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  1. Julia Quinn _ It's in His Kiss

    I'm not trying to impress you," he replied, glancing up at the front of the room. "Gads," he said, blinking in surprise. "What is that ?"Hyacinth followed his gaze. Several of the Pleinsworth progeny, one of whom appeared to be costumed as a shepherdess, were milling about."Now that's an interesting coincidence," Gareth murmured."It might be time to start bleating," she agreed."I thought this was meant to be a poetry recitation."Hyacinth grimaced and shook her head. "An unexpected change to the program, I'm afraid.""From iambic pentameter to Little Bo Peep?" he asked doubtfully. "It does seem a stretch."Hyacinth gave him a rueful look. "I think there will still be iambic pentameter."His mouth fell open. "From Peep?"She nodded, holding up the program that had been resting in her lap. "It's an original composition," she said, as if that would explain everything. "By Harriet Pleinsworth.The Shepherdess, the Unicorn, and Henry VIII .""All of them? At once?""I'm not jesting," she said, shaking her head."Of course not. Even you couldn't have made this up."Hyacinth decided to take that as a compliment."Why didn't I receive one of these?" he asked, taking the program from her."I believe it was decided not to hand them out to the gentlemen," Hyacinth said, glancing about the room. "One has to admire Lady Pleinsworth's foresight, actually. You'd surely flee if you knew what was in store for you.
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  2. Hilary Mantel _ Wolf Hall

    For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other men have trod, and by myself into the depths of the wood.
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  3. Hilary Mantel _ Wolf Hall

    Fantasy is unconstrained by truth.
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  4. Hilary Mantel _ Wolf Hall

    Henry stirs into life. 'Do I retain you for what is easy? Do you think it is for your personal beauty? The charm of your presence? I keep you, Master Cromwell, because you are as cunning as a bag of serpents. But do not be a viper in my bosom. You know my decision. Execute it.'pg. 585
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  5. Hilary Mantel _ Wolf Hall

    In order not to make a liar out of Henry or Katherine, one or the other, the committee men think up circumstances in which the match may have been partly consummated, or somewhat consummated, and to do this they have to imagine every disaster and shame that can occur between a man and a woman alone in a room in the dark.
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  6. Hilary Mantel _ Wolf Hall

    So now get up.'Felled, dazed, silent, he has fallen; knocked full length on the cobbles of the yard. His head turns sideways; his eyes are turned toward the gate, as if someone might arrive to help him out. One blow, properly placed, could kill him now.
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  7. Alison Weir _ Henry VIII: The King and His

    The story was certainly current at court, and in 1535 a Member of Parliament, Sir George Throckmorton, accused Henry to his face of 'meddling' with both Anne's mother and sister Mary.'Never with the mother,' Henry said.
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