I am a doctor and I know that ambition - the desire to succeed - to have power - leads to most ills of the human soul. I feel - oh, I feel that if I could sweep all this away' - she made a violent gesture - 'all the buildings and the sects and the fierce squabbling churches - that - that I might see Christ's quiet figure riding into Jerusalem on a donkey - and believe in Him.'ĭr Gerard said gravely: 'I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith - contentment with a lowly place. To Sarah he said: 'la maman, she is not beautiful, eh?' and he shrugged his shoulders."ĭr Gerard and Sarah are talking about the strange Dynamics in the Boynton family, in Jerusalem: 'What a horror of a woman!' old, swollen, bloated, sitting there immovable in the midst of them - a distorted old Buddha - a gross spider in the center of a web! and the center of the group - 'heavens!' thought Dr gerard, with a Frenchman's candid repulsion. Here's Dr Gerard's impression of her, upon seeing her for the first time: She creates despicable character in Mrs boynton, but I was hoping for more examples in the story of her nastiness. Author Christie creates some delightful characters, in Hercule Poirot and Dr Gerard.
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