The Beckoning Lady Quotes

“Truth is such a naked lady," Mr. Campion spoke softly. "Apparently in well-regulated country families no one is so indelicate as to stare at all of her at once.”
― Margery Allingham, The Beckoning Lady

“A treed cat, a man in love, and the French. God help the fool who tries to rescue any one of them.”
― Margery Allingham, The Beckoning Lady: A Perfect Escapist Mystery in the English Countryside

“A faintly puzzled expression, if the term is not too specific, passed a leisurely way over Mr. Whippet's indeterminate features.”
― Margery Allingham, The Beckoning Lady

“all about him stretched the lush green countryside in which there were to every acre a thousand hiding-places, deep and wide and quiet enough to hold so small and worthless a thing as a single unit of mortal clay. "I”
― Margery Allingham, The Beckoning Lady

“THE country round the Mill at Pontisbright at five o'clock on a June morning was of itself a spell. The near distance was dizzy with haze, the dew beads were thick on the grass, the waters were limpid and ringing, the birds sang with idiotic abandon, the air was scented with animals and a thousand flowers.”
― Margery Allingham, The Beckoning Lady

“She was a mighty woman, tall as he was, and built on aggressive lines, like a battleship, with a square squat head to which the iron-grey hair was bound as tight as possible in an intricate mystery of tiny plaits. He”
― Margery Allingham, The Beckoning Lady

“In those days she had been a sly-eyed little party, much younger than the crowd which had grown up with Minnie, but she had strung along with them and, when Jake Bernadine's first wife had given up in despair, had married and mothered him, enjoyed his strange pictures, and had children by him. Just”
― Margery Allingham, The Beckoning Lady

“patched red and white,”
― Margery Allingham, The Beckoning Lady