Highlights
Page 5
He had said it in a casual way as though a hundred guineas was nothing to him. A hundred guineas when he was literally down to his last square meal! He had fancied, though, that the little Jew had not been deceived—that was the damnable part about Jews, you couldn’t deceive them about money—they knew!
Note: So this book was originally called 10 Little Niggers. I’m not surprised to find this passage here but I’m willing to forgive it as the prejudice of the character, not the author
Page 23
No, there was only one satisfactory passenger in the boat. The last gentleman, the one who had arrived in the car (and what a car! A car such as had never been seen in Sticklehaven before. Must have cost hundreds and hundreds, a car like that). He was the right kind. Born to money, he was. If the party had been all like him… he’d understand it…
Note: Says something about how the English viewed class
Page 78
desultory
Page 89
‘Ah, I understand you now. Well, there is that Mr Lombard. He admits to having abandoned twenty men to their deaths.’ Vera said: ‘They were only natives…’ Emily Brent said sharply: ‘Black or white, they are our brothers.’ Vera thought: ‘Our black brothers—our black brothers. Oh, I’m going to laugh. I’m hysterical. I’m not myself…’
Note: Jesus
Page 139
‘It’s like some awful dream. I keep feeling that things like this can’t happen!’
Note: Shit dialogue
Page 143
Mr Justice Wargrave was thinking: ‘Murdered in our beds! These doctors are all the same—they think in clichés. A thoroughly commonplace mind.’
Page 163
‘I’m a domestic sort of man. I’ll give you a hand, Miss Claythorne.’
Note: Pah. What a martyr