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Monday, January 12, 2004
"The woman turned and went slowly into the house. As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked upon the king with cool pity in her eyes.
Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings. Thus He for the first time in the full light of day beheld Her, Lady of _, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like a morning of pale spring that is not yet come to womanhood. And she now was suddenly aware of him: tall heir of kings, wise with many winters, greycloaked, hiding a power that yet she felt.
For a moment still as stone she stood, then turning swiftly she was gone."
Whoa! Such heat in so few words!
Maybe it's just me, but I think this is a really powerful paragraph. You can just see the sparks flying between these two people.
Just for fun, chocolates to whoever can guess what this extract is. Except for Len, because I know he knows exactly where it comes from, who wrote it and when it was written. (And possibly even knows what came before and what comes after...) Len is amazing beyond description.
EDIT
13th January, 5.10pm. Len has sms-ed me the publication, volume, chapter, title and also named the people being described above (with the correct spelling). And he said he remembered it from his last reading in 2001, didn't even need to check first to be sure. Told ya he was amazing!
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