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James Fanthorp is a young English lawyer for Linnet Ridgeway, the nephew of the lawyer William Carmichael. Linnet’s marriage to Simon Doyle causes Carmichael to send Fanthorp down to Egypt to find the new couple on their honeymoon. At one point, Fanthorp interrupts a meeting between Linnet, Simon, and Pennington, where Linnet is signing documents. He compliments Linnet on her business sense, which causes Linnet to read the documents more carefully (frustrating Pennington). He has just left the dining saloon when Jacqueline suddenly shoots a gun at Simon. Cornelia Robson runs to get him so he can help; this makes his testimony about the night important for solving the murder. Later, when Poirot interrogates Fanthorp, he describes him as an “Old School Tie,” meaning a typically reserved old-school Englishman. This means it was odd for someone like Fanthorp to butt in on a private conversation, the way he did earlier. Fanthorp admits that he came on the trip specifically to interfere because his uncle suspected Pennington was a crook. Fanthorp is largely portrayed as a reliable character, whose role as a witness is important to unraveling the central mystery.
James Fanthorp Quotes in Death on the Nile
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Chapter Twenty-Six
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“Perhaps not, but the custom, it still remains. The Old School Tie is the Old School Tie, and there are certain things (I know this from experience) that the Old School Tie does not do! One of those things, Monsieur Fanthorp, is to butt into a private conversation unasked when one does not know the people who are conducting it.”
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Chapter Thirty-One
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Lastly the body of Linnet Doyle was brought ashore, and all over the world wires began to hum, telling the public that Linnet Doyle, who had been Linnet Ridgeway, the famous, the beautiful, the wealthy Linnet Doyle was dead.
Sir George Wode read about it in his London club, and Sterndale Rockford in New York, and Joanna Southwood in Switzerland, and it was discussed in the bar of the Three Crowns in Malton-under-Wode.
And Mr. Burnaby said acutely: “Well, it doesn’t seem to have done her much good, poor lass.”
But after a while they stopped talking about her and discussed instead who was going to win the Grand National. For, as Mr. Ferguson was saying at that minute in Luxor, it is not the past that matters but the future.
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James Fanthorp Quotes in Death on the Nile
The Death on the Nile quotes below are all either spoken by James Fanthorp or refer to James Fanthorp. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Twenty-Six
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“Perhaps not, but the custom, it still remains. The Old School Tie is the Old School Tie, and there are certain things (I know this from experience) that the Old School Tie does not do! One of those things, Monsieur Fanthorp, is to butt into a private conversation unasked when one does not know the people who are conducting it.”
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Chapter Thirty-One
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Lastly the body of Linnet Doyle was brought ashore, and all over the world wires began to hum, telling the public that Linnet Doyle, who had been Linnet Ridgeway, the famous, the beautiful, the wealthy Linnet Doyle was dead.
Sir George Wode read about it in his London club, and Sterndale Rockford in New York, and Joanna Southwood in Switzerland, and it was discussed in the bar of the Three Crowns in Malton-under-Wode.
And Mr. Burnaby said acutely: “Well, it doesn’t seem to have done her much good, poor lass.”
But after a while they stopped talking about her and discussed instead who was going to win the Grand National. For, as Mr. Ferguson was saying at that minute in Luxor, it is not the past that matters but the future.
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