"Please give it to me at once," he said with a smile you would get to love. It was like the executioner's smile when he comes to your cell to measure you for the drop. A little friendly, a little paternal, and a little cautious at the same time. You would get to love it if there was any way you could live long enough.

Marlowe has just handed his blackjack to the doctor and the doctor is asking for the gun

— Philip Marlowe in Philip Marlowe #2 - Farewell, My Lovely (Raymond Chandler, 1940)


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