The King of Shadows (Matthew Corbett #8)
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“There will be plenty of time for you to see what I’m carrying.” At the same time he shifted his balance, just so his rather grotesque meaning would be applied like a hammer to the forehead.
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But he had a horrible thought as they entered the Golden Star: not about the dangers ahead, the catalogue of demons or raising a spirit of evil from the depths of a haunted mirror … … but about the fact that aboard the Triton he was going to have to share a chamberpot with Hudson Greathouse. The stuff of nightmares, to be sure.
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“Sometimes I hear them,” Falkenberg said, with the jug at his lips. “The trumpets and the drums. Don’t you?” “Sometimes I wake myself up with a snore and a fart. Does that count?”
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“He’s a great swordsman, no doubt. But I can drink him under the table twice a night and thrice on the Sabbath.”