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He was the battle to me then; he is the whole war to me as I look back now.
Raffles did so without a smile; with his overcoat buttoned up to the chin, his tall hat pressed down to his eyes, and between the two his incisive features and his keen, stern glance, he looked the ideal detective of fiction and the stage.
But I slipped to our outer door, and held the passage.
“I don’t let you go alone, you know.”
“You can’t come with me in pyjamas.”
“Now I see why you made me put them on!”
“Bunny, if you don’t shift I shall have to shift you (...)".
I know what you are thinking, and you've got to stop," said he. "It's on the knees of the gods, Bunny, whether we do or we don't, and thinking won't make us see over their shoulders".
Society is in rings like a target, and we never were in the bull's-eye, however thick you may lay on the ink! I was asked for my cricket. I haven't forgotten it yet. But this fellow's one of themselves, with the right of entrée into the houses which we could only 'enter' in a professional sense.