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sometimes, being Roddy Ho took practice. Even when you were already Roddy Ho to begin with.
He raised one eyebrow, or thought he did. He was actually raising both.
“Well, I wouldn’t leave the petty cash where he could find it. But if I had a Swiss bank account, I wouldn’t need to hide the number from him.”
Diana remembered being told, when young, that the way to apply perfume was to spritz a dash into the air and walk through the mist. Not an image today’s advertisers would reach for, the lingering nature of airborne particles being a tough sell.
Having a dick for a colleague means never having to say you’re sorry.
his actual light sabre, which was in a cupboard at home,
during which a huddled group of tourists stared out at her, terrified, as if their entertainment had unexpectedly turned 3D.
it was never in her to be a bad actor.
Lech had wondered if this were like the joke about the cat, and she was gently breaking the news that Taverner was dead.
a motley looking bunch, dim and ragged, as if a trip to see the wizard hadn’t paid off the way it ought.
Still pursued by bad actors.
There’s nothing like putting someone through a window for altering the dynamic of a situation.
But the room shifted, or its gladiatorial epicentre did;
“I imagine you could sell tickets,” he said.
lay. The paramedic started saying something about not moving when you were injured, advice probably worth listening to, though neither were.
At a loss for an accurate answer, Shirley says, “Yeah, it’s what Thelma and Louise would have done.” “Well, I’ve no idea who those people are. But if Thelma and Louise drove off a cliff, would you do that too?” Shirley doesn’t know where to start.
Still, both will be somewhat surprised when Roddy, as yet unable to speak, has a reasonably successful first date with Leia Six; and more so when, still unable to speak, he has a reasonably successful second. But by the third date his mouth will be more or less recovered, and he will turn up at Slough House the following morning with a black eye.
