Sublime

Thus, with each passing day, each slipping hour, he grows in confidence. Sure of his concealment, it’s just a waiting game. He’s basically won already.

‘You’re our longest-serving contributor,’ said Carleton, flinching at the bang. ‘Our most admired. Indeed I should say our most popular.’ I’m beginning to speak like him, he thought: Thomas Hart is catching, that’s the trouble. ‘I’ve often heard it said that it’s a consolation – that’s the general feeling, as I said to the board – to wake on Thursd

decorous.

liveried

The only solid partitions left were inside the head.

While she wrote the final paragraphs in March, she had been troubled by nightmares “of the dead being alive.” Her baby girl. Fanny. Her mother. And the most terrifying: Harriet, her hair streaming, floating up from the Serpentine, staring at the woman who had stolen her husband.

a personage whose refrigerator-like build, rubbery face, and heavy eyelids brought to mind some anthropomorphic piece of furniture in a Disney movie.

Fine clothes could hide a turbulent soul.

Wedlock: it had a dull metallic sound, like an iron door clicking shut.