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The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels', "The Moonstone" is a marvellously taut and intricate tale of mystery, in which facts and memory can prove treacherous and not everyone is as they first appear.
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她从不征询别人的意见,不事先告诉别人将要做什么,不向别人吐露心声,上自她母亲,下至用人,概莫能外。在大事小事上,在对待她爱的人和她恨的人时(爱与恨都同样发自心底),蕾切尔小姐总是坚持自己的行事方式,是喜是悲全由自己。我一次又一次地听见夫人说过,“蕾切尔最忠实的朋友和蕾切尔最险恶的敌人,说穿了,就是蕾切尔自己”。 p70
我点起烟斗,翻开《鲁滨孙漂流记》。 我还未看上五分钟,便就看到令人惊讶的一段一第一百六十一页一话是这么说的: “显而易见的是,害怕危险比危险本身可怕一万倍。而我们发现,焦虑形成的压力比我们担心会造成的不良后果要大得多。” p097
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