It would have made a fitting tomb, she supposed, for Thady Boy Ballagh. That it was fitting for Francis Crawford she would not believe.
It won’t help you, said Scott.Nothing ever does. That’s why I help myself so frequently.
It was hard to say therefore why he did not go below, and rally his brother, and encourage him to let the past fade, and look forward to what lay before him. Unless, in his heart of hearts he recogniz...
It sounded well. It sounded rational, even, if you were not Francis Crawford. Put him, blindfold, in a closed room anywhere in the world …Lymond said, ‘And that is your only excuse?’And Sybilla met hi...
It partook,’ said Kate, ‘of the nature of a full-scale cursing against one Crawford of Lymond, but whether for sins of omission or commission is not entirely clear.
Intolerance drunk is bad enough, but intolerance sober is quite insupportable.
If he is mad, I can agree with him.’‘He isn’t mad,’ said Jerott.
I prefer a society which accepts that I have no choice, and does not pretend that I have. I prefer a God who does what he wills, and rules as he desires, and enjoins on me not to prevent anything agai...
I never expect anything,’ said Marthe. ‘It provides a level, low-pitched existence with no disappointments.’ ‘I’m all for a level, low-pitched existence,’ said Philippa. ‘And when you see your way bac...
I have many fears,’ Lymond said. ‘But death is not one of them.
I do not ask,’ said Dee. ‘You note I do not ask—but I would swear, by all I have learned, that you are Scorpio.’‘With the sting in the tail?’ Lymond said. ‘You are probably right.
I dislike untidy wars, as I dislike untidy peacemaking.
I could see you drop dead this minute from paralysis of the brain cells and burst into uninhibited applause.
I could not have done that. I fear nothing and no one. I respect nothing and no one. But I could not have done that.’‘You have done it,’ Jerott said. ‘It is easy to do it, out of hatred. But you are r...
He was the sort of person one could with justice kill if only - if only one had had the sense to bring a weapon.
Half-way there, a touch of his normal common sense returned to him and he slowed down, wondering what exchange of courtesies he was going to offer a vagabond, an Abram man, or an idiot. Then the man t...
For reliable information, apply to a lawyer, a barber or prostitute. My informant hasn’t found out so far who paid the captain.’ ‘But she will,’ said Margaret, her face grave. ‘I hope so,’ he said wit...
Blacklock, Adam, is drawing maps,’ Danny said. ‘Having been offered the position of cartographer with the Muscovy Company at twenty pounds per annum when you have departed, and having accepted with al...
As if nothing had happened.’‘Well. Nobody knows.
A long time afterwards, she was to remember what an excellent chess-player Francis Crawford was.