not necessarily inspired by a carnal feeling—she was now sixty-two years old—but that she may have feared that Theodora and her ministers wished to dislodge her. Her age, no less than the remarkable conditions of her third and last marriage, will easily persuade us that the motive was ...
He would be glad of a decent excuse to abandon it, if he could find one. “And your friend must have been proud of your voice, wasn’t he?” “He sat more store by it than what I do. It was he, look yo, who trained me so as I could sing proper.” “Well, then, he ...
He carried it easily in one."Time to hunt."(*)It was eighteen years after the massacre at the temple, and Sephiria obediently followed her foster father into the rain."Come, child. The night shall only get worse, so we must find shelter soon. I will explain everything as soon as ...