Tuesday, October 9, 2007

A Silly Kind of Face

"I was beginning to have my suspicions," said the doctor, after a short pause. "I think you must be Lord Peter Wimsey. I wondered why your face was so familiar, but of course it was in all the papers a few years ago when you disentangled the Riddlesdale Mystery."

"Quite right. It's a silly kind of face, of course, but rather disarming, don't you think? I don't know that I'd have chosen it, but I do my best with it. I hope it isn't contracting a sleuth-like expression, or anything unpleasant."

-Dorothy Sayers, Unnatural Death, 15-16.

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