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Harding's Luck (House of Arden, #2) QUOTES

Harding's Luck (House of Arden, #2) QUOTES

1 " These gardens are green, because green is the color that most pleases and soothes men's eyes; and however you may shut people up between bars of yellow and mud color, and however hard you may make them work, and however little wage you may pay them for working, there will always be found among those people some men who are willing to work a little longer, and for no wages at all, so that they may have green things growing near them. "

― E. Nesbit , Harding's Luck (House of Arden, #2)

2 " Well, you're to stay here and be my little boy till we find out where father is. We shall let the police know. They're sure to find him." "The pleece!" Dickie cried in horror. "Why, father, 'e ain't done nothing." "No, no, of course not," said the lady in a hurry; "but the police know all sorts of things—about where people are, I know, and what they're doing—even when they haven't done anything." "The pleece knows a jolly sight too much," said Dickie, in gloom. "

― E. Nesbit , Harding's Luck (House of Arden, #2)