古墓之谜 14

Thirteen,HERCULE POIROT ARRIVES,I don’t think I shall ever forget my first sight of Hercule Poirot. Of course, I got used to him lateron, but to begin with it was a shock, and I think everyone else must have felt the same!,I don’t know what I’d imagined—something rather like Sherlock Holmes—long and leanwith a keen, clever face. Of course, I knew he was a foreigner, but I hadn’t expected him to bequite as foreign as he was, if you know what I mean.,When you saw him you just wanted to laugh! He was like something on the stage or at thepictures. To begin with, he wasn’t above five-foot five, I should think—an odd, plump little man,quite old, with an enormous moustache, and a head like an egg. He looked like a hairdresser in acomic play!,And this was the man who was going to find out who killed Mrs.?Leidner!,“You disapprove ¹ of me, ma soeur? Remember, the pudding proves itself only when you eatit.”,The proof of the pudding’s in the eating, I suppose he meant.,Well, that’s a true enough saying, but I couldn’t say I felt much confidence myself!,Dr.?Reilly brought him out in his car soon after lunch on Sunday, and his first procedure wasto ask us all to assemble together.,We did so in the dining room, all sitting round the table. Mr.?Poirot sat at the head of it withDr.?Leidner one side and Dr.?Reilly the other.,She wants to train for the theatre but her parents disapprove.她想训练自己做戏剧演员 ，但她的父母不赞成 。,I would never readily confide in anybody.我从不轻易向人吐露秘密
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