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A shame that these images had become iconic, a tune we were all tired of humming.

Her lack of maidenly scruple would have amused me at another moment, but just now her face was so grimly determined that I could only wonder what she had in mind. Nothing could have been less seductive, anyway, than her expression at that moment.

Dracula —" He paused. "Dracula—Vlad Tepes—is still alive.

He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight.

There is a final resource to which I've resorted when necessary—the imagination. I have done this with judicious care, imagining for my reader only what I already know is very likely, and even then only when an informed speculation can set these documents into their proper context. Where I have been unable to explain events or motives, I have left them unexplained, out of respect for their hidden realities.

she was the picture of a prosperous, semi-traditional Hong

Yes. You'll notice that this weapon has no Spaceforce markings, but it's a model Spaceforce uses." "Palm-locked?" "Yes. Would've been ideal to get a palm print

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family. Very boring, Emerson.

Don't sound so surprised. I have sensible moments, you know.

why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself!

Romanticism is not a quality I despise, but it is inconvenient in a butler.)

Cousin John reads Tolkien. No man who does that can be wholly evil.

The fact that she had not yet exterminated her mother proved that she was incapable of violence.

Annoyance has an unfortunate effect on one's literary style; phrases like "work my fingers to the bone" and "sacrifice my own inclinations to the needs of others

accepted the cup the servant handed him

But why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself!

for, failing to capture the attention of a waiter, I hooked one of them by the arm and ordered a whiskey and soda. The buzz of conversation

This must be the way most of us maneuver through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can't possibly be true.

At night the bottom of the valley looks like water, and the lamps in the little town lying along it like quivering reflections of the stars.

It has been funny and delightful, that little interlude of admiration, but of course it couldn't go on once Caroline appeared. Rose knew her place.

and after a pause—Mellersh was much too prudent to speak except after a pause, during which presumably he was taking a careful mental copy of his coming observation—he said, much displeased...

the very way Mrs. Arbuthnot parted her hair suggested a great calm that could only proceed from wisdom.

Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet... (Minora)

1922 was a bad year for Elizabeth. She was disappointed by some of the reviews of The Enchanted April although it was to prove the most popular — excepting the first — of all her novels. She suffered from depressions that she couldn't throw off. Her doctor diagnosed menopausal symptoms.