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Was there a happier sound, Nellie said, than the pop of a champagne cork?
She understood business and had the Borgia stomach necessary for it.
There were still men at Merton finishing degrees that had been interrupted by the war. They had been through the fire. They were older than the date on their birth certificates suggested,
She was not mad, nor French, nor particularly beautiful. She was a librarian.
he had one of those moody manners that some—nay, many—women (and particularly the Brontë sisters) seemed to find attractive.
Gwendolen berated herself for the flint in her soul; the woman deserved compassion.
On the whole, Niven preferred the kind of woman he could forget about the moment she was out of his sight. That was why Gwendolen Kelling annoyed him so much. He still remembered her. And she was definitely, categorically, not his type.
Ramsay was hammering on the Remington’s keys and shuttling its carriage with abandon, fuelled by nothing more than Lipton’s tea and a tin of cocaine throat pastilles
Florence made no attempt to contact them. Freda supposed she had never had freedom before. Freda, who had had nothing but freedom, considered it to be an overrated concept.
If Nellie had a soul—and there was no verdict as yet—then it was a pagan one.
Some people were complete in themselves, as if born from the earth or the ocean, like some of the gods. Which was not a compliment. The gods were ruthlessly indifferent to humanity.
The novelty of hospital visiting was being slowly replaced by the fatigue of hospital visiting.
Anyone looking at her would have been unable to discern the inner workings of her brain. Not that anyone did look at her. A woman in her sixth decade, dressed in everyday drab, is more invisible than a librarian.
No, Gwendolen thought, she was not going to look to romantic novels for a solution. They dispensed the worst kind of advice (love).
And I would commend to you W. Slagter’s 1926 book entitled Cocktails American-en Fancy Drinks IJsrecepten en-Dranken (it’s Dutch). You can find it online at https://euvs-vintage-cocktail-books.cld.bz/Vintage-Cocktail-Books-Netherlands/1926-Cocktails-by-W-Slagter/IV. It’s the most extensive list of “historic” cocktails you’ll ever find. Sadly, I have tasted none of them.
