Yes, there were good memories, too, thirty-seven years of good and bad. Quarrels and reconciliations. Eight cradles and too many gravestones and Rosamund Clifford and power that rivalled Caesar’s, an...
In turn, had agreed to end the continuing
A man just realizing the fatal extent of his own folly was not likely to be all that rational.
Edward Plantagenet is no man to hold cheaply. Far better to take him at his own inflated estimation!
He could still remember how breathtakingly beautiful Eleanor was that day. He'd have been content to gaze into her eyes for hours, trying to decide if they were green with gold flecks or gold with gre...
He supposed he’d always known he would not make old bones. Scriptures spoke plainly enough on that. For all they that take up the sword shall perish by the sword.
Henry did not lack for physical courage; his was a moral cowardice.
I inhale hope with every breath I take.
I think the day might come, Bess, when all men will know of Dickon is what they were told by Tudor historians like Rous.Jesú, no! Bess sounded both appalled and emphatic. You mustn't think that. Whate...
I would look dreadful in black.
Now our poor Gib never had a sense of humor to lose...
Oh, John is clever enough. But what do brains avail a man if he does lack for backbone?
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof,
The last time Ranulf had run into Sulien, the older man had called him a misbegotten English Judas and spat onto the ground at his feet. Yet now that same man was approaching the bed with a jovial smi...
There are secret sins and found-out sins, and it is foolish to worry about the first until it becomes the second.
To call it a setback is like calling the Expulsion from Eden a minor misunderstanding.
What followed was for him a very entertaining spectacle, with one of Edward's brothers seemingly intent upon the most subtle of seductions and the other barely able to force malmsey past the gorge ris...
When people want to insult a man, they cast slurs upon his courage. But the worst they can say about a woman is to impugn her chastity.
Whilst stupidity may indeed be a sin, it is also possible to be too clever. I sometimes fear, John, that you are too clever by half.
You asked what the Londoners wanted of you, and he…he said ‘ballocks.
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