Jerott thought, acidly, that a slip of that dagger, if it happened, would save Francis Crawford a large sum of money.
I’m going back to Russia. That’s where the money is, and the power. And, of course, the ladies.
It is not enough,’ Robert Reid said, ‘to offer justice. The laws of men, the laws of God himself are not enough unless you know the heart, the tongue, the brain, the gut of your people.
Irregular relationships among a royal family and its adherents were a matter of course; often a matter of business; and only occasionally a matter of love.
If you wish to carry this paper from France and deliver it into Lord Culter’s hands,’ he said, ‘I know of no power which would stop you, unless an earthly one.’‘And that,’ said Daniel Hislop, ‘is the...
If you don’t mind.’‘I do,’ said Kate. ‘I don’t care to have my second-best bedroom looking like the den of a hibernating bear.
If you are asking, did Eloise make no effort to avoid the explosion which killed her, the answer is probably yes. If you are also asking, was I her lover, the answer is no. After all,’ said Lymond, ‘t...
If he is tired, and they put a foot wrong, he will choose the one unmentionable response and make it. He did it last night.
If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue, said his hostess categorically. I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy dodging mine.
I should hesitate to attribute anything to him at the moment, even principles,’ said Lord Culter, smiling. ‘But you are free to try.
I must apologize for these damned entrances,’ said Francis Crawford of Lymond. ‘I feel Tom here never knows if he should send for a bishop or start a round of applause.
I have only to dismount, and be sick, and then I am, as ever, your man.
I have lost you before I have found you.
I do admire efficiency,’ said Marthe. ‘But how tedious it can be in excess.
I devised a somewhat arbitrary way out of my own difficulties that evening.
I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
I asked,’ Sybilla said, ‘because I have seen him like this before … once; when he elected to take everyone else’s business in hand and return it to them correctly aligned, like an artist with a child’...
How the devil was she fooled into firing in the first place? Don’t tell me that wasn’t your fault,’ said Lord Culter, a familiar wariness displacing the warmth of reunion.‘All right, I won’t,’ said Ly...
How nice to go through life being male, pretty and wanted.
How nice to be married with … how many children, Richard? You don’t have quite this problem. You don’t have any problems really, do you, sitting there in your lordship pontificating? It seems to be be...