借镜杀人28

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Carrie Louise came down the broad stairway, and three people converged1
upon her from different directions, Gina from the long corridor, Miss
Marple from the library, and Juliet Bellever from the Great Hall.
Gina spoke2 first.
“Darling!” she exclaimed passionately3. “Are you all right? They haven’t
bullied4 you or given you third degree or anything?”
“Of course not, Gina. What odd ideas you have! Inspector5 Curry6 was
charming and most considerate.”
“So he ought to be,” said Miss Bellever. “Now, Cara, I’ve got all your let-
ters here and a parcel. I was going to bring them up to you.”
“Bring them into the library,” said Carrie Louise.
All four of them went into the library.
Carrie Louise sat down and began opening her letters. There were about
twenty or thirty of them.
As she opened them, she handed them to Miss Bellever who sorted them
into heaps, explaining to Miss Marple as she did so, “Three main categor-
ies. One—from relations of the boys. Those I hand over to Dr. Maverick7.
Begging letters I deal with myself. And the rest are personal—and Cara
gives me notes on how to deal with them.”
The correspondence once disposed of, Mrs. Serrocold turned her atten-
tion to the parcel, cutting the string with scissors.
Out of the neat wrappings, there appeared an attractive box of chocol-
ates tied up with a gold ribbon.
“Someone must think it’s my birthday,” said Mrs. Serrocold with a smile.
She slipped off the ribbon and opened the box. Inside was a visiting
card. Carrie Louise looked at it with slight surprise.
“With love from Alex,” she read. “How odd of him to send me a box of
chocolates by post on the same day he was coming down here.”
Uneasiness stirred in Miss Marple’s mind.
She said quickly:
“Wait a minute, Carrie Louise. Don’t eat one yet.”
Mrs. Serrocold looked faintly surprised.
“I was going to hand them round.”
“Well, don’t. Wait while I ask—is Alex about the house, do you know,
Gina?”
Gina said quickly, “Alex was in the Hall just now, I think.”
She went across, opened the door, and called him.
Alex Restarick appeared in the doorway8 a moment later.
“Madonna darling! So you’re up. None the worse?”
He came across to Mrs. Serrocold and kissed her gently on both cheeks.
Miss Marple said:
“Carrie Louise wants to thank you for the chocolates.”
Alex looked surprised.
“What chocolates?”
“These chocolates,” said Carrie Louise.
“But I never sent you any chocolates, darling.”
“The box has got your card in,” said Miss Bellever.
Alex peered down.
“So it has. How odd. How very odd … I certainly didn’t send them.”
“What a very extraordinary thing,” said Miss Bellever.
“They look absolutely scrumptious,” said Gina, peering into the box.
“Look, Grandam, there are your favourite Kirsch ones in the middle.”
Miss Marple gently but firmly took the box away from her. Without a
word she took it out of the room and went to find Lewis Serrocold. It took
her some time because he had gone over to the College—she found him in
Dr. Maverick’s room there. She put the box on the table in front of him. He
listened to her brief account of the circumstances. His face grew suddenly
stern and hard.
Carefully, he and the doctor lifted out chocolate after chocolate and ex-
amined them.
“I think,” said Dr. Maverick, “that these ones I have put aside have al-
most certainly been tampered9 with. You see the unevenness10 of the chocol-
ate coating underneath11? The next thing to do is to get them analysed.”
“But it seems incredible,” said Miss Marple. “Why, everyone in the
house might have been poisoned!”
Lewis nodded. His face was still white and hard.
“Yes. There is a ruthlessness—a disregard—” he broke off. “Actually, I
think all these particular chocolates are Kirsch flavouring. That is Car-
oline’s favourite. So, you see, there is knowledge behind this.”
Miss Marple said quietly:
“If it is as you suspect—if there is—poison—in these chocolates, then I’m
afraid Carrie Louise will have to know what is going on. She must be put
upon her guard.”
Lewis Serrocold said heavily:
“Yes. She will have to know that someone wants to kill her. I think that
she will find it almost impossible to believe.”

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1 converged 7de33615d7fbc1cb7bc608d12f1993d2     
v.（线条、运动的物体等）会于一点( converge的过去式 )；（趋于）相似或相同；人或车辆汇集；聚集
参考例句：
  • Thousands of supporters converged on London for the rally. 成千上万的支持者从四面八方汇聚伦敦举行集会。
  • People converged on the political meeting from all parts of the city. 人们从城市的四面八方涌向这次政治集会。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 spoke XryyC     
n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说
参考例句：
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
3 passionately YmDzQ4     
ad.热烈地，激烈地
参考例句：
  • She could hate as passionately as she could love. 她能恨得咬牙切齿，也能爱得一往情深。
  • He was passionately addicted to pop music. 他酷爱流行音乐。
4 bullied 2225065183ebf4326f236cf6e2003ccc     
adj.被欺负了v.恐吓，威逼( bully的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
  • My son is being bullied at school. 我儿子在学校里受欺负。
  • The boy bullied the small girl into giving him all her money. 那男孩威逼那个小女孩把所有的钱都给他。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 inspector q6kxH     
n.检查员，监察员，视察员
参考例句：
  • The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
  • The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
6 curry xnozh     
n.咖哩粉，咖哩饭菜；v.用咖哩粉调味，用马栉梳，制革
参考例句：
  • Rice makes an excellent complement to a curry dish.有咖喱的菜配米饭最棒。
  • Add a teaspoonful of curry powder.加一茶匙咖喱粉。
7 maverick 47Ozg     
adj.特立独行的；不遵守传统的；n.持异议者，自行其是者
参考例句：
  • He's a maverick.He has his own way of thinking about things.他是个特异独行的人。对事情有自己的看法。
  • You're a maverick and you'll try anything.你是个爱自行其是的人，样样事情都要尝试一下。
8 doorway 2s0xK     
n.门口，(喻)入门；门路，途径
参考例句：
  • They huddled in the shop doorway to shelter from the rain.他们挤在商店门口躲雨。
  • Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway.玛丽突然出现在门口。
9 tampered 07b218b924120d49a725c36b06556000     
v.窜改( tamper的过去式 )；篡改；（用不正当手段）影响；瞎摆弄
参考例句：
  • The records of the meeting had been tampered with. 会议记录已被人擅自改动。 来自辞典例句
  • The old man's will has been tampered with. 老人的遗嘱已被窜改。 来自辞典例句
10 unevenness fab24526f4357ba5f93a2a7a8110fdd7     
n. 不平坦，不平衡，不匀性
参考例句：
  • This unevenness comes about because topics are developed in a logical order. 所以出现这种不平衡，是因为课题是按逻辑顺序展开的。
  • I sanded the corners to take away any unevenness in the joints. 我用砂纸磨边边角角的地方，去除接头处的不均。
11 underneath VKRz2     
adj.在...下面，在...底下；adv.在下面
参考例句：
  • Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
  • She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣，里面套着一条连衣裙。

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