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  1. Dorothy Dunnett _ The Ringed Castle

    Alec Guthrie's voice, serene from the shadows, said, 'You are not going to Russia. You are not going. All your life you have resented control and brooked no hint of instruction or guidance. This time, your will is not paramount.
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  2. Dorothy Dunnett _ The Ringed Castle

    Alec Guthrie's voice, serene from the shadows, said, "You are not going to Russia. You are not going. All your life you have resented control and brooked no hint of instruction or guidance. This time, your will is not paramount.
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  3. Dorothy Dunnett _ The Ringed Castle

    As a highly qualified Turkish-trained concubine from the harem of Suleiman the Magnificent, Philippa Somerville settled into English court life as a kite among chickens, and as a kite among kites into the Spanish court of the new King-consort Philip.
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  4. Dorothy Dunnett _ The Ringed Castle

    But you didn't know about the woman, dear Alec,' said Danny Hislop at supper that night, when Lymond had walked down to his horse and departed. 'Nobody told us about the woman. Güzel. The Mistress. What if they have a tiff and she withdraws all her assets before the Tsar has decided to keep us? What,' said Danny dreamily, 'if she takes against our coarse ways when she meets us? Or decides she'd prefer one of us to sweet Francis?… Jesus?… Sir?
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  5. Dorothy Dunnett _ The Ringed Castle

    Daniel Hislop, the son of the bishop?''The Bishop's bastard,' said Hislop, with a cold-eyed assumption of coyness. 'Sir. My lord. Jesus.'Lymond's eyes turned to him, open. Then changing position, he seated himself, and placed his hands gently on the table before him. 'Sir will do,' said Lymond calmly, 'unless you receive divine witness to the contrary.
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  6. Dorothy Dunnett _ The Ringed Castle

    The beauty of worthy things is not in the face but in the backside, endearing more by their departure than their address.
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  7. Dorothy Dunnett _ The Ringed Castle

    For a moment Lymond remained there, surveying them. His eight officers, staring edgily back, saw a delicate-looking gentleman in a pretty paned and pinked tunic with the finest voile shirt bands and a link-belt of Italian enamel work. A man whose yellow hair, dry and light and unevenly tipped, eclipsed the sunlight behind him, and whose attic profile and unoccupied, long-shafted hands caused a small moan of ecstasy to burst, very circumspectly, from Mr Hislop's baby-pink lips.
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  8. Dorothy Dunnett _ The Ringed Castle

    You see someone before you who is not afraid to say what he thinks, provided he is in a position of ascendancy with a door open behind him and a knife gripped in each hand.
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  9. Dorothy Dunnett _ The Ringed Castle

    What intelligent remedy, like jumping in the river, do you suggest if we find this man Lymond irreconcilably dreadful?
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  10. Dorothy Dunnett _ The Ringed Castle

    And for Adam Blacklock the artist, older, wiser, and perhaps less vulnerable than once he had been, a chance to assess from maturity a person whose maturity was and always had been a thing disconcerting to witness.For what, after these violent years, would entertain or even interest Francis Crawford, Blacklock found he had no idea.
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  11. Dorothy Dunnett _ The Ringed Castle

    This is a clever bastard, my friends. I like that word for instance.
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  12. Dorothy Dunnett _ The Ringed Castle

    There is little you cannot already guess. You know now what you want. You are about to learn how to give. But the hardest lesson of all is accepting. Am I not right?
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