We have reached the open sea, with some charts; and the firmament.
Watch carefully. In forty formidable bosoms we are about to create a climacteric of emotion. In one short speech—or maybe two—I propose to steer your women through excitement, superiority, contempt an...
This man Jerott,’ said Danny Hislop accusingly. ‘You said he was middle-aged.’ Jerott turned.‘I didn’t,’ said Adam Blacklock indignantly. ‘I said he was stinking rich and cut his old allies dead in th...
This and your music … you have happiness. Why cannot I find it?’‘Because you do not look in the right places,’ said Kiaya.
They told me that if I didn’t come back, they would force you to marry?’In the plain, sensible face, the brown eyes were derisive. ‘Is that why you came back?’ said Kate Somerville.‘No. I knew you cou...
They expected to be fed; and Lady Buccleuch, for whom pregnancy spelled food, had already taken strategic foothold by the windows, where the cold dishes were ready laid.
There was a little silence. Then Danny Hislop heaved a sigh. ‘O beau sire Dieu, what a hell of an evening. Jerott, you either want to have another half-bottle, or vomit three ways what you have, like...
Then,’ Richard said, ‘I think we accept your scheme, with one important change in it. You, too, must be watched and followed.’‘And slept with?’ Lymond said.
Then I tell you,’ Sybilla said, ‘that you have no leave to die. Nor have you leave to desert the race you belong to. I want your word that from this moment, you live.
The prospect of watching the Crawford family at grips with itself was something that, blissfully, he wanted very much for his birthday.
The more modest your expectations, the less often you will court disappointment.
That night at Dumbarton was a classic of its kind. She had hopes still, I think, of enslaving me despite myself with her charms. And I probably thought the same. We both found we were mistaken. It had...
Sybilla said, ‘If there are swords, then I suppose you must wear yours. But it is you we need.’‘We?’ he said.‘Five hundred thousand people,’ said Sybilla.‘You have a high opinion of my swordsmanship,’...
Strophe and counterstrophe reached their epode.
Standing drunk in the yard, while the rain soaked his hair and spread cold through the cloth of his doublet, Jerott thought of the fine design, firmly executed, of the campaign of Guînes and of Calais...
She’s got sense, that girl; and too much backbone to push herself where she’s not wanted. Tell her it’s no good, and she’ll soon see the point.
She ought to be at home in Flaw Valleys, doing her morning exercise on the lute, at which, said her teacher, she would have had a distinguished future, had she not been born English.
She looked,’ said Alec Guthrie dryly, ‘like a clever woman who was not unaware that five ill-dressed passers-by were displaying an unhealthy interest in her personal life.
She gave up combing her hair, which the salt air had reduced to a kind of scrim of brown hessian, and, lying down, proceeded to keep her fingernails short in the way Kate admired least. Then she overs...
Richard walked over to him. It was not a long way but he walked slowly, as if he were tired, and halted, eventually, face to face with his younger brother. He said, ‘Change your mind. It is the last c...