If you wish to leave, there is nothing, to my knowledge, to stop you,’ said Jerott.‘Well, that’s good news,’ said Marthe, with final and unanswerable malice. ‘I thought you needed the gold in my saddl...
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 we surrender we’ll get our throats cut anyway. Let’s go out in a blaze of glory.
If one believes in God, but has learned not to pray, one offers only, in silence, one’s apologies, and then asks the spirit to do what it can.
I wish,’ said Lymond, ‘it would try a major key sometimes.’‘Wind,’ Chancellor said, ‘is a melancholy creature.
I wish to make my fortune with you.’ ‘Well, you can forget about that, for a start,’ said Francis Crawford. ‘And if your place in Paradise has been written, then for God’s sake hang on to it. Because...
I told her grace that he might not marry the girl if she lost the use of her limbs or her dowry; but I couldn’t think of anything else that would deter him.
I told a lie. You must forgive me. I broke an oath, letting him perish. Should I have chosen him to survive, knowing his heritage?
I sometimes wonder,’ said Francis Crawford, ‘if I only exist to be sacrificed to.’Her heart beating strongly, she watched him. ‘Perhaps,’ she said. ‘But if you accept sacrifices, you must respond with...
I showed you your face in the mirror. It was not only the face of one who loves, but the face of one whose love is returned.
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 know,’ said Danny Hislop. ‘I want to see them being fond of one another. I want to see everybody brazening it out. And then I want to see what your petit François does to you when the party’s over.
I have a feeling that someone is going to be malicious, and we may as well set them a standard. Shall we go in, lewd and rude, and provoke them?
I give you a friendly warning. You think M. de Sevigny is drunk. He is not.’‘You might not think so,’ said Lymond amiably. ‘But in ten minutes or so, I am going to slip under the table and lie there.
I do admire efficiency,’ said Marthe. ‘But how tedious it can be in excess.
I can live alone, but it is better to have someone else to concern oneself with; to help and be helped by. There is nothing so strong as a family.
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...