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Had she been older or vainer, such attacks might have done little; but, where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world, and of being so very early engaged as a partner; and the consequence was, that, when the two Morlands, after sitting an

This was a sacred space, and it came with its own sacred version of time. Djet it was called, the time of the gods and the time of the dead, the time that governs what is complete, unchanging, perfect, and everlasting. Unlike either the circle or the arrow, djet stands apart from nature and her ever-fluctuating processes. It is the time of

‘Beautiful logic,’ I said. ‘You mean I have a home to go to as long as I don’t go there?’ He laughed. ‘Well, isn’t it true? You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.’

Gaggle, thinks Myrna. From the German. Denoting a sound made either by a group of geese or a group of women. Cackle might seem to derive from the same root, but is actually …

the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much

Æðelfrið’s successor, Edwin. During his long exile the Deiran pretender had seen more of Britain’s geography than most of his contemporaries. He must have gawped at Chester’s walls and amphitheatre, travelled many miles of Rome’s highways, camped in its armies’ ruined forts. His second wife, Æðelburh, was a Christian raised in Canterbury where a

Also a 3kg bag of archetti, little curved remnants, reminders that before it was cut spaghetti hung over a stick.

He deferred the intention from day to day, his habit of acting on his conclusions being made infirm by his repugnance to every possible conclusion and its subsequent act. He saw Mr Bulstrode often, but he did not try to use any occasion for his private purpose. At one moment he thought, ‘I will write a letter: I prefer that to any circuitous talk’;

Bolbol had worked hard to gain the trust of his neighborhood. The details on his identity card marked him out for suspicion; for four years now, similar details had spelled catastrophe for many others. Thousands of people disappeared without a trace, simply for being born in areas controlled by the opposition, just as many regime supporters had