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21 " Raymond is constitutionally honest and not at all unobservant, and the two qualities often cause him mental indigestion. "
― , Murder in the Mill-Race (Robert MacDonald #37)
22 " The north western sky was still lambent, glowing with pale golden light, and when they reached the summit of the rough road the very air seemed drenched with the aftermath of sunset. "
23 " They sat in silence and listened to the call of the moorland birds and watched kestrels hovering until the light faded and the northern sky paled, misted to faint amethyst and then to lilac grey. Reeves lay on his back and watched the stars strengthen, "
24 " he was aware of near bird call and far constellation, of fragrance and the chill of evening air, of the reflection of headland lights flashing out from hidden lighthouses: "
25 " rustles in heather and bracken told of unseen small beasts busy on nocturnal occasions, and the last bird call died away in sleepy cuck-cuckings, save for the mournful hoot of owls. "
26 " Macdonald drove on up the hill to the little plateau between inn and manor and church. Every south-facing wall was white in the moonlight, white as milk: every thatch gleamed with the faintest tinge of gold on its well-combed surface, and beneath the eaves the shadows were purple black. "
27 " She’d have made enough noise to wake your dog and the dog would have barked.” “The dog didn’t bark, "
28 " as for the row the chap made when he did his swooning act, you’d have thought the whole bridge had copped a V.1. "
29 " Macdonald let her babble on uninterrupted for a while. Saintliness and halos, self-abnegation and devotion, floated in the air like incense, until Macdonald put his abrupt question. "