I hope,’ said Jerott, breathing softly and hard, ‘that you never meet those who will judge what you have done. How would you recognize love? Or compassion? Francis at least has learned that.
I have been taught to face reality: an excellent thing.
He’s asked Master Zitwitz to leave the duke and travel with him as household controller to the Ambassador’s residence in Turkey.’Philippa Somerville blew her nose sharply. ‘On the strength of his swee...
Extraordinary, is it not, how he cannot bear music?
Don’t be so sensitive,’ he said, faintly chiding. ‘It makes everyday commerce most trying.
Anxiously, Lymond called. ‘If she undresses, I pray you do not restrain her! It can cause untold injury!
And if there’s no trouble, you’ll make it,’ offered Will Scott, his eyes bright, his cheeks red. ‘No. At the moment,’ affirmed Lymond grimly, ‘I am having truck with nothing less than total calamity.
What we see is acting, isn’t it, Francis?Is it? he said derisively. You won’t get your diamonds back, I fear, when the curtain comes down. And the name, please, is Lymond: a new medal: choose the trus...
Well. On which aspect of our ill-advised doings are we about to lecture each other? I have very little to say. As I recall, I exhausted the matter on several other occasions.
Unlike Francis Crawford, whose game with life was a strange and rootless affair played with the intellect, Jerott had a passionate instinct to live. It was a happy circumstance also that his nervous a...
They spoke in Latin, so that all might understand; but the quotations they flung at each other were Greek and Hebrew, Turkish, Persian.
There breaks a crutch Scotland never knew it possessed.
Since I doubt, at the moment, whether I can stomach any hysterical verbiage, suppose we simply say what we mean.
She helps everybody ... Wait until you are wed. She’ll do your breathing for you.
Señor, more wine? I am amazed,’ said the captain, ‘that so lovely a lady has not married.’‘But indeed she has married,’ said Lymond. ‘Five times. And not one husband, poor fellow, survived matrimony b...
One battle in twelve might be won by a brilliant military stratagem. The rest stood or fell by somebody’s blunders. Only rarely, there came the feel of a great campaign evolved by a stylist: imaginati...
My name is Francis Crawford, and my brother and I studied at St Barbe.’‘I know that,’ said Moses. He took the ring, and stood, the broad grin stamped on his features. ‘It is true what you did to all t...
Mime doesn’t always mean comedy, my dear; far from it.
Lymond's behaviour, as always, went to the limits of polite usage and then hurtled off into space.
Liberty to drink and to debauch are said to recreate and refresh the soul.’‘Then——’ said Kiaya Khátún.‘I have no soul,’ said Lymond. ‘Forgive me.