each of the three believing themselves most miserable. Mrs. Norris, however, as most attached to Maria, was really the greatest sufferer. Maria was her first favourite, the dearest of all; the match had b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-07-06 CHAPTER XLVI As Fanny could not doubt that her answer was conveying a real disappointment, she was rather in expectation, from her knowledge of Miss Crawfords temper, of being urged again; and though no second letter arrived for the space of a week,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-07-06 CHAPTER XLV At about the weeks end from his return to Mansfield, Toms immediate danger was over, and he was so far pronounced safe as to make his mother perfectly easy; for being now used to the sight of him in his suffering, helpless state, and hea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-07-06 CHAPTER XLIV Seven weeks of the two months were very nearly gone, when the one letter, the letter from Edmund, so long expected, was put into Fannys hands. As she opened, and saw its length, she prepared herself for a minute detail of happiness and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-07-06 CHAPTER XLIII It was presumed that Mr. Crawford was travelling back, to London, on the morrow, for nothing more was seen of him at Mr. Prices; and two days afterwards, it was a fact ascertained to Fanny by the following letter from his sister, opene... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-07-06 CHAPTER XLII The Prices were just setting off for church the next day when Mr. Crawford appeared again. He came, not to stop, but to join them; he was asked to go with them to the Garrison chapel, which was exactly what he had intended, and they all... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-07-06 CHAPTER XLI A week was gone since Edmund might be supposed in town, and Fanny had heard nothing of him. There were three different conclusions to be drawn from his silence, between which her mind was in fluctuation; each of them at times being held... 阅读全文>>