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181 " As he sat with Edmund now his heart felt full, his life blessed. It was wonderful. "
― Charles Finch , The Fleet Street Murders (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #3)
182 " He was glad there were books in the world, at that moment; glad that there were maps and encyclopedias, and warm fires and comfortable armchairs. "
183 " For so long she had been his best listener, and in turn he had tried to be hers. During their honeymoon, marriage had seemed to twine together the best elements of their friendship and their love. Now, however, he felt robbed of both. "
― Charles Finch , A Stranger in Mayfair (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #4)
184 " Once he had been able to help with an investigation, and other than his wedding day it was the closest Charles had seen him to nirvana. "
185 " How did these men tolerate lives at sea, always abroad, always a thousand miles from home! But then, perhaps they weren’t as happy by their hearths as he was by his. "
― Charles Finch , A Burial at Sea (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #5)
186 " If we are to catch him out, it will take tremendous craft on our parts, Mr. Billings. I don’t want you flying off half-cocked and confronting him on your own. I suggest we congregate tomorrow morning at ten o’clock. Then you will know. "
187 " Suddenly Lenox understood the cost to his pupil of this occupation: dismissed for so long because he didn’t work, because he drank and played, and now dismissed because he did work. "
188 " Exeter was never tactful or gentle in his methods. Still, he deserved better than "
189 " The answer, you’ll have deduced, is no. I did not stab the man who has employed me these dozen years. "
190 " It’s a selfish thing to say, but I hope he wasn’t shot because of the case. I feel a sense of foreboding about my return to London. "
191 " He was glad he had done it, win or lose. There had been so much generosity toward him, where there might have been suspicion or indifference. "
192 " He had always loved his friends and his family dearly but took more pleasure in them now. He had always loved his work but allowed himself to be diverted from it more often now. "
― Charles Finch , A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #1)
193 " Lenox poured another glass of water, and realized, as he took a deep breath, what a thrill was running through him. He had finally found his old form. It had come too late to save Martin, but there might be justice. That was something. "
194 " INHERITANCE "
― Charles Finch , An East End Murder (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #4.5)
195 " It was easy to admire—and made it easy to forget the doctor coming up to Stirrington when he was barmy drunk and half mad with sorrow. "
196 " dangerous man. I have seen it before.” Lenox coughed then, and his lungs and throat burned, but he went on. “Capable of maintaining a professional life and obeying a private devil simultaneously. "
197 " Such was the general respect for her that nobody ever so much as breathed a question about her friendship with Lenox, which was long and very close— perhaps the closest in either of their lives "
198 " It appeared that these murders led back, as half the crimes in London did, to one man: George Barnard. Who now had fled to Geneva. "
199 " Does your meddling reach no end? Would you not leave us to our lives? Our footman is dead—our butler in prison—my husband attacked—and still you annoy us with your impertinences! Have you heard nothing of the honor which may shortly be bestowed upon my husband, and the very real danger of losing it by indiscretion? "
200 " Both Ludo’s careless life—marrying a maid, having a child with her, and later accepting him in as a footman (the madness!)—and more importantly Elizabeth Starling’s raging anger, her dark heart. "