bonjour pouvez-vous m’aider je n’y arrive pas. merci.
He continued slowly. 'Everyone was proved innocent by
another passenger in most cases, a passenger who was unlikely
to be a friend in an earlier life. MacQueen and Arbuthnot,
the English manservant and the Italian, the Swedish lady and
che English governess. “This is very strange," I said to myself.
* They cannot all be guilty."
"And then, ladies and gentleinen, I realised. Thcy were all
guilty. It was impossible that so many people connected with
che Armstrongs were travelling on the same train by chance. It
could only happen if it was planned. That would also explain
the crowded train at a time of year that is usually quiet. There
were twelve passengers, after Ratchett's death. There were
twelve knife wounds in Ratchett's body. In America, murder
cases are decided by a group of twelve ordinary people.
*Ratchett had escaped punishment from the court in America,
although no one doubted that he was guilty. I imagined a group
of twelve people who decided, when the court case failed, to
give him his punishment another way. And immediately the
whole case became clear to me.
I believe that everyone
entered Ratchett's compartment through Mrs Hubbard's - and
struck!
Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie
Part 1 (1 1-1 14):
Type of document + Topic?.
Pick out personal pronouns and an adjective which are repeated. Who do they refer to?
Pick out a number which is repeated. What does it refer to ?
Part 2 ( 15-122):
Why Ratchett?
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