Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.
Laurie R. KingMy God...it can think.
Laurie R. KingMy God, it can recognise another human being when it's hit over the head with one.
Laurie R. KingTell me about yourself, Miss Russell."
I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him.
"Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?
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You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.
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Life has ill-prepared me for finding any enjoyment in a press of merrymakers.
Laurie R. KingMots clés solitude
Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?
Laurie R. KingMots clés mary-russell
But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to my bones that half a disguise is none at all...The moment my short-cropped, pomade-sleek, unquestionably masculine hair passed beneath his nose was the closest thing I've ever seen Holmes to fainting dead away.
Laurie R. KingMots clés mary-russell
Stop it!'
He relented, so far as he could, stepping forward to take my head into his hands. 'Russell, once, only once, I was taken and suffered for it. Please, my dear wife, believe me, this is not the same situation...'...I turned back to Holmes and hissed, 'If you're wrong, I shall be extremely angry with you.' Then O kissed him hard on the lips, more threat than affection, and let him step back into his cell...'However, Russ? I think that, all in all, given the choice, I prefer you with the hair and without the moustache.
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I crawled into my books and pulled the pages up over my head.
(A Monstrous Regiment of Women)
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