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Topic: The taste of defeat is like cold iron in my mouth |
bertram123
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Forum: Forum Posted: Fri 14:39, 14 Oct 2011 Subject: The taste of defeat is like cold iron in my mouth |
The taste of defeat is like cold iron in my mouth, like the bit for an unbroken filly. I could spit the bitter taste. I want to run and I want to throw myself face down on the ground and weep for my f ... |
Topic: Someone should be |
bertram123
Replies: 1
Views: 435
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Forum: Forum Posted: Fri 14:39, 14 Oct 2011 Subject: Someone should be |
Someone should be here to present me; I should have a herald to announce my titles. But I feel as if I am naked before her: it is just her and just me, facing each other like enemies across the flames ... |
Topic: Pray God that she will have him |
bertram123
Replies: 1
Views: 399
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Forum: Forum Posted: Fri 14:38, 14 Oct 2011 Subject: Pray God that she will have him |
Pray God that she will have him. She has left it as late as any woman dare; she is thirty-five, dangerously old to give birth to a first child, but she will have to grit her teeth and do it. We have t ... |
Topic: Beside me is my page, and Mary Seton |
bertram123
Replies: 1
Views: 471
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Forum: Forum Posted: Fri 14:38, 14 Oct 2011 Subject: Beside me is my page, and Mary Seton |
The ground comes up underneath me in a dark hidden rush and I stagger to my feet, untie the rope, and give it three hard tugs and they pull it back up. Beside me is my page, and Mary Seton, my lifelon ... |
Topic: he is only two years old |
bertram123
Replies: 1
Views: 432
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Forum: Forum Posted: Fri 14:37, 14 Oct 2011 Subject: he is only two years old |
This flattery from Cecil should content me, but we seem to be back to Bess again, and Cecil should remember that before I married her she was a woman who had come up 1568, WINTER, BOLTON CASTLE: MARY ... |
Topic: I say to my rescuer |
bertram123
Replies: 1
Views: 462
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Forum: Forum Posted: Fri 14:36, 14 Oct 2011 Subject: I say to my rescuer |
“Yes,” I say to my rescuer. “Oui,” I say to the gods of fortune, to life itself. And when he says to me, “When?” I say, “Tonight.” I don’t fear, I am frightened of nothing. I escaped from my own palac ... |
Topic: I cling to the post of the window |
bertram123
Replies: 0
Views: 294
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Forum: Forum Posted: Fri 14:36, 14 Oct 2011 Subject: I cling to the post of the window |
I cling to the post of the window as if I cannot let it go. Agnes is white with fear, the porter’s face steady. If I am going to go, I have to go now. I release the comfort of the stone arch of the wi ... |
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