i like Dorothy Sayers

she said “isn’t the death penalty fucked up?” and she was right

[peterwimseyopinions]

Some poor devil (Kirk really felt a passing twinge of pity for the culprit) had been sitting for a whole week on the safety-valve, wondering!

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

textual evidence for wimsey’s sympathy for murder victims

“My God, Glaisher—when you think of that poor silly devil, going to his death on a lonely rock, with his brain spinning with the idea of being crowned Emperor——"

Wimsey broke off, shaken by an unwonted vehemence of feeling.

Have His Carcase, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Just as well, isn't it?" Wimsey's tone was studiously light. "When I'm investigating a murder, I hate to have too much sympathy with the corpse. Personal feelings cramp the style.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

textual evidence for wimsey’s sympathy for murderers

“Do you know, I rather take my hat off to Weldon about this. Ever seen a horse that has suddenly had fresh blood splashed all over it? Not pretty. Definitely not. Cavalry horses have to get used to it, of course—but the bay mare could never have smelt blood before. When I realise that Weldon had to mount that squealing, plunging, terrified brute bare-back from the top of a rock, and ride her away without letting her once plunge on to the sand, I tell you, I take off my hat.”

Have His Carcase, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“It's rather a rotten show altogether, and we'd like to do our best for the man. I mean to say, don't you know--there we were, just married and every thing pleasant about us. And then this happens, and the local bobbies can make nothing of it. And we horn in, looking all silk-lined, and fasten the crime on a poor devil who hasn't got a bean in the world and hasn't done us any harm except dig the garden--Well, anyway, we'd like you to defend him.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“What did Miss Twitterton say when your man discovered the body?"

"Well, she shrieked a bit and so on, and went off into hysterics."

"Did she say anything particular, besides shrieking?"

Peter was conscious of a curious reluctance. Theoretically, he was quite as ready to hang a woman as a man, but the memory of Miss Twitterton, frenziedly clinging to Harriet, was disturbing to him. He was tempted to feel, with Kirk, that marriage was a handicap to a young officer.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Now, my lord, you're a gentleman and you've got your feelings. I know all that, and it does you credit. But I'm a police-officer, and I can't afford to indulge in feelings. They're a privilege of the upper classes."

"Upper classes be damned!" said Peter. This stung him, all the more that he knew he deserved it.

"Now, MacBride," went on Kirk, cheerfully, "he's no class at all. If I asked you, you'd tell the truth, but it might 'urt you. Now I can get it out of MacBride, and it won't 'urt him in the least."

"I see," said Peter. "Painless extractions a speciality."

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Look here!" he said. "You've had no official information about that theft, have you? And the money's been paid back--twice over."

Kirk fixed him with a steady eye. "It's easy enough for you to be soft-'earted, my lord. It ain't your responsibility."

This time the kid gloves were off, and Peter took it on the chin.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

“It's--it's brutal."

"Murder is brutal."

"I know--but--"

"You have seen what murdered men look like. Well, I saw this old man's body." He swung round and faced her. "It's a pity the dead are so quiet; it makes us ready to forget them."

"The dead--are dead. We've got to be decent to the living."

"I'm thinking of the living. Till we get at the truth, every soul in this village is suspect. Do you want Sellon broken and hanged, because we wouldn't speak? Must Crutchley be left under suspicion because the crime was never brought home to anybody else? Are they all to go about in fear, knowing there's an undiscovered murderer among them?"

"But there's no proof--no proof!"

"It's evidence. We can't pick and choose. Whoever suffers, we must have the truth. Nothing else matters a damn.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

wimsey’s post-case malaise

“Well," said Wimsey, "isn't that a damned awful, bitter, bloody farce? The old fool who wanted a lover and the young fool who wanted an empire. One throat cut and three people hanged, and £130,000 going begging for the next man who likes to sell his body and soul for it. God! What a jape! King Death has asses' ears with a vengeance."

Have His Carcase, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

The only trouble about Peter's new hobby was that it had to be more than a hobby, if it was to be any hobby for a gentleman. You cannot get murderers hanged for your private entertainment. Peter's intellect pulled him one way and his nerves another, till I began to be afraid they would pull him to pieces. At the end of every case we had the old nightmares and shell-shock over again. And then Denver, of all people--Denver, the crashing great booby, in the middle of his fulminations against Peter's degrading and notorious police activities, must needs get himself indicted on a murder charge and stand his trial in the House of Lords, amid a blaze of publicity which made all Peter's efforts in that direction look like damp squibs.

Peter pulled his brother out of that mess, and, to my relief, was human enough to get drunk on the strength of it. He now admits that his "hobby" is his legitimate work for society…

from that preface that is supposed to be May 1935 and appears in the re-issue of multiple of the Wimsey novels

[hummingwyrd]

“It's a hobby to me, you see. I took it up when the bottom of things was rather knocked out for me, because it was so damned exciting, and the worst of it is, I enjoy it—up to a point. If it was all on paper I'd enjoy every bit of it. I love the beginning of a job—when one doesn't know any of the people and it's just exciting and amusing. But if it comes to really running down a live person and getting him hanged, or even quodded, poor devil, there don't seem as if there was any excuse for me buttin' in, since I don't have to make my livin' by it. And I feel as if I oughtn't ever to find it amusin'. But I do.”

Whose Body, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

He looked round, in time to see Crutchley hauled past the window, still struggling in the four men's hands.

"Come and hold my hand," he said. "This part of the business always gets me down.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

superintendent kirk’s attributions

“So," said Peter, "Galahad will sit down in Merlin's seat."

Mr. Kirk, on the point of lowering his solid fifteen stone into the chair, jerked up abruptly.

"Alfred," said he, "Lord Tennyson."

"Got it in one," said Peter, mildly surprised. A glow of enthusiasm shone softly in the policeman's ox-like eyes. "You're a bit of a student, aren't you, Superintendent?"

“I like to do a bit o' reading in my off-duty," admitted Mr. Kirk, bashfully.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Reading maketh a full man--”

"Conference a ready man," said Harriet.

"And writing an exact man," said the Superintendent. "Mind that, Joe Sellon, and see you let me have them notes so as they can be read to make sense."

"Francis Bacon," said Peter, a trifle belatedly.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“As another Great Mind so happily put it, 'However entrancing it is to wander through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?'"

"What's that?" said the Superintendent. "That's a new one on me. 'Garden of bright images,' eh? That's pretty, that is."

"Kai-Lung," said Harriet.

"Golden Hours of," said Peter. "Ernest Bramah.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“He was a proper old dodger, was Mr. Noakes; a regular Artful Dodger."

"Charles Dickens!”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Fortunately, Bunter is sea-green incorruptible--”

"Carlyle," said Mr. Kirk, with approval. "French Revolution.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Ah!" said Mr. Kirk. "That's what comes of being a public character. You can't escape the fierce light that beats upon--”

"Here!" said Peter, "that's not fair. You can't have Tennyson twice. Anyway, there it is and what's done--no, I may want Shakespeare later on.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Night's candles are burnt out."

The Superintendent, absorbed in the implications of Bunter's statement, neglected the challenge till Peter poked him in the ribs and repeated it, adding, "I knew I should want Shakespeare again!"

“Eh?" said the Superintendent. "Night's candles? Romeo and Juliet--not much o' that about this here.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“When found, make a note of."

"Captain Cuttle," said Mr. Kirk.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“The boast of heraldry--well, I take it that'd be more in your lordship's line, but it all leads to the grave, as Gray's Elegy has it.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“The poor old chap might a-been killed anywhere--upstairs, downstairs, in my lady's chamber--”

"No, no, Mother Goose," said Peter, hastily. "Not there, not there, my child, Felicia Hemans.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“That's what I was thinking," said Harriet. "A busman's honeymoon. Butchered to make a--”

"Lord Byron!" cried Mr. Kirk, a little too promptly. "Butchered to make a busman's--no, that don't seem right somehow."

"Try Roman," said Peter.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

“Black he stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart."

"Ha, ha!" cried Kirk, taken unaware and immensely tickled. "That's good. Hear that, Joe? That's good, that is. Black? He was black enough last time I saw him, half-way up the kitchen chimney. And shook a dreadful dart--I must tell him that. Worst of it is, I don't suppose he ever heard of Milton.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

“You've only got to look at him. The man of upright soul and humour placid needs no blunt instrument nor prussic acid. Horace; Wimsey's translation.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

“I've known even that done, too. I've known a murderer sleep in two beds and eat two breakfasts in order to lend verisimilitude to an otherwise unconvincing narrative."

"Gilbert and Sullivan," said the Superintendent, a little hopelessly.

"Mostly Gilbert, I fancy.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

“The female of the species is deadlier than the male. That's Rudyard Kipling.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

She quavered on the verge of tears. Harriet said confusedly: "Don't worry. I'm sure something will turn up."

Kirk could not resist it. "Mr. Micawber!" he said, with a sort of relief.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

"Not knowledge--learning!" Peter corrected him peevishly. "A little learning--Alexander Pope.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“What did Miss Twitterton say when your man discovered the body?"

"Well, she shrieked a bit and so on, and went off into hysterics."

"Did she say anything particular, besides shrieking?"

Peter was conscious of a curious reluctance. Theoretically, he was quite as ready to hang a woman as a man, but the memory of Miss Twitterton, frenziedly clinging to Harriet, was disturbing to him. He was tempted to feel, with Kirk, that marriage was a handicap to a young officer.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Now, my lord, you're a gentleman and you've got your feelings. I know all that, and it does you credit. But I'm a police-officer, and I can't afford to indulge in feelings. They're a privilege of the upper classes."

"Upper classes be damned!" said Peter. This stung him, all the more that he knew he deserved it.

"Now, MacBride," went on Kirk, cheerfully, "he's no class at all. If I asked you, you'd tell the truth, but it might 'urt you. Now I can get it out of MacBride, and it won't 'urt him in the least."

"I see," said Peter. "Painless extractions a speciality."

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“What did Miss Twitterton say when your man discovered the body?"

"Well, she shrieked a bit and so on, and went off into hysterics."

"Did she say anything particular, besides shrieking?"

Peter was conscious of a curious reluctance. Theoretically, he was quite as ready to hang a woman as a man, but the memory of Miss Twitterton, frenziedly clinging to Harriet, was disturbing to him. He was tempted to feel, with Kirk, that marriage was a handicap to a young officer.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

superintendent kirk’s attributions

“So," said Peter, "Galahad will sit down in Merlin's seat."

Mr. Kirk, on the point of lowering his solid fifteen stone into the chair, jerked up abruptly.

"Alfred," said he, "Lord Tennyson."

"Got it in one," said Peter, mildly surprised. A glow of enthusiasm shone softly in the policeman's ox-like eyes. "You're a bit of a student, aren't you, Superintendent?"

“I like to do a bit o' reading in my off-duty," admitted Mr. Kirk, bashfully.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Reading maketh a full man--”

"Conference a ready man," said Harriet.

"And writing an exact man," said the Superintendent. "Mind that, Joe Sellon, and see you let me have them notes so as they can be read to make sense."

"Francis Bacon," said Peter, a trifle belatedly.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“As another Great Mind so happily put it, 'However entrancing it is to wander through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?'"

"What's that?" said the Superintendent. "That's a new one on me. 'Garden of bright images,' eh? That's pretty, that is."

"Kai-Lung," said Harriet.

"Golden Hours of," said Peter. "Ernest Bramah.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“He was a proper old dodger, was Mr. Noakes; a regular Artful Dodger."

"Charles Dickens!”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Fortunately, Bunter is sea-green incorruptible--”

"Carlyle," said Mr. Kirk, with approval. "French Revolution.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Ah!" said Mr. Kirk. "That's what comes of being a public character. You can't escape the fierce light that beats upon--”

"Here!" said Peter, "that's not fair. You can't have Tennyson twice. Anyway, there it is and what's done--no, I may want Shakespeare later on.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Night's candles are burnt out."

The Superintendent, absorbed in the implications of Bunter's statement, neglected the challenge till Peter poked him in the ribs and repeated it, adding, "I knew I should want Shakespeare again!"

“Eh?" said the Superintendent. "Night's candles? Romeo and Juliet--not much o' that about this here.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“When found, make a note of."

"Captain Cuttle," said Mr. Kirk.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“The boast of heraldry--well, I take it that'd be more in your lordship's line, but it all leads to the grave, as Gray's Elegy has it.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“The poor old chap might a-been killed anywhere--upstairs, downstairs, in my lady's chamber--”

"No, no, Mother Goose," said Peter, hastily. "Not there, not there, my child, Felicia Hemans.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

superintendent kirk’s attributions

“So," said Peter, "Galahad will sit down in Merlin's seat."

Mr. Kirk, on the point of lowering his solid fifteen stone into the chair, jerked up abruptly.

"Alfred," said he, "Lord Tennyson."

"Got it in one," said Peter, mildly surprised. A glow of enthusiasm shone softly in the policeman's ox-like eyes. "You're a bit of a student, aren't you, Superintendent?"

“I like to do a bit o' reading in my off-duty," admitted Mr. Kirk, bashfully.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Reading maketh a full man--”

"Conference a ready man," said Harriet.

"And writing an exact man," said the Superintendent. "Mind that, Joe Sellon, and see you let me have them notes so as they can be read to make sense."

"Francis Bacon," said Peter, a trifle belatedly.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“As another Great Mind so happily put it, 'However entrancing it is to wander through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?'"

"What's that?" said the Superintendent. "That's a new one on me. 'Garden of bright images,' eh? That's pretty, that is."

"Kai-Lung," said Harriet.

"Golden Hours of," said Peter. "Ernest Bramah.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“He was a proper old dodger, was Mr. Noakes; a regular Artful Dodger."

"Charles Dickens!”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Fortunately, Bunter is sea-green incorruptible--”

"Carlyle," said Mr. Kirk, with approval. "French Revolution.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Ah!" said Mr. Kirk. "That's what comes of being a public character. You can't escape the fierce light that beats upon--”

"Here!" said Peter, "that's not fair. You can't have Tennyson twice. Anyway, there it is and what's done--no, I may want Shakespeare later on.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Night's candles are burnt out."

The Superintendent, absorbed in the implications of Bunter's statement, neglected the challenge till Peter poked him in the ribs and repeated it, adding, "I knew I should want Shakespeare again!"

“Eh?" said the Superintendent. "Night's candles? Romeo and Juliet--not much o' that about this here.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“When found, make a note of."

"Captain Cuttle," said Mr. Kirk.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“The boast of heraldry--well, I take it that'd be more in your lordship's line, but it all leads to the grave, as Gray's Elegy has it.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

superintendent kirk’s attributions

“So," said Peter, "Galahad will sit down in Merlin's seat."

Mr. Kirk, on the point of lowering his solid fifteen stone into the chair, jerked up abruptly.

"Alfred," said he, "Lord Tennyson."

"Got it in one," said Peter, mildly surprised. A glow of enthusiasm shone softly in the policeman's ox-like eyes. "You're a bit of a student, aren't you, Superintendent?"

“I like to do a bit o' reading in my off-duty," admitted Mr. Kirk, bashfully.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Reading maketh a full man--”

"Conference a ready man," said Harriet.

"And writing an exact man," said the Superintendent. "Mind that, Joe Sellon, and see you let me have them notes so as they can be read to make sense."

"Francis Bacon," said Peter, a trifle belatedly.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“As another Great Mind so happily put it, 'However entrancing it is to wander through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?'"

"What's that?" said the Superintendent. "That's a new one on me. 'Garden of bright images,' eh? That's pretty, that is."

"Kai-Lung," said Harriet.

"Golden Hours of," said Peter. "Ernest Bramah.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“He was a proper old dodger, was Mr. Noakes; a regular Artful Dodger."

"Charles Dickens!”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Fortunately, Bunter is sea-green incorruptible--”

"Carlyle," said Mr. Kirk, with approval. "French Revolution.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Ah!" said Mr. Kirk. "That's what comes of being a public character. You can't escape the fierce light that beats upon--”

"Here!" said Peter, "that's not fair. You can't have Tennyson twice. Anyway, there it is and what's done--no, I may want Shakespeare later on.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Night's candles are burnt out."

The Superintendent, absorbed in the implications of Bunter's statement, neglected the challenge till Peter poked him in the ribs and repeated it, adding, "I knew I should want Shakespeare again!"

“Eh?" said the Superintendent. "Night's candles? Romeo and Juliet--not much o' that about this here.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“When found, make a note of."

"Captain Cuttle," said Mr. Kirk.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

superintendent kirk’s attributions

“So," said Peter, "Galahad will sit down in Merlin's seat."

Mr. Kirk, on the point of lowering his solid fifteen stone into the chair, jerked up abruptly.

"Alfred," said he, "Lord Tennyson."

"Got it in one," said Peter, mildly surprised. A glow of enthusiasm shone softly in the policeman's ox-like eyes. "You're a bit of a student, aren't you, Superintendent?"

“I like to do a bit o' reading in my off-duty," admitted Mr. Kirk, bashfully.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Reading maketh a full man--”

"Conference a ready man," said Harriet.

"And writing an exact man," said the Superintendent. "Mind that, Joe Sellon, and see you let me have them notes so as they can be read to make sense."

"Francis Bacon," said Peter, a trifle belatedly.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“As another Great Mind so happily put it, 'However entrancing it is to wander through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?'"

"What's that?" said the Superintendent. "That's a new one on me. 'Garden of bright images,' eh? That's pretty, that is."

"Kai-Lung," said Harriet.

"Golden Hours of," said Peter. "Ernest Bramah.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“He was a proper old dodger, was Mr. Noakes; a regular Artful Dodger."

"Charles Dickens!”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Fortunately, Bunter is sea-green incorruptible--”

"Carlyle," said Mr. Kirk, with approval. "French Revolution.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Ah!" said Mr. Kirk. "That's what comes of being a public character. You can't escape the fierce light that beats upon--”

"Here!" said Peter, "that's not fair. You can't have Tennyson twice. Anyway, there it is and what's done--no, I may want Shakespeare later on.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Night's candles are burnt out."

The Superintendent, absorbed in the implications of Bunter's statement, neglected the challenge till Peter poked him in the ribs and repeated it, adding, "I knew I should want Shakespeare again!"

“Eh?" said the Superintendent. "Night's candles? Romeo and Juliet--not much o' that about this here.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

superintendent kirk’s attributions

“So," said Peter, "Galahad will sit down in Merlin's seat."

Mr. Kirk, on the point of lowering his solid fifteen stone into the chair, jerked up abruptly.

"Alfred," said he, "Lord Tennyson."

"Got it in one," said Peter, mildly surprised. A glow of enthusiasm shone softly in the policeman's ox-like eyes. "You're a bit of a student, aren't you, Superintendent?"

“I like to do a bit o' reading in my off-duty," admitted Mr. Kirk, bashfully.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Reading maketh a full man--”

"Conference a ready man," said Harriet.

"And writing an exact man," said the Superintendent. "Mind that, Joe Sellon, and see you let me have them notes so as they can be read to make sense."

"Francis Bacon," said Peter, a trifle belatedly.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“As another Great Mind so happily put it, 'However entrancing it is to wander through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?'"

"What's that?" said the Superintendent. "That's a new one on me. 'Garden of bright images,' eh? That's pretty, that is."

"Kai-Lung," said Harriet.

"Golden Hours of," said Peter. "Ernest Bramah.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“He was a proper old dodger, was Mr. Noakes; a regular Artful Dodger."

"Charles Dickens!”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Fortunately, Bunter is sea-green incorruptible--”

"Carlyle," said Mr. Kirk, with approval. "French Revolution.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Ah!" said Mr. Kirk. "That's what comes of being a public character. You can't escape the fierce light that beats upon--”

"Here!" said Peter, "that's not fair. You can't have Tennyson twice. Anyway, there it is and what's done--no, I may want Shakespeare later on.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

superintendent kirk’s attributions

“So," said Peter, "Galahad will sit down in Merlin's seat."

Mr. Kirk, on the point of lowering his solid fifteen stone into the chair, jerked up abruptly.

"Alfred," said he, "Lord Tennyson."

"Got it in one," said Peter, mildly surprised. A glow of enthusiasm shone softly in the policeman's ox-like eyes. "You're a bit of a student, aren't you, Superintendent?"

“I like to do a bit o' reading in my off-duty," admitted Mr. Kirk, bashfully.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Reading maketh a full man--”

"Conference a ready man," said Harriet.

"And writing an exact man," said the Superintendent. "Mind that, Joe Sellon, and see you let me have them notes so as they can be read to make sense."

"Francis Bacon," said Peter, a trifle belatedly.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“As another Great Mind so happily put it, 'However entrancing it is to wander through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?'"

"What's that?" said the Superintendent. "That's a new one on me. 'Garden of bright images,' eh? That's pretty, that is."

"Kai-Lung," said Harriet.

"Golden Hours of," said Peter. "Ernest Bramah.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“He was a proper old dodger, was Mr. Noakes; a regular Artful Dodger."

"Charles Dickens!”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Fortunately, Bunter is sea-green incorruptible--”

"Carlyle," said Mr. Kirk, with approval. "French Revolution.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“But we wouldn't hang a man for being a pickpocket, not now.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

superintendent kirk’s attributions

“So," said Peter, "Galahad will sit down in Merlin's seat."

Mr. Kirk, on the point of lowering his solid fifteen stone into the chair, jerked up abruptly.

"Alfred," said he, "Lord Tennyson."

"Got it in one," said Peter, mildly surprised. A glow of enthusiasm shone softly in the policeman's ox-like eyes. "You're a bit of a student, aren't you, Superintendent?"

“I like to do a bit o' reading in my off-duty," admitted Mr. Kirk, bashfully.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

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“Reading maketh a full man--”

"Conference a ready man," said Harriet.

"And writing an exact man," said the Superintendent. "Mind that, Joe Sellon, and see you let me have them notes so as they can be read to make sense."

"Francis Bacon," said Peter, a trifle belatedly.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

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“As another Great Mind so happily put it, 'However entrancing it is to wander through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?'"

"What's that?" said the Superintendent. "That's a new one on me. 'Garden of bright images,' eh? That's pretty, that is."

"Kai-Lung," said Harriet.

"Golden Hours of," said Peter. "Ernest Bramah.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“He was a proper old dodger, was Mr. Noakes; a regular Artful Dodger."

"Charles Dickens!”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

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superintendent kirk’s attributions

“So," said Peter, "Galahad will sit down in Merlin's seat."

Mr. Kirk, on the point of lowering his solid fifteen stone into the chair, jerked up abruptly.

"Alfred," said he, "Lord Tennyson."

"Got it in one," said Peter, mildly surprised. A glow of enthusiasm shone softly in the policeman's ox-like eyes. "You're a bit of a student, aren't you, Superintendent?"

“I like to do a bit o' reading in my off-duty," admitted Mr. Kirk, bashfully.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“Reading maketh a full man--”

"Conference a ready man," said Harriet.

"And writing an exact man," said the Superintendent. "Mind that, Joe Sellon, and see you let me have them notes so as they can be read to make sense."

"Francis Bacon," said Peter, a trifle belatedly.

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers

[peterwimseyopinions]

“As another Great Mind so happily put it, 'However entrancing it is to wander through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?'"

"What's that?" said the Superintendent. "That's a new one on me. 'Garden of bright images,' eh? That's pretty, that is."

"Kai-Lung," said Harriet.

"Golden Hours of," said Peter. "Ernest Bramah.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers