Цитаты из книги «And Then There Were None / И никого не стало. Книга для чтения на английском языке»

‘Beatrice Taylor was in service with me. Not a nice girl—as I found out too late. I was very much deceived in her. She had nice manners and was very clean and willing. I was very pleased with her. Of course, all that was the sheerest hypocrisy! She was a loose girl with no morals. Disgusting! It was some time before I found out that she was what they call “in trouble”.’ She paused, her delicate nose wrinkling itself in distaste. ‘It was a great shock to me. Her parents were decent folk, too, who had brought her up very strictly. I’m glad to say they did not condone her behaviour.’

‘Ah, I understand you now. Well, there is that Mr Lombard. He admits to having abandoned twenty men to their deaths.’ Vera said: ‘They were only natives.’ Emily Brent said sharply: ‘Black or white, they are our brothers.’

‘The others? What about the others?’ ‘I don’t quite understand you.’ ‘All the other accusations—they—they weren’t true? But if it’s true about the Rogers—’ She stopped, unable to make her chaotic thought clear.

‘Do you really think that Rogers and his wife did away with that old lady?’ Emily Brent gazed thoughtfully out to sea. Then she said: ‘Personally, I am quite sure of it. What do you think?’ ‘I don’t know what to think.’

‘I’m very annoyed with myself for being so easily taken in. Really that letter is absurd when one comes to examine it. But I had no doubts at the time—none at all.’

In the darkness he kept seeing Arthur Richmond’s face. He’d liked Arthur—he’d been damned fond of Arthur. He’d been pleased that Leslie liked him too.

‘That’s a rum go! I could have sworn there were ten of them.’

He was staring at the china figures in the centre of the table.

He remembered Seton very well. His fair hair, his blue eyes, his habit of looking you straight in the face with a pleasant air of straightforwardness. That was what had made so good an impression on the jury.

drinks themselves were untampered with.