Funny / Clouds of Witness

• This exchange in chapter four between Peter and Bunter speaks for itself:
  "Yes, my lord. My old mother—"
  "Your mother, Bunter? I didn't know you had one. I always imagined you were turned out ready-made, so to speak. 'Scuse me. Infernally rude of me. Beg your pardon, I'm sure."
  "Not at all, my lord. My mother lives in Kent, my lord, near Maidstone. Seventy-five, my lord, and an extremely active woman for her years, if you'll excuse my mentioning it. I was one of seven."
  "That is an invention, Bunter. I know better. You are unique."
• Parker, having kinda maybe fallen half-asleep while waiting for Lord Peter, has what he thinks is a "Eureka!" Moment, prompting him to say aloud, "The glass-blower's cat is bompstable." Naturally, this Waking Non Sequitur comes after Peter arrives so he can tease him about it.
• In chapter eleven, after speaking to Gerald (in gaol), and realizing that his blasé yet jocular attitude is irritating to his elder brother:
  "Bunter," he said, as they walked through the streets of the old city, "is my manner really offensive, when I don't mean it to be?"
  "It is possible, my lord, if your lordship will excuse my saying so, that the liveliness of your lordship's manner may be misleading to persons of limited—"
  "Be careful, Bunter!"
  "Limited imagination, my lord."
  "Well-bred English people never have imagination, Bunter."
• In chapter twelve, when Peter is rescued from a bog known as Peter's Pot (he was in mud over his waist):
  "Well, tha's loocky," said one of their rescuers. "We thowt we heerd someun a-shouting. There be few folks as cooms oot o' Peter's Pot dead or alive, I reckon."
  "Well, it was nearly potted Peter that time," said his lordship, and fainted.

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