Fraser nodded casually toward Twelvetrees. “Is there anything ye want me to beat out of him?
Hal swore in German behind him. He must have reached the part about the rifles; German oaths were reserved for the most stringent occasions, French being used for minor things like a burnt dinner, and Latin for formal insults committed to paper. Minnie wouldn’t let either Hal or John swear in English in the house, not wanting the boys to acquire low habits. John could have told her it was too late for such caution but didn’t.
Then I laid my head upon his chest and gave my dreams up to his keeping.
And his release began, deep inside me, without his moving, shivering through his body so that his arms trembled, the ruddy hairs quivering in the dim light, and he dropped his head with a sound like a sob, his hair hiding his face as he spilled himself, each jerk and pulse of his flesh between my legs rousing an echo in my own.
And I want only to throw myself into it and be consumed.
All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death the key to the gate that bars memory.
I felt rather like the new moon: the shadow of pain and death was still clearly visible to me – but only because the light was there to throw it into perspective.
Stones of protection; amethyst, emerald, turquoise, lapis lazuli, and a male ruby.
You’d die for them, happily,” Hal had said, in the long night watch when I’d kept him breathing. “Your family. But at the same time you think, Christ, I can’t die! What might happen to them if I weren’t here?
Gave me terrible cramps, and I had wind for days.
People are gregarious by necessity.
You are blood of my blood,” he said softly, “and bone of my bone. I claim thee as my son before all men, from this day forever.” He looked up at Jamie, challenging. After a long moment, Jamie gave the slightest nod of acknowledgment, and stepped back, letting his hand fall from Brianna’s shoulder. Roger.
Christ, was he going to die in public, in a pleasure garden, in the company of a sodomite spy dressed like a rooster?
She supposed she ought to feel exposed in some way, the privacy of her thoughts and dreams laid bare to him – but she trusted him with them. He would never use those things against her.
Some people can leave their bodies and travel miles away,” she said, staring meditatively at the page. “Other people see them out wandering, and recognize them, and ye can bloody prove they were really tucked up safe in bed at the time. I’ve seen the records, all the eyewitness testimony. Some people have stigmata ye can see and touch – I’ve seen one. But not everybody. Only certain people.” She.
Papa says that wars take three generations to fade from the ground where they’re fought. And from what I’ve seen, Friends have quite long memories, as well.” “He might just have a point.
A standing cock is quite blind, my dear,” he said at last, eyes still shut. “Surely you know that, physician that you are.
Dr. Stern told me that the wilderness of Carolina is alive wi’ fierce creatures – bears and wildcats and wicked panthers – and a great foul thing the Indians call a skunk!
Intimacy and romance are not synonymous.
Have you anything to say to me now, Madam?” he demanded. “Your wig is crooked,” I said, and closed my eyes again.