Sunday, January 24, 2010

Dogsbody

Subject:  Dogsbody
Quote:  “Well, really it boils down to being the old boy’s personal Yes-man and Dogsbody.  But the tickets, make the reservations, fill up the passport forms, check the packing of all the horrid little poetic manuals, run round here, there, and everywhere.”
Character:  Edward Goring
Chapter/Story:  2 
Book Title/Copyright: They Came to Baghdad, 1951


Subject:  Dogsbody 
Quote:  “[I]t was a household of mistress and dogsbody with no feverish feminine friendship about it.”
Character:  Inspector Morton
Chapter/Story:  13
Book Title/Copyright:  Funerals Are Fatal, 1953