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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie: places; they lie there as they fell. But see, the coffee-cup is
absolutely smashed to powder."
"Well," I said wearily, "I suppose some one must have stepped on
it."
"Exactly," said Poirot, in an odd voice. "Some one stepped on
it."
He rose from his knees, and walked slowly across to the
mantelpiece, where he stood abstractedly fingering the ornaments,
and straightening them--a trick of his when he was agitated.
"Mon ami," he said, turning to me, "somebody stepped on that cup,
grinding it to powder, and the reason they did so was either
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