Teaser Tuesday - The Murder at the Vicarage

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just:
* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author, too, so that other Teaser Tuesday participants can add the book to their To Be Read (TBR) Lists if they like your teasers!

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Hi everyone!!  I'm back from vacation, (had a lovely time, thanks for asking!) and ready to get started on posting again - soon-ish...Unfortunately as soon as I got home I got sick and haven't felt like doing much, but I'm starting to feel better and will hopefully have some new posts coming in a few days!  So this week the tease is from a new book (cuz now I'm juggling several again - does that happen to anyone else on vacation?).  Well, actually not new, and I'm sure I've read it before but I don't remember it and it's the first Miss Marple Mystery and I adore Miss Marple and it was free!  What's better than free, right?  So - onward! 


 The Tease:

 "I had just finished carving some boiled beef (remarkably tough by the way) and on resuming my seat I remarked, in a spirit most unbecoming to my cloth, that anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe would be doing the world at large a service. 
My young nephew, Dennis, said instantly: "That'll be remembered against you when the old boy is found bathed in blood.  Mary will give evidence, won't you Mary?  And describe how you brandished the carving knife in a vindictive manner.""

 -The Murder at the Vicarage, A Miss Marple Mystery, by Agathe Christie

What's your Tease?