Edmund Clerihew Bentley - Trent Intervenes (1938)

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She had a singular spaciousness of mind in which nothing little or mean could live.

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Is it a cosmic law, d'you think, that conceited men's hats are always too small?

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Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.

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And as for that low, velvety voice of hers, if she asked me to murder my best friend I should have to do it on the spot.

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Lord Southrop was, of course, eccentric in his views; and you never knew — here the housekeeper, with a despondent head-shake, paused, leaving unspoken the suggestion that a man who did not think or behave like other people might go mad at any moment.

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You may as well know, Philip — you'll soon find out, anyhow — the truth is she will flirt with any man that she doesn't actively dislike. She's so brimful of life she can't hold herself in — or she won't, rather; she says there's no harm in it, and she doesn't care if there is. Before her marriage she didn't go on in that way, but since it turned out badly she has been simply uncivilized on that point. And her being perfectly clear-headed about it makes it so much worse.

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