I wish to God,โ said Gideon with mild exasperation, โthat youโd talkโjust onceโin prose like other people.
Dorothy DunnettAfter I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.
Dorothy DunnettSo she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. โExcuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?
Dorothy DunnettThe coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot.
Dorothy Dunnett