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Dorothy Dunnett _ Pawn in Frankincense
You don't understand,' she said. In her lap, the loose hands had ground together: between the fair brows a single line showed, of anger and disgust and a kind of futile perplexity. 'You don't understand: how can you? You were born into a household, with parents and wealth; you knew your friends and your enemies; you knew your position in life; whom you were fighting for: whom you were against. I am alone. Every man is my enemy.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Pawn in Frankincense
The nursing brethren spoke in whispers to Jerott. Such stillness was what the overstrained body required. Pray God it would last.Downstairs, Jerott unleashed his anxious irritation on Marthe. 'They know it can't last. Why don't they admit it?''They are kind. They are innocent. They believe God is merciful,' said Marthe.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Pawn in Frankincense
He knew what would happen. He has laid wagers with himself, I imagine, for days: how many hours, how many miles towards safety before he has to drop out.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Pawn in Frankincense
The words now had meaning. All poetry had meaning, and sorrow she had never envisaged. Behind, veiled in soft rain as the dragon-prowed barge slid across the grey water to Pera, she saw for the last time close at hand the soft, frescoed height of the Seraglio, heart of the Ottoman world, its domes and chimneys and towers, its tall cypresses and gardens picked out in grisaille and gold.Today, perhaps, the Gate of the Dead would perform its true office for a small boy whose heritage no one knew; who had lived in squalor and perished in fright. A sacrifice to diminish the soul. A sacrifice to colour all the rest of one's days.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Pawn in Frankincense
The moment is past. The chessboard has gone; and the people. You must let me take the room from you too.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Pawn in Frankincense
Lymond moved swiftly from Jerott's side to where the fine hair, curling like silk, lay on the Geomaler's arm; and bending his head, kissed the dead child, as he had not kissed the living, full on the mouth.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Pawn in Frankincense
Lymond said, 'You were too intent on your own slaughter; too ruthless; too greedy. You have pushed me until I have no alternatives left. You must take the consequences of that.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Pawn in Frankincense
Hullo. A strange game, isn't it? I don't enjoy it much either. But we have to finish it. Then you choose what we play next.' And a smile broke over Khaireddin's face: a genuine smile; the first one, thought Jerott, that anyone there had probably seen. Then he said something in the little voice, so much less fluent than Kuzum's; and Lymond said, 'Of course, your shells are still there. Supper first, and then you shall play with them. Goodbye. I have to move, now.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Pawn in Frankincense
I would have forgone even the body for the sake of the mind. And I would have claimed neither body nor mind, had I discovered a soul.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Pawn in Frankincense
I hope,' said Jerott, breathing softly and hard, 'that you never meet those who will judge what you have done. How would you recognize love? Or compassion? Francis at least has learned that.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Pawn in Frankincense
That was your son, man, who went out just now ... What better proof do you want? That and his looks … and his guts.' 'Thank you,' said Lymond. 'If that is a compliment.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Pawn in Frankincense
I am good?' said the strained treble.'Thou art good,' said Francis Crawford in a dry voice.
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