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1 " Daisy Spratt was the butcher’s daughter and my best friend in the village. But she was offering me a cheese sandwich instead of a pie. It’s easy to go off people. "
― T.E. Kinsey , The Burning Issue of the Day (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries, #5)
2 " Lady Hardcastle retired at once to her study to clear the decks of correspondence and ready her mind for the labours to come. I’m fairly certain there was something in there about stiffening the sinews and conjuring up the blood, and possibly even something about closing up the walls with our English dead . . . I confess my concentration wanders a little when she comes over all Henry V. "
3 " We meekly nodded our understanding of this profound truth and smiled our gratitude to the great man for vouchsafing it to us. "
4 " Union, the so-called ‘suffragettes’, had suspended their campaign of violence during this General Election. It seems that the word of these "
5 " for his tendency towards the sort of opinionated oafishness that made it fortunate that none of us was armed. "
6 " There’ll be nowhere for them to hide, "