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You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?"

It will not."

If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me."

I, also M. Ratchett."

What's wrong with my proposition?"

Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.


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AGATHA CHRISTIE The real excitement of being a girl - of being, that is, a woman in embryo - was that life was such ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE