George A. Birmingham,
The Search Party — Chapter 16
(1912)
“ They were just ordinary women." "There you are," said Lord Manton. "It's your ordinary, well-behaved woman who drives a man perfectly frantic if he has any spirit in him. I couldn't live with an ordinary woman for three months at a stretch. ”
George A. Birmingham,
The Search Party — Chapter 16
(1912)
“ Take their bicycles. A man might accidentally lose himself, but his bicycle couldn't possibly get lost. He must leave it on the side of the road somewhere, and wherever he leaves it you're sure to find it. You can get rid of a bicycle on purpose, though even that's not so easy. Sinking it in the sea is about the only way I can imagine of effectually disposing of it. But you can't lose it and yourself. Nobody could lose both himself and a bicycle unless he did it on purpose.""But——" said Mr. Goddard. He had a whole series of criticisms utterly destructive of Lord Manton's hypothesis. ”
George A. Birmingham,
The Search Party — Chapter 16
(1912)
“ He was conducted to the dining-room by Wilkins, and found Lord Manton seated by himself at the end of a large table. The dining-room in Clonmore Castle is a spacious and well-proportioned apartment. A tradition exists that in the time of Lord Manton's father, on the occasion of a county election, fifty gentlemen once sat down in it together at dinner. In those days, no doubt, people did not object to being crowded. But even to-day thirty people could very comfortably have dined in the room, and there would still have been space for the servants to make their way about. ”
