Arsenic didn't really know Professor Tunstell that well and yet, "That seems like something he'd say."
"Well, it's also an accurate description of The Spotted Custard's sainted head greaser, Miss Aggie Phinkerlington. Only imagine the deceased flora is basically all human joy."
"Really?"
"Oh yes. She's upset with me and Lady Captain, most of the time.'
"Why?"
"Presumably because we continue to exist and she'd prefer we didn't."
Arsenic gave the greaser an assessing look. "She looks like she has indigestion. " Arsenic wondered if the woman's mean spirit was the result of severe dyspepsia. Perhaps there was a medicinal solution to her ill-temper?
"That's the human joy she keeps swallowing. Disagrees with her."/>

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" The prof would come over all sniffy." Spoo nodded at Professor Tunstell, who was attempting to assist an elderly matron to climb up onto Bob, without anyone noticing he was being nice. "He'd say a wood louse is an intransigent terrestrial isopod crustacean inclined to consume deceased flora."
Arsenic didn't really know Professor Tunstell that well and yet, "That seems like something he'd say."
"Well, it's also an accurate description of The Spotted Custard's sainted head greaser, Miss Aggie Phinkerlington. Only imagine the deceased flora is basically all human joy."
"Really?"
"Oh yes. She's upset with me and Lady Captain, most of the time.'
"Why?"
"Presumably because we continue to exist and she'd prefer we didn't."
Arsenic gave the greaser an assessing look. "She looks like she has indigestion. " Arsenic wondered if the woman's mean spirit was the result of severe dyspepsia. Perhaps there was a medicinal solution to her ill-temper?
"That's the human joy she keeps swallowing. Disagrees with her. "

Gail Carriger , Reticence (The Custard Protocol #4)


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Gail Carriger quote : The prof would come over all sniffy.Arsenic didn't really know Professor Tunstell that well and yet, "That seems like something he'd say."
"Well, it's also an accurate description of The Spotted Custard's sainted head greaser, Miss Aggie Phinkerlington. Only imagine the deceased flora is basically all human joy."
"Really?"
"Oh yes. She's upset with me and Lady Captain, most of the time.'
"Why?"
"Presumably because we continue to exist and she'd prefer we didn't."
Arsenic gave the greaser an assessing look. "She looks like she has indigestion. " Arsenic wondered if the woman's mean spirit was the result of severe dyspepsia. Perhaps there was a medicinal solution to her ill-temper?
"That's the human joy she keeps swallowing. Disagrees with her." style="width:100%;margin:20px 0;"/>