Was in correspondence with their religious
My father was exceptionally tall and exceptionally handsome, and he only had to walk into a room to dominate the assembly of people. He revelled in the latest fashions and the most beautiful rich clot...
Knowing that you do not know is to ask humbly, instead of tell arrogantly. That is the beginning of wisdom.
Some of us are born to a solitary life.
When we lay awake after making love I could hear the sleepy birds settling in their nests in the thatch. We had a little pallet bed, a table and two stools, a fireplace where we warmed up our dinner f...
The stewards, and then the bailiffs, and then finally the lawyers meet. They wrangle, they agree, and we are to be married in June. It is no little decision for me - for the first time in my life I ha...
When you are still and thoughtful you are as lovely as the statues they are carving in Italy.
They dressed her and she laced tightly so that her breasts were pressed into two tantalizing curves of creamy flesh at the neck of her gown. Her glossy black hair was exposed by her pushed-back hood,...
It’s a fool who is afraid of nothing, I say. And a brave man is one who knows fear and rides out and faces it.
It's not magic. It's what any slut does if she has her wits about her.
He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.
Queen Katherine had been born a princess. From the moment she could talk she had been taught to guard her tongue. From the moment she could walk she had been taught to step carefully and speak kindly...
Semmi sem betegít meg jobban egy országot, mint amikor saját népe tagjai harcolnak egymás ellen.
We the daughters of Melusina,' she corrects me. 'Your grandmother was a daughter of the water goddess of the royal house of Burgundy and she never forgot that she was both royal and magical. When I wa...
So let me see? What do I have? Surprise! Surprise!
I suddenly realized that George was wrong, and my family was wrong, and that I had been wrong—for all my life. I was not a Howard before anything else. Before anything else I was a woman who was capab...
She dropped to the stool before the little looking glass, rested her head on her hands and stared at herself. He’s in love with me, she said. He’s mad for me. I spend all my time bringing him close an...
To assure someone that if enough nuns sing enough Masses then her dead child will go to heaven is trickery as low as passing a false coin as good. To buy a pardon from the pope, to force the pope to a...
She flashed me a quick black glance and then her dark eyelashes swept down on her cheeks. 'Not me,' she said 'I make my own plans. I don't risk being taken up and dropped again.''You told me to risk i...
We were a quartet of idiots trying to look suave.
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