“I can’t believe,” he went on, “that you would besmirch my good name by implying that I’m an oath-breaker-” “I would have to know your name in order to besmirch it, would I not?” “You’re besmirching the idea of my good name.” “The idea of your name itself, or the idea that it’s a good name?” He blinked at her and mouthed the word Oh.”
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“If she died today, she died making her brother proud. But she didn’t want to die.”
“You could have me hanged,” Alarice offered. “If there are no witnesses, it never happened.”
“I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny...again.”
“It’s your imagination,” she told herself, “you’re not turning into a demonic cat.”
“She fell into their booth, right on the lap of a fallen angel.”