Gaudy Night

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
"Yes," said Harriet,…

She had her image'and anything added to that would be mere verse-making. Something might come of it some day. In the meanwhile she had got her mood on to paper'and this is the release that all writers, even the feeblest,…

I suppose one oughtn't to marry anybody, unless one's prepared to make him a full-time job.
"Probably not; though there are a few rare people, I believe, who don't look on themselves as jobs but as fellow creatures."

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him, said Miss Hillyard. It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and childr…

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child? demanded Miss Haydock. Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic a…