It was a very good year for city girls / Who lived up the stair / With all that perfumed hair / And it came undone / When I was twenty-one

Now it was said the French King sent his present to congratulate the Sultan upon his accession and also 10,000 ducats to the ambassador to accompany the Sultan on this Hungarish voyage.

'And Gabbie?' 'Gabbie?' 'Gabriella Patten. Have you spoken to her?' 'Gabbie.' Lynley mused over the diminutive as he tucked into his cornflakes.

I should delight in watching first to last / His progress as you watch it, not a whit / More in the secret than yourselves who sit / Fresh-chapleted to listen. But it seems […]