Good and evil Quote by Agatha Christie

““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)””

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