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Book: Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories: A Hercule Poirot Collection with Foreword by Charles Todd
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  1. Agatha Christie _ Hercule Poirot: The Complete

    How well you express it! That is exactly the curse of a politician's life. He has to bow to the country's feeling, however dangerous and foolhardy he knows it to be." "That
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  2. Agatha Christie _ Hercule Poirot: The Complete

    A statesman in these days has a difficult task. He has to pursue the policy he deems advantageous to his country, but he has at the same time to recognize the force of popular feeling. Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddleheaded, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that." "How
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  3. Agatha Christie _ Hercule Poirot: The Complete

    They fear me, Hastings; the criminals of your England they fear me! When the cat is there, the little mice, they come no more to the cheese!" "I don't suppose the greater part of them even know of your existence," I said, laughing. Poirot looked at me reproachfully. He always imagines that the whole world is thinking and talking of Hercule Poirot. He had certainly made a name for himself in London, but I could hardly believe that his existence struck terror into the criminal world.
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  4. Agatha Christie _ Hercule Poirot: The Complete

    Not a look, not a gesture of Valerie Saintclair's but expressed drama. She seemed to exhale an atmosphere of romance. A scarlet flannel dressing gown covered her feet-a homely garment in all conscience; but the charm of her personality invested it with an exotic flavour, and it seemed an Eastern robe of glowing colour.
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  5. Agatha Christie _ Hercule Poirot: The Complete

    Lord Cronshaw's party consisted of six people: he himself, his uncle, the Honourable Eustace Beltane, a pretty American widow, Mrs. Mallaby, a young actor, Chris Davidson, his wife, and last but not least, Miss Coco Courtenay. It was a fancy dress ball, as you know, and
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  6. Agatha Christie _ Hercule Poirot: The Complete

    What was this passion that attacked women for knitting under the most unpropitious conditions? A woman did not look her best knitting; the absorption, the glassy eyes, the restless, busy fingers! One needed the agility of a wild cat, and the will-power of a Napoleon to manage to knit in a crowded tube, but women managed it! If they succeeded in obtaining a seat, out came a miserable little strip of shrimp pink and click, click went the pins!
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  7. Agatha Christie _ Hercule Poirot: The Complete

    Wherever there is human nature, there is drama."
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