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Kiaya Khatun is of the happy family circle.' 'You didn't marry her!' said Richard sharply. 'No! No,' said Lymond soothingly. 'All but the ceremony. We hope to have the four children legitimized.' For a moment, with sinking heart, Richard believed him. Then he saw the look on Lymond's face, and found he could bear it even less. He got to his feet, stiff and unslept, with all the weariness of the night suddenly upon him. 'At least,' he said, ..
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My God, he must be a good man with his fists.' 'Lymond?' said Danny sweetly. 'Lord Culter. I assume,' Ludovic said. 'At least, he was the last person up the stairs before Yeroffia. What did they quarrel about?' 'Can you remember,' Daniel Hislop said, 'how many times you have wanted to do that in the last two or three years, and the occasion each time?' 'Once a day,' d'Harcourt said. 'Sometimes twice. And for as many different reasons.
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Don't be so sensitive,' he said, faintly chiding. 'It makes everyday commerce most trying.
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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 the Professors' boots?' Lymond stared at him. 'Oh,' he said. 'Yes. I'm afraid it is.' 'Is it true about the mathematical proposition you placed before Orontius Finnaeus that spelt ...' 'I don't know how you heard about it,' said M. de Sevigny. ..
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If you will excuse us?' 'Go to Sir Henry's room,' Lady Mary called after her. 'And if you use weapons, be sure to call witnesses.
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A smile, bracketing his still mouth, spread like bane over Lymond's pale face.
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Rimed and sparkling with sugar, the wrestler lay like some child's flaccid sweetmeat in death, and the dogs licked his eyelids.
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And a capable feminine voice, directed past Austin Grey's ear to his opponent, said baldly, 'Hit him.' Lymond, already balanced on the upswing to hurl himself forward, dropped his arm and said, with dawning reproof, 'I was going to.' 'I know,' said Philippa. 'And it'll take half an hour and end with an audience. Hit him.' Under her hands, Austin Grey suddenly struggled. 'Hit him!' said Philippa sharply. 'It's the only way he can stop now, w..
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Some day, I must take my own prolific advice and contrive to drop dead.
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I don't change from minute to minute. I don't change at all.
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You've changed the metre,' said Philippa. 'I reserve the right,' said Lymond, 'to change the metre. Don't interrupt.
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Age can mellow, they say.' 'They say wrong,' said Diccon Chancellor. 'I have known Mistress Philippa these two months, and I have aged while she has grown daily less mellow. Why else am I fleeing the country?
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Unwanted, unasked, unwelcome as ever, here I am.' 'Again,' said Lymond.
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Meanwhile, until the snow comes, we had better keep Master Chancellor and his party entertained.' 'Tartar women?' said Fergie helpfully. 'Danny Hislop ...' 'Healthy physical exercise,' said Lymond tartly.
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You called me Alec just now,' Guthrie said. 'If I have dispensation to do the same, let me say it. Francis Crawford, I wish you away from this country; and if I had the hearing of a friend, and not that of the Voevoda Bolshoia, I would tell you never to come back.' Abandoned by artifice, Lymond's face exposed, for an instant, his astonishment. 'Of course you may speak,' he said. 'At this moment ... but why? I cannot see why?' 'I know you ca..
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I have said the intellect is all that can matter. I haven't said it is easy--or painless ... to rid oneself of all that is left.
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Mariotta listened to it all, sitting judicially in a whirl of velvet with all the Culter jewels and the emerald necklace for moral support.
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You've got one hero too many already. Stand on your own feet, Brother. It's good for the soul.
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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 aren't my father?' said Philippa. 'Roughly,' said Lymond, and began to laugh, and then stopped.
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Very soon afterward, Tom Erskine found her, and in five minutes, during which her heart in its cold cage took wearily to itself a new, lifelong burden of protective and fond understanding, Christian Stewart became his affianced wife.
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I echo like a mynah, that's why.
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The unicorns, led by costumed grooms, were behaving well about their horns, and the painted rhapsodies all round the cart were more than flattering while the pseudo-king, sceptred in ermine, was positively handsome, as well as resembling the real one quite a lot. The small boy acting as the Dauphin, was obviously his son. It was easy to guess that the angel and the other three children, demure on tasselled cushions, were also related. Remin..
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The six elephants stood, roped each by the foreleg side by side in the vast thirty-foot tent put up several days since for their comfort; their trunks peacefully swaying as the cowardie scuttled back and forth with limp forkloads of hay. Small puffs of steam came from their mouths. Their breath was sweet, filling the sun-warmed, crisp air; and their hides, soothed, clean and lustrous from the water, lay calm on their great hips like the ski..
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Tuned to the din, O'LiamRoe and his deerhound heard the footfalls at once. Shaggy brindle next to hispid gold, the two Irish heads turned as Thady Boy Ballagh strolled over the grass.
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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 Lymond was all too prone--Francis Crawford was off guard for the one moment that mattered.
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Among the loose animals, the Keeper's sick camel, a lady of brittle temper, had bobbed her tassels and sunk her yellow teeth three times into unguarded flesh; the dwarf ass brayed itself hoarse and the lion cubs, dear to Abernaci's heart, had shambled off, humping their fat, sandy rumps, to feast among the spilled milk in the wrecked kitchens.
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If they place the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left and ask me to give up my mission, I will not give it up until the truth prevails or I myself perish in the attempt.
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Faith, thought O'LiamRoe. And not a decent creature among them thought to say that the only rule in it is for a man to have a fine, steady seat for an elephant.
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My son is not very complicated, Mariotta, although the artifice glitters. He's afraid--" "Afraid!" Blue eyes, dead of feeling, looked into blue. "Afraid of what? Damned by the church and condemned by the law: what possible capacity for fear can heart and head still find? Oime el cor, oime la testa ... After five years of villainy, I promise you, I have the refinement of a cow-cabbage." "--Afraid I might puncture the cocoon of Attic detachme..
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Do you swim? Hunt? Wrestle? I see. Can you use a crossbow? Your longest shot? Can you count? Read and write? Ah, the sting of sarcasm--Have we a scholar here? Then produce us a specimen," said Lymond. "What about some modest quatrains? Frae vulgar prose to flowand Latin. Deafen us, enchant us, educate us, boy."
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Lymond considered this with every appearance of seriousness. "I see. Thus the baseness of my morals is redeemed by the stature of my manners? You admire consistency?" "Yes, I do." "But prefer consistency in evil to consistency in good?" "The choice is hypothetical." "Lord; is it? What an exciting past you must have." "I despise mediocrity," stated the young man firmly. "And you would also despise me if I practised evil but professed purity?..
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You've chosen a life of vice, and have been consistent and reliable and thorough and successful in carrying it out.
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My dear Gaultier,' said Lymond. 'It will send the Shadow of God into transports. I suppose I've seen objects more grisly before, but it doesn't spring to mind where.... Twenty-four-carat gold, Jerott. Look. And studded with rubies like fish-roes.' 'Yes. I think he'll be pleased,' said Georges Gaultier. For the first time satisfaction, animation and even cheerfulness rang in his voice. 'Sickening, isn't it?
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What an extraordinary fuss there has been,' said the Dame de Doubtance raspingly, 'about that irresponsible Irishwoman and her improper child.
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I can live alone, but it is better to have someone else to concern oneself with; to help and be helped by. There is nothing so strong as a family.
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Nine-tenths of every attack is bluff. The art is to know when to call it.
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The more modest your expectations, the less often you will court disappointment.
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It won't help you," said Scott. "Nothing ever does. That's why I help myself so frequently."
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A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.
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Every other woman since Eve has asked to be loved more than honour. But not you.
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Don't you know, even yet, why I came back to Orkney?" Rognvald said. Than Thorfinn looked up. Rognvald's gaze, waiting for his, took and sustained it. Thorfinn did not look away, but his face held no expression. Rognvald said "I am the dog at your heel. Everything I have ever done has been an attempt to be like Thorfinn."
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I wrote you.' 'I didn't get it,' said Archie. 'I wrote Applegarth as well,' said Adam angrily. 'He didn't get it either. He's away for a day or two. Jesus,' said Archie, 'are ye not keen to come in? You must be fair wore out with all that writing.
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I am here, Brethren in Christ, to lead you, every man, woman and little child of the Faith, to freedom. God in His mercy be praised.' 'Then God in His mercy has arranged that we should lead them from the rear,' said Jerott Blyth thinly from the window. 'The entire garrison of Tripoli has just marched away.
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His tranquil smile deepened. 'We shall meet in Malta, Jerott. Pray for us all. God has been good tonight.' 'Thompson has been rather splendid too,' said Lymond cordially. and waved a cheerful farewell.
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