“I wouldn’t have her in my bed, nor give her to you for yours. “Concubine!” Theobald sniggered with contempt, hating the girl with his darting eyes. “I’m sorry, I didn’t know she was your concubine.” Repelled by the catalog of her charms and by the thought of the lout laying hands on the girl, Lord Peter apologized stiffly. A tiny waist and these….” Theobald used both hands to gesture, sloshing ale into his lap and cursing. Plague take her, Saura’s body is the kind poets sing about. It looks magnificent against that skin of hers. Her mouth is so wide and red and smooth, and her hair is black, long, clear down her back. “Pretty?” Theobald snorted, holding his knife clutched tight in one hand and lifting his cup with the other. “That girl? The one at the foot of the table?” Lord Peter tread warily, unsure of his host, unsure of the hostility he saw mirrored in the man’s eyes. “I said, do you want her? You keep staring at her.” Theobald wiped his nose with the hand that held his knife. “What?” Lord Peter turned his gray head to his host, surprised by the question, jolted by the interruption. Raymond took his arm and led him to the strange… William trotted down the path on the knoll, looking back… “What blocks us?” William asked, squeezing next to Saura and… Saura hung there for days, through a season, until she… “I used to worship him,” Nicholas said plaintively. William was a man who prided himself on his logic. Without a word, Saura stepped forward and put out her… “I have a poem, dedicated to my lady of love.” Raymond seated himself, and answered the shouted questions between mouthfuls… Looking up from his appraisal of the young stallion, William… Rubbing her arms against the chill, Saura pulled off her…
The great hall smelled good, clean, and scented with herbs… Saura floundered out of the deep well of exhaustion, urged… Lord Peter stood up beside them and shouted, “A toast… The sepulchral barking grew closer, more menacing, and Saura crouched… “Only hope will greet us tomorrow.” Was it his own… “William, you have to stop kissing the maids.” Saura slapped… “What in God’s name possessed you to say such things…
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