Zitate aus dem Buch «Crooked House / Скрюченный домишко. Книга для чтения на английском языке»

decide what you want out of it. What

I’ve no use for any other kind of marriage.’

They drive about in dog-carts

testamentary dispositions

she’d hold it over them.

“She’ll be bouncing her ball

which a sibilant hissing added an eerie note to the atmosphere

that whoever had committed murder had endangered their neck

sucking her pencil again

It’s carbon”, though I don’t see how that could be so for if you call a thing a lead pencil it stands to reason that that’s because there’s lead in it.’