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Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall plus The Famous Cricket Match Quotes
Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall plus The Famous Cricket Match
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Peter Maughan39 ratings, 4.08 average rating, 7 reviews
Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall plus The Famous Cricket Match Quotes
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“You’ll be seeing pink elephants, the way you drink.”
“I find life thirsty work, old man,” Phineas said equably. “And besides, what have you got against pink elephants?”
― Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall plus The Famous Cricket Match
“I find life thirsty work, old man,” Phineas said equably. “And besides, what have you got against pink elephants?”
― Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall plus The Famous Cricket Match
“The Commander tucked the timepiece back into the fob pocket, and with the air of a conjurer brought out a full moon, as bright as a new coin, and tossed it up in the air. Heads, Humphrey called, and laughed, because he knew this trick, but just couldn’t at the moment remember how it went.
“That’s it! Time’s up! Time’s up!” the empire cried then, fussily drawing stumps.
The moon sat above the cricket ground, where it struck twelve more times than was strictly necessary, it was the umpire’s opinion, and Humphrey opened his eyes to the sound of the grandfather clock on the bottom landing chiming the half-hour.”
― Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall plus The Famous Cricket Match
“That’s it! Time’s up! Time’s up!” the empire cried then, fussily drawing stumps.
The moon sat above the cricket ground, where it struck twelve more times than was strictly necessary, it was the umpire’s opinion, and Humphrey opened his eyes to the sound of the grandfather clock on the bottom landing chiming the half-hour.”
― Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall plus The Famous Cricket Match
“Jasmine thought of her powers, her real powers, as coming from a fifth element, a quintessential world that was everywhere but for most people remained just out of sight. Something there and then not there, something almost remembered and then almost instantly forgotten. A moment of sudden, releasing happiness out of nowhere, or something caught out of the corner of an eye, or felt somewhere behind them, a split second before they turned to look. For Jasmine it was just outside the door.
An unimaginable world she imagined, believed she had been led to imagine, as being like the air above a great river, the almost wordless voices from there which told her things, as free and as fleet in that element as fishes. And who teased her sometimes about that, giggling then like children, effortlessly just out of reach, catch me if you can.
And she knew that one day she would. She had no doubt that that world existed. Everything else to Jasmine was a struggle upstream until we got there. That was coming home.”
― Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall plus The Famous Cricket Match
An unimaginable world she imagined, believed she had been led to imagine, as being like the air above a great river, the almost wordless voices from there which told her things, as free and as fleet in that element as fishes. And who teased her sometimes about that, giggling then like children, effortlessly just out of reach, catch me if you can.
And she knew that one day she would. She had no doubt that that world existed. Everything else to Jasmine was a struggle upstream until we got there. That was coming home.”
― Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall plus The Famous Cricket Match
