Danny Hislop touched his horse to ride, busily, beside Adam’s. ‘He remembered an appointment?’‘He remembered something you have forgotten,’ Adam said. ‘That this is his country.
Cunningly done, O Francis, puissant comte de Sevigny. Nothing crude. Nothing too rich, or sickly, or posturing. Songs like a lost hearth-fire, that one had known from one’s childhood; songs rarely com...
Come, my love,’ said Míkál, ‘and say goodnight to the dark.’ And held him close, full of a sweet young compassion, as the little boy died.
But you do not know me,’ Lymond said. ‘Whereas I know you exceedingly well. You should be glad. I may well find it tedious; but you should have an extremely interesting journey.
But you didn’t know about the woman, dear Alec,’ said Danny Hislop at supper that night, when Lymond had walked down to his horse and departed. ‘Nobody told us about the woman. Güzel. The Mistress. Wh...
But I,’ said Lymond, ‘am one of the new apostles, seeking nothing but voluptuousness and human pleasures, and abusing the world.…
Between the palaces of the knights and those that served them; the convents, the elegant homes belonging to officers of the Church and the town; between the bakehouse and the shops of the craftsmen, t...
Behind the last door is oblivion. Standing before it, one can go forwards or backwards; but beside it are not the places of exquisite pleasure: the faces of pure ones confined to pavilions, reclining...
Because, I think, of something you said. One should be able to face anything. I have learned to play chess again. I have learned to listen to music, and to play it. I have learned to buy self-indulgen...
Because you have done all that skill could devise to present a detached case, and failed. Because you are asking for help, and you hate asking for help. [...] This may be,’ said Richard with unexpecte...
Austin said, ‘He is very plausible. I believed him when he gave me his oath.’‘Never do that,’ said Richard flatly.
At the end of life, parent and kinsman are as a blind man set to look after a burning lamp.
At pointblank range, there was no possibility of missing. He aimed into the fair, weary, rancourless face, and then at the heart, and both balls found their mark and brought death in the end, not with...
At least this is a nation, with a religion, a head, a status, a policy. Not a damned Noah's ark: a chicken here, a lamb there, a family of wolves in the next field. I suppose you are proud of your Fre...
At every second location Danny said monotonously, ‘You can’t do that,’ and Plummer bridled and said, ‘They built Sviajsk three years ago in four weeks. They felled the timber at Uglich and floated the...
As everyone keeps insisting, parentage doesn’t matter. Love him for what he is.
Arrested for the second, whether in admiration for Lord d’Aubigny’s inventiveness or in a kind of silent snort of hysteria at the prodigies expected of him—a condition, O’LiamRoe recognized, to which...
Are you by any chance …’ said Lymond.‘… baiting you?’ Philippa said. ‘Only when you are inclined to be magisterial.’‘Oh, good God,’ Lymond said. ‘Kate must be out of her mind.’‘And thank heaven you ar...
Archie?’ said Lymond. ‘It is half past four o’clock in the morning, and I am exceedingly drunk. Do you suppose these two statements have anything to do with each other?’‘No,’ said Archie tolerantly. ‘...
And, echoing Jerott, ‘So why in hell have you come?’ Philippa’s gaze, bright and owlish and obstinate, held his to the end. ‘To look after the baby,’ she answered. And disconcertingly, after a second’...