"He wheeled and went into the observation saloon. Miss Van Schuyler was seated in her usual corner. She looked even more arrogant than usual. She was knitting. Ferguson strode up to her. Hercule Poirot, entering unobstrusively, took a seat a discreet distance away and appeared to be absorbed in a magazine."
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
Imaginary Place of the day:
Alca or Penguin Island - a republic in the English Channel, now attached to the coast of France. High mountains loom over a pleasant green land covered with a certain kind of salt grass, willows, fig and oak trees,
Alca or Penguin Island - a republic in the English Channel, now attached to the coast of France. High mountains loom over a pleasant green land covered with a certain kind of salt grass, willows, fig and oak trees,
Anatole France, L'Ile des pingouins, Paris, 1908; Daniel Defoe, A New Voyage Round The World, By a Course never sailed before. Being a Voyage undertaken by some Merchants, who afterwards proposed the Setting up an East-India Company in Flanders, London, 1724.
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