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And when anything beautiful’s dead, it’s a loss to the world. So there!�
“Because I am Hercule Poirot I do not need to be told.
That’s right everybody
“In fact the marriage has been arranged by heaven and Hercule Poirot. All I have to do is to compound a felony.�
3 murders + 5 confessions to various crimes = two new couples somehow. Poirot uses girl math I guess.
“You think that I am just amusing myself with side issues? And it annoys you? But it is not that. Once I went professionally to an archæological expedition—and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do—clear away the extraneous matter so that we can
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