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"Are you?" Colvin asked softly
"When a, that is the better question! As if you would ever woo a girl Well, lass –then I had heard the hunter was short and bearded My infor, because you are quite tall and you do not, in fact, have a beard"
The way he said it struck Lia as witty beyond words –she had heard corounds It took deliberate focus not to startle with laughter She sed "If you know a cure for being tall, I alad to hear it," she said
"Another clever retort," he said, co her "My, you are a surprise So… out in the muck was to find another way to humiliate and infuriate the Earl of Forshee, which I have , and my second purpose was to seek the Alderer would like to hunt in your grounds later this day The roads are too wet to ride and Winterrowd is terribly far away, so we are postponing our departure by a day Shall I advise her of your co the earl…?" He paused for effect "the clothes, I
"Of course youHe turned back to Colvin "Is Norris-York here as well? Good Did you hear that Caspur offered me one of his earldoms if I take his side?"
Colvin shook his head, his face still livid "He would never give one up willingly, Dieyre He is just as likely plotting to take yours as he is to give you one"
"He does not have an heir, you see And neither do you and neither do I Well, no legiti Well, I will diser you are co later The haill not like the rain, so all ill need is a sturdy bow"
"If the Alder to him
Another ser what she wants Not even hi hastily away Colvin and Lia stood under the shelter, listening the rain tap on the dales
"That was the Earl of Dieyre," Colvin said softly, seething, staring at the rass his boots had left behind "The best swordsman in the realm Of any realm, for that ht for the Aldermaston first in his study, but Prestwich informed her that he ith the learners in the cloisters She trudged back into the rain and crossed the ripping the bow sleeve tightly The hts, especially related to Colvin She was struck by Colvin’s discipline regarding practicing his swordplay One night in the Bearden Muir he said he practiced in case he ever met a better swords and experience than me, then I best drill and drill and drill harder than thatto Dieyre