Steerpike was, of course, alive with Adeas and
projects. These two half-witted women were a gift.
That they should be the sisters of Lord Sepulchrave
was of tremendous strategievalue. They would
prove an advance on Prunesquallors, if not
intellectually at any Tate socially, and that at the•
mornent was what mattered. And in any case, the
lower the mentality of his.wployers the more
scope for his own projects. —Mervyn Peake
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