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Brethren
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W.A. Hoffman1,136 ratings, 4.10 average rating, 149 reviews
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“He shrugged. "It is usually not a pleasant emotion I find myself filled with."
"And now? Do you feel it now?"
"Oui. It is pleasant. I have no name for it. Can you name yours?"
"Oui." I bit my lip. I was hesitant to speak it, as I had always been soundly rebuked for it before. "Love." He took a long breath and studied the horizon. I cringed inwardly.
"You are sure?" he asked.
"Oui."
"You have felt this before?"
"Oui, and it has gone unanswered...every time." His eyes were filled with trepidation when they found mine. "Not this time.”
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"And now? Do you feel it now?"
"Oui. It is pleasant. I have no name for it. Can you name yours?"
"Oui." I bit my lip. I was hesitant to speak it, as I had always been soundly rebuked for it before. "Love." He took a long breath and studied the horizon. I cringed inwardly.
"You are sure?" he asked.
"Oui."
"You have felt this before?"
"Oui, and it has gone unanswered...every time." His eyes were filled with trepidation when they found mine. "Not this time.”
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“I had long ago learned to ignore things I could not resolve. Whenever I was faced with such choices, something always occured to tip the scales one way or another and relieve me of the decision.
I watched the skies for portents from the Gods.”
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I watched the skies for portents from the Gods.”
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“You are a nobleman?"
I eyed him and the others listening to us with a heavy sigh. "I am the Viscount of Marsdale. My father is the Earl of Dorshire."
All eyes went wide.
"Oh, stop, it is a mere accident of birth.”
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I eyed him and the others listening to us with a heavy sigh. "I am the Viscount of Marsdale. My father is the Earl of Dorshire."
All eyes went wide.
"Oh, stop, it is a mere accident of birth.”
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“All of your scars are on the inside, are they not?” he asked.
I nodded. “Not so severe as yours, I feel.”
“Why? Because they may not have involved as much bodily pain?”
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I nodded. “Not so severe as yours, I feel.”
“Why? Because they may not have involved as much bodily pain?”
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“If we fight alongside men we love, we do not fight for our lives or gold or glory or kings, but for each other. Death is less painful than watching a loved one die; and no fear is as great as being alone after the battle. And no man would appear as a coward in his lover's eyes.”
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“I see us as the dark and the light. Two sides of the same thing. You are bright and shining and I am a thing of shadows."
"I will be your white horse and you can be my black," I murmured and held him closer.”
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"I will be your white horse and you can be my black," I murmured and held him closer.”
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“Did God not make the Devil?"
"But not in his own image." Dickey quickly countered.
"Then in what image did He make him? Is God not all things? So how could something exist beyond God that God could pattern something from? By the very definition of God's omnipresence, are not all things in God's image?"
There were frowns and grimaces all around.
"Perhaps discussing this is unwise," Harry said.
"In what way, good sir? Do you feel God will hear us from on high and judge us heretics? Did God not give us the ability to question and reason, presumably in his image?"
"Respectfully," Dickey said.
"If God feels we are being disrespectful, may he command the sharks to leap forth from the sea and bite our hairy arses," I said.
Dickey blanched. "Sir, with all due respect, yours is the hairy arse that should be bit, as you began this."
Without doffing my breeches, I hung my arse over the gunwale so that it could easily be seen by the one shark doggedly keeping pace with us on that side of the ship. It did not leap forth from the water.
"God will deal with you later, I am sure," Dickey said with a great deal of dignity.”
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"But not in his own image." Dickey quickly countered.
"Then in what image did He make him? Is God not all things? So how could something exist beyond God that God could pattern something from? By the very definition of God's omnipresence, are not all things in God's image?"
There were frowns and grimaces all around.
"Perhaps discussing this is unwise," Harry said.
"In what way, good sir? Do you feel God will hear us from on high and judge us heretics? Did God not give us the ability to question and reason, presumably in his image?"
"Respectfully," Dickey said.
"If God feels we are being disrespectful, may he command the sharks to leap forth from the sea and bite our hairy arses," I said.
Dickey blanched. "Sir, with all due respect, yours is the hairy arse that should be bit, as you began this."
Without doffing my breeches, I hung my arse over the gunwale so that it could easily be seen by the one shark doggedly keeping pace with us on that side of the ship. It did not leap forth from the water.
"God will deal with you later, I am sure," Dickey said with a great deal of dignity.”
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“As usual, my first reaction to the reception of one of my overtures of philanthropy was a feeling of grace. This was always followed by a feeling of doubt. I thought through the possible courses this act of kindness could follow, and decided I did not care. I would help those I could, how I could, and damn the consequences.”
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“As you always taught me, men who think have proven to be the most dangerous of all over the course of history," I said.
"So have you been a dangerous man?""
I laughed. "I would like to think so.”
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"So have you been a dangerous man?""
I laughed. "I would like to think so.”
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“Lady, I know death will come but I avoid it because I can rationally foresee the devastation it will wreak upon my life. Yet after death, I will be beyond this mortal coil, and either in eternal pleasure or damnation. This thing that you do is worse than death, as it will leave me alive and in a perpetual state of agony. You may as well cast me into Hell.” She”
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