"Jim Prideaux arrived on a Friday in a rainstorm. The rain rolled like gun-smoke down the brown combes of the Quantock…"

"Coming from a broken home Roach was also a natural watcher. In Roach's observation Jim did not stop at the school bui…"

"Unlike Jim Prideaux, Mr. George Smiley was not naturally equipped for hurrying in the rain. Indeed, he might have bee…"

"Roddy Martindale had no valid claim on Smiley either professionally or socially. He worked on the fleshy side of the …"

"On the way he became even more irritable and, from a callbox, sought an appointment with his solicitor for that after…"

"“I'd leave that coat on if I were you, George, old boy,” said an amiable voice. “We've got a long way to go.”…Their d…"

"The matter of Miss Aaronson's mail was more complex. There were two envelopes on the staffroom sideboard Thursday mor…"

"“I'm surprised they didn't throw you out with the rest of us,” Smiley said, not very pleasantly. “You had all the qua…"

"“Are you enjoying retirement, George?” Lacon asked, as if blurting into the ear trumpet of a deaf aunt. “You don't mi…"

"“You're a good watcher, anyway…No one else spotted me. Gave me a real turn up there, parked on the horizon. Thought y…"