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Ричарду вручили батончик "Фрут энд Нат" из автомата и огромный серебряный кубок, инкрустированный по краю драгоценными камнями, похожими на сапфиры. В кубке плескалась кока-кола.

Этот тон подтверждал, что столик на сегодня следовало заказать давным-давно. Возможно, это должны были сделать родители еще до его рождения.

...смерть ходит так, как ходил мистер Вандермар.

"There's a lot of time in London, and it has to go somewhere-it doesn't all get used up at once." "I may still be hung over," sighed Richard. "That almost made sense."

"What," asked Mr. Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr. Vandemar. "Extra teeth."

Old Bailey remembered when people had actually lived here in the City, not just worked; when they had lived and lusted and laughed, built ramshackle houses one leaning against the next, each house filled with noisy people. Why, the noise and the mess and the stinks and the songs from the alley across the way (then known, at least colloquially, as Shitten Alley) had been legendary in their time, but no one lived in the City now. It was a cold and cheerless place of offices, of people who worked in the day and went home to somewhere else at night. It was not a place for living anymore. He even missed the stinks.

Richard feel as if he were thirteen years old again, listening to the Top Twenty on his best friend's transistor radio at school during lunch hour, back when pop music had mattered as it only can in your early teenage years

"Sir. Might I with due respect remind you that Mister Vandemar and myself burned down the City of Troy? We brought the Black Plague to Flanders. We have assassinated a dozen kings, five popes, half a hundred heroes and two accredited gods. Our last commission before this was the torturing to death of an entire monastery in sixteenth-century Tuscany. We are utterly professional." Mr. Vandemar, who had been amusing himself by catching little frogs and seeing how many he could stuff into his mouth at a time, said, with his mouth full, "I liked doing that… "

-Обычные люди тебя не заметят, если только ты с ними не заговоришь. Но и тогда сразу же о тебе забудут.

– Но я-то тебя заметил, – отозвался Ричард.

Раз она может быть смелой, он тоже может.