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“ Philippa drew a deep breath. ‘Mr. Blythe says you can read people’s thoughts,’ she said. ‘So why ask me?’
‘So that you may ask yourself. What a silly question,’ said the Dame de Doubtance.
Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 27
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“ Philippa said, to the scandalization of priest and secretary and charge d’affaires, “I think I’d like to get drunk.
Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 544
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“ Blurred by the abrasive seas and disfigured with molluscs, a grey, once-marble cupid lay in her palms, its wings honeycombed, its eyes hollow and vacant. Her own, staring at it, had lost all remembrance of herself: her breathless young eagerness was something Jerott remembered once in Francis Crawford, before the years of disenchantment ground it away.
Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 21
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“ The woman sitting there, straight and still on the bright velvet cushions, was not young; nor was she less than beautiful. The black hair, loose and shining, and deep, fell back over her shoulder and forward down to her waist; her chin was high above the pure line of her neck, which you could have held in one hand. Her eyebrows were black, and arched in pride, or surprise, or over some deep, long-held thought; and below the black, silky lashes, the wide eyes were packed full of straw.
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“ A long time afterwards, she was to remember what an excellent chess-player Francis Crawford was. And that, whether romance existed in him or not, sentimentality had no place at all.
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