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Her tears, tonight, allowed him peace.

The world, not she, had failed.

'Might our dinner be your treat? I'm afraid I can't pay.'

I'm concerned in case Justina might try to make her way to Dublin.

Fair-haired he'd been, not at all like the present one, whose name she did not know.

"What happened to that girl—Angelica?"

"But Angel wouldn't see at all like that."

"I have wanted to see this house since I was a child."

Glances of astonishment she interpreted as admiration.

"I feel very happy."

The people who are right are those who buy it.

"I want a book now, at this minute."

A few green leaves can make such a difference.

'Yes, so she knows her failings. Heather was a librarian,' he added, as if this might explain the failings.

I've got a good collection of suitable wines inside.

The clergy nowadays seldom included the weather in their prayers....

Presumably older women shouldn't drink, she thought, or women of a certain age. But what might that age be?

I think you may be assured that I shall do precisely what is needful.

The gardener stood on the edge of the bright lawn, naked to the waist, young thighs planted well apart, his golden-skinned torso gleaming in the sunlight, swinging the scythe with easy strokes.

Do not worry, Nicco. You are the worst boy to worry I ever knew.

If angels were angels in the first place.

He was not Death of course; and yet he was. He had the face, hadn't he?

There are no visitors here; only prospective citizens.

The vortex whirled and foamed and spat.

I looked like a madwoman

"Whose rosy ass have you been kissing?"