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Book: Checkmate
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Checkmate
But I can't offer you a zoo at St Mary's. Can you make do with what I have?''With Hoddim and Guthrie and Blacklock? What you have is a zoo.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Checkmate
His horse stumbled in the tussocky ground and made him realize, then, how thoughtlessly fast he was riding...how thoughtlessly fast he was thinking.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Checkmate
Music, the knife without a hilt.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Checkmate
And then his true courtship of her had its beginning; and to the worship of his body, he joined the fairest garlands from the treasure-house of his mind, and made a bower for her.Adored; caressed into delight; conducted by delicate paths into ravishing labyrinths where pleasure, like carillons on glass, played upon pleasure, she leaned on his voice, and sometimes answered it."
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Checkmate
It was hard to say therefore why he did not go below, and rally his brother, and encourage him to let the past fade, and look forward to what lay before him. Unless, in his heart of hearts he recognized as Lymond did that what lay around him were shut gates; and what lay before him was nothing.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Checkmate
I am glad then,' said Catherine, 'that there was nothing between us, rather than mediocrity.' And from the homes … of Unicornes … 'There was kindness,' he said. 'And that was a great deal.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Checkmate
So,' said Mary, 'you would condemn the human race to hell, for want of enlightenment?''Why not?' said Francis Crawford. 'It has nothing to fear, surely, from hell.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Checkmate
It partook,' said Kate, 'of the nature of a full-scale cursing against one Crawford of Lymond, but whether for sins of omission or commission is not entirely clear.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Checkmate
All I gathered from that is that Francis Crawford is a raging harlot.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Checkmate
Raveand Rhamnusia, Goddes of Dispyte,' said Lymond acidly. 'I am trying to get you home, vide the shiten shepherd and the clene shepe, with your woolly chops spotless. The only drawback to date is that the bloody sheep is going to have to carry the shepherd, so far as I can see.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Checkmate
A versatile commodity, death; except for those suffering it.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Checkmate
He had not moved.But, her blue eyes on his face, she did not rise.'Lord, is there nothing in the cup for me?While you were drinking, I was singing to you.'The detachment had gone from his face, but not the strength. He shook his head; and rising, Marthe turned and walked from the room.
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