The Steel Beneath the Silk

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cat_on_the_shelf11 декабря 2025 г.
"I curse you! You and your children. May they die in your arms as mine did, and may you never know a moment's happiness with your viking lord!"
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cat_on_the_shelf13 декабря 2025 г.
Children were so easy to kill.
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cat_on_the_shelf11 декабря 2025 г.
You must familiarize yourself with all of your properties and with the men who have charge of them. You must make them believe that they can place their trust in you. And that trust, of course, must work in both directions.
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cat_on_the_shelf18 декабря 2025 г.
Do whatever you must to live and thrive! Do not look back.
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cat_on_the_shelf18 декабря 2025 г.
There was a very fine line it seemed to her, between desiring justice and desiring vengeance.
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cat_on_the_shelf18 декабря 2025 г.
The boy had been as haughty as his mother, filled with spite against Cnut, and convinced that God would one day set him upon England's throne. He struck her as a stupid, foolish youth, as pathetic in his useless defiance as his father had been.
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cat_on_the_shelf18 декабря 2025 г.
Do you think that Cnut will want you when he can have a queen?
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cat_on_the_shelf18 декабря 2025 г.
She had begged God for an end to the war, and he had answered her prayer. He had given England a bitter defeat.
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cat_on_the_shelf18 декабря 2025 г.
Dear God, give us an end to this foul war.
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cat_on_the_shelf18 декабря 2025 г.
No man or boy or even a king could truly be kept safe from harm in the midst of a battle.
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