Tidbits

[cimorene]

1. “I feel inclined to apologize. I feel ashamed of being so right. But you’ve asked for it.”
   

—Ronald A. Knox, The Three Taps (London, 1927)


2. “It will be healthful to smoke a little before retiring.”
   

—Émile Gaboriau, The Mystery of Orcival (France, 1867), trans. Holt & Williams (NY, 1871)


3. M. Plantat’s house was small and narrow; a philosopher’s house.
   

—Émile Gaboriau, The Mystery of Orcival (France, 1867), trans. Holt & Williams (NY, 1871)


4. “Never seemed to feel the cold the way I do. Kept his jacket for the church, they used to say about here.”
   

—J. J. Connington, Mystery at Lynden Sands (London, 1928)


5. Mr. Lambert, looking a striking combination of a cross baby and a bulldog,
   

—Frances Noyes Hart, The Bellamy Trial (NY, 1927)


6. “Simon is as hard as whinstone and has as much sentiment as this teapot,”
   

—J. Storer Clouston, Simon (NY, 1919)


7. “I’m all for your taking a holiday, for at present you are a nuisance to your friends and a disgrace to your country’s legislature.”
   

—John Buchan, The Powerhouse (Edinburgh & London, 1916)


8. Somehow or other I could not believe that Mr. Pavia was a wholly innocent old gentleman; his butler looked too formidable.
   

—John Buchan, The Powerhouse (Edinburgh & London, 1916)


9. “It would have been a tight fit for me and a squirrel together.”
   

—J. J. Connington, Tragedy at Ravensthorpe (London, 1927)


10. “The town had a sheep market, which once a year converted the streets into dusky rivers of expostulating fauna,”
    

—Freeman Wills Crofts, The 12.30 from Croydon (London, 1934)