Some day, I must take my own prolific advice and contrive to drop dead.
So, although it was more than she ever dared hope for, it was not the same; and never would be.
So this was Richard’s brother. Every line of him spoke, palimpsest-wise, with two voices. The clothes, black and rich, were vaguely slovenly; the skin sun-glazed and cracked; the fine eyes slackly lid...
She wouldn’t send anyone, nor would she take anyone with her. She organizes witches’ Sabbaths every full moon,’ explained Philippa tartly.
Philippa Somerville was annoyed. To her friends the Nixons, who owned Liddel Keep, and with whom Kate had deposited her for one night, she had given an accurate description of Sir William Scott of Kin...
None of that, however, concerned Buccleuch who was little troubled, if ever, with matters of right and wrong.
My part in the prophecy is fulfilled. Yours has still to come. Whatever made you think you were free?
Music, the knife without a hilt.
Marthe’s, cool and articulate, did not alter at all. ‘My name is Marthe.’‘What is your other name?’‘The name of my father.’‘And who is your father?’The slender, strongly made shoulders sketched a shru...
Mariotta, collecting her wits, produced the only deterrent she could think of. Your mother is in there.He received this with tranquil pleasure. Then one person at least should recognize me, Crawford o...
Lymond, released, flung his head back and, viewing his winnings, gave them solemn dispensation to descend for the space of the dance. He asked for and obtained some chalk, and set to marking his and M...
I’ve wed his two empty boots.’ ‘That you havena,’ said Janet, Lady of Buccleuch, lowering her voice not at all in the presence of two hundred twittering Scott relations as they gazed after their vanis...
It wasna a man,’ said Andrew Kerr broadly. ‘T’was my aunty. I tellt ye. I’m no risking cauld steel in ma wame for a pittance, unless all that’s mine is well lookit after—’ ‘An old lady,’ said Lord Gre...
It is not easy for Brehons to decide concerning bees that have taken up their lodging in the trees of a noble dignitary; with respect to which it is not easy to cut the tree.
It is laid on me by love,’ said Míkál. ‘As a cord of twisted bark bound upon the neck of each ploughing bull, I waded to thee through darkness, as though I waded through a full sea; but thou didst not...
It had been a boy’s trick, Jerott remembered. Standing bareback on your father’s horses; somersaulting, chariot-riding. Francis, buried in books, had never publicly attempted it. What private practice...
It doesn’t do my self-esteem much good though, does it?’‘Your self-esteem has had a lifetime of steady attention,’ said Philippa abstractedly.
In Sevigny, there was something so deep and so dangerous that it could barely be felt. But there was no music. And there was no laughter.
If you’re going to marry the youth, I shan’t touch him.’‘But you will be nasty to him,’ said Philippa gloomily. ‘You know you can’t help it.’‘I shall probably be nasty to him,’ Lymond agreed firmly. ‘...
If you had asked me, I could have told you, without putting yourself to the trouble of experiment, that no one, saint or sinner, is likely to seduce Francis against his will. Unfortunately.