It would have made a fitting tomb, she supposed, for Thady Boy Ballagh. That it was fitting for Francis Crawford she would not believe.
It was, perhaps, a mark of Francis Crawford's singular authority that he returned to Compiegne after five days' absence to find his forces well quartered, in good heart and active in harassing the ene...
It was your brother. He must be insane.Not insane, dear. Sybilla, speaking gently, contradicted. Not insane. But magnificently drunk, I fear.
It was a French Christmas; a debonair Christmas full of frolic and folly; a spry, Gallic unctuous Christmas. Henry of France, at last roused to boldness and the cunning exercise of spite, had sent a s...
It sounded well. It sounded rational, even, if you were not Francis Crawford. Put him, blindfold, in a closed room anywhere in the world …Lymond said, ‘And that is your only excuse?’And Sybilla met hi...
It partook,’ said Kate, ‘of the nature of a full-scale cursing against one Crawford of Lymond, but whether for sins of omission or commission is not entirely clear.
It isn’t that music doesn’t matter: the reverse, as it happens. So my defences against it are very strong. Can you understand that?
Intolerance drunk is bad enough, but intolerance sober is quite insupportable.
If he is mad, I can agree with him.’‘He isn’t mad,’ said Jerott.
I wonder if there exists any other man, even at this Court, who has to be restrained day and night to preserve a girl’s honour?
I tell you that whatever infatuation you have fallen into, you cannot keep that man at your side. He belongs where he belongs and he will arrive there, no matter how deep you bury him. Best free him a...
I never expect anything,’ said Marthe. ‘It provides a level, low-pitched existence with no disappointments.’ ‘I’m all for a level, low-pitched existence,’ said Philippa. ‘And when you see your way bac...
I have been told to live in Scotland, and I shall do it, but I doubt if it will be to Scotland’s benefit. There are handicaps, I have found, more crippling than blindness. Even the part of me that did...
I find your family, my dear Marthe, much more disturbing than mine.
Happiness, that most childish of states, is infectious. Furthermore, in its innocence, it will not be hidden, even when tempered with sorrow
Five years ago your brother Lymond was found to have been selling his own country for years: he’s been kicked from land to land committing every crime on the calendar and now he’s back here, God forgi...
Blacklock, Adam, is drawing maps,’ Danny said. ‘Having been offered the position of cartographer with the Muscovy Company at twenty pounds per annum when you have departed, and having accepted with al...
And had
You haven’t enough artillery, have you?’‘Against you or the Germans?’ said Lymond.
When you ran that roof race with me you started with one stocking marked, a loose row of bullion on your hoqueton, and your hair needing a cut. Your manners, social and personal, derive directly from...