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161 " There is no sense in resisting time, or change. Both will come to all men, whether they accede gracefully or kicking. I’m old, now, and let that be an end of it. There, eat some peas, you need "
― Charles Finch , A Death in the Small Hours (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #6)
162 " We ought to send a wire straight to your room. It must cost a pretty penny to stay abreast of the London news. "
― Charles Finch , The Fleet Street Murders (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #3)
163 " don’t know that you’ve quite grasped the nature of people’s lives here, Mr. Lenox. School is a luxury, in many of their cases. "
164 " The alliances and friendships you make now will serve you when you begin to ascend within the party, sir, or if there’s some piece of law you would like to see passed. "
― Charles Finch , A Stranger in Mayfair (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #4)
165 " But what if all that counted for nothing, and it was some madman from below deck who had killed Halifax and now was trying to mount a mutiny? "
― Charles Finch , A Burial at Sea (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #5)
166 " No, of course not. But the officers are also private, insular. I doubt they will have expressed their anxieties or their grief to you. "
167 " For his entire adult life he had moved so easily among men who made large decisions, whether admirals or cabinet ministers or bishops, that he had forgotten to some extent what a privilege it was to stand for Parliament. "
168 " from the doorway behind them. “Having amateur detectives wandering around London and buying drinks for footmen can only serve to draw attention to this unfortunate circumstance. "
169 " Nevertheless, it would appear that one of your number, I doubt more than one, is unhappy. This person is a cancer within us, which I plan to excise as surely as Mr. Tradescant would excise a tumor from any of "
170 " No, but I know your name. You’re a legend at the varsity. James Douglas-Titmore said you once drank five bottles of champagne in an hour. "
171 " No! Not that at all, you must believe me. It’s simply that the more people are involved, the more attention the situation will receive. I want the murderer found, but I want it done quietly. "
172 " He hates the feeling of inequality that was instilled in him by his rich uncle. "
― Charles Finch , A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #1)
173 " What happened then, we know. They planned to murder Soames, under the favorable condition of a ball, which adds confusion to any incident, and with the false lead of the valuable object in Barnard’s house, which would divert any detective "
174 " Made our parents enemies. That was the reason Eustace and I first became close. We hated him. "
175 " Because of his work Lenox had seen so many grieving people in the last two decades that he was, to his shame, in some degree immune to their suffering. It was no different with Mrs. Clarke; he sympathized with her, but the rawness of her emotions—he could now feel detached from it. Inwardly he vowed to discover who had killed Freddie, if only to make amends for this own private callousness. "
176 " Do you have children, Mr. Lenox?” “I don’t.” “They’re mysterious creatures. You do your best with them, but in the end it’s not up to you how they live. "
177 " When I woke up. I saw what an insidious, awful person my cousin was—truly was— for the first time. I felt such sorrow, then. It’s no excuse, none; but it’s the truth. "
178 " A captain murdered on his own vessel,” said Tradescant, shaking his head. “It’s hard to know what to believe in. "
179 " On the walk home, Lenox wondered if he himself felt as secure. It had been a jarring, horrifying moment, and the sight of that silver blade had raised every animal instinct in him to flee. "
180 " sunfall "