“ From the very first I took a firm and rooted dislike to him, and I flatter myself that my first judgments are usually fairly shrewd. ”
 Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). copy citation

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“Her volubility, which I remembered of old, had lost nothing in the intervening years, and she poured out a steady flood of conversation, mainly on the subject of the forthcoming bazaar which she was organizing and which was to take place shortly. Occasionally she referred to her husband over a question of days or dates. His watchful and attentive manner never varied. From the very first I took a firm and rooted dislike to him, and I flatter myself that my first judgments are usually fairly shrewd.
Presently Mrs. Inglethorp turned to give some instructions about letters to Evelyn Howard, and her husband addressed me in his painstaking voice: «Is soldiering your regular profession, Mr. Hastings?»” source

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