Joanne Harris

Gentlemen and Players

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  • Алексей Свистуновfez uma citaçãohá 6 anos
    who, when the mood takes him, has an uncanny recollection for some of the more extreme exploits of my distant youth.
  • Алексей Свистуновfez uma citaçãohá 6 anos
    Reminds me of the old joke about the pensioner convicted of murder.
    “Thirty years, Your Honor,” he protests. “It’s too much! I’ll never manage it!” And the judge says: “Well, just do as many as you can
  • hgkayla81fez uma citaçãohá 6 anos
    was feeling rather better by then—it’s funny how dealing with tedious business can still put you in a good mood—and after a bit of initial heavy breathing I delivered my poisonous message.
  • hgkayla81fez uma citaçãohá 6 anos
    Revenge, I’ll admit, is a part of it. For Julian Pinchbeck, perhaps—for the whingeing, cringing child I was, hiding in the shadows and wishing desperately to be someone else.
    But for myself? Nowadays I’m happy with who I am. I’m a solid citizen. I have a job—a job at which I have proved myself unexpectedly talented. I may still be the Invisible Man as far as St. Oswald’s is concerned, but I have refined my role far beyond that of mere impostor. For the first time I wonder if I could stay here longer.
  • hgkayla81fez uma citaçãohá 6 anos
    And then I brought the boot lid down as hard as I could and heard that unspeakable—but nonetheless quite reassuringly familiar—crunch telling me that once again, I was a winner.
  • hgkayla81fez uma citaçãohá 6 anos
    Come to think of it, I was probably doing the gene pool a favor.
  • hgkayla81fez uma citaçãohá 6 anos
    Leon would have been proud of me, I knew; my twin problems of dispatch and disposal both sorted at a single blow.
  • hgkayla81fez uma citaçãohá 6 anos
    a perfectionist. I like to have all the bases covered. Sometimes, however, it’s best to rely on pure instinct. Leon taught me that, you know, and I have to admit that some of the best moves I have ever made have been the unplanned ones; the impulsive strokes of genius.
    So it was with Colin Knight; and it came to me in a sudden inspiration as I was passing the municipal park.
  • hgkayla81fez uma citaçãohá 6 anos
    ess, in sheer unspoken malice, Knight is a natural.
    A pity he has to go, really; but as my old dad might have said, you can’t make an omelet without killing people.
  • hgkayla81fez uma citaçãohá 6 anos
    Give it five years, mate,” he said with mocking sincerity. “If they haven’t dropped by then, see me.”
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