Having little to do with the present, Mr. Beaton had plenty of room for the past. Oh, yes, he read the papers and knew that governments came and went (Conservative, Labor, Sociopath, Mr. Beaton would...
Sheba, who didn’t especially like me, although she did serve me cookies when I was here before. I’d managed to get rid of them. My mother’s cookies had spoiled me for anyone else’s. I think I crumbled...
Find her a good home, someone to take care of her. She’s a little girl, Melrose. She shouldn’t be spending her days at Heathrow, scanning for villains. She should be safe. The other members who were a...
Melrose sipped his tea and ate his bun in perfect peace. How wonderful! Solitude even at Ardry End was hard to come by. Perhaps he was fit for the life of a hermit. Give up all of his worldly possessi...
Melrose was so concerned that the [book]shop might close for lack of business, that he had suggested he would like to invest in it or even become a silent partner. You see, books have always been a ho...
Macalvie, that was an incredibly lachrymose question.
Melrose winced. He lived in a world of dried-up pheasant and one-liners.
Losing one's mind is surely like losing one's virginity. Lose a little, lose a lot.
Jury paused. This is a onetime offer. It won’t come again. Choose. Melrose prepared to laugh like hell, but managed only a bark. Onetime offer? You mean if I don’t take you up on either of these jobs...
Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & bl...
Steptoe continued: Yes, I had a very tasty dish of flageolet
Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust, Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
He felt the loss of something irreplacable, as if a thief had come out of the night, velvet-gloved and softly shod, and taken whatever it was away without Jury’s ever having known, and slipped through...
Fear wearing black.' Definition of cool. Maybe it's also the definition of courage. Would she be courageous?.
Before you hate something you should try to understand it.
Before Ernest could start walking back the cat, Melrose put in, But isn’t it rather we who have come here, Mrs. Attaboy? At her uncomprehending look, he plowed on. It is their country. What? Africa? I...
Mind, he said. I’ll just get it then.
And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, from a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petits fours a frie...
And how did he ever think he’d get away with murdering me? Her tone implied she must surely belong to that rare breed of mortals who must go unmurdered.
An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.
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