Question
This character convinces an author of sentimental songs to break his writer’s block by writing, “How you bore me, Florrie, with those eyes of vacant blue…I'll throw you down a quarry, Florrie, if I marry you.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this recurring character who pretends to be the secretary of a bishop plotting a massacre in the story “The Unrest-Cure,” which appears in a collection titled for his Chronicles.
ANSWER: Clovis Sangrail [or Clovis Sangrail] (The lead-in is from “The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope.”)
[10e] The Chronicles of Clovis, which includes “The Unrest-Cure” and “Tobermory,” is a collection by this author.
ANSWER: Saki [or Hector Hugh Munro]
[10h] In this story, Clovis plays a trick on a man claiming to know Siberian magic by swapping Mrs. Hampton for the title member of Lord Pabham’s menagerie, quipping that he knows “what Siberian magic can accomplish in the hands of someone who really understands it.”
ANSWER: “The She-Wolf”
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Summary
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