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reproachfully. "Parbleu，I wanted to estimaate the chances of a stranger being noticedentering the shop opposite." "Couldn't you simply have asked-without all that tissue of lies?" "No，mon ami.If I had "simply asked"，as you put it，I should have gotno answer at all to my question.You yourself are English and yet you do notseem to appreciate the quality of the English reaction to a directquestion.It is invariably one of suspicion and the natural result isreticence.If I had asked those people for information they would have shutup like oysters.
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But by making a statement (and a somewhat out of the way andpreposterous one)and by your contradiction of it，tongues are immediatelyloosened.We know also that that particular time was a "busy time"-that is，that everyove would be intent on their own concerns and that there would bea fair number of people passing along the pavements.Our murderer chose histime well，Hastings." He paused and then added on a deep note of reproach: "Is it that you have not in any degree the common sense，Hastings?I sayto you:"Make a purchase quelconque"-and you deliberately choose thestrawberries!Already they commence to creep through their bag and endangeryour good suit."
Famous painting