De Engelse schrijfster Ellis Peters werd op 29 september 1913 als Edith Pargeter geboren in Horsehay. Zie ook ook mijn blog van 28 september 2010 en eveneens alle tags voor Ellis Peters op dit blog.
Uit: One Corpse Too Many
Cadfael: “All questions find their answers if you wait long enough. Is there something here I can help you to? Or are you just curious to learn about these simple herbs of mine?”
Beringar: “No, I can say that it was no simplicity I came to study. They say that you had a wide range in career before joining the cloister. You must find it unbearably dull with no battle or enemy left to fight”
Cadfael: “Well I’m not finding it at all dull these days. And as for enemies… the Devil finds his way into everywhere, even cloister and Church.”
(…)
Derek Jacobi als Cadfael
“But the east was also made up of men and women, and you a young crusader. I cannot but wonder,” said Beringar dreamily.
“So, wonder! I also wonder about you,” said Cadfael mildly … “A natural conspirator,” said Cadfael, thinking aloud; and that he could do so was proof of a strong, if inimical, bond between them. Beringar turned on him a face suddenly lit by a wild smile.” One knows another,” he said.
(…)
“And I have been commiserating with you,” gasped Beringar, wiping tears from his eyes with the back of his hand, like a child, ” all this time, while you had this in store for me! What a fool I was, to think I could out-trick you, when I almost had your measure even then.”
“Here, drink this down,” urged Cadfael, offering the beaker he had filled. “To your own better success- with all opponents but Cadfael!”
Ellis Peters (28 september 1913 – 14 oktober 1995)
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