My brother and I had encountered all manner of individual among the friars a spectrum of humanity, from gentle coves who scarce could bear to swat a mosquito to the most heartless bully. With this rigmarole and in other ways, Cleophas like to cultivate the impression of being an absent-minded, kindly fellow and he would beguile you with that bilge awhile until you became better acquainted and began to cognise just how sly he could be, for true.
He would walk around the property first, try the windows, then wander off into the garden to gaze at the roof before eventually he retrace his step to the front of the dwelling and give a tentative knock and – whiles he went on this bumbling circumbendibus – you oblige to go with him, wondering what abominable toil or trouble might be in store for you whenever he finally came around and stated his requirement. Some masters are swift to get to the point when they give instructions you might say they go directly through the main door, cross the threshold, no hesitation. Faber & Faber, hardback, 2017, fiction, 390 pages, kindly sent by the publisher
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