[dersepp]

From the opening chapter:

"It was a gray Irish day, a good one for drinking mulled wine and taking in the training of our newest thoroughbreds from the enclosed porch."

[nunya bidness]

That passage brings back a flood of childhood memories.

When I first read the book I was in my first year of boarding school. A few of the other chaps had been picking on me so I devised an elaborate plan that lead to their being soaked by a combination of chlorine gas and breakfast gruel. Needless to say they left me alone after that incident.

[Erasmus]

From the opening chapter:

"It was a gray Irish day, a good one for drinking mulled wine and taking in the training of our newest thoroughbreds from the enclosed porch."

What splendid Bulwer-Lytton material!