{"id":14279,"date":"2021-05-09T20:18:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T00:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=14279"},"modified":"2025-08-12T14:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:51:08","slug":"whom-the-gods-love-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/14279","title":{"rendered":"Whom the Gods Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whom the Gods Love<\/a><\/em> (1995) Kate Ross<\/a> (Julian Kestrel Mysteries)<\/p>\n

\"Whom<\/a>Set in England in 1825.<\/p>\n

So there you have it, Mr. Kestrel. I\u2019m appealing to you as a father, as a man of law, as a British subject\u2014 Why can I never say anything simply? After twenty years at the Bar, a man forgets what plain and honest discourse is.\u201d Sir Malcolm faced Julian squarely. \u201cHelp me, Mr. Kestrel. Help me find out who killed my son.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What I think about Falkland is that he was spread too thin. Do you see what I mean? He was all things to all people, and nothing important to anybody. In a twelve-month, nobody will remember him\u2014 or if they do, it will only be for the way he died.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI think that may be the profoundest and saddest thing anyone has said about him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A good many young men get themselves admitted to Inns of Court as a sort of gentlemen\u2019s club, and since the only real requirement for being called to the Bar is to eat a certain number of dinners in Hall every year, a man can qualify himself to practise law without ever studying at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(T)here are no qualifications for becoming a magistrate other than to have a sufficient income to make one proof against bribery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

People of intense imagination are apt to sympathize with the poor and despised\u2014 they envision themselves in the same plight, and the picture is so real and horrifying, it impels them to action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press<\/p>\n

Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whom the Gods Love (1995) Kate Ross (Julian Kestrel Mysteries) Set in England in 1825. So there you have it, Mr. Kestrel. I\u2019m appealing to you as a father, as a man of law, as a British subject\u2014 Why can I never say anything simply? After twenty years at the Bar, a man forgets what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,30,668,292,33,8,41],"tags":[556,514,365],"class_list":["post-14279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-10","category-british","category-comfort-read","category-ebook","category-historical","category-mystery","category-reread","tag-georgian-era","tag-julian-kestrel","tag-kate-ross"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-3Ij","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1707,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1707","url_meta":{"origin":14279,"position":0},"title":"Cut to the Quick","author":"Michelle","date":"May 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Cut to the Quick (1993) Kate Ross Amazing how reading--and rereading--an excellent book can lift one's mood. 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