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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 51cf9e0 | Many years later, understanding it all, the Baron de Luetz, who survived, used to tell how that day they left the Sublime Porte to the measure of the Chorea Machabaeorum, the Danse Macabre, the Danza General de los Muertos. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 830e614 | He couldn't succeed Richard now, certainly," said Janet. "But if the English took over? Criminals at the horn with the right kind of politics have died in silk sheets before now." "So they say. Perhaps it's lucky then," said Sybilla, "that this criminal has cheated his way out of favour with every party in Europe." | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 556a35d | Afraid?" said the yellow-haired man and laughed. "Forgive me, I should have warned you: I have a tendency to be bloody-minded. Bruslez, noyez, pendez, ompallez, descouppez, fricassez, crucifiez, bouillez, carbonnadez ces mechantes femmes." | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| e6dd769 | Jerott thought, acidly, that a slip of that dagger, if it happened, would save Francis Crawford a large sum of money. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 1677cf2 | Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius, or why worry about tomorrow, when your funeral is today. Goodbye. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 05ed54e | He could have covered my mouth,' said Jerott indignantly, sitting up with great success and giving Salablanca his hand. 'He didn't want blood-poisoning,' said Lymond callously. 'Also he didn't know you're so damned slow with a knife.... | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| b4e4db9 | What we choose to do then is nothing?' said Lymond, and his face was not pleasant. 'I have taken far too long as it is to face the consequences of my actions. You must not unlearn me my lesson. I have several other tests, still more acid, to pass. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 347e22e | I rather think one of us drunk is sufficient. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 48b2db2 | All we have to do is follow its track in the sand.' 'What sand?' said Jerott. 'Don't be pessimistic,' said Lymond. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 6729f31 | Khatun, what is his face?' 'A lemon?' said Philippa. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| f852308 | You must, of course, do as you please,' she had remarked. 'But I really think, through all these years, that Mr Crawford has learned to take care of himself. I am sure his unique sense of domestic responsibility will impel him, unswerving, to trace us wherever we go.' Which was precisely the kind of bitchy remark, thought Jerott furiously, that Lymond himself would have made. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| bb2da45 | Jerott, who had wished to be alone for his own sake as well as for Lymond's, closed his eyes as he sat under the orange trees, and prayed for Francis Crawford, who did not recognize love, and for himself, who did. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| a4c9682 | Senor, 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 by more than a year. She is too good for them. The last one, dying, compared her to a nugget of gold. Do you melt it or do you rub it or do you beat it, said he, it shineth still more orient. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 8e6c28e | Anxiously, Lymond called. 'If she undresses, I pray you do not restrain her! It can cause untold injury! | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 8712c04 | He is beautiful, and whole, and has learned to offer the world a humble and desperate obedience. You called him a pawn. He has begun to follow his trade. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 62737b5 | Jerott stared up through his headache. 'I can manage,' he said. 'Yes. I think you'll manage better tied to your horse,' said Lymond. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 354d85c | She said, on a spurt of unusual temper, 'If you say I look hot once again, I shall die of boredom, I think.' 'Don't die,' said Lymond pleasantly; and swinging into his own saddle, gathered the reins. 'Have a fit. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 48636b9 | Don't you think they would all have been happier if Francis Crawford had never existed? | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 812a204 | Determined to look on the bright side of things, Philippa collected her winnings, and ate them. 'I don't know,' she said. 'We're a nice, representative group. I can do card-tricks, and you can train animals and Haji Ishak can he on nails and Sheemy Wurmit can do a comic turn with his parrot and Signor Manoli can swear in ten different dialects of Sicilian. We only need a good bass-baritone and a tenor rebec, and we could work out a tour. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 19a8983 | Extraordinary, is it not, how he cannot bear music? | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 16a51f2 | This and your music ... you have happiness. Why cannot I find it?' 'Because you do not look in the right places,' said Kiaya. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| cd4a533 | Will you pack up all your cold-boiled emotions, and do what the hell you are told? | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 355cc3a | If he is mad, I can agree with him.' 'He isn't mad,' said Jerott. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 368173a | Because he knew ... God, he knew! Jerott's terrible romanticism, which would taste death so readily; so splendidly offer the blood of his fellows, in defence of the weak and the puny. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 1bdbbbc | As a man, this child would be one's offering to the future races of men. The burden of his upbringing, wherever it fell: however tiresome or onerous, was of no importance compared with his living grasp of the future. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 80eda88 | What was original sin? Was it more than an arbitrary pattern set in the loom, of talents and weaknesses, picked out from the warp of one's forebears? | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| f749f70 | The world is full,' said Jerott wearily, 'of people who might have wanted to meet Francis Crawford, and who are going to be disappointed. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 5228991 | What I desire, thou dost not possess for thyself. How canst thou render it then to another? | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 739d737 | You have a tongue, have you not, which breaks backs? I have madness in many forms, but that which springs from the passions of the heart is not in my nature. That is all. We are all fashioned differently. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 2a975f2 | It is laid on me by love,' said Mikal. 'As a cord of twisted bark bound upon the neck of each ploughing bull, I waded to thee through darkness, as though I waded through a full sea; but thou didst not receive me. I stood in darkness, with fear my innermost garment, and thou didst not warm me. Soon the devil thou dost swallow will claim thee, and where shall I be? I am a Pilgrim of Love, Hakim; and thy soul is of rock. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| e5a00f1 | The sight of the food made Jerott want to vomit. He said cheerfully, 'Well, well. Thank God you're a dab hand at chess.' 'If you're going to be bright,' said Lymond, with a soft and frightening venom, 'I'll break your sweet little neck. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| eb36c6a | Lymond said, very softly, in English, 'This is part of a plan to escape. Pretend to strike me, and listen.' 'You stinking catamite,' said Jerott; and with all his considerable strength launched a blow at Lymond's face which was very genuine indeed. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 9d59ab1 | If you're coming with me, listen,' said Lymond. He ducked, and then swung a punch that did not quite go wide. 'And then knock me out cold.' 'With pleasure,' said Jerott. His dark eyes were bleak. 'And if I succeed?' 'You won't,' Lymond said. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 379fc5e | For spirits one requires a strong head or else a weak brain, and I fear I possess neither. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| e2adae7 | Liberty to drink and to debauch are said to recreate and refresh the soul.' 'Then----' said Kiaya Khatun. 'I have no soul,' said Lymond. 'Forgive me. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| c1272bf | Humility is a virtue Scotsmen require to be taught. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 691bf23 | There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. | Aleister Crowley | ||
| beb062d | It had been a boy's trick, Jerott remembered. Standing bareback on your father's horses; somersaulting, chariot-riding. Francis, buried in books, had never publicly attempted it. What private practice, Jerott wondered fleetingly, had gone into that? | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 78fb173 | What intelligent remedy, like jumping in the river, do you suggest if we find this man Lymond irreconcilably dreadful? | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| dfcf9de | Kate approved of the child's father, and so did she. Kate all her life had championed the underdog, and so therefore did she. And what more oppressed puppy in all the world was she likely to find than this one? | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| babeeab | Once before, Jerott had seen him like that, in Algiers. He had seen him as he was now, with every skill of mind and body tuned to the ultimate pitch in pursuit of one object. Francis Crawford like that was uncontrollable and very close to invincible. But not invincible. And not impervious to the reckoning afterwards. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 32e831c | Lymond said suddenly, 'As alternatives, they leave a lot to be desired. Could no one bring us some raki? If we must have a wake let us make it a happy one. Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage. Let's have Jerott's form of decadence for a change.' Jerott said, 'Francis, shut up. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 789fe14 | Why not,' said Gaultier viciously, 'play chess?' It silenced Lymond. His head went back as if he had been struck, the indrawn air caught in his throat. He said nothing more. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 0e11619 | Don't wrest from me my repentance. A whoremonger, a haunter of stews, a hypocrite, a wretch and a maker of strife. | Dorothy Dunnett |