The Fashion in Shrouds (2006)
“It is this peculiarity which is common to all the great English policemen and is probably the basis of their reputation both for integrity and for stupidity. In his thirty-five years in the Force he had acquired a vast knowledge of the incredible weaknesses and perversities of his fellow-men, but, while these were all neatly tabulated in his pleasant country mind, his sense of what was black and what was white remained static and inviolate. He was a gentle man, quiet in speech and possessed of ...a charming yokel sense of fun, but in spite of this he was as hard, as clear-eyed, and therefore often as cruel, as a child of five.
Mr Campion, who had known him for eleven years and was very fond of him, still paid him that respect which has a modicum of fear in it.
At a little after five on the day following Amanda’s enlightening interview with Mrs Fitch, Mr Campion came up on the carpet in Oates’s office. Although he was so well known to the superintendent his invitation to ‘step up for a few words’ had been as formal as if he had never set his nose inside the place before, and he was conducted to the visitor’s chair with considerable ceremony.MoreLess
Mr Campion, who had known him for eleven years and was very fond of him, still paid him that respect which has a modicum of fear in it.
At a little after five on the day following Amanda’s enlightening interview with Mrs Fitch, Mr Campion came up on the carpet in Oates’s office. Although he was so well known to the superintendent his invitation to ‘step up for a few words’ had been as formal as if he had never set his nose inside the place before, and he was conducted to the visitor’s chair with considerable ceremony.MoreLess
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