Appleby File (2012)
“But he went back from time to time, sometimes for the day and sometimes on a weekend basis. He had a number of clever friends there who were now busily engaged in digging in for life. They had become, that is to say, junior dons of one or another more or less probationary sort, and had thereby risen from the austerities of undergraduate living to the fleshpots and the thrice-driven beds of down associated with Senior Common Rooms and High Tables. They liked entertaining Bobby, to whom The Lumbe...r Room rather than his athletic prowess lent, in their circle, a certain prestige. One of these youths was a historian called Brian Button.
Button sometimes came home with Bobby to Long Dream. Sir John Appleby (policeman retired) rather liked this acquaintance of his son’s, and was very accustomed to address him as B B – this seemingly with some elderly facetious reference to the deceased art historian Bernard Berenson. Bobby’s B B (unlike the real B B) came from Yorkshire, a region of which Bobby’s father approved.MoreLess
Button sometimes came home with Bobby to Long Dream. Sir John Appleby (policeman retired) rather liked this acquaintance of his son’s, and was very accustomed to address him as B B – this seemingly with some elderly facetious reference to the deceased art historian Bernard Berenson. Bobby’s B B (unlike the real B B) came from Yorkshire, a region of which Bobby’s father approved.MoreLess
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