“Gervas Leat rose, turning on a light. ‘Bonnard,’ he said reflectively: ‘the last Frenchman who gives me pleasure.'”
“‘Who gives me pleasure,’ Richard thought–that was simple, that was final, that was enough. Enough, certainly, for Gervas Leat. Nothing of theory here, nothing of judgement. Great painters, lesser painters, painters of significance. Moral and social values and the inner eye. Critical aesthetics….Whoof! But Gervas Leat liked Bonnards and could afford to own one.”
William Haggard, Venetian Blind