![]() If the onlooker had been young he or she would have added, ‘Oh yes, quite pleasant, but deadly dull, of course, like all old people.’ A pleasant couple, but nothing remarkable about them. ![]() She had decided instead to try a new shade of lipstick so as to cheer herself up.Īn elderly couple having breakfast together. Mrs Beresford had once thought of dyeing her hair, but in the end she had decided that she liked herself better as nature had made her. Now the black was adulterated with streaks of grey laid on, apparently at random. Mrs Beresford had once had black hair, a vigorous curling mop of it. There were traces of the red still, but most of it had gone that sandy-cum-grey colour that red-headed people so often arrive at in middle life. It looked as though it might rain but wasn’t quite sure of it. It was an ordinary sort of day too, the kind of day that you get five days out of seven. ![]() Hundreds of elderly couples just like them were having breakfast all over England at that particular moment. ![]() ![]() Mr and Mrs Beresford were sitting at the breakfast table. Encyclopedia of World Writers, Beginnings To 20th CenturyĪGATHA CHRISTIE By the Pricking of My Thumbsīy the pricking of my thumbs Something wicked this way comes.Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes. ![]()
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