Quotes from Trent Intervenes — Edmund Clerihew Bentley
1875–1956 England
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Is it a cosmic law, d'you think, that conceited men's hats are always too small?
Trent Intervenes (1938)
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Trent Intervenes (1938)
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.
Trent Intervenes (1938)
[S]he had a singular spaciousness of mind in which nothing little or mean could live.
Trent Intervenes (1938)
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.
Trent Intervenes (1938)