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didn’t realize blandings castle is in shropshire?!! shropeshire back to back anyway if agatha christie turned this comedy into a mystery it’d be so genius i wonder if the two ever talked about plotting together

"Who is Ronnie, dash it? My nephew. Well, look at me. Do you mean to assert that a fellow handicapped by an uncle like me isn’t jolly lucky to get any girl to marry him?’
This sentiment so exactly chimed in with her own views that for once in her masterful life Lady Constance had nothing to say."

"Lord Emsworth in congratulating himself that a sense of civic duty and a lively apprehension of what his sister would say if he resigned that office had kept him a Justice of the Peace. Representing, as he did, the majesty of the Law, he was in a position to deal summarily with this criminal. He would have to look it up in the book of instructions, of course, but he rather fancied he could give the chap fourteen day

"Something in the aspect of her back seemed to tell Monty Bodkin that she was either crying or about to cry, and he did not know what to do for the best... A man with a Gertrude Butterwick on his books cannot lightly put his arms round other waists and murmur ‘There, there!’ into other ears.
He coughed and said, ‘Er—well…’
Sue did not turn. He coughed again. Then, with a’ Well—I—er -ah…’ he sidled to the stairs."
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