What had you expected? A viper, or a devil, or a ravening idiot; Milo with the ox on his shoulders, Angra-Mainyo prepared to do battle with Zoroaster, or the Golden Ass? Or didn’t you know the family...
What Mr Blyth has been engaged in was not love, my dear Francis. It was romance, a thing to which Mr Blyth has been very prone; together with melodrama. Whatever made you think that melodrama makes Mr...
We’ve all those, and we’ve the rest, like yourself, who carry the throne on their backs from generation to generation—maybe just because you’ve so much at stake in Scotland that there’s no other game...
Welcome with hautbois, clarions and trumpets, noble lady. Welcome to the company of those who can be hurt.
We?’ said Chancellor.‘I am lavishly paid,’ Danny said, ‘to think in the first person plural.
We met once when you were a boy, at Midculter.’ He paused. ‘You are not like your brother.’‘No,’ Crawford said. He gave his hand another shake and then loosed it with apparent reluctance. ‘Richard wil...
We may lack some polish,’ he said. ‘But distrust the society which displays overmuch dangerous charm.
We don’t go near the bridge,’ said Lymond peacefully.‘Excuse me,’ said Fergie Hoddim. ‘How can you wreck a fine bridge without going near it?’‘By sending something else near it instead,’ Lymond said....
Very soon afterward, Tom Erskine found her, and in five minutes, during which her heart in its cold cage took wearily to itself a new, lifelong burden of protective and fond understanding, Christian S...
Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly po...
Tuned to the din, O’LiamRoe and his deerhound heard the footfalls at once. Shaggy brindle next to hispid gold, the two Irish heads turned as Thady Boy Ballagh strolled over the grass.
Tobie. Unless I'm giving off steam, behave normally. I remember what to do. One foot in front of the other, but not both at the same time unless I'm a robin.
To the Frenchmen risking their lives to drive the English from Scotland, such a feud seemed no doubt an ill-timed indulgence. To Buccleuch, any comment from a foreigner was a piece of damnable imperti...
To succeed as you want, you have to be precise; you have to have polish; you have to carry polish and precision into everything you do. You have no time to sigh over seigneuries and begrudge other peo...
This time, after a moment, he called her bluff. Perhaps Philippa and I should be thrown together a little more. She might become attached to me if she knew me better. Kate, brightening visibly, ignore...
This is habitual. Mother flutters her wings, and every institution within sight tumbles flat.
They’re talking about Marthe, Maître Gaultier’s assistant. What’s she like? Pretty?’ ‘She’s pretty,’ said the man. Philippa studied the taciturn face. ‘Oh, I see,’ she said. ‘Mr Blyth wants her all to...
There was a brief silence, during which Philippa Somerville fought and won a battle to keep her eyes dry. Lymond said, ‘I give you my word. It was a lie.’Philippa looked at him. ‘And I don’t deserve ,...
There is little you cannot already guess. You know now what you want. You are about to learn how to give. But the hardest lesson of all is accepting. Am I not right?
There is a man in him that could support it,’ Archie said. ‘True enough. But it is maybe a man the world could do without.