Thursday 1 June 2017

The fellow only has one virtue - his bluntness. He'll be ghastly if he loses that.

Sir Edgar grunted, he did not trust Clun's sympathy towards Gerald. He thought to himself, I hope Clun isn't going to start getting sanctimonious. The fellow only has one virtue - his bluntness. He'll be ghastly if he loses that.

A. Wilson, Anglo-Saxon attitudes (1956), 320