Dorothy Dunnett Quotes

Between The Palaces Of The Knights And Those That Served Them; The Convents, The Elegant Homes Belonging To Officers Of The Church And The Town; Between The Bakehouse And The Shops Of The Craftsmen, The Arsenals And Magazines, The Warehouses, The Homes Of Merchants And Courtesans, Italian, Spanish, Greek; Past The Painted Shrines And Courtyards Scraped From Pockets Of Earth With Their Bright Waxy Green Carob Trees, A Fig, A Finger Of Vine, A Blue And Orange Pot Of Dry, Dying Flowers And A Tethered Goat Bleating In A Swept Yard, Padded The Heirs Of This Rock, This Precious Knot In The Trade Of The World. Umber-skinned, Grey-eyed, Barefoot And Robed As Arabs With The Soft, Slurring Dialect That Dido And Hannibal Spoke, They Slipped Past The Painted Facades To Their Birgu Of Fishermen's Huts And Blank, Arab-walled Houses Or To Sleep, Curled In The Shade, With The Curs In A Porch.

Dorothy Dunnett Quotes: Between The Palaces Of The Knights And Those That Served Them; The Convents, The Elegant Homes Belonging To Officers Of

Dorothy Dunnett Quotes: Between The Palaces Of The Knights And Those That Served Them; The Convents, The Elegant Homes Belonging To Officers Of

Dorothy Dunnett Quotes: Between The Palaces Of The Knights And Those That Served Them; The Convents, The Elegant Homes Belonging To Officers Of

Dorothy Dunnett Quotes: Between The Palaces Of The Knights And Those That Served Them; The Convents, The Elegant Homes Belonging To Officers Of

Dorothy Dunnett Quotes: Between The Palaces Of The Knights And Those That Served Them; The Convents, The Elegant Homes Belonging To Officers Of

Dorothy Dunnett Quotes: Between The Palaces Of The Knights And Those That Served Them; The Convents, The Elegant Homes Belonging To Officers Of

Dorothy Dunnett Quotes: Between The Palaces Of The Knights And Those That Served Them; The Convents, The Elegant Homes Belonging To Officers Of

Dorothy Dunnett Quotes: Between The Palaces Of The Knights And Those That Served Them; The Convents, The Elegant Homes Belonging To Officers Of

Dorothy Dunnett Quotes: Between The Palaces Of The Knights And Those That Served Them; The Convents, The Elegant Homes Belonging To Officers Of

Dorothy Dunnett Quotes: Between The Palaces Of The Knights And Those That Served Them; The Convents, The Elegant Homes Belonging To Officers Of

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