No man as godly as George, the only fault he finds with God is that he made folk with too few orifices. If George could meet a woman with a quinny under her armpit, he would call out 'Glory be' and set her up in a house and visit her every day, until the novelty wore off. Nothing is forbidden to George, you see. He'd go to it with a terrier bitch if she wagged her tail at him and said bow-wow.'
For once he is struck silent. He knows he will never get it out of his mind, the picture of George in a hairy grapple with a little ratting dog.
Mots clés historical-fiction
When have I, when have I ever forced anyone to do anything, he starts to say: but Richard cuts in, "No, you don't, I agree, it's just that you are practiced at persuading, and sometimes it's quite difficult, sir, to distinguish being persuaded by you from being knocked down in the street and stamped on."
-Richard (?) nee Cromwell to Thomas Cromwell,358
Oh, by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus!
Hilary MantelMots clés curses
If a man spoke to you in that tone, you'd invite him to step outside and ask someone to hold your coat."
378
If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..."
469
In England there is no mercy for the poor. You pay for everything, even a broken neck."
472
...he holds the boy, feeling the jump of his pulses, his stiff sinews, the ropes of his muscles, and makes sounds of comfort, as he did to his children when they were small, or as he does to a spaniel whose tail has been trodden on. Comfort is often, he finds, imparted at the cost of a flea or two."
523
Bargain all you like. Consign yourself to the hangman if you must. The people don't give a fourpenny fuck."
512
Mots clés vulgarian-streak
Sometimes I'm at stool all night."
507
Mots clés vulgarian-streak
He, Cromwell, watches. They are not the same couple from day to day: sometimes doting, sometimes chilly and distanced. The billing and cooing, on the whole, is the more painful to watch."
516
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