tailieunhanh - The Mysterious Affair at Styles AGATHA CHRISTIE CHAPTER 11

The Mysterious Affair at Styles AGATHA CHRISTIE CHAPTER 11 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | The Mysterious Affair at Styles AGATHA CHRISTIE CHAPTER 11 The Case for the Prosecution The trial of John Cavendish for the murder of his stepmother took place two months later. Of the intervening weeks I will say little but my admiration and sympathy went out unfeignedly to Mary Cavendish. She ranged herself passionately on her husband s side scorning the mere idea of his guilt and fought for him tooth and nail. I expressed my admiration to Poirot and he nodded thoughtfully. Yes she is of those women who show at their best in adversity. It brings out all that is sweetest and truest in them. Her pride and her jealousy have-- Jealousy I queried. Yes. Have you not realized that she is an unusually jealous woman As I was saying her pride and jealousy have been laid aside. She thinks of nothing but her husband and the terrible fate that is hanging over him. He spoke very feelingly and I looked at him earnestly remembering that last afternoon when he had been deliberating whether or not to speak. With his tenderness for a woman s happiness I felt glad that the decision had been taken out of his hands. Even now I said I can hardly believe it. You see up to the very last minute I thought it was Lawrence Poirot grinned. I know you did. But John My old friend John Every murderer is probably somebody s old friend observed Poirot philosophically. You cannot mix up sentiment and reason. I must say I think you might have given me a hint. Perhaps mon ami I did not do so just because he was your old friend. I was rather disconcerted by this remembering how I had busily passed on to John what I believed to be Poirot s views concerning Bauerstein. He by the way had been acquitted of the charge brought against him. Nevertheless although he had been too clever for them this time and the charge of espionage could not be brought home to him his wings were pretty well clipped for the future. I asked Poirot whether he thought John would be condemned. To my intense surprise he replied .