Quite a good job: his clerk had booked it for him. Leadbitter called for the man first. He was the artist type, tall, young, loosely built, with greenish eyes and auburn locks and a beard. Leadbitter took against him at sight, but he was an impartial judge of a man and he had to admit that as a m...
The Visitor held her thin hand out for Jael to take and then sat down. The silence within the hut was almost unbelievable; with a beating heart Jael waited for the Visitor to break it. Meanwhile, she stared almost rudely at her. How pretty she must have been once, long ago. A Failed Alpha, certai...
Lead me, ye guards, Lead me on to the rack, or to the flames; I’ll thank your gracious mercy. So ran the recitative, concluding with Handel’s habitual pom ... pom. I was proud of being able to sing it, for it was in the most uncompromising minor and the intervals were very tricky; a...