Status Updates From A Private View (The Inspect...

The Duke turned the page of his diary, with the effect of placidly enjoying his own efficiency.

He had, in fact, an air of breeding - or what is left of breeding when it has for long been played upon by an unstable or shiftless temperament. One met such people on the fringes of the great ballet companies.

The intruder, thus neatly caught in the process of scurrying towards ground level, instantly sat down on one of the steps, produced and lit a cigarette, and gazed into the surrounding void with the air of a man meditating at leisure upon the mutability of human affairs.

Appleby fed his wife briskly through a revolving door and joined her on the pavement.

Have already laughed out loud a couple of times - this book is just right for my current mood!