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41 " Exeter was never tactful or gentle in his methods. Still, he deserved better than "
― Charles Finch , The Fleet Street Murders (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #3)
42 " 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. "
43 " 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. "
44 " 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. "
45 " 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. "
46 " Will you come in, Mr. Lenox? Business has been going well, but I always enjoyed our work together. Thank you for the silver rattle you sent after Emily was born. "
47 " Winston Carruthers’s physical life had been over-full of drink and food, his rooms messy and rich and abundant, but his files were at odds with that image of the man. They bespoke a different and more ascetic intellect. All of the papers were neatly filed and precisely written. "
48 " How eager we are to rewrite our fathers’ stories, some of us; the delusions of the heart. "