I made but a slight gesture" ”I know Poirot's gestures ”"with the left hand, and over went the table by the bed!" He looked so childishly vexed and crest-fallen that I hastened to console him. 
I gestured with my left hand, and knocked over the table by the bed.
I did not make any gesture at all.
Could it be something else?
A boy is petting a skunk.
A man is holding a hammer while smoking.
Lindsay and his wife live in Jacksonville, Florida and Lindsay has had more than one stroke.
Some ladies are in a town by the sea.
I wonder why, if you were in Azazel's shoes, you would leave clues.