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No doubt she would have found it a less nice gesture had he been less nice looking. But that is the ugly truth about pretty people.
Prejudice is a luxury no good merchant can afford, his father had always said. Before they hung him.
“Sergeant Jovidi!” And as Manok shook the guard’s big paw he slipped a purse into it, with the offhand dexterity of a man who did a lot of bribing. “Manok!” said Jovidi, squeezing his hand back and pocketing the coins with the offhand dexterity of a man often bribed. “How was the voyage?”
“Diamonds are like people, after all—they need to be ground down a little before they reveal their best.”
But the hard truth is that great men die of the same things little ones do. Sometimes they slip and strike their heads, sometimes they choke on a fish bone, and sometimes they pass peacefully in the night, for no particular reason. When they do so, it is, in a way, a mercy. We should all be so lucky as to die in an unspectacular fashion.”
