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... Watson, or whatever your name is, you are not in Hyde Park, with an audience of loafers.
The general's lectureThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943It corrects the name, lists the medals and quotes Napoleon, so wounded pride dresses up as authority. - B24 行
Supposing she doesn't want to get married? She can go and be a governess.
On governessesThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943Four questions in a row dismantle each option, building a tight argument. - B14 行
You know, old boy, Edith was never my fiancee.
Candy clears it upThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943He saves his friend's face first and only then takes the mistake apart. - B27 行
Now, listen to me, you son of a gun,
Candy's farewell threatThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943He blesses the match and threatens it in the same breath, so affection and menace arrive together. - B222 行
The trouble with you young fellows is you want to go changing everything. What's the result?
The general's lectureThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943He stacks up the costs, then drills the lesson into a few blunt rules for survival. - B24 行
Well, if they are, they're cracking, my dear chap. It's a sure sign.
On foul fighting and honourThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943It moves from a soldier's hunch to a quoted ideal, then undercuts it with a one-word joke. - B26 行
Now, listen.
The South African takes commandThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943Six short lines build from taking command to showing the knife, all in a flat, level voice. - B26 行
For me, Murdoch, it means more than that.
The General on the armisticeThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943It climbs from private bickering to a verdict on justice, then closes with a blessing. - B27 行
My Lord Bishop, I want to make a confession.
The general's confessionThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943He turns a love story into a military search, letting the bishop fill in the punchline. - B27 行
Yes, it's me, Theo.
Theo's phone callThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943The clipped answers build the ache of going home to a country that may no longer exist. - C17 行
In earlier years,
The refugee's closing wordsThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943He revises his own honesty step by step and lands on plain homesickness as the real reason. - C19 行
My wife was English.
The story of his wifeThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943Short flat sentences carry the story from loyalty to loss without a single raised voice. - C113 行
I stopped the car and sat still... remembering.
The drive that brought him backThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943Lost on an old road, he remembers the lake and lets the memory decide his return. - B24 行
Do you remember, Clive, we used to say, "Our armies are fighting for our women, our children and our homes"?
Theo on warThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943He dismantles the old slogan step by step, then closes with a question that has no answer. - B14 行
Of course. Who wouldn't? He's such an old darling.
Angela on the GeneralThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943Four quick turns of praise build a bright, affectionate portrait of her employer. - C123 行
Clive, if you let yourself be defeated by them just because you are too fair to hit back the same way they hit at you,
Theo on total warThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943He builds pressure line by line and ends on a match that can never be replayed.