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“There is something very old and odd and quite unpleasant about this house."
"Yes, its Graham."
Stephan grinned and followed him into the long room.”
― K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord

“The house is decaying, the furnishings are museum pieces, half the staff are consumed with loathing of me out of loyalty to my father, or because I remind them of my brother. In any case, they're people who lived in the same house as Hector when there are perfectly good ditches to die in, which tells you as much as you need to know.”
― K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord

“I am in the process of nailing Mr. Humphrey Griffin to the wall so thoroughly that future generations will mistake him for a tapestry,...”
― K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord

“Two death sentences? Really? I mean, you look very well, considering.”

Crane grinned at him. “One was in absentia. One wasn’t, and I spent three days in a condemned cell. I can’t recommend the experience.”

“And—did you say a smuggler?”

“That was what the death sentences were for.”
― K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord