He said, ‘Then you don’t know, Philippa, what I am.’‘I know what you think you are,’ Philippa said.
He lived in her, his disciple. For her to think, now, as he would have done. And to act always thereafter.
He knew what would happen. He has laid wagers with himself, I imagine, for days: how many hours, how many miles towards safety before he has to drop out.
He is not going to come back now, for me, for you or for anyone. This time he has found the boatman, and the boatman has taken him over.
He has the exact Crawford colouring.’‘Egg mimicry,’ said Lymond.
He has merely broken, as always, every promise he ever made, before man or God.
For him, it was now of no importance, as his place in the world was of no consequence. He was home, after long and harsh buffeting. And it was she, who knew his quality as Grey had done, who had to li...
For an hour, blended with all she could offer, something noble had been created which had nothing to do with the physical world. And from the turn of his throat, the warmth of his hair, the strong, sl...
For a moment no one spoke. Then Lymond got to his feet. ‘I have a better idea. marry her,’ he suggested.
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...
Discomfort without hope of betterment is not a great springboard.
Daniel Hislop, the son of the bishop?’‘The Bishop’s bastard,’ said Hislop, with a cold-eyed assumption of coyness. ‘Sir. My lord. Jesus.’Lymond’s eyes turned to him, open. Then changing position, he s...
Come in,’ he said. ‘You can use Adam’s rooms.’ His hand, moving upwards, drew the fair, tangled hair clear of Lymond’s eyes and checked, at the shudder that ran jarring through from his fingertips.Lym...
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, surprisingly, it was Lymond’s voice which said sharply, ‘You cannot debar a human being from love!
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 Hislop?’ said Lymond softly. ‘Don’t sound so aggrieved. There are no rewards, celestial or mundane, for the best display of pure, bloody inquisitiveness.’Which drove Ludovic d’Harcourt to a deduct...
Allowed?’ said Marthe. ‘I have finished with asking permission for what I do and what I think. I have finished with being dispatched scurrying from errand to errand. I am my own mistress now. I am goi...