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“It isn’t that I think you invulnerable to the ordinary temptations of mortals, Miss Dark; it is that although you feel them, you find the strength to resist them. It is more praiseworthy, surely, to do right when it is hard, than when it is easy.”

“A mere dabbler,” Nijam told him, gratified. Why had no one ever told her how much politer people were when you wore two million pounds’ worth of dazzling jewels?

Molly: Vasily, are you jealou—
Vasily: NO!!!!!!!!?!???!

“An ordeal? To be kissed by me?” “Do you find it so very difficult to believe?” “Yes!” He was sharing the stair with me now. “No one has ever complained before! Quite the contrary, I assure you!”

I’m sorry the hard of hearing gag is such a SCREAM 🤣

Then she turned to Vasily and added, in a strong young voice that made the windowpanes rattle, “HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR TEA, SIR?”

HOOTING, HOLLERING

Schmidt, who had been standing by the window looking out into the street, recoiled into a corner where he did a rather creditable job of hiding behind the aspidistra.

“I think that if you and Vasily don’t want to be mistaken for an old married couple,” Mimi said, with much too satisfied an expression, “then you had better stop acting like one.”

“HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR TEA, SIR?” I haven’t read something that made me laugh actually out loud in so long, but this did the trick. I chortled /several/ chortles, not to mention nearly spitting out what I was eating. I love how FUNNY these books are

"Chloroform?" I started towards our escape. "How can you tell?"
"From the smell," he said.... "It's very distinctive."

I knew this series was pitched as having Leverage vibes but was not expecting an actual allusion. Very happy :D

Molly and Vasily are so stupid fjswfdjasfkjsd

i've been screaming for like 30 pages now

Alphonse is King Himbo and I love him for that

SCRUMPTIOUS thus far. Two particular call outs I’m making at this point are that Griff is sus (is he an automaton?) and the museum scenes were utterly chilling. Can’t wait to devour the rest of this!

Yeah boi!

the diamond-stealing chaos is absolutely stellar

WHO HAS THE REAL DIAMOND

WHO KNOWS

WHO CARES, SO LONG AS VASILY IS INEFFECTIVELY GLARING

"Say nothing, but come to the lavatories at once.”

DYING. LAUGHING.

ASSIGNATIONS IN THE LOO.

AUTOMATONS! GAS CANNISTERS IN UNEXPECTED PLACES

I HAVE ASCENDED

this is why conman stories need more gaslamp