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old Persian saying, There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman. There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much knowledge of the world.
Pleasure began to seep through me.

Id had as much as I could stomach

I felt a lurch

of desire and came very close to saying, She sat still all the time, so

still as one dead. And she grew

whiter and even whiter till the snow was not more pale, and no word she said.
It was not alone that it

was composed of all the ills of mortality and with the pungent, acrid smell of blood, but it seemed as though corruption had become itself Corrupt. Faugh! It sickens me to think of it. Every breath exhaled by that monster seemed to have clung to the place and intensified its Loathsomene ss. I rose and bowed, and he came towards me, a man of medium weight, strongly built, with his shoulders set back over a broad, deep

chest and a neck well balanced on the trunk as the head is on the neck. The poise of the head strikes me at once as indicative of thought and power. The head is noble, well-sized, broad, and large behind the ears. The face, cleanshaven, shows a hard, square chin, a large resolute, mobile mouth, a good-sized nose, rather straight, but with quick, sensitive nostrils, that seem to broaden as the big bushy brows come down and the mouth tightens. The forehead is broad and fine, rising at first almost straight and then sloping back above two bumps or ridges wide apart, such

a forehead that the reddish hair cannot possibly tumble over it, but falls naturally back and to the sides. Big, dark blue eyes are set widely apart, and are quick and tender or stern with the man's moods. The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.
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gladly I would die for her you would understand" That the ravings of the sick were the secrets of God, and that if a nurse through her vocation should hear them, she should respect her trust. The time and distance seemed endless, and my knees trembled and my breath came laboured as I toiled up the endless steps to the abbey. I must have gone fast, and yet it seemed to me as if my feet were weighted with lead, and as though every joint in my body were rusty. little effort of imagination to think that the spirits of those

If ever a face meant death, if looks could kill, we saw it at that moment. Oh, what a wealth of sorrow in a few words! "If you only knew how

lost at sea were touching their living brethren with the clammy hands of death,
I must say you tax me very unfairly with being a bad correspondent.

Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood. He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion Let me be prosaic so far as facts can be. It will help me to bear up, and imagination must not run riot with me.

They were a hundred times more terrible in the grim silence which held them than even when they howled. For myself, I felt a sort of paralysis of fear. It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can under stand their true import. The horses jumped about and reared, and looked helplessly round with eyes that rolled in a way painful to see. But the living ring of terror encompassed them on every side, and they had perforce to remain within it.
A dead hero is

still dead Can you keep a secret? Of course. Taylor leaned a little closer. So can I, Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spelled trouble for the women who loved them like they say dont shoot the messenger-Im only telling you Can you keep a secret so do I
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever:

I was wrong.

That you have exercised all of your considerable ingenuity? That you have left no depth of cunning unplumbed in your quest to retrieve the memory?
Who am I to refuse the prompting of fate "She laughs best who laughs last. "Fit to put your eyes out!" Then you will have to vamoose. Mr. Gordon is coming over, and I can't have her too tired." bringing with him an immense sheaf of roses

Somewhere in France lay buried the tenderest heart, the manliest man There was no moon, but the long summer twilight had not yielded entirely to the darkness and the stars were especially bright. Her face looked ethereally beautiful in the faint light. I knew she meant to make Dicky regret that he could not accompany her. Long after I have forgiven a wrong done to me, or an unpleasant experience, the bitter memory of it comes back to torment me. I fancied there was something in

his manner the tolerance of which would savor of disloyalty to Dicky "That's about the meanest slur I ever heard," I read the riot act to her after you left. "'I shall not return any blow you may give me, Mr. Graham, so please do not do anything you will regret when you recover yourself!' her history had revealed to me to what lengths she would go in loyalty to a friend. I decided to be guided by his attitude. If he were opposed to my course, I would know that my actions had ceased to be resentful to

him, and I would accept the position. But if he showed willingness at the proposition When I am most angry, a diabolically aggravating spirit seems to possess me. I could feel it enmeshing me. "Please don't be melodramatic, Dicky," I said mockingly, "and if you have quite finished, I will go." If I only could be sure that pique at an employee's failure to report to him was at the bottom of his sulkiness! "Your mother has shown such eagerness for my society that no doubt she will be

heartbroken if she awakens and finds that I am not here." But one of my faults or virtuesI never have been able to decide which is the persistence with which I stick to a plan, once I have decided upon it. The slightest heightening of the color in her cheek, a quickly-veiled flash of her eyes in his direction these things I noticed in the short time she was in the room with us. She evidently was a hospitable soul. Tacitly we had avoided all discussion of Grace Draper, I felt my anger fuse to a white heat against

both my husband and Lillian. I resolutely put away from my mind

Hes my dream and my companion, my lover and my friend. Hes a devoted father, but more than that, hes my ideal husband. I cant describe the comfort I feel when he takes me in his arms, or how I look forward to lying down beside him at night. Theres an unshakable humanity about him, a faith in the goodness of life, and it breaks my heart to imagine him alone.

I pray that the boundless love I feel for them will somehow make it possible. If you love Alex now, then love him forever. Make him laugh again, and cherish the time you spend together. Take walks and ride your bikes, curl up on the couch and watch movies beneath a blanket. Make him breakfast, but dont spoil him. Let him make breakfast for you as well, so he can show you he thinks youre special. Kiss him and

make love to him, and consider yourself lucky for having met him, for hes the kind of man wholl prove you right Ive lived a full, happy life and experienced the kind of love that many people will never know My dearest Alex, There are dreams that visit us and leave us fulfilled upon waking, there are dreams that make life worth living. You, my sweet husband, are that dream, and it saddens me to have to

put into words the way I feel about you. Im writing this letter now, while I still can, and yet Im not sure how to capture what I want to say. Im not a writer, and words seem so inadequate right now. How can I describe how much I love you? Is it even possible to describe a love like that? I dont know, but as I sit here with pen in hand, I know that I have to try. I know you like to tell the story of how I played hard to get, but when I think back on the night we first

met, I think I realized even then that we were meant to be together. I remember that night clearly, just as I can recall the exact sensation of your hand in mine, and every detail of the cloudy afternoon at the beach when you dropped to one knee and asked me to become your wife. Until you came along, I never knew how much Id been missing. I never knew that a touch could be so meaningful or an expression so eloquent; I never knew that a kiss could literally

take my breath away. You are, and always have been, everything Ive always wanted in a husband. Youre kind and strong and caring and smart; you lift my spirits and youre a better father than you know. You have a knack with children, a way of making them trust you, and I cant express the joy it has brought me to see you holding them as they fall asleep on your shoulder. My life is infinitely better for having you in it. And thats what makes all of this so hard; its why

I cant seem to find the words I need. It scares me to know that all of this will be ending soon. Im not simply scared for me, though Im scared for you and our children, too. It breaks my heart to know that Im going to cause you all such grief, but I dont know what I can do, other than to remind you of the reasons I fell in love with you in the first place and express my sorrow at hurting you and our beautiful children. It pains me to think that your love for me

will also be the source of so much anguish. But I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal and thats why Im enclosing another letter. Please dont read it. Its not meant for you, or our families, or even our friends. I highly doubt that either of us has met the woman to whom you will give this letter. You see, this one is meant for the woman who eventually heals you, the one who makes you whole again. Right now, I know you cant imagine

something like that. It might take months, it might take years, but someday, youll give that letter to another woman. Trust your instincts, just as I did on the night you first walked up to me. Youll know when and where to do that, just as youll know which woman deserves it. And when you do, trust me when I say that somewhere, somehow, Ill be smiling down on both of you. Love, Carly After
Oh, and by the way, before you start

wondering whether or not were actually friends and how well we know each other, trust me when I say that yes, absolutely. I consider you a friend. She let that sink in before going on. Now how about some wine? They made a frantic dash for the jeep, wielding bent umbrellas against the gale-force winds and blankets of rain. Lightning continued to flash, making the clouds blink. Once they had settled into their seats, Katie used her hand to wipe the condensation from the window

I have no idea that fortune would smile so warmly upon me this evening How does the day find you Sure is a beautiful day,
Oasis to my thirsty eyes.

thought, with wonder, the first creature of that sort that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them; the inmates of my house were locked in the most rigorous hours of slumber was proved beyond the possibility of doubt, I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard "Confident as I am that you will not trifle with this appeal, my heart sinks and my hand trembles at the bare thought of such a possibility. Think of me at this hour, in a strange place, labouring under a blackness of distress that no fancy can exaggerate, and yet well aware that, if you will but punctually serve me, my troubles will roll away like a story that is told. "reach me a candle, and we'll get this through hands at once." The importance of this to Dr. J. can

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Jamie was the truest essence of that very description.
wherein the constellations looked down upon me, I could have

hardly be exaggerated." that you felt it in your marrow kind of cold and thin." insensate cruelty It was not to be had directly; but perhaps, he thought, it might be fished for TIME ran on but professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations; and the packet slept in the inmost corner of his private safe. It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it; But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below haggard shaft of daylight had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful reinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the

lawyer's eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare. that was the haunting sense of unexpressed deformity with which the fugitive impressed his beholders.

altogether away, as was the habit of mysterious things when well examined almost an inordinate, curiosity to behold the features of the real Mr. Hyde. It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions. It was worse when it began to be clothed upon with detestable attributes; and out of the shifting, insubstantial mists that had so long baffled his eye, there leaped up the sudden, definite presentment of a fiend. Mr. Utterson again walked some way in silence and obviously under a weight of consideration.

putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment. When I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart. When I write to you, I feel your breath; when you read them, I imagine you feel mine. Is it that way with you too? These letters are part of us now, part of our history, a reminder forever that we made it through this time. Thank you for helping me survive this year, but more than that, thank you in advance for all the years to come

If ever I read Angel's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend." as clear as a transparency I am a man to be trusted. Make a clean breast of this in confidence; and I make no doubt I can get you out of it." and it would be a weight off my mind if you would promise." Yet his attention had never before been so sharply and decisively arrested The problem he was thus debating as he walked, was one of a class that is rarely solved. he thought the mystery would lighten and perhaps roll

mephitic No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask." "I feel very strongly about

Theres so much I wish for these days, but most of all, I wish you were here. Its strange, but

before I met you, I couldnt remember the last time that I cried. Now, it seems that tears come easily to me . . . but you have a way of making my sorrows seem worthwhile, of explaining things in a way that lessens my ache. You are a treasure, a gift, and when were together again, I intend to hold you until my arms are weak and I can do it no longer. My thoughts of you are sometimes the only things that keep me going. Amanda looked up in silence, her eyes filled with unspoken anguish. "There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and

there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!" said the child, brimful of glee "You will beg my pardon, one day, for all those ugly words, Raoul, and when you do I shall forgive you!" In a voice growling and rolling like thunder, he roared The perspiration streamed from their foreheads. unbridle hate ventriloquist chloroformed requiem respite bewailed litany

conjurors The doctor seemed seized with a qualm of faintness If each smooth tile had been a blank at first, with power to shape some picture on its surface from the disjointed fragments of his thoughts, there would have been a copy of old Marley's head on every one. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused! Yet such was I! Oh! such was I!" he became sensible of confused noises in the air; incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly sorrowful and self accusatory. The sound resounded through the house like thunder. Every room above, and every cask in the wine merchant's cellars below, appeared to have a separate peal of echoes of its own "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!" open the door and greeted

with musty odor There were mitigating circumstances Sit down! so emphatically that we do.
he was brimming with ideas

be gregarious and communicative to-night." your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience." "All right then; limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle. spooned the food out. dusk was setting in . He could see the reflection of the town lights flickering in her eyes. The flurries, which had temporarily stopped, started up again, reducing visibility even further His voice trailed off as the door opened and he saw who was standing before him. In the silence, he and his visitor stared at each other before Doris? Finally smiled. She couldnt help

admiring Jeremys casual grace, along with the plane of his hips and legs, the broad shoulders, the high cheekbones. Does trust have to be earned? Or is it simply a matter of faith? wondering what it meant to trust someone. A stroke of genius He trailed off, as if even considering the request were too much to fathom. whether there was any greater pleasure in life. dopamine Ill be very put out with you if you dont let her be. for though envy is at best a very malignant passion, yet is its bitterness greatly heightened by mixing with contempt towards the same object; and very much afraid I am, that whenever an obligation is joined to these two, indignation

and not gratitude will be the product of all three

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. Bewilderment of impossible Reflection of the forbidden paradise Night was starless and very dark Tragic look Preferring to destroy himself rather than to destroy his enemy. Kneeling upon the height of virtue Nearer the angles then men Rising of a moral sun Authority was dead in him Blindness and deafness resume possession of the dark

The cup was brimming with hot coffee

Bursting with energy City bursting with refugees I was bursting to tell her the news eyes brimming with tears melancholy was heavy upon him longed for her as the thirst longed for water "Mr. Rochester, allow me to disown my first answer: I intended no pointed repartee: it was only a blunder." I am disposed to

but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea that one can prevent the sea from coming to the shore .in case of a sailor this is called the tide in the case of a guilty this is called remorse.
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She felt waves of exhaustion and nausea coursing through her. But his stomach was being pierced by a thousand twisting needles

Man plans a stratagem, and thereby snares himself; What he takes for life turns out, to be destruction. He shuts the door after his foe is in the house Our eyes are subject to many infirmities; Go! Annihilate your sight in God's sight. For our foresight His foresight is a fair exchange; In His sight is all that ye can desire. In his sight that was all a lover can behold

If ye really have trust in God, exert yourselves, And strive, in constant reliance on the Almighty." Wisdom is granted often times to the weak. He said, "O friends, God has given me inspiration. Often times strong counsel is suggested to the weak. The wit taught by God to the bee Is withheld from the lion and the wild ass. It fills its cells with liquid sweets, For God opens the door of this knowledge to it. The skill taught by God to the silkworm Is a learning beyond the reach of the elephant. Thou art like a pitcher with full belly but dry lip;

At his answer, she felt something shake loose inside, like the first pebbles skittering downhill before an avalanche. His plea cut her to the core, and she let out an involuntary cry.

Sam grinned, which knocked about ten years off his age It was like trying to inhale and exhale cotton balls. The ghosts of the scents of doughnuts and blossoms lay on top of the funk of spoiled things and old diapers that passersby had tossed into the

However much we describe and explain love, When we fall in love we are ashamed of our words. Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.

To worry with precaution is toil and moil; Go, trust in Providence, trust is the better part. The quantum of reason ye possessed is lost, And the head whose reason has fled is a tail.

How canst thou ever see red, green, and scarlet Unless thou seest the light first of all? When thy sight is dazzled by colors, These colors veil the light from thee. But when night veils those colors from thee, Thou seest that colors are seen only through light. As there is no seeing outward colors without light, So it is with the mental colors within. Outward colors arise from the light of sun and stars, And inward colors from the Light on high. The sound and speech arise from the thought; Thou knowest not where is the Ocean of thought;

Yet when thou seest fair waves of speech, Thou knowest there is a glorious Ocean beneath them. When waves of thought arise from the Ocean of Wisdom, They assume the forms of sound and speech. These forms of speech are born and die again, These waves cast themselves back into the Ocean. Love hovered in her gaze The incarnation of all loveliness The torture of his love and terror crushed him Her lips like a lovely song that ripples as it flows Hers was the loveliness of some tall white lily cut in marble, splendid but chill Her beauty fervent as a fiery moon

Her cheeks were wan and her eyes like coals In terms of imperishable beauty Unrivaled beauty and excellence Sublimity Radiant with the beautiful glamor of youth Obscure, abstru se, recondite, ar cane, cryptic, e nigmatic, esoter ic, CORE MEANING: difficult to understand Obscure difficult to understand because of not being fully or clearly expressed; a rather obscure branch of mathematics called graph theory a notion which may at first seem somewhat obscureabstruse not easy to understand, often because it involves specialist knowledge or is expressed in specialist language; Songs with abstruse titles He is so occupied with

abstruse ideas that he is incapable of coping with everyday activities.recondi te requiring a high degree of scholarship or specialist knowledge to be understood; an excellent tutor, with an obvious knowledge of an often recondite subjectarcane requiring information that is secret or known only to a few people in order to be understood; the current pay structure is arcane and outdated. He had drawn several arcane symbols round the boundary of the circle.cryptic deliberately mysterious or ambiguous and seeming to have a hidden meaning; Cryptic clues a fax in cryptic languageenigma tic having a quality of mystery and ambiguity that makes it difficult to understand or interpret; His enigmatic smile The brilliant and enigmatic figure of Thomas

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Greatness Inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

Instinct stronger than reason and knowledge born of experience told her that he loved her courteously aloof And now, for the first time in her life, she was facing a complex nature. For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their

leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams that had in them no touch of reality. He moved in an inner world that was more beautiful than Georgia and came back to reality with reluctance. He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened. He accepted the universe and his place in it for what they were and, shrugging, turned to his music and books and his better world. Why he should have captivated Scarlett when his mind was a

stranger to hers she did not know. The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key. The things about him which she could not understand only made her love him more, and his odd, restrained courtship only served to increase her determination to have him for her own.
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, subject to a particular sort of acquired and an definable tact. It is asked, If you do not know the rule by which a thing is done, how can you be sure of doing it a second time? And the answer is, If you do not know the muscles by the help of which you walk, how is to you do not fall down at every step you take? And take my word for this, reader, and say a fool told it you, if you please, that he who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture, hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition I venerate an honest obliquity of

understanding. The more laughable blunders a man shall commit in your company, the more tests he giveth you, that he will not betray or overreach you. I love the safety, which a palpable hallucination warrants; the security, which a word out of season ratifies. prizing their simplicity beyond the more provident, And now each man bestride his hobby, and dust away his bells to what tune he pleases. Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward I found myself being ineluctably drawn away toward the sound of harpsichord music in a distant room

the gentlemen of the Court descended upon me like a flock of parrots on a ripe passion fruit. who was watching the King's mistress with no pretense whatever of tactful obliviousness inventories committed to memory I had loved Frank; I still did. And I loved Jamie, more than my own life. But bound in the limits of time and flesh, Beyond the limits of flesh and time "As though, knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary." I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous. "It's as though time has stopped. All the humors of the body, all

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the blood and bile and vapors that make a man; it's as though just at once all of them are working in perfect harmony." The fear was gone, replaced by a glorious rage. "I want to hold you hard to me and kiss you, and never let you go. I want to take you to my bed and use you like a whore, 'til I forget that I exist. And I want to put my head in your lap and weep like a child." Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. "But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," "And, Sassenach," he whispered, "your face is my heart."

"I can bear pain, myself," he said softly, "but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have." crooning soft endearments I'll thank ye to keep a civil tongue when ye speak of the lady "You look like you've a halo, with the light behind ye that way," he said, softly. "An angel crowned with gold." "My love," he whispered. "Oh, my love. I do want ye so." "Not the same thing, is it?" I said. "Loving and wanting, I mean." Idleness would have seemed not only a sign of moral decay, but an affront to the natural order of things. Their shared childhood linked them forever, like

the warp and the weft of a single fabric, but the patterns of their weave had been loosened, by absence and suspicion, then by marriage. Ian's thread had been present in their weaving since the beginning, mine was a new one. How would the tensions pull in this new pattern, one thread against another for all you're a thick-headed, slackwitted, lackbrained gomerel He was beautifully made, with long, graceful bones and flat muscles that flowed smoothly from the curves of chest and shoulder to the slight concavities of belly and thigh. He raised his eyebrows This sally was greeted with gales of laughter and a number of even

cruder remarks regarding Jamie's prowess. Howls of delight greeted this sally, and the raillery continued, We have nothing now between us, saverespect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies. It was no romantic pledge he had made me, but the blunt promise to guard my safety at the cost of his own. "Ah," he said again, with a completely different tone. He ran a hand slowly up my arm and up the side of my neck, his thumb gently tickling the lobe of my ear. "So we might." "If you aren't too hungry," I said. The other hand found its way behind my back. Palm spread, it pressed me gently toward him, fingers

The evidence at hand bore out this statement.

stroking lower and lower. His mouth opened slightly and he breathed, ever so lightly, down the neck of my dress, his warm due in part That made me relieved that looks in fact cannot kill With the deadly precision of an automated mincing machine, he arranged each charge of the dittay on the slab of his scrutiny and diced it ruthlessly into shreds with the blade of statute and the cleaver of precedent "What may I have the pleasure of doing for you?" He was entirely still. Still as a lion is still, part of the grass of the plain, its stare hot and unblinking as the sun that burns the veldt. And I saw something move in the depths of his eyes. The telltale twitch of the

stalking cat, the tiny jerk of the tuft at the end of the tail, precursor to carnage. I must hold his offer of employment in the deepest Gratitude With a moue of distaste He wove and dodged, lithe as a snake, sword striking like a silver fang. Jamie was just as fast, amazing grace in such a tall man, light-footed and sure-handed. I watched, rooted to the ground, afraid to cry out for fear of distracting Jamie's attention. They spun in a tight circle of stroke and parry, feet touching lightly as a dance on the turf. The gray cloud that had surrounded me since the miscarriage seemed to draw closer, wrapping me in swaddling

folds that dimmed the light of the brightest day. Sounds seemed to reach me faintly, like the far-off ringing of a buoy through fog at sea. I half-turned; he was almost upon me. The soft gray numbness around me quivered, and I felt a sort of frozen panic at the thought that the sight of him might rip it away from me. If it did, I would die, I thought, like a grub dug up from the soil and tossed onto a rock to shrivel, naked and defenseless in the sun. I could feel my gray wrappings being inexorably stripped away, and small, bright streaks of pain shot through me like lightning bolts piercing clouds. The light had shone through her skin as well, glowing in the roundness of cheek and buttock with the light

that pearls have; still and cool, with the strange touch of the water world still on them. I knew that, even as I fought to hold the gray shroud around me. Fighting only hastened its dissolution; it was like grasping shreds of cloud, that vanished in cold mist between my fingers. I could feel the light coming, blinding and searing. He was silent then, but I could feel the pain inside him, sharp as crystal spears of ice. He was wide at the shoulder and narrow at the hip, with long, powerful haunches slightly dented by muscles held taut even as he relaxed. The small, warm breeze stirred the drying tufts of soft cinnamon hair beneath his arms, and ruffled the copper and gold that

waved gently over his wrists, where they braced his head Well, the thought of you lying with the King hurt worse than the brand on my breast, or the cut of the lash on my naked back. But the knowledge that ye thought ye couldna trust me to love you is like waking from the hangman's noose to feel the gutting knife sunk in my belly. But his eyes held mine, tearless and open, boundless as the salt sea. His body held mine captive, driving me before his strength, like the west wind in the sails of a bark. And I voyaged into him, as he into me, so that when the last small storms of love began to shake me, he cried out, and we rode the waves together as one flesh, and saw

ourselves in each other's eyes. I knew that words were of limited value, no matter how true they might be. Something more concrete was needed for reassurance. Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician Whether it was health of mind or body, the love of him was necessary to me as breath or blood. My mind reached out for him, sleeping or waking, and finding him, was satisfied. My body flushed and glowed, and as it came to full life, it hungered for his Jamie laced his hands together, elbows braced on his knees, and rested his chin on his linked knuckles. "In the kingdom of the blind, the oneeyed man is king."

"When no one knows what to do, anyone with a sensible suggestion is going to be listened to." A parry and a dodge and a quick upward beat that knocked the pressing blade aside, and Dougal stepped forward, forcing Jamie back a pace Dougal pressed his advantage with a double lunge, forcing Jamie back toward the edge of the courtyard. Jamie stepped quickly to one side, struck Dougal's blade away with one beat, then slashed back the other way, with a speed that sent the blade of his broadsword through the cloth of Dougal's right sleeve. There was a loud ripping noise, and a strip of white linen hung free, fluttering in the breeze.

"Don't despair. I will be with you always, watching you, loving you. Don't cry, my dearest." Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can be saying to ye while ye wake, but the same poor words, again and again. While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them. Go back to sleep,mo duinne ." he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for youthen I am asking you to tear out your heart and live without it." His hand stroked my hair, the roughness of his knuckles catching in the blowing strands. "But ye must do it,mo duinne . My brave lioness. Ye must.

he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for youthen I am asking you to tear out your heart and live without it." His hand stroked my hair, the roughness of his knuckles catching in the blowing strands. "But ye must do it,mo duinne . My brave lioness. Ye must. "Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well." He looked up from the stark page to see her eyes, wide and unseeing as a deer's fixed in the headlights of an oncoming car. Anything less resembling vengeance incarnate than Hobart MacKenzie could scarcely be imagined. I had seen

everything with that clarity that attends tragedy; every detail fixed in my mind's eye, to be shown again and again, always with that halfconscious feeling that this time, I should be able to alter it. I merely snorted at this piece of prevarication, and sat down next to him on another chunk of granite. "I keep thinkingis it my fault? Have I sinned so greatly, wanting you so much, needing ye more than life itself?" When I took ye, not caring did you want me or no, did you have somewhere else to be, someone else to love." "Besides," I added, pulling back and looking up at him a moment later, "I'm not bloody going back, so what could you

do about it, anyway?" then we were both quiet for quite some time. "I want ye so badly that sometimes I think my heart will burst wi' the joy of having ye," "And I came back for love," I said. "Do you think I needed you any less, only because I could feed myself?" Bree, you are worth everything-and more.

compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. 'Man is like the grass of the field,' " he quoted softly, brushing the slender stem over mv knuckles, where they rested against his chest. " 'Todav it blooms; tomorrow it Wlithers and is cast into the oven.' "So long as my body lives, and yours-we arc one flesh -A-nd when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours. Claire-I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you." he understood all too well the razor's edge between fear and curiosity, the pull between the need to know and the fear of finding out. The fog had settled in his chest; he was breathing ice, crystal needles piercing heart and lungs.

her impression of our social position evidently going up by leaps and bounds. "Discretion is the better part of valor," "You are mv courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered. "You are mv heart-and I your

"You didn't want to hear it, did you?" Something between sickness and ftiry stirred in his gut, and then erupted. People spoke of night filling, but it didn't, reallv. Darkness rose, filling first the hollows, then shadowing the slopes, creeping imperceptibly up tree trunks and fenceposts as night swallowed the ground and rose Lip to join the greater dark of the star-spread sky above Lord John had been nothing but courtesy itself to me I have never tasted anything half so delicious He swallowed the heart that had risen into his throat, and reached for his sporran.

"But I've no life but you, Claire." Utmost gratitude

Little does the landsman knows how the sea men lives.

I am persuaded I might rely on your good sense not to do so, he returned. You must not think that I always prevaricate, for I only do so when I am obliged to.
when Helen, at all times and under all circumstances, evinced for me a quiet and faithful friendship, which ill-humour never soured, nor irritation never troubled? It opened clear on my comprehension that Helen Burns was numbering her last days in this world, and that she was going to be taken to the region of spirits, if such region there were. I experienced a shock of horror, then a strong thrill of grief,

then a desire a necessity to see her; and I asked in what room she lay. a profound stillness pervaded the vicinity. While I tried to devour my tears, a fit of coughing seized Helen But this is not to be a regular autobiography. I am only bound to invoke Memory where I know her responses will possess some degree of interest; therefore I now pass a space of eight years almost in silence: a few lines only are necessary to keep up the links of connection. it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquillity was no more. I surveyed the grounds laid out like a

What a sad blow it would be to my vanity if you found I could be just as easily mistaken as anyone else! You must let me keep my own counsel until I am certain. Very pretty, my lord, but I have frequently been forced to observe the remarkable disparity that exists between my notions of what is horrid, and yours. I beg you will not hesitate to tell me how odious has been my conduct!

map: the bright and velvet lawn closely girdling the grey base of the mansion; the field, wide as a park, dotted with its ancient timber; the wood, dun and sere, divided by a path visibly overgrown, greener with moss than the trees were with foliage; the church at the gates, the road, the tranquil hills, all reposing in the autumn day's sun; the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white. No feature in the scene was extraordinary, but all was pleasing.

Unshaken firmness, devoted diligence, unwearied perseveranc e, unceasing care, were the very qualifications on which I

had secretly prided myself; and by which I had hoped in time to overcome all difficulties, and obtain success at last. I wished to say something in my own justification; but in attempting to speak, I felt my voice falter; and rather than testify any emotion, or suffer the tears to overflow that were already gathering in my eyes, I chose to keep silence, and bear all like a selfconvicted culprit. I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored

by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me. All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to

judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded by my own obscurity, and by the lapse of years, and a few fictitious names, I do not fear to venture; and will candidly lay before the public what I would not disclose to the most intimate friend.

By dint of pinching here, and scraping there, our debts were already nearly paid But this rendered it

only the more piquant to me The 31st of January was a wild, tempestuous day: there was a strong north wind, with a continual storm of snow drifting on the ground and whirling through the air. After a considerable time we paused again, before the stately portico of a large house with long windows descending to the ground. It seemed to me a chilling and unnatural piece of punctilio

between the children of a family and their instructor and daily companion; To begin with the head: Mr. Murray was, by all accounts, a blustering, roystering, country squire: a devoted foxhunter, a skilful horsejockey and farrier, an active, practical farmer, and a hearty bon vivant. Miss Murray, otherwise Rosalie, was about sixteen when I came, and decidedly a very pretty girl; and in two years longer, as time more completely

developed her form and added grace to her carriage and deportment, she became positively beautiful; and that in no common degree. She was tall and slender, yet not thin; perfectly formed, exquisitely fair, though not without a brilliant, healthy bloom; her hair, which she wore in a profusion of long ringlets, was of a very light brown inclining to yellow; her eyes were pale blue, but so clear and bright that few would wish them darker; the rest of her features were small,

not quite regular, and not remarkably otherwise: but altogether you could not hesitate to pronounce her a very lovely girl. I wish I could say as much for mind and disposition as I can for her form and face. Not only the certainty of brain but the peace of heart.
Given the myriad of thoughts churning in her head, it was not an easy task. Power resides where men thinks it reside. Its a shadow on the wall

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innocent Samson with or Cleopatra employed on an unsuspecting Marc Antony