Margaret Leigh

I consider it very unhandsome of you to refuse it. Such doings may be lined with religion, but outside they have a nasty, dog-in-the-manger look. You might as well slander Fred: it comes pretty near to it when you refuse to say you didn’t set a slander going. It’s this sort of thing – this tyrannical spirit, wanting to play bishop and banker

In theory these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.

His daughter Eanflæd was brought up, also in exile, as a Christian in the courts of Kent and then of Dagobert I in Paris.35 Her experience of sophisticated Frankish politics was to play a key role in the development of the Northumbrian state.

an important branding lesson: Don’t confuse “authentic” with “effortless.

After a long minute, the line of Lucy’s spine resets. She’s not gonna cry or puke, not now anyway; she’s got other things to do. I’m pretty sure she’s just decided to lie to us.

He’d not been repulsive, and if something about him had left her with this quiet unease, it was to do with her own private demons. With her own damn heart that didn’t work the way it used to. And also, perhaps, because she knew that every encounter left a trace—that half an hour with Jay Harper, and she knew enough about him to find him any time

the world that comes into focus in the saints’ lives and historical records of the seventh century is a social landscape of mature, hierarchical institutions reinforced by customary law, ceremony and economic necessity, in which transgression was met with extreme physical punishment and the – possibly worse – threat of social exclusion and

In RV 5.85, Varuna released the rain by overturning a pot: “Varuna has poured out the cask, turning its mouth downward. With it the king of the whole universe waters the soil.” In Sacrificial Deposit 1 at Sintashta an overturned pot was placed between two rows of sacrificed animals—in a ritual possibly associated with the construction of the

Wearing a ruff requires a little care. Those at the neck can restrict your ability to turn the head, a fact that can add a certain elegance to movement, requiring a turn of the whole torso. Indeed, posh Elizabethan clothes for both men and women also inhibit twist at the waist, so the turn must be from the feet. It enforces a mannered, considered