I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
I am thinning you down for the ,’ said Lymond, still reading. ‘Have we missed a meal?’‘We have missed two meals,’ said Danny Hislop with precision. ‘And God knows how many drinks. I haven’t been worki...
I am telling you now that you did right with Robin Stewart and I am telling you that the error you made came later, when you took no heed of his call. It was too late then, I know it. But he should ha...
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...
His leaf-gold tresses on end, his eyes in baskets from the long night without sleep, Phelim O’LiamRoe smacked his two fists together and cursed. The Queen Dowager, hardly aware of him, had turned her...
His chest heaved, and he coughed. You have coughed before, his mother said. It is a sign of weakness. Control it.
He’d heard of this woman. The Dame de Doubtance, they called her: a madwoman and a caster of horoscopes. Gaultier gave her house-room and men and women came to her from all the known world and had the...
He was not at all sure that it was wise, but it seemed to be what Francis wanted, and that he should want anything was of moment.
He was not a figment of daydream or of fantasy. He was the quick-witted man who had raced with her; the man whose strong wrists had pulled her from trouble; whose laughter recognized, more than his ow...
He received another kiss which led him to wonder, hopefully, if the English bastard at the Hôtel d’Hercule was dying.
He looked well. And as if somewhere, lately, he had tasted happiness.
He is beautiful, and whole, and has learned to offer the world a humble and desperate obedience. You called him a pawn. He has begun to follow his trade.
He held her eyes and said clearly, ‘You have a great deal to be responsible for.’‘She gave you birth,’ Richard said. ‘That was her first mistake. The next was to spoil you. So that everything you want...
He has tried to end his life twice. Once Archie brought him back. Now I have done the same. We have interfered in what doesn’t concern us. He belongs to himself and is at his own disposal. Or else wha...
He has to perfection, M. le Comte, the art of living his private life with as much public attention as possible.
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...
He got everyone out of the room, keeping Danny.Danny stood, his hands dangling unhelpfully. ‘Well?’ he said. ‘Adam is your man, you know, for sensitive nursing.’D’Harcourt, his hands pressing through...
He can make you want to knock him down, if he feels like it, by simply saying good morning. He possibly said simply good morning to Lord Culter. The difference was that, being his brother, Culter hit...
Good God, here am I with stockings in either hand, panting towards restitution. I merely require you to keep my soul out of the general conversation.’‘And your brother’s soul?’ said James Stewart. He...
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?...