Sublime

Anyway, I touched off his creaky laugh by quoting him one of my favorite lines from King Solomon’s Mines: ‘Two things I have learned: you can’t keep a Zulu from battle, or a sailor from falling in love.’ ” Orso looks at Shay incredulously. “I can’t believe you, of all people, read that racist stuff.” “Orso, when I was a kid I was crazy about Rider

“Come to think of it, you two had a lot in common,” continues Orso. “Both of you being, in a way, exiles. Both adrift in Madagascar for no real reason…”

He was treated with a certain deference as one who had got onto terms with life beyond what his years could account for.

In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.

Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off.

As it is, nobody is likely to link up Detective Rob and his English accent with little Adam Ryan from Knocknaree.

When there are two people who love each other, Ernest wrote, the rich are attracted to them but that he and Hadley were naifs who did not know how to protect themselves. Charmed by these rich, Ernest admitted he was as stupid as a bird dog who goes out with anyone with a gun.