Rating

★★★★☆

Category

literature

Read

2016-04-16

Pages

246

More Beauman, still good.

“‘But Erskine, no one wants to speak a brand-new language for the same reason that no one wants to live in a brand-new castle,’ said Thurlow in the drawing room of Claramore. ‘A language needs its secret passages and bricked-up dungeons. Otherwise poets like me would have no profession.’ ‘A good thing too,’ said Erskine.”