"A new notebook, please, Bunter. Head it "Fentiman" and be ready to come round with me to the Bellona Club tomorrow, complete with camera and the rest of your outfit."
"Very good, my lord. I take it your lordship has a new inquiry in hand?"
"Yes Bunter - quite new."
"May I venture to ask if it is a promising case, my lord?"
"It has its points. So has a porcupine. No matter. Begone, dull care! Be at great pains, Bunter, to cultivate a detached outlook on life. Take example by the bloodhound, who will follow up with equal and impartial zest the trail of a parricide or of a bottle of aniseed."
"I will bear it in mind, my lord."
(from The Unpleasantness At the Bellona Club," by Dorothy L. Sayers)
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