An Unlamented Death Quotes

“walk in the churchyard a little, looking for signs of spring. He was not disappointed. Here shy violets peeped from near the wall. There were the first leaves of the primroses that would soon spread themselves between the grave markers. Soon there would be daisies, wild carrot and all manner of other flowers to delight the bees. What men designated a place of death, nature ever filled with abundant life.”
― William Savage, An Unlamented Death

“Sunshine is a sovereign way to raise the spirits”
― William Savage, An Unlamented Death

“He greeted her with grave good manners and she replied with equal formality.  It was too much for Adam’s mother, who proved unable to contain her laughter.  ‘I imagine a condemned criminal and the hangman would show more warmth in their greeting than the two of you,’ she said, wiping tears from her eyes. ‘You are, I declare, as solemn as owls.”
― William Savage, An Unlamented Death

“What he had expected, he did not know. Perhaps a group of neat, soberly-dressed women, sipping tea from fine-china dishes and talking in hushed voices. If so, he would have been disappointed. What faced him looked more as if the stock of several merchants were piled on the chairs. Rich heaps of ribbons, frills, furbelows and flounces adorned the ladies’ clothes. They had their hair piled high in the latest manner, and fingers, necks and breasts carried more gold and jewels than he had ever seen before. The persons within this bounty were scarcely visible.”
― William Savage, An Unlamented Death

“Eventually, the maid returned and summoned him to the parlour, much like one of the early Christian martyrs being summoned to face the assembled lions in the arena.”
― William Savage, An Unlamented Death

“The game is afoot!”
― William Savage, An Unlamented Death