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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Game of Kings
Lymond ha vuelto
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Game of Kings
A moment later the music began, and Kate shrank beneath the onslaught of its message: the fury of hope and joy that towered in the notes, outburning the sunlight and outpouring the volumes of the sea. All that was bold and noble and happy in created sound burst from the metempirical quills, and it was a blasphemy not to rejoice.Christian died in its midst, purposeful and successful; the last struggle unseen by anyone but Kate, and laying no bridle on the living.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Game of Kings
whole oxen confessed to the fires at each end and reached sizzling Judgment on the crowded tables, alongside pies and puddings and heaped fragrant trenchers and jars of bland, too-warm wines.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Game of Kings
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 méchantes femmes.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Game of Kings
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.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Game of Kings
Then you've had a good day of it, I suppose.""Then you suppose wrong," said Lymond shortly. "I've had a damned carking afternoon. A Moslem would blame my Ifrit, a Buddhist explain the papingo was really my own great-grandmother, and a Christian, no doubt, call it the vengeance of the Lord. As a plain, inoffensive heathen, I call it bloody annoying.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Game of Kings
Right?" said Lymond. "You pathetic, maladroit nincompoop, you're never right.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Game of Kings
Why are you here?"Silence. Then the boy said slowly, "Because I admire you.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Game of Kings
We're all runts and bastards of one sort or another."
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Game of Kings
...You are the only person with a shaky interest in ethics and the emotional stability of a quince seed in a cup of lukewarm water.....
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Game of Kings
The knowledgeable gypsy eyes scanned the dairy-maid skin, the gilded hair, the long hands, jewelled to display their beauty while the Master, serenely smiling, returned the compliment under relaxed lids.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ The Game of Kings
It was your brother. He must be insane.""Not insane, dear." Sybilla, speaking gently, contradicted. "Not insane. But magnificently drunk, I fear.
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