After Clare (2012)
“It was hardly fair to blame him for something he couldn’t help.
All the same, she found her hackles rising at the judgmental looks she felt this man, Detective Inspector Novak, was casting around the dear, untidy old Leysmorton library, missing nothing of its shabbiness, and not seeing how unchanging, how reassuring that always made it. Even more annoying was his frankly incredulous attitude towards their activities in the clearing, before that gruesome discovery. What had she and Lady Fitzalla...n actually been doing there? Why had two ladies found it necessary to disturb that pile of stones and timber? To clear the ground ready for planting? No? Then what was the purpose, what was the clearing to be used for?
The ‘purpose’, Emily replied, fixing him with a look, very Lady Fitzallan, was for nothing more than to get rid of the unsightly rubbish that had accumulated there. She, too, was having problems with Novak’s appearance, though for different reasons. He had brought a reminder of the past: Yerevan, and Stepan Saroyan, the young and handsome Armenian whose life Paddy had saved, and who had thereafter seen it as his mission to educate Paddy into the injustices of Armenian politics, bringing untold trouble and also passing on the tuberculosis which had eventually caused Paddy’s death.MoreLess
All the same, she found her hackles rising at the judgmental looks she felt this man, Detective Inspector Novak, was casting around the dear, untidy old Leysmorton library, missing nothing of its shabbiness, and not seeing how unchanging, how reassuring that always made it. Even more annoying was his frankly incredulous attitude towards their activities in the clearing, before that gruesome discovery. What had she and Lady Fitzalla...n actually been doing there? Why had two ladies found it necessary to disturb that pile of stones and timber? To clear the ground ready for planting? No? Then what was the purpose, what was the clearing to be used for?
The ‘purpose’, Emily replied, fixing him with a look, very Lady Fitzallan, was for nothing more than to get rid of the unsightly rubbish that had accumulated there. She, too, was having problems with Novak’s appearance, though for different reasons. He had brought a reminder of the past: Yerevan, and Stepan Saroyan, the young and handsome Armenian whose life Paddy had saved, and who had thereafter seen it as his mission to educate Paddy into the injustices of Armenian politics, bringing untold trouble and also passing on the tuberculosis which had eventually caused Paddy’s death.MoreLess
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