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“Between the Scylla of her banking system and the Charybdis of her Socialist Party, Germany has no alternative.”

“I felt I had a lot to drink without much to show for it.”

‘I can never see the objection to being a snob,’ George used to say. ‘It seems far the most sensible thing to be.’

“Oh come. You are talking like a Victorian novel.”

So, after the splendid first three novels, “At Lady Molly’s” did definitely not disappoint but, oh boy, it is starting to become challenging to keep up with all the characters… Just like in real life I guess.

Anyway, looking forward to what’s next….

“Always feel rather sorry for your generation actually, not but what we haven’t all lost our – what do you call ’em? You know, when you’re soft enough to think things are going to be a damned sight better than they turn out to be. What’s the word?”

“Illusions?”

“Illusions! That’s the one. We’ve lost all our bloody illusions. Put ‘em all in the League of Nations, or somewhere like that.”

That “touch of the red-hot pincers” you felt at the heart, dear Jenkins, well, I felt it too…💔

I finished Casanova's Chinese Restaurant. Onto 'The Kindly Ones'.

Finished 'At Lady Molly's'
Which was fabulous. Very preoccupied with marriage (and marriages not happening.) Funny. And Widmerpool is one of the great characters in literature.