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You mean it's to be peace between you and Elizabeth until after the Tapestry?" cried Georgie, horrified. The prospect of a cessation of hostilities was appalling, for this warfare provided him with the excitement that no other occupation could hope to offer. "Isn't that a bit drastic?Tom Holt
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Realism without naturalism... is a leading motif in Modern Art. There is a move away from the struggle to perfect the reflection of Nature in Art's mirror, which I attribute to the all-pervading effects of photography... You must serve the tradition without being its slave. Remember you are an artist, not a draughtsman.Tom Holt
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Most thoughtful, "...[he said] politely. This cheerfulness was ambiguous, Had she determined to ignore. ..[the] coup entirely--an established tactic, most irritating to the innovator but hard to sustain over long periods of time--or had she already evolved her counter-strategy?Tom Holt
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How careless of me! " By which she meant that she had deduced that he had found [them] in his pocket and pitied him for needing to be forever in the right.Tom Holt
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{She] laughed so that the street seemed full of little silver bells,Tom Holt
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As the Athenians to the Pnyx, the antique Romans to the Campus Martius, or our Nordic ancestors to the All-Thing, so the folk of Tilling flocked to the High Street for extempore parliament.Tom Holt
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..[She] was not nearly so intrusive. If she happened to observe the comings and goings of her friends out of the corner of her eye (which she could hardly fail to do, given the nature of her favorite sitting-place) and chanced to be able to remember when she had seen them and where they had been going, it was simply a tribute to her keen powers of observation and recall. Conscious spying was beneath her altogether.Tom Holt