J. S. Fletcher

Name: Ravensdene Court — 8. Was It a Woman?
Author: J. S. Fletcher

Ravensdene Court — 8. Was It a Woman… (1922)

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“Ravensdene Court — 8. Was It a Woman?”, published in 1922, is a work by J. S. Fletcher. It explores elements such as Lorrimore, pigtail and Raven.

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J. S. Fletcher, Ravensdene Court — 8. Was It a Woman… (1922)

“ Without a word from me, out comes the silver tea-pot, the best china, the finest linen! He produces his choicest plum-cake; the bread-and-butter is cut with wafer-like thinness; and the tea—ah, well, no Englishwoman, Miss Raven, can make tea as a Chinese man-servant can!"
"It's quite plain that you've got a treasure in your house, Dr. Lorrimore," said Miss Raven. "But then, the Chinese are very clever, aren't they?" ”

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J. S. Fletcher, Ravensdene Court — 8. Was It a Woman… (1922)

“ For the moment I was at a loss to think who and what the man could be; he was in the dress of his own country, a neat, close-fitting, high-buttoned blue jacket; there was a little cap on his head, and a pigtail dependent from behind it—I was not sufficiently acquainted with Chinese costumes to gather any idea of his rank or position from these things—for aught I knew to the contrary, he might be a mandarin who, for some extraordinary reason, had found his way to this out-of-the-world spot. ”

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J. S. Fletcher, Ravensdene Court — 8. Was It a Woman… (1922)

“ What amazes me is that a clever chap like Master Wing should be content to bury his talents in a foreign place, out of the world—to make curries and plum-cake!"
"Perhaps he has a faithful devotion to his master," said Miss Raven. "Anyway, it's very romantic, and picturesque, and that sort of thing, to find a real live Chinaman in an English village—I wonder if the poor man gets teased about his queer clothes and his pigtail?"
"Didn't Lorrimore say he was a philosopher?" said I. "Therefore he'll be indifferent to criticism. I dare say he doesn't go about much." ”

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J. S. Fletcher, Ravensdene Court — 8. Was It a Woman… (1922)

“ So, of course, we're thoroughly used to each other."
"And does he really like living—here?" asked Miss Raven. "In such absolutely different surroundings?"
"Oh, well, I think he's a pretty good old hand at making the best of the moment," laughed Lorrimore. "He's a philosopher. Deep—inscrutable—in short, he's Chinese. He has his own notions of happiness. At present he's supremely happy in getting you some tea—you mightn't think it, but that saffron-faced Eastern can make an English plum-cake that would put the swellest London pastry-cook to shame! You must try it!" ”

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J. S. Fletcher, Ravensdene Court — 8. Was It a Woman… (1922)

“ I asked.
"Well," said he, with a laugh, as if he thought the suggestion ridiculous, "there's one that comes nearer being what you might call general than any of the others. There's a party of the older men that come here who're dead certain that Quick was murdered by a woman!" ”

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J. S. Fletcher, Ravensdene Court — 8. Was It a Woman… (1922)

“ He's all the servant I've got. Wing—he's too or three other monosyllabic patronymics, but Wing suffices—is an invaluable person. He's a model cook, valet, launderer, general factotum—there's nothing that he can't or won't do, from making the most perfect curries—I must have Mr. Raven to try them against the achievements of his man!—to taking care about the halfpennies, when he goes his round of the tradesmen. Oh, he's a treasure—I assure you, Miss Raven, you could go the round of this house, at any moment, without finding a thing out of place or a speck of dust in any corner. ”

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J. S. Fletcher, Ravensdene Court — 8. Was It a Woman… (1922)

“ Nobody cares; that's about it. My notion is that the police don't care the value of that match whether the thing's ever cleared up or not. Nine days' wonder, you know, Mr. Middlebrook. Still—there's a deal of talk about."
"I suppose you hear a good deal in this parlour of yours?" I suggested.
"Nights—yes," he said. "A murder's always a good subject of conversation. At first, those who come in here of an evening—regular set there, in from the village at the back of the cliffs—they could talk of naught else, starting first this and that theory. ”

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