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Untrue till Death (Master Mercurius Mysteries, #2) Untrue till Death by Graham Brack
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“love of money is the root of all evil (First letter to Timothy, chapter six,”
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“let Mechtild cook instead.”
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“I don’t know what it is about lute-players. I might, perhaps, exempt those who are the personal musicians of our great men, but the itinerant lutenists wander from inn to inn, frequently offering to play in exchange for food, drink and shelter for the night. As a result, they eat and drink lustily, to put it mildly, and that’s not the only thing they do lustily. If I were the father of daughters, I should counsel them strictly to have nothing to do with anyone with a lute.”
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“Beniamino was a scheming, unprincipled scoundrel, with loose morals, unhealthy appetites and an utter indifference to the truth; but then I could simply have told you that he was a lute-player and saved myself a lot of words.”
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“With respect,’ I began — and I know that this introduction guarantees that what follows conveys no respect at all”
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“understood his concern. There were those of a puritanical cast of mind who regarded music and musicians with suspicion. In the case of musicians this was understandable, since a more lascivious bunch of reprobates has not walked the earth, but anyone who has heard the great choral music of our age cannot object to its use by pious men and women.”
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“flabby thinkers.”
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