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Have a peppermint, my dear, it is difficult to cry whilst sucking.’
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she said she loved him and that if he didn’t marry her, as he’d promised he would, dreadful things would happen to him and his family.’
‘A woman’s notion of love can be peculiar,’
‘In celibacy lies the on...
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Women are gifted with narrative power, but I make it a practice to believe only one third of what they tell me,
their notions of veracity, like their notions of love, are not to be relied upon.
The only exception, Nan, bein...
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put the whole thing from your mind and attend to matters more suited to your tender years, English grammar for instance, and the Greek alphabet.’
Haha - more suited than a tragic love story?
‘Emma Cobley
Hugo Valerian,
His father was dead and his mother had little control over him, so foolishness on his part was only to be expected.
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Lady Alicia
Ezra is a very excellent old man, but he is devoid of education and shares the superstitions of this benighted countryside.’
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‘You bow to the bees,’ she said. Uncle Ambrose looked at her and then suddenly threw back his head and laughed. ‘Yes, Nan, I do. I have the greatest respect for bees.’
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‘And I am very deeply aware of the mystery of things.’
Haha - wise
‘Not by her spells, which are nonsense,’ said Uncle Ambrose, ‘but possibly the thoughts of an unloving mind can have power to do harm if they are not confronted by a corresponding power for good.
Robert and Timothy?
How intensely do I dislike children!
Do not worry, my dear. Only good boys die young.’
Haha - well that’s reassuring for Robert and Timothy.
Robert.
Timothy.
the marvellous wood.
a giant beech
‘That’s all,’ said Timothy, but he wasn’t disappointed, for nothing could have been more beautiful than what they had heard.
‘Once the road went right up to the top of the hill, like in that picture.’ ‘What picture?’ asked Robert. ‘The one of the men riding up through the wood in Lady Alicia’s boudoir.’
they didn’t often notice the same things,
‘So it is,’ said Timothy, but again he was not disappointed because nothing could have been more beautiful than what they were seeing,
the booby-trap,
Some man or men had deliberately hidden the ditch.
‘It’s the castle moat,’ said Robert, who had suddenly become an invading Norman knight before the besieged castle. ‘Who’s for the drawbridge?’
‘Swords,’ said Timothy, suddenly remembering what Nan had said about the rowan branches. ‘We need swords!’
when Timothy was quite sure he would never do it, he saw three bees revolving in a patch of silver light upon the other side.
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like all half-hidden things, it was exciting.
‘William Lawson
Frederick
Emma ...
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Eliza L...
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Daft Davie’s cave.
in the month of June daylight lingers long enough to make love to the moonlight.
How could they know that it was much earlier in the evening than they thought it was, and this was only Daft Davie coming home, his head and beard blanched by the moonlight and his clothes whitened by the sack of flour he carried on his shoulders?
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though the way may have been long it did not seem so.
They felt no fatigue while they followed and they trod lightly, even Robert who did not hear what Timothy and Absolom heard.
Pan,’
The man from the garden of the fountain,’
