the murder of roger ackroyd quotes Flashcards
CH1 - ‘I was…
‘I was considerably worried and upset’
SHEPPARD about Mrs Ferrars’ death
CH1- ‘Caroline can do any…
‘Caroline can do any amount of finding out by sitting placidly at home’ SHEPPARD
CH1- ‘As a professional man…
‘As a professional man, I naturally aim at discretion’
SHEPPARD
CH1- ‘Therefore I have got into the…
‘habit of continually withholding all information’ SHEPPARD
CH2- ‘King’s Abbot, is, I imagine, …
‘very much like any other village’ SHEPPARD
what is the title of chapter 2? what kind of words are repeated when Sheppard describes the town?
who’s who in King’s Abbot
collective nouns: ‘we’ ‘our’
CH2- ‘a man more impossibly like a…
‘like a country squire’ SHEPPARD describing RA
CH2-‘nearly fifty years of age…
‘rubicund of face and genial of manner’ SHEPPARD describing RA
CH2-‘miss russell…
‘she has a…
‘miss Russell has reigned undisputed for five years’
‘stern eye, and lips that shut tightly’
CH2- ‘Ralph in London? …
‘but he had certainly been in King’s Abbot the preceding afternoon’
What is the name of chapter 3?
‘the man who grew vegetable marrows’
CH3- ‘his name, apparently, is …
‘Mr Porrott-a name which conveys an odd feeling of unreality’
thought he was a ‘hairdresser’
CH3- ‘the strangle little man…
‘seemed to read my thoughts’
CH3- ‘for the moment…
‘the spirit of Caroline was strong within me’
CH3- ‘surprised him by…
‘my superior gifts’ POIROT
CH3- ‘looked up to find…
‘Mr Porrott eyeing me sympathetically. He seemed an understanding little man’ SHEPPARD
CH3- ‘but I was foolish- …
‘and worse than foolish-greedy. I risked the substance for the shadow’ SHEPPARD
CH3- ‘rather amused by..
‘his patent snobbery’ SHEPPARD about Poirot
CH3- ‘the light of some…
‘inner knowledge’ SHEPPARD about Poirot
CH3- ‘he had in him…
‘a strain of weakness’ SHEPPARD about Ralph
CH3- ‘Could I..
‘do anything with the boy?’
CH4- ‘I am sorry to say…
‘I hate interfering..
‘I detest Mrs Ackroyd.’
‘in other people’s affairs’
CH4- ‘she made me, you see, an …
‘accessory to the fact’ RA
CH4- ‘no I cried impulsively…
‘all my arguments…
‘read it now.’
‘were in vain’
CH4- ‘rough and..
‘his voice reminded me of…
‘uneducated’
‘someone’s voice that I knew’
after killing RA, bumps into the later revealed ‘Charles Kent’
CH5- ‘I’ll take…
‘I banged once more..
‘responsibility’ breaks down door to get RA
‘frantically on the door’
CH5- ‘ Parker was most…
CH6- ‘Depend upon it …
‘suspiciously flustered’ SHEPPARD
‘he’s our man’
CH5- ‘I hurried to catch her…
‘as she fell. She had fainted’
CH6- ‘I’ll spare you…
‘the technical language’ SHEPPARD
CH7- ‘be guided by me.
‘I advise you not to drag this detective into the case’
CH7- ‘you may wish that, after all, …
‘you had left it to the local police.’
CH7- ‘I admire enormously..
‘If inspector Raglan permits me to assist him, …
‘your English police
‘I shall be both honoured and flattered’
it is completely unimportant…
‘everyone concerned in them..
‘that is why it is so interesting’
‘has something to hide’
ch8- ‘some peculiar…
‘angle of his own’
‘fresh and…
‘debonair’ SHEPPARD about Raymond
Name one name Poirot is referred as?
‘the Belgian’
‘everyone has something to hide’ who quotes this in chapter 9?
sheppard
CH9- ‘It is not easy to hide…
‘things from Hercule Poirot’
quotes to suggest King’s Abbot is a ‘bucolic’ setting?
‘formal flower beds’
‘splendid view over the countryside’
inspector’s an..
‘ass. Everybody knows CH9- FLORA
‘Poirot stopped and…
‘removed a microscopic weed’
CH10 -‘she seemed…
a nice girl’ -about Ursula
‘CH12- inspector raglan stared..
‘an air of great…
at the little man’
unconcern, flecked a spec of dust of his coat sleeve
‘what would happen to the..
‘estate, I wonder, if Ralph were found guilty?’
‘women record subconsciously a thousand…
‘and call the..
‘little details without knowing they are doing so.
‘result intuition’
you are like a child who…
‘wants to know the way the engine works’
you do not use…
you little grey cells
what does Sheppard sometimes refer to himself as?
a ‘medical man’
‘the case does seem..
black against him’ SHEPPARD
‘I spoke with that kind of
spurious geniality which seems expected of general practitioners’
and so the deed was done…
and Ursula borne became Ursula paton
this is very weak and
silly of me -Ursula crying after Poirot finds out her and Ralph are married
she scorned to label herself a
‘lady parlourmaid’
but to people like ralph Paton turning
over a new leaf is easier in theory than in practice
Roger Ackroyd dictated his wishes
-they agreed to them
her nature, strong and resolute, with an inherent
distaste for duplicity, was not one to welcome such a course
-ralph concealing the end of his engagement to flora from Ursula (if the engagement ended)
ralph implored her silent
for a little longer
regarded her as the girl who deliberately tried to
entrap the adopted son of a very wealthy man -RA about Ursula
how did Ralph describe Ursula telling Mr Ackroyd about their marriage as?
how did Ursula describe it?
- RALPH: ‘irretrievably ruined his prospects by her ill timed revelation’
- URSULA: ‘Ursula reproached Ralph with his duplicity’
