secrecy Flashcards
gentlemans code quote 1
“No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene,”
gentleman’s code quote 2
“No sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street the less I ask”
gentleman’s code quote 3
“You ask a question and it’s like starting a stone … and away the stone goes starting others”
location quote 1
“A haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths”
location quote 2
“For the buildings are so packed together about the court, that it’s hard to say where one ends and another begins”
location quote 3
“and the first fog of the season.”
safes and envelopes quote 1
“There he opened his safe, took from the most private part of it a document,”
safes and envelopes quote 2
“he is safe, he is quite safe; mark my words, he will never more be heard of.”
safes and envelopes quote 3
“and broke the seal. Within there was another enclosure, likewise sealed,”
gentlemans code 4
“I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again.”
location code 4
“like a district of some city in a nightmare.”
safes and envelopes code 4
“The lawyer unsealed it, and several enclosures fell to the floor.”