They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.

“[The clerk] held in front of him a scroll with a red wax seal affixed, the kind…”

“DON’T WORRY, IT WON’T BE FOREVER.Good.IT MAY SEEM LIKE FOREVER.”

“And these are your reasons, my lord?""Do you think I have others?" said Lord Ve…”

“And then there was the young male walk. At least women swung only their hips. Y…”