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Whatever fascination Lymond held for her mother, it had no power at five in the morning.

Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.

Intolerance drunk is bad enough, but intolerance sober is quite insupportable.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

Intelligence is the only indispensable commodity in life or in warfare. If you think otherwise, go live in a hut with a poet. The rest of us will do our best to defend you.

And isna Sybilla a wee love o' a bitch?' 'You say the nicest things about my mother,' said Lymond.

I find it so helpful," continued Lymond, "when some of my gentlemen have well-defined codes of conduct. It makes them more predictable.

I echo like a mynah, that's why.

Unwanted, unasked, unwelcome as ever, here I am.' 'Again,' said Lymond.

Intentions, yours or anyone else's, don't matter; they never matter and never excuse: get that into your head.

Faith, thought O'LiamRoe. And not a decent creature among them thought to say that the only rule in it is for a man to have a fine, steady seat for an elephant.

I have a suggestion in that case,' said Lymond. 'You two have the orgy, and I'll keep the drinker's headache.

Blaspheme if you must,' said Blyth wearily. 'You'll get your wages all right. You'll survive.' 'I'm not going to die of laughing at any rate,' said Lymond, and Blyth nearly lost his temper again.

If you don't mind.' 'I do,' said Kate. 'I don't care to have my second-best bedroom looking like the den of a hibernating bear.

That was your son, man, who went out just now ... What better proof do you want? That and his looks … and his guts.' 'Thank you,' said Lymond. 'If that is a compliment.

He has to perfection, M. le Comte, the art of living his private life with as much public attention as possible.

I don't like being permanently mutilated on Thursdays. I may add that Friday is my day for raping; and I like it quieter than this, and they enjoy it.

You mean my reputation is ruined? No wealthy gentlemen suing for my favours?' 'No respectable wealthy gentlemen suing for your favours,' he said.

A long sea voyage with Jerott spewing drunk on every deck is not my idea of an adequate quid pro quo.

This is a clever bastard, my friends. I like that word entertainment, for instance.

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.

What intelligent remedy, like jumping in the river, do you suggest if we find this man Lymond irreconcilably dreadful?

Pray don't allow the shock of it all to confuse you, she said. Popular resurrections are a tedious pastime of Francis's.

If you wish to carry this paper from France and deliver it into Lord Culter's hands,' he said, 'I know of no power which would stop you, unless an earthly one.' 'And that,' said Daniel Hislop, 'is the first totally accurate prediction I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. Give me that.