He had not moved.But, her blue eyes on his face, she did not rise.‘Lord, is there nothing in the cup for me?While you were drinking, I was singing to you.’The detachment had gone from his face, but no...
Give me a moment. Sit down on that bloody rock for a minute, and let me try to explain. And listen to me as if I weren’t related. Can you make some sort of frenetic endeavour, and pretend to do that?...
Francis Crawford did not look at the English warden. Instead he wandered to the high window and, gazing down on the mild English countryside, said soberly, ‘Affinity? French blood runs in both England...
For this, you are right, I need to be either entirely sober or very drunk indeed.
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...
For carnal pleasure?’ she said, and laughed wildly. ‘Like unto Uranus and Gaea? It hadn’t occurred to me. On the other hand, it is a gift of Francis’s to fill his house with sons bred in incest.
Except once, long ago, over an estrangement with his wife Mariotta, Lord Culter had never been jealous of the young brother he had seen grow from babyhood. Until the moment Francis had left home at si...
Every other woman since Eve has asked to be loved more than honour. But not you.
Did I ever tell you,’ said Lymond pausing on the afterthought, on his way to the flap, ‘that that aunt of mine once hatched an egg?’ He paused, deep in thought, and walked slowly to the door before tu...
Dear God,’ Richard said, and stood up. ‘Can you not dispense with a bawd between Thursday and Monday?
Blaspheme if you must,’ said Blyth wearily. ‘You’ll get your wages all right. You’ll survive.’‘I’m not going to die of laughing at any rate,’ said Lymond, and Blyth nearly lost his temper again.
Better to be whipped than humoured; better to be crushed than cherished.… It was a woman told me that. I live in a world of men, my dear,’ Lymond had said. ‘I love you all, but I shall never marry you...
Are you implying,’ said Philippa coldly, ‘that I enjoyed being brought up surrounded by eunuchs?’‘No,’ said Lymond. ‘But I expect you enjoyed it more than the eunuchs did.
And what form do these take?’‘Really, I hardly think——’ Lymond began acidly, but the captain interrupted him. ‘Your pardon, sir. But with the safety of my troops to consider …’‘Really, it will hardly...
And then the blue eyes, with gentleness, scanned all her new-made body and came to rest on her eyes. 'I have begun to eat,' said Francis Crawford. 'And I have begun to slake my thirst. But in you I ha...
And because death was a friend, the one man who was made to receive, like a tuning-fork, the whispering omens of fate did not recognize it, until too late.
And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but res...
And Richard was silent, for the truth Jerott had seen touched him, too, for a moment before he thrust it aside. He said, instead, ‘Once, I returned, by mistake, a present you gave me.’As when he had c...
And Lymond’s bright, sardonic face, looking into hers, lost all its amusement; all its icy amiability; all its social charm. ‘My dear sister in Christ, and mother in expectation, I may be what Buccleu...
Among the loose animals, the Keeper’s sick camel, a lady of brittle temper, had bobbed her tassels and sunk her yellow teeth three times into unguarded flesh; the dwarf ass brayed itself hoarse and th...