Sublime

reverenced.

A pale man with pince-nez, he had the kind of face it is impossible to recall within five minutes of seeing it, and owed his appointment to the fact that all the other candidates for the Vice Chancellorship had enough personality to acquire enemies.

“If they’re telling Godfrey their secrets,” Perry said, “then they are not telling the Germans. Godfrey will be a conduit to divert their treachery into our own reservoir.” Metaphor really wasn’t his forte.

jocose

for ever still a messenger, a passenger, a tarrier, a-roving as a feather does, a weather-driven mariner.

‘My dear, we will not anticipate the decrees of fortune.

inside the hood came a noise as of someone sniffing