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As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
by Alan Bradley
Love, love, love this series and dear Flavia de Luce.
Chap 2: "They've put you in Edith Cavell"...I recognized the name at once. The room was dedicated to the memory of the World War I heroine Edith Cavell, the British nurse who had been shot by a German firing squad for helping prisoners escape. I thought of those famous words, which were among her last and which I had seen inscribed upon her statue near Trafalgar Square in London: "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone."
Even though we appeared outwardly to be practicing Anglicans, we de Luces had been Roman Catholics since Rome was little more than seven picturesque hills in the Italian wilderness. The soul, Daffy says, is not necessarily where the heart it.
Chap 6 - Were the bottles of arsenic actually pictured on the wallpaper, or had each roll been soaked in the stuff? Arsenical wallpaper, I remembered, colored with the poisonous pigment Scheele's Green, had killed Napoleon, among others, and was sadly not longer manufactured.
Chap 24 - ...the information I had fed him was no more than a load of old horse hockey.
Chap 24 - A warm tear ran down my cheek, matching to perfection a racing raindrop on the outside of the cold glass.
Chap 24 - Who was it -- DAffy would know -- that wanted "Here Lies One Whose Name Is Writ in Water" carved on his tombstone? Keats? Yeats?
Chap 26 - The place smelled of commodes and playing cards, and before I was halfway to the end I had made a firm resolve never to begin to die. For me it would be all or nothing: no half measures, no lingering on the doorstep.
Acknowledgments - Robert Bruce Thompson Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments has taught hundreds to do forensics tests without even having to leave the house...
Chap 2: "They've put you in Edith Cavell"...I recognized the name at once. The room was dedicated to the memory of the World War I heroine Edith Cavell, the British nurse who had been shot by a German firing squad for helping prisoners escape. I thought of those famous words, which were among her last and which I had seen inscribed upon her statue near Trafalgar Square in London: "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone."
Even though we appeared outwardly to be practicing Anglicans, we de Luces had been Roman Catholics since Rome was little more than seven picturesque hills in the Italian wilderness. The soul, Daffy says, is not necessarily where the heart it.
Chap 6 - Were the bottles of arsenic actually pictured on the wallpaper, or had each roll been soaked in the stuff? Arsenical wallpaper, I remembered, colored with the poisonous pigment Scheele's Green, had killed Napoleon, among others, and was sadly not longer manufactured.
Chap 24 - ...the information I had fed him was no more than a load of old horse hockey.
Chap 24 - A warm tear ran down my cheek, matching to perfection a racing raindrop on the outside of the cold glass.
Chap 24 - Who was it -- DAffy would know -- that wanted "Here Lies One Whose Name Is Writ in Water" carved on his tombstone? Keats? Yeats?
Chap 26 - The place smelled of commodes and playing cards, and before I was halfway to the end I had made a firm resolve never to begin to die. For me it would be all or nothing: no half measures, no lingering on the doorstep.
Acknowledgments - Robert Bruce Thompson Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments has taught hundreds to do forensics tests without even having to leave the house...