Quotes from Susan Higginbotham

Go to the devil Harry." I turned away, then looked back over my shoulder. "But you already have, haven't you?

I was on the way to becoming a duchess, and I had made the Kingmaker angry. What more could a child of seven have accomplished in one day?

Though I normally approve of plain speaking, as you know, I would suggest that as part of your good behavior, you refer to the king as 'his grace' or even simply 'the king' instead of 'that creature,' by the way.

I have always taken great comfort in newspapers. No matter how horrid an event, there is something in seeing it described in black and white that makes it somehow bearable.

I looked at the book lying on a table. Though not a great reader myself, I knew that those who were - even Nora - could grow testy when one came between them and their books.

Hugh had led men into battle with success and was on reasonably good terms with the king, though they would never be intimates; in any case, his father had been so close to his king that this would probably have to suffice for whole generations of Dipensers.

wildflower pressed into the page reading "Tintern Abbey." Jerry had marked a passage: If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief, Should be thy portion, with what healing thoughts Of tender joy wilt thou remember me, And these my exhortations! Nor, perchance

here?" "John says that all things work for the best," Wealthy said with a faint smile. It was something she had forgotten lately. "I do hope he's right.

Father's favorite saying goes, trust in God and keep our powder dry.

federal judge with the splendid name of Sterling Cato was to hold a territorial court nearby—not at a courthouse, for no such edifice existed, but at a tavern kept by a pro-slavery

Rumor had it that Judge Cato would enforce the territorial laws, at least against the Free-Staters, a group of whom called a settlers' meeting in Osawatomie—a male settlers' meeting, Wealthy noted crossly when the men told her about it. "Why can't we attend? Perhaps the Topeka Constitution should have given us ladies the right to vote.

May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest,

Martin White, who stood up and said his piece. Claimed that he was a good Free-State man, but a free white state man, and he intended to obey the laws, and the rest of us should as well.

Father spoke up and said that he was an abolitionist of the old stock, that the blacks were his brothers and his equals, and that he would rather see the union dissolved and the

country drenched with blood than pay taxes to support the government foisted upon us by the Bogus Legislature. I thought White was going to burst a blood vessel there and then, but instead he just stomped away.

No, indeed. I wasn't expecting it at all, so all I could do was stammer that I had no plans of marrying so young and that I was quite happy in my present state of life. He stomped off, but that wasn't the end of it. The next day, he came back in a drunken rage and threatened to drink my heart's blood—charming image, isn't it?—and my mother's too. I have no idea what made him drag her into it.

Dutch Bill took politeness on my part for something else and asked to marry

He threatened you, Mary? And your mother?" "It was just the liquor talking, I'm sure, Fred. Even that Sherman lot wouldn't harm a woman." "For his sake, I'd better not see any of them try. Or even speak of it.

Readers accustomed to thinking of Piers Gaveston and Edward II as gay icons may have been surprised to learn that both men fathered out-of-wedlock children.

which is that it is better to bind a child by love than by fear.

Sit," Mrs. Adair said gently. "Both of you, rest. The Lord knows what happened and why. And soon, I trust, so shall

Blow ye the trumpet, blow The gladly solemn sound: Let all the nations know, To earth's remotest bound, The year of jubilee is come; Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.