Anthony Powell, A Dance To The Music Of Time: 3rd Movement Quotes
Bring a torch, if you've got one. It's as dark as hell and stinks of something far worse than cheese.
In the seven years or so that had passed since I had last seen him, Sir Magnus Donners had grown not so much older in appearance, as less like a human being.
Esteem for the army - never in this country regarded, in the continental manner, as a popular expression of the national will - implies a kind of innocence.