Gabriel thinks a lot of you.’‘I thought I talked too much for his comfort,’ said Lymond. ‘But I hear he has a ravishing sister. I must mend my ways.
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 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.
Elephants gave you less bother, any day.
Duty; friendship; compassion. Which moved him to die for you?
Don’t you think they would all have been happier if Francis Crawford had never existed?
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...
Danny said, ‘I didn’t tell you the other side, because you know it. You and I don’t have a family. They have. They were brought up together. They need each other, and support each other. It’s too late...
Can you imagine what it feels like for me, to pledge my word to preserve a girl’s honour and have it broken for me by Francis?
Bruges was the multiple voice of working water; and the quality of brick-thrown echoes, and the hiss of trees and the flap of drying cloths in the flat-country wind, and the grunting, like frogs in a...
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...
Before God, you are my soul; and till death and beyond, will remain so.
Because,’ said Crawford, as if he hadn’t spoken, ‘you ought to remember that Philippa has been trained in Turkey and will expect certain standards if you mean to make an impression, whether as her fir...
As a highly qualified Turkish-trained concubine from the harem of Suleiman the Magnificent, Philippa Somerville settled into English court life as a kite among chickens, and as a kite among kites into...
Are you mourning? Seneca says a wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can. You should be pleased. At last Francis has managed to follow his own misguided path without the rest of us co...
Archie shrugged. ‘All I know is what’s going to happen.’Philippa said, ‘What should I do?’And Archie said, ‘Break him.
Andrew’s a nice, gentlemanly lad, but his estate’s been bled dry; and as for the ill-armed crew he calls followers—Man, they’d lay on a battlefield like dandruff.
And you can’t adjust to bastardy?’He said evenly, ‘Give me, perhaps, until tomorrow instead of today to achieve it.
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...