Death in a White Tie / Overture to Death / Death at the Bar Quotes

“Henry spared a moment to regret his own decision to give up hunting. He had loved it so much: the sound, the smell, the sight of the hunt. It had all seemed so perfectly splendid until one day, quite suddenly as if a new pair of eyes had been put into his head, he had seen a mob of well-fed expensive people, with red faces, astraddle shiny quadrupeds, all whooping ceremoniously after a very small creature which later on was torn to pieces while the lucky ones sat on their horses and looked on, well satisfied. To his violent annoyance, he had found that he could not rid himself of this unlovely picture and, as it made him feel slightly sick, he had given up everything but drag-hunting.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 3: The intriguing murder mystery detective novels (Death in a White Tie, Overture to Death, Death at the Bar)