She had disapproved, audibly, repeatedly, and eventually to my face, of my habit of going about with my head uncovered, it being her opinion that it was unseemly for a woman of my age not to wear eith...
She may be a good whore, but she’s no hand at cards.
She saw it, and an extraordinary change came over her. She seemed scarcely to move, and yet all at once, her whole person was focused on Myers. No white showed around her eyes; they were black and fat...
She supposed she ought to feel exposed in some way, the privacy of her thoughts and dreams laid bare to him—but she trusted him with them. He would never use those things against her.
Silly woman, he said in Gaelic. You have not the brain of a fly! I caught the words for foolish, and clumsy, in the subsequent remarks, but quickly stopped listening. I closed my eyes and lost myself...
Slightly shorter than the common height, Grey found himself at a disadvantage in crowds.
So I reached down into my workbasket, took my wee knife from its sheath, and went for his balls,
So now thee has doomed thy kinsman, repudiated thy father, and caused me to betray my principles. What next?! Oh, bloody hell, he said, and grabbed her arms, pulled her roughly to him, and kissed her....
Some kinds of hunger were sweet in themselves, the anticipation of satisfaction as keen a pleasure as the slaking.
Some people can leave their bodies and travel miles away, she said, staring meditatively at the page. Other people see them out wandering, and recognize them, and ye can bloody prove they were really...
Sometimes a shadow rises, and death lies nameless in the dark.
Soon, God willing, we would settle; find a place to make a home and a life. I wanted nothing more, and yet at the same time, I worried. We had known each other only a few months since my return. Each...
Sorry, lass, he said, with a half-smile. I’m a marrit man. He made to pass by, and she made a small incoherent sound, putting out a hand to stop him, but not quite daring to touch his sleeve. He stopp...
Still, that would not solve the problem; Percy would merely languish in prison until such time as Grey was recovered enough to testify. No, he decided, Hal’s response would more likely be to knock Gre...
THE VENOM OF THE NORTH WIND July 1774 Brianna drove the sharp end of the spade into the muddy bank and pulled out a
THE WIG WOULD have been much too large, given Malcolm’s round-headed resemblance to an oversize muskmelon, but Grey’s own hair—yellow and noticeable, as Malcolm had so tactfully noted—was thick, and w...
Talkin’ like dogs fightin’, he explained. Grrrr! Wuff! He growled, shaking his head in illustration like a dog worrying a rat, and I saw Fergus’s shoulders shake in suppressed hilarity. Scots for sure...
Thank ye, John, he said. I hadna time to say it earlier. I’m verra grateful to ye. Thank me? It was hardly my choice. You abducted me at gunpoint. Jamie smiled; the tension of the last hour had eased,...
That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser
That’s simple. You reason with them, and when you’re through, I’ll take them out and thrash them.
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