Tuesday, October 22, 2013

But eventually he made a strategic error: ‘It is very good to see you here, Godmamma. Do you approve of the house?’

‘You’ll be able to manage for a few years,’ said Lady Severn, graciously. ‘What are you going to call the children?’

‘Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,’ said Peter, rather deliberately not catching Harriet’s eye. ‘Jemima, Kezia, and Keren-happuch. After that we shall begin on the nine muses and the kings of Israel and Judah. And then there are still the major and minor prophets and the eleven thousand virgins of Cologne. Your carriage is waiting, Godmamma, and the horses are catching cold.'

from Thrones and Dominations by Dorothy L. Sayers & Jill Paton Walsh

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