" When he passed me in the restaurant," he said at last, "I had a curious impression. It was as though a wild animal – an animal savage, but savage! you understand – had passed me by."
"And yet he looked altogether of the most respectable."
"Précisément! The body – the cage – is everything of the most respectable – but through the bars, the wild animal looks out."
"You are fanciful, mon vieux," said M. Bouc.
"It may be so. But I could not rid myself of the impression that evil had passed me by very close." (1.2.52-56) "
― Agatha Christie , Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #9)
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"And yet he looked altogether of the most respectable."
"Précisément! The body – the cage – is everything of the most respectable – but through the bars, the wild animal looks out."
"You are fanciful, mon vieux," said M. Bouc.
"It may be so. But I could not rid myself of the impression that evil had passed me by very close." (1.2.52-56)" style="width:100%;margin:20px 0;"/>