02-18-2019, 06:28 AM
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Nameless Being
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“a wide, passionate mouth—a shape so wonderful that even in that strenuous moment sixteen generations of feudal privilege stirred in Lord Peter’s blood.”
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“Only thing you can do for the wife of a brute like that is to keep away from her. Hope there won’t be murder done”
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Clouds of Witness Dorothy Sayers
The "done thing" is to tell oneself "it's of its time", but one of the problems I have with phrases like this is that my reaction to them pulls me out of the story. The first was repellent - I literally said out loud, "Seriously? Ugh!" The second, more passively unpleasant.
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