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title: "33 Gaze Quotes By John Flanagan"
description: "33 Gaze quotes by John Flanagan. Plus more from John Flanagan and more Gaze sayings from other authors."
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> [You surely can't be trying to blame us for Erak's habit of charging ashore waving an axe and grabbing everything that isn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/you-surely-can-t-be-trying-to-blame-us-for-erak-s-habit-of-charging/)

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> [Ow!" said Horace as the Ranger's fingers probed and poked around the bruise. Did that hurt?" Halt asked, and Horace looked at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/ow-said-horace-as-the-ranger-s-fingers-probed-and-poked-around-the/)

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> [Hunting party," Horace said Both Halt and Will looked at him sarcastically. "You think?" Will said. "Maybe they found the deer and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/hunting-party-horace-said-both-halt-and-will-looked-at-him/)

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> [Maybe we should have gone with him," he said, a few minutes after his friend was lost to sight. "Three of us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/maybe-we-should-have-gone-with-him-he-said-a-few-minutes-after-his/)

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> [Halt snorted derisively. "Battleschool evidently isn't what it used to be," he replied. "It's a fine thing when an old man like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/halt-snorted-derisively-battleschool-evidently-isn-t-what-it-used-to/)

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> [Easy climb, Kurokuma. You do it easily.' 'Not on your life,' Horace said... 'That's what we have Rangers for. They climb up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/easy-climb-kurokuma-you-do-it-easily-not-on-your-life-horace-said/)

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> [“Bryn looked from Halt to Horace and back again. He saw no pity in either face. "I don't want to," he said…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/bryn-looked-from-halt-to-horace-and-back-again-he-saw-no-pity-in/)

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> [“Very well," he said now. "Fighting positions, please, ladies..." "That's debatable," Halt said in an undertone to Will as they stood watchingn.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/very-well-he-said-now-fighting-positions-please-ladies-that-s/)

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> [“Do you think you could persuade that horse of yours to stay with the other horses for a minute or two?” he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/do-you-think-you-could-persuade-that-horse-of-yours-to-stay-with-the/)

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> [Would you have done that in his place? Would you have left him and gone on?" "Of course I would!" Halt replied…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/would-you-have-done-that-in-his-place-would-you-have-left-him-and/)

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> [“One thing' Erak said. 'Tell your men to keep their noses clean while they're in Hallasholm. I don't want any trouble.' Zavac…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/one-thing-erak-said-tell-your-men-to-keep-their-noses-clean-while/)

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> [“We must wait," she said. "They are involved in important buisness." Her tone was serious, almost reverntial. The two of them stopped,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/we-must-wait-she-said-they-are-involved-in-important-buisness-her/)

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> [“Young men!” he snorted to Erak. “They think a pretty face can cure every ill.” “Some of us can remember back that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/young-men-he-snorted-to-erak-they-think-a-pretty-face-can-cure-every/)

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> [“Will saw the first Senshi officer release and instantly knew where the arrow was aimed. 'They've spotted Shigeru!' He was about to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/will-saw-the-first-senshi-officer-release-and-instantly-knew-where/)

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> [“He looked up as the party emerged and nickered a soft hello to his master, who was dressed in an unfamiliar green…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/he-looked-up-as-the-party-emerged-and-nickered-a-soft-hello-to-his/)

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> [“Horace, fit, and athletic and light on his feet, gave their guards the fewest opportunities to beat him, although on one occasion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/horace-fit-and-athletic-and-light-on-his-feet-gave-their-guards-the/)

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> [“Halt," said Horace, "I've been thinking..." Halt and Will exchanged an amused glance. "Always a dangerous pastime," they chorused. For many years,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/halt-said-horace-i-ve-been-thinking-halt-and-will-exchanged-an-amused/)

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> [“You really miss him don't you?" The Ranger nodded. "More than I realized," he said. Alyss urged her horse close beside his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/you-really-miss-him-don-t-you-the-ranger-nodded-more-than-i-realized/)

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> [“Me?" he said in some surprise. "I won't be dancing! It's the bridal dance. The bride and groom dance alone!" For one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/me-he-said-in-some-surprise-i-won-t-be-dancing-it-s-the-bridal-dance/)

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> [“Halt waited a minute or two but there was no sound except for the jingling of harness and the creaking of leather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/halt-waited-a-minute-or-two-but-there-was-no-sound-except-for-the/)

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> [“Gilan,” she said, “you’re looking well.” And apart from those wrinkles, he was. He smiled at her. “And you grow more beautiful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/gilan-she-said-you-re-looking-well-and-apart-from-those-wrinkles-he/)

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> [“Selethen was names Hawk. Alyss had been given the title of Tsuru, or Crane. . .Evanlynn was Kitsune, the Nihon-Jan word for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/selethen-was-names-hawk-alyss-had-been-given-the-title-of-tsuru-or/)

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> [I'll be getting you for this,' Halt had told him as he dabbed the diguisting mixture on the worst of the cuts.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/i-ll-be-getting-you-for-this-halt-had-told-him-as-he-dabbed-the/)

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> [“Don’t talk to your horse, dear. People are watching,” Pauline said quietly. Halt turned a perplexed look toward her. “How do you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/don-t-talk-to-your-horse-dear-people-are-watching-pauline-said/)

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> [Looks like he's lost a guinea and found a farthing," Horace said, then added, unnecessarily, "Will, I mean." Halt turned in his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/looks-like-he-s-lost-a-guinea-and-found-a-farthing-horace-said-then/)

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> [Bear with me on this, Evanlyn. I know you're anxious about Horace." WIll was a little puzzled by Halt's words. "No more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/bear-with-me-on-this-evanlyn-i-know-you-re-anxious-about-horace-will/)

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> [I'll think of something," he temporized, and Horace nodded wisely, satisfied that Halt would indeed think of something. In Horace's world, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/i-ll-think-of-something-he-temporized-and-horace-nodded-wisely/)

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> [“There was a roar of delight from the forward bench, and then the bearlike figure of Nils Ropehander came lumbering down the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/there-was-a-roar-of-delight-from-the-forward-bench-and-then-the/)

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> [Well I'm not dancing," Will said through gritted teeth. "I don't know how." Oh yes you are," Alyss told him. "Let's hope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/well-i-m-not-dancing-will-said-through-gritted-teeth-i-don-t-know-how/)

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> [Mikeru was still puzzling over Horace's last remark. He frowned. 'Kurokuma, these shenanigans... What are they?' 'Shenanigans are what Rangers do. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/mikeru-was-still-puzzling-over-horace-s-last-remark-he-frowned/)

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> [Once again Erak bellowed with laughter. "Your master here went nearly the same shade of green as his cloak," he told Will.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/once-again-erak-bellowed-with-laughter-your-master-here-went-nearly/)

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> [“Will had been taken aback in his confrontation with Arisaka to discover that his name- Chocho- meant "Butterfly"... He was puzzled to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/will-had-been-taken-aback-in-his-confrontation-with-arisaka-to/)

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> [“But...' Horace looked from one familiar face to another. 'How did you come to..?' Before he could finish the question, Will interupted,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/but-horace-looked-from-one-familiar-face-to-another-how-did-you-come/)

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> [What about you three, where are you going?" Even before Halt answered, Will knew what he was going to say. But that didn't make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/what-about-you-three-where-are-you-going-even-before-halt-answered/)

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> [“There's a tavern by the docks. He's there most evenings." "Then I'll talk to him tonight," Halt said. "You can try. But he's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/there-s-a-tavern-by-the-docks-he-s-there-most-evenings-then-i-ll-talk/)

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> [The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/the-sun-was-trembling-on-the-brink-of-the-world-the-shadows-at-their/)

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> [We're going to see Ragnak," Halt told him. "He's going to have to promise to free every slave who fights for Hallasholm." Will shook…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/we-re-going-to-see-ragnak-halt-told-him-he-s-going-to-have-to-promise/)

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> [“We must wait," she said. "They are involved in important buisness." Her tone was serious, almost reverntial. The two of them stopped, some five…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/we-must-wait-she-said-they-are-involved-in-important-buisness-her/)

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> [So I'm an ace?' Will grinned. 'I'm flattered Halt, flattered. I had no idea you regarded me so highly.' Halt gave him a long-suffering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/so-i-m-an-ace-will-grinned-i-m-flattered-halt-flattered-i-had-no-idea/)

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> [“Damn! I hate farewells!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/damn-i-hate-farewells/)

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> [“They sailed into Raguza and Hal said, as bold as brass, “We’ve come to challenge Zavac and we plan to kick his—”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/they-sailed-into-raguza-and-hal-said-as-bold-as-brass-we-ve-come-to/)

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> [Are there bears in these mountains?" he asked. His companion nodded. "Of course. But it's a bit early in the year for them to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/are-there-bears-in-these-mountains-he-asked-his-companion-nodded-of/)

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> [Well I'm not dancing," Will said through gritted teeth. "I don't know how." Oh yes you are," Alyss told him. "Let's hope you're a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/well-i-m-not-dancing-will-said-through-gritted-teeth-i-don-t-know-how/)

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> [The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/the-battle-if-you-could-call-it-that-lasted-no-more-than-a-few-seconds/)

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> [Well, we can ride together for a while longer. The highway south is farther along this way. I'll be glad of some cheerful company."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/well-we-can-ride-together-for-a-while-longer-the-highway-south-is/)

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> [“Does it matter?" Halt asked. Horace shrugged. "Not really, I suppose. I just wondered why you'd gone to the kitchen and why you took…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/does-it-matter-halt-asked-horace-shrugged-not-really-i-suppose-i-just/)

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> [Maybe we should have gone with him," he said, a few minutes after his friend was lost to sight. "Three of us would make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/maybe-we-should-have-gone-with-him-he-said-a-few-minutes-after-his/)

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> [Best way then is to be waiting for them to bring Halt and the others out of that prison,” he said, almost to himself.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/best-way-then-is-to-be-waiting-for-them-to-bring-halt-and-the-others/)

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                        "text": "Ow!\" said Horace as the Ranger's fingers probed and poked around the bruise. Did that hurt?\" Halt asked, and Horace looked at him with exasperation. Of course it did,\" he said sharply. \"That's why I said 'ow!",
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                        "text": "Hunting party,\" Horace said Both Halt and Will looked at him sarcastically. \"You think?\" Will said. \"Maybe they found the deer and brought him back to repair him.",
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                        "text": "Maybe we should have gone with him,\" he said, a few minutes after his friend was lost to sight. \"Three of us would make four times the noise he will,\" Halt said. Horace frowned, not quite understanding the equation. \"Wouldn't three of us make three times the noise?\" Halt shook his head. \"Will and Tug will make hardly any noise. Neither will Abelard and I. But as for you and that moving earthquake you call a horse...\" He gestured at Kicker and left the rest unsaid.",
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                        "text": "Halt snorted derisively. \"Battleschool evidently isn't what it used to be,\" he replied. \"It's a fine thing when an old man like me can sleep comfortably in the open while a young boy gets all stiff and rheumatic over it.\" Horace shrugged. \"Be that as it may,\" he replied, \"I'll still be glad to sleep in a bed tonight.\" Actually, Halt felt the same way. But he wasn't going to let Horace no that.",
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                        "text": "Easy climb, Kurokuma. You do it easily.' 'Not on your life,' Horace said... 'That's what we have Rangers for. They climb up sheer rock walls and crawl along narrow, slippery ledges. I'm a trained warrior, and I'm far to valuable to risk such shenanigans.' 'We're not valuable?' Will said, feigning insult. Horace looked at him. 'We've got two of you. We can always afford to lose one,' he said firmly.",
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                        "text": "“Very well,\" he said now. \"Fighting positions, please, ladies...\" \"That's debatable,\" Halt said in an undertone to Will as they stood watchingn. A number of the off-duty crew had gathered to watch as well. There was a certain enjoyment to be had in watching two extremely attractive girls trying to split each other's skulls open with wooden swords. \"The 'fighting' part or the 'ladies' part?\" Will replied with a grin. Halt looked at him and shook his head. \"Definitely the 'ladies,'\" he said. \"There's no debate about the fighting.'\" ~Halt & Will about Evanlyn and Alyss”",
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                        "text": "“Do you think you could persuade that horse of yours to stay with the other horses for a minute or two?” he said with a mock severity. “Otherwise he’ll wind up believing he’s one of us.” He’s been driving Halt crazy since we found your tracks,” Horace put in. “He must have picked up your scent and known it was you we were following, although Halt didn’t realize it.” At that, Halt raised an eyebrow. “Halt didn’t realize it?” he repeated. “And I suppose you did?” Horace shrugged. “I’m just a warrior,” he replied. “I’m not supposed to be the thinker. I leave that to you Rangers.”",
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                        "text": "Would you have done that in his place? Would you have left him and gone on?\" \"Of course I would!\" Halt replied immediately. But something in his voice rang false and Horse looked at him, raising one eyebrow. He'd waited a long time for an opportunity to use that expression of disbelief on Halt. After a pause, the Ranger's anger subsided. \"All right. Perhaps I wouldn't,\" he admitted. Then he glared at Horace. \"And stop raising that eyebrow on me. You can't even do it properly. Your other eyebrow moves with it!",
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                        "text": "“One thing' Erak said. 'Tell your men to keep their noses clean while they're in Hallasholm. I don't want any trouble.' Zavac nodded and smiled. 'I understand. This is a quiet town and you don't want the peace disturbed.' Erak smiled back, but it was like a smile on the face of a shark. 'No. This is a very violent town and if your men cause trouble, my people will break their heads a for them. I don't want to be paying any blood money for damage done to your crew. Understand?' Zavac's smile faded. He looked for some sign that the Oberjarl was joking, but he saw none. He nodded again, slowly this time.”",
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                        "text": "“We must wait,\" she said. \"They are involved in important buisness.\" Her tone was serious, almost reverntial. The two of them stopped, some five meters from the group of me. They were all leaning forward, staring intently at an upright rock placed in the middle of the circle. Will thought they must be praying, although no words were being said. Then, as one, they all slumped back with a roar of disappointment. \"It flew away!\" said one figure, and Will recognized the voice. It was the man who had rescued him. \"Almost to the top and it flew away!\" e lookd questioningly to Cieliema and she rolled her eyes at him. \"Grown men gambling on two flies crawling up a stone.\" \"Gambling?\" he said. \"I thought they were praying. She raised an eyebrow. \"To them, it's much the same thing.”",
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                        "text": "“Young men!” he snorted to Erak. “They think a pretty face can cure every ill.” “Some of us can remember back that far. Halt,” Erak told him with a grin. “I suppose that’s all far behind an old hack like you. Svengal told me you were settling down. Some plump, motherly widow seizing her last chance with a broken-down old gray bear, is she?” Erak, of course, had been told by Svengal that Halt had recently married a great beauty. But he enjoyed getting a reaction from the smaller man. Halt’s one-eyed stare locked onto the Oberjarl. “When we get back, I’d advise you not to refer to Pauline as a ‘plump, motherly widow’ in her hearing. She’s very good with that dagger she carries and you need your ears to keep that ridiculous helmet of yours in place.”",
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                        "text": "“Halt,\" said Horace, \"I've been thinking...\" Halt and Will exchanged an amused glance. \"Always a dangerous pastime,\" they chorused. For many years, it had been Halt's unfailing response when Will had made the same statement. Horace waited patiently while they had their moment of fun, then continued. \"Yes, yes. I know. But seriously, as we said last night, Macindaw isn't so far away from here...\" \"And?\" Halt asked, seeing how Horace had left the statement hanging. \"Well, there's a garrison there and it might not be a b ad idea for one of to go fetch some reinforcements. It wouldn't hurt to have a dozen knights and men-at-arms to back us up when we run into Tennyson.\" But Halt was already shaking his head. \"Two problems, Horace. It'd take too long for one of us to get there, explain it all and mobilize a force. And even if we could do it quickly, I don't think we'd want a bunch of knights blundering around the countryside, crashing through the bracken, making noise and getting noticed.\" He realized that statement had been a little tactless. \"No offense, Horace. Present company excepted, of course.”",
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                        "text": "“You really miss him don't you?\" The Ranger nodded. \"More than I realized,\" he said. Alyss urged her horse close beside his and learned over to kiss him on the cheek. That's for Will when you see him.\" A ghost of a smile touched Halt's face. You'll understand if I don't pass it on in person?\" he said. Alyss smiled and leaned over and kissed him again. And that's for you, you jaded, bad-tempered old Ranger.\" A little surprised by her own impulsivness, she urged her horse ahead of him. Halt touched his cheek and looked at the slim blonde figure. If I were twenty years younger...he began. The he sighed and had to be honest with himself. Make that thirty years, he thought.”",
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                        "text": "“Me?\" he said in some surprise. \"I won't be dancing! It's the bridal dance. The bride and groom dance alone!\" For one circuit of the room,\" she told him. \"After which they are joined by the best man and first bridesmaid, then by the groomsman and the second bridesmaid.\" Will reacted as he had been stung. He leaned over to speak across Jenny on his left, to Gilan. Gil! Did you know we have to dance?\" he asked. Gilan nodded enthusiastically. Oh yes indeed. Jenny and I have been practicing for the past three days, haven't we, Jen?\" Jenny looked up at him adoringly and nodded. Jenny was in love. Gilan was tall, dashing, good-looking, charming and very ammusing. Plus he was cloaked in the mystery and romance tat came with being a Ranger. Jenny had only ever known one ranger and that had been grim-faced, gray-bearded Halt.”",
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                        "text": "“Halt waited a minute or two but there was no sound except for the jingling of harness and the creaking of leather from their saddles. Finally, the former Ranger could bear it no longer. What?” The question seemed to explode out of him, with a greater degree of violence than he had intended. Taken by surprise, Horace’s bay shied in fright and danced several paces away. Horace turned an aggrieved look on his mentor as he calmed the horse and brought it back under control. What?” he asked Halt, and the smaller man made a gesture of exasperation. That’s what I want to know,” he said irritably. “What?” Horace peered at him. The look was too obviously the sort of look that you give someone who seems to have taken leave of his senses. It did little to improve Halt’s rapidly growing temper. What?” said Horace, now totally puzzled. Don’t keep parroting at me!” Halt fumed. “Stop repeating what I say! I asked you ‘what,’ so don’t ask me ‘what’ back, understand?” Horace considered the question for a second or two, then, in his deliberate way, he replied: “No.” Halt took a deep breath, his eyebrows contracted into a deep V, and beneath them his eyes with anger but before he could speak, Horace forestalled him. What ‘what’ are you asking me?” he said. Then, thinking how to make the question clearer, he added, “Or to put it another way, why are you asking ‘what’?” Controlling himself with enormous restraint, and making no secret of the fact, Halt said, very precisely: “You were about to ask me a question.” Horace frowned. “I was?” Halt nodded. “You were. I saw you take a breath to ask it.” I see,” Horace said. “And what was it about?” For just a second or two, Halt was speechless. He opened his mouth, closed it again, then finally found the strength to speak. That is what I was asking you,” he said. “When I said ‘what,’ I was asking you what you were about to ask me.” I wasn’t about to ask you ‘what,’” Horace replied, and Halt glared at him suspiciously. It occurred to him that Horace could be indulging himself in a gigantic leg pull, that he was secretly laughing at Halt. This, Halt could have told him, was not a good career move. Rangers were not people who took kindly to being laughed at. He studied the boy’s open face and guileless blue eyes and decided that his suspicion was ill-founded. Then what, if I may use that word once more, were you about to ask me?” Horace drew a breath once more, then hesitated. “I forget,” he said. “What were we talking about?”",
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                        "text": "“Gilan,” she said, “you’re looking well.” And apart from those wrinkles, he was. He smiled at her. “And you grow more beautiful every day, Pauline,” he replied. “What about me?” Halt said, with mock severity. “Do I grow more handsome every day? More impressive, perhaps?” Gilan eyed him critically, his head to one side. Then he announced his verdict. “Scruffier,” he said. Halt raised his eyebrows. “’Scruffier’?” he demanded. Gilan nodded. I’m not sure if you’re aware of recent advances in technology, Halt,” he said. “But there a wonderful new invention called scissors. People use them for trimming beards and hair.” “Why?” Gilan appealed to Pauline. “Still using his saxe knife to do his barbering, is he?” Pauline nodded, slipping her hand inside her husband’s arm. “Unless I can catch him at it,” she admitted. Halt regarded them both with a withering look. They both refused to wither, so he abandoned the expression. “You show a fine lack of respect for your former mentor,” he told Gilan. The younger man shrugged. “It goes with my exalted position as your commander.” “Not mine,” Halt said. “I’ve retired.” “So I can expect little in the way of deference from you?” Gilan grinned. “No. I’ll show proper deference….the day you train your horse to fly back around the castle’s turrets.”",
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                        "text": "“Selethen was names Hawk. Alyss had been given the title of Tsuru, or Crane. . .Evanlynn was Kitsune, the Nihon-Jan word for Fox . . .Halt strangly enough had been known only as Halto-san. . . But Will had been taken aback in his confrotation with Arisaka to discover that his name - Chocho - meant \"butterfly\". It seemed a highly unwarlike name to him- not at all glamorous.And he was puzzled to know why they had selected it. His friends,of course, were delighted in helping him guess the reason. \"I assume its because you're such a snazzy dresser,\" Evanlynn said. \"You Rangers are like a riot of color after all.\" Will glared at her and was mortified to hear Alyss snigger at the princess's sally. He'd thought Alyss, at least, might stick up for him. \"I think it might be more to do with the way he raced around the the training ground, darting here and there to correct the way a man might be holding his sheidl then dashing off to show someone how to put theri body weight into their javelin cast,\" said Horace, a little more sympathetically. Then he ruined the effect by adding thoughtlessly, \"I must say, your cloak did flutter around like a butterfly's wings.\" \"It was neither of those things,\" Halt said finally, and they all turned to look at him. \"I asked Shigeru,\" he explained. \"He said that they had all noticed how Will's mind and imagination darts from one idea to another at such high speed,\" . . Will looked mollified. \"Isuppose it's not too bad it you put it that way. It's just it does seem a bit . . girly.\" … \" I like my name Horace said a little smugly. \"Black Bear. It describes my prodigous strength and my mighty prowess in battle.\" Alyss might have let him get away with it if it hadn't been for his tactless remark about Will's cloak flapping like a butterfly's wings. \"Not quite,\" she said. \"I asked Mikeru where the name came from. He said it described your prdogious appetite and your mighty prowess at the dinner table. It seems that when you were escaping through the mountains, Shigeru and his followers were worried you'd eat the supplies all by yourself.\" There was a general round of laughter. After a few seconds, Horace joined in.”",
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                        "text": "Looks like he's lost a guinea and found a farthing,\" Horace said, then added, unnecessarily, \"Will, I mean.\" Halt turned in his saddle to regard the younger man and raised an eyebrow. \"I may be almost senile in your eyes, Horace, but there's no need to explain the blindly obvious to me. I'd hardly have thought you were referring to Tug.",
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                        "text": "Bear with me on this, Evanlyn. I know you're anxious about Horace.\" WIll was a little puzzled by Halt's words. \"No more anxious than the rest of us, surely,\" he said. Halt turned away and raised his eyebrows as his gaze met Selethen's. Sometimes, he thought, his former apprentice could be remarkably slow on the uptake. He saw the Arridi's slow nod of understanding. ~Halt & Will about Evanlyn and Horace",
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                        "text": "I'll think of something,\" he temporized, and Horace nodded wisely, satisfied that Halt would indeed think of something. In Horace's world, that was what Rangers did best, and the best thing a warrior apprentice could do was let the Ranger get on with thinking while a warrior took care of walloping anyone who needed to be walloped along the way. He settled back in the saddle, contented with his lot in life.",
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                        "text": "Well I'm not dancing,\" Will said through gritted teeth. \"I don't know how.\" Oh yes you are,\" Alyss told him. \"Let's hope you're a fast learner.\" He glanced at her and saw no prospect of escape. \"Well,at least I won't be the only one,\" he said. \"Halt will be terrible too.\" But nobody in the assembly knew tat for the past ten days, Halt had been taking dance lessons from Lady Sandra.",
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                        "text": "Mikeru was still puzzling over Horace's last remark. He frowned. 'Kurokuma, these shenanigans... What are they?' 'Shenanigans are what Rangers do. They usually involve doing things that risk breaking your neck or your leg.' Mikeru nodded, filing the word away. 'I will remember this word,' he said. 'Shenanigans. It is a good word.",
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                        "text": "Once again Erak bellowed with laughter. \"Your master here went nearly the same shade of green as his cloak,\" he told Will. Halt raised an eyebrow. \"At least I found a use for that damned helmet,\" he said, and the smile disappeared from Erak's face. \"Yes. I'm not sure what I'm going to tell Gordoff about that,\" he said. \"He made me promise I'd look after that helmet. It's his favorite-a real family heirloom.\" \"Well it certainly has a lived in feel to it now,\" Halt told him, and Will noticed there was a hint of malicious pleasure in his eye.",
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                        "text": "“Will had been taken aback in his confrontation with Arisaka to discover that his name- Chocho- meant \"Butterfly\"... He was puzzled to know why they had selected it. His friends, of course, delighted in helping him guess the reason. 'I assume it's because you're such a snazzy dresser,' Evanlyn said. 'You Rangers are a riot of color, after all.'... 'I think it might be more to do with the way he raced around the training ground, darting here and there to correct the way a man might be holding his shield, then dashing off to show someone how to put their body weight into their javelin cast,' said Horace, a little more sympathetically. Then he ruined the effect by adding thoughtlessly, 'I must say, your cloak did flutter around like a butterfly's wings.”",
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                        "text": "“But...' Horace looked from one familiar face to another. 'How did you come to..?' Before he could finish the question, Will interupted, thinking to clarify matters but only making them more puzzling... 'We were all in Toscana for the treaty signing,' he began, then corrected himself. 'Well, Evanlyn wasn't. She came later. But, when she did, she told us you were missing, so we all boarded Gundar's ship-you should see it. It's a new design that can sail into the wind. But anyway, that's not important. And just before we left, Selethen decided to join us-what with you being an old comrade in arms and all-and...' He got no further. Halt, seeing the confusion growing on Horace's face, held up a hand to stop his babbling former apprentice... Will stopped, a little embarrassed as he realized that he had been running off at the mouth.”",
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