Tuesday, January 04, 2022

Nerves and nose

     "Peter [Lord Peter Wimsey], I am glad to say takes after his mother and me. True, he is all nerves and nose - but that is better than being all brawn and no brains like his father and brother, or a bundle of emotions, like Gerald's boy, Saint-George."

I liked that expression: "All nerves and nose." Being British, that probably would have been true of Lord Peter.

(from Unnatural Death, by Dorothy Sayers)


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