little curtained cubicles with a bed just barely long enough to fit his lanky frame
Somehow this description of Ellis took me by surprise – I had always pictured him, not fat by any means, but with that solidity that comes in middle age. This was borne out by remarks like when he says he couldn’t get through the trapdoor on the train car with a pack on his back. Granted, some of this may come with my mental association of him with Stephen Fry, though I do picture him thinner than that ... Anderson I see being lanky; Ellis is a man of action when it comes down to it, but we’ve seen so much of him lounging about and expostulating, or enjoying the rich life, that I have trouble imagining him lanky. And I like the way that comfortable body shape plays against the stereotyped super fit sexy spy. But he’s your character, don’t be swayed by my mental image. :)
Attempting to climb the cliff in darkness, the men were overheard conversing and were arrested when they had completed their ascent.
See! It’s dangerous!
"Isn't he good?" Graveworthy asked.
As it seems to be a rhetorical question, more an expression of admiration, I’m not sure if ‘asked’ is right in this context – perhaps ‘remarked’?
You'll be the diamond of the ball, Mr. Parsons.
Ummm... Mr Grimes, surely? Unless Mr Bell is talking to Jack, in which case that should be clearer ... but the land broker with the big plans is supposed to be the guest of honour, right, not his engineer son-in-law?
”... we really have to be careful what we say, don't we?" "As I've been trying to tell you...”
Has he?
I am happy to see William at last! I hadn't realised how late in the story he appeared, though when I read it the first time I had no idea where we were in the grand scheme of things when he made his entrance. I still mean to draw him but first I have to picture him not looking like a former colleague ...
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Somehow this description of Ellis took me by surprise – I had always pictured him, not fat by any means, but with that solidity that comes in middle age. This was borne out by remarks like when he says he couldn’t get through the trapdoor on the train car with a pack on his back. Granted, some of this may come with my mental association of him with Stephen Fry, though I do picture him thinner than that ... Anderson I see being lanky; Ellis is a man of action when it comes down to it, but we’ve seen so much of him lounging about and expostulating, or enjoying the rich life, that I have trouble imagining him lanky. And I like the way that comfortable body shape plays against the stereotyped super fit sexy spy. But he’s your character, don’t be swayed by my mental image. :)
Attempting to climb the cliff in darkness, the men were overheard conversing and were arrested when they had completed their ascent.
See! It’s dangerous!
"Isn't he good?" Graveworthy asked.
As it seems to be a rhetorical question, more an expression of admiration, I’m not sure if ‘asked’ is right in this context – perhaps ‘remarked’?
You'll be the diamond of the ball, Mr. Parsons.
Ummm... Mr Grimes, surely? Unless Mr Bell is talking to Jack, in which case that should be clearer ... but the land broker with the big plans is supposed to be the guest of honour, right, not his engineer son-in-law?
”... we really have to be careful what we say, don't we?"
"As I've been trying to tell you...”
Has he?
I am happy to see William at last! I hadn't realised how late in the story he appeared, though when I read it the first time I had no idea where we were in the grand scheme of things when he made his entrance. I still mean to draw him but first I have to picture him not looking like a former colleague ...