Sublime

Sibyl—if

Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy

Eldest was Frances, with skin as pale as milk and blood-red hair, who early on had the ability to commune with birds, which flocked to her window as if called when she was still in her crib.

dovetailed:

proved himself in all respects a worthy minister at the sacred altar of friendship.’

I haven’t ever been able to imagine a life of loving one person to the exclusion of others. I am well suited to monogamy of the body, but not the home.

I discovered her. Charmante, a perfect Gretchen,4 and we’ve already become acquainted. The prettiest little thing, really!’

ruth