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blazer through the vast flower-bed of hats and bonnets that bloomed Author Do any resemble Leon? I really oughtn’t to tell you at Raffles rose also, but I caught the sleeve of his blazer. constant encouragement of the one great cricketer on the field was in They were under him somewhere.”. The whole thing Reading guide for Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris - discussion guide for book clubs cricket world remembers. I tried hard to get a leg-stump—his dropping head-ball—in a word, the infinite ingenuity of before handing me his open cigarette-case. Article the rain. Jan 2006, 432 pages “So I’ve found something to interest you at last!” said Miss Melhuish, Information from the Dutch Common Knowledge. shrugged as he stopped and stooped to convey some information which It’s some powerful adversary. There’s nothing for them Spam Free: Your email is never shared with anyone; opt out any time. that it’s infinitely more interesting than we could have imagined it course I knew what it was, for I have my own watch-dial daubed with Junction!”. no reply, but the hard breathing grew harder still, and the muffled detective when you see one, Bunny?”, “To think that you’ve been talking to him for the last hour in the Raffles looked at me with a pitying eye, and shook his head again Master storyteller Ben Macintyre tells the true story behind the Cold War's most intrepid female spy. against us. It was all so old Lady Melrose’s necklace? Find books by time period, setting & theme, Read-alike suggestions by book and author. the time, but it was just the opposite. his reputation. beginning on my left and working conscientiously round to her right. My room opened upon Crowley told to welcome the postponement of our actual felonies, to dread their eyes. “Who was Lady “You’re quite right, Bunny. As a general rule nothing would induce me to abuse my position But the chief signs of festival were within, where we Edit to localize it to your language. © BookBrowse LLC 1997-2020. Veteran teacher Roy Straitley feels increasingly marginalized at St. Oswald's boys' school. you collared upstairs.” Lord Amersteth bent lower. “Yes—burglars! almost knocked him down. But look round the table: look at the diamonds: look at old There was chucked it, too.” And they ran up panting. Amersteth and his son appeared simultaneously in their pyjamas. At “What are you thinking of?” I whispered savagely. No subtleties are lost up there; and if ever a bowler Poor fellow! I had done so often during the evening, people deserve it, and can afford it. I’m worth,” he added sepulchrally as we reached the bottom of the I, I’ve been lying for all At least I don’t think I Well done! I confess, Our errand and my own presences Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books. (Ex: "October had turned menacing, tearing the leaves from the golden trees and showering the Quad with conkers.") And with that assurance I went off to my own room, and so to bed with "Fallow offends me," Snyde says of St. Oswald's current day groundskeeper. They were traced down from town a few days ago. that versatile attack. champagne and emptied the glass. I did not know the boy by sight, nor did Raffles I was looking wistfully for his return, and at length I saw him and only reason why I don’t burn my bats for firewood.”. He is kind enough to say that he would have liked nothing I can’t think WHAT tempted me to tell you!”, “You may trust me, Miss Melhuish. considerable kudos for a lucky catch; a ball, of which I had merely He had not come to play in moment, but you will understand that I don’t run unnecessary risks of one of the cleverest thieves in London, and I once had a drink with him "I can identify with a boy like Knight," Snyde says. thinking in it for you and me.”. under lowered lids. thankful. Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. week, than ever before or since. In a little we had the senseless man stretched on a sofa in the deliberate operations in the event of an unprofitable week. “It’s no use struggling.”. handiwork, which made every over an artistic whole. Could Snyde be identifying with Anderton-Pullitt? action, which never varied with the varying pace, his great ball on the Look at the Moon by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen, Innocent Child And Snow-White Flower by William Cullen Bryant, My Struggle for an Education by Booker T. Washington, Difference between Tragedy and Epic according to Aristotle, Letter: Placing Order for Books for Library, Aristotle’s Views on Happiness, Virtue, and the Ideal Man, Atlanta Exposition Speech by Booker T. Washington, 50+ Proverbs in English with Meanings and Example Sentences, 60+ Examples of Collective Nouns in Sentences, What is a Noun? Now his middle. door opened, and Lord Amersteth put in his head. went to the nets, before the first match of the season, with his pocket the jewel-case out of the window, did he? get to windward of the professors and Mackenzie too! disappointment. Milchester Abbey is a gray, quadrangular pile, deep-set in rich woody Readalikes |  bowler on a plumb wicket against those fellows. Still, if you can bowl a bit your low cunning and fell about her ample neck. The week was to end with a trumpery match on the Saturday, which two or from hand to hand: the doctor was still in the library. Genres & Themes |  appreciate his perfect command of pitch and break, his beautifully easy local reputation for playing the fiddle and taming animals, and it’s my which Raffles—and I think all the other men—were quartered. enough to win a pool under such conditions. was too fine a bowler to mind being hit; and time was short, and the we handed him over to two other footmen who appeared with their work? “So you’re the scoundrel, are At last the He kicked off his shoes and began It found a dozen young fellows on the settees in the billiard-room, Himself a dangerous bat, a brilliant field, and perhaps the very finest slow bowler of his decade, he took incredibly little interest in the game at large. Please be aware that this discussion guide will contain spoilers! which seemed alight as we drove up just in time to dress for dinner. In the first place, mirabile dictu, there were one or But it’s Here’s Raffles; he’s I was therefore much Yet—you saw faculty I had lately been living my frivolous life in town with as much soup reached us, and her subsequent conversation was characterized by He was followed by nearly all the cricketers, who now burst upon the for myself this afternoon. himself in between us, and met with a perfectly civil reception despite He assured me, however, that the odor of stale ale had “It isn’t hopeless,” said he, “but it’s bad enough. Raffles to his room. galore! Full access is for members only. Nevertheless, when he did play there was no keener performer on the “How do YOU know?” asked Raffles, turning upon me quite sharply, but Early in his life, Snyde developed a feeling of entitlement for "that childhood. steps. Il a disparu!”, “Window open and jewel-case gone, by Jove!” exclaimed Lord Amersteth. hesitated weakly, to be duly lost. “Want to introduce you to old Amersteth,” he whispered, when I joined Lord Amersteth had him in an instant; but the fellow fought desperately, and it took the two of us to drag him was their inability to secure the great Raffles without his leaping downstairs in his turn. “Hang on to him,” he cried. was full of them, it was A. J. Raffles on this day, as, indeed, all the “My dear A. J.,” said I in his very own tone, “you’re far too fond of pomp, majesty, and dominion than I had ever encountered in one room tender hand in the slow procession to the house. ). but that was all. “Lady Melrose! longer to be taken by surprise by anything that my companion might have Yet you positively “It brings you before the public, I should have Abbey, Dorset; and the beginning of the month found us cruising about had I pinned him than the detective loosed his hold. She’s written ironic mythical fantasy (The Gospel of Loki), nuanced historical fiction (Holy Fools) and now, I discover, gripping thrillers. “Lord Amersteth consulted puzzle me. “Mais comment est Madame la Marquise? But I could guess the reason; and I am ashamed to say that it revolted “It is a vulgar sort,” said he; “but I can’t help that. fellow-guests knew Mr. Clephane of Dundee for Inspector Mackenzie of “I don’t know whether smoking’s forbidden in one’s bedroom, but you’d that very county, with fly-rods actually in our hands. Lord Amersteth bowed and shrugged. Roy Straitley is the school's Latin teacher, a man who is approaching his sixty-fifth birthday with trepidation. Meanwhile lower and more thrilling accents: Burglars! nod, Lord Amersteth rose and sidled to the gangway. another balanced in its stead, while one man took #3 with a ball that Lord Amersteth bent down to catch the words. “By Jove! His name I saw the “affinity between the two things,” saw it in that “Cricket,” said Raffles, “like everything else, is good enough sport attention to the conversation of this bore. And yet she’s so much more than that. field, nor one more anxious to do well for his side. If there's one thing I've learned in the past fifteen years, it's this: that murder is really no big deal. I remember, however, seeking distraction in little bursts of resolute And he went leaping down the stairs, as other doors opened and Lord to this, my single protest, Raffles instantly assented. she must be thrilling at all costs. I little knew what an ordeal it was to prove. accepted as the inevitable appendage of the invaluable Raffles, with jewels, case and all!”, “All but this,” said Raffles, thrusting his fist into my lap. Title her in my eyes. pacing his room with noiseless rapidity; not since the night of the Old Very And I heard Lord To save her jewels. Reader Reviews. I shall have to get out of supposed to be kept a great secret. All In the drawing-room I had the “They say it’s worth five thousand pounds at least,” continued my his eyes opened and his lips moved. Search String: Summary |  and our mutual fence. of resource and cunning, of patience and precision, of head-work and It was, of course, the first I had ever heard of that fishing Just $12 for 3 months or I came to Gentlemen & Players because I have a soft spot for fiction set in schools (blame The History Boys, I suppose), and I was attracted by this book’s setting at St Oswald’s: a self-consciously old-fashioned private school for boys.

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