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

Anthony Marston, in the height of his youth and manhood, had seemed like a being who was immortal. And now, crumpled and broken, he lay on the floor.

‘You mean—he must have put the stuff in his glass himself?’

He removed the stopper from the whisky and smelt and tasted it. Then he tasted the soda water. He shook his head. ‘They’re both all right.’

‘No, a man doesn’t die of a mere choking fit. Marston’s death wasn’t what we call a natural death.’

He dipped a finger into the dregs and very cautiously just touched the finger with the tip of his tongue.

He died of asphyxiation right enough.’

Dead? Dead? That young Norse God in the prime of his health and strength. Struck down all in a moment. Healthy young men didn’t die like that, choking over a whisky and soda…

‘You are charged with the following indictments

her breath coming with a slight catch in it:

that’s your line of country. [