Mr. Butler approved of gluttony. It was, he thought, a nice, comfortable vice. Never caused any noise or trouble and the sufferer just expired of an apoplexy, regretted by all those who had attended his excellent dinner parties.

Kerry Greenwood (b. 1954) Australian author and lawyer

Phryne Fisher No. 13, The Castlemaine Murders, ch. 4 (2003)
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