“It was good, she reflected, to be among the proud Gaels. There was no formality among men here, where a man's pride of race stood him with the most noble company and gave him the air of a gentleman no… — Jan Cox Speas Copy Share Image
“I had been too long in a hot land. The skies were always blue and one never escaped from the smell of flowers. I'd have given my life for one clean smell of peat bogs and heather after a cold… — Jan Cox Speas Copy Share Image
“She wanted to tell him how it was with her, but she could not. She could not tell him that when she was with… — Jan Cox Speas Copy Share Image
“Aye, she thought, women must ever wait and steel their hearts against loneliness and fear; and the men would go riding out to war… — Jan Cox Speas Copy Share Image
“She had never thought her name lovely until she heard him say it, his warm Scots voice lingering softly over the word.” — Jan Cox Speas Copy Share Image
“Above her, the triple summit of Ben Cruachan overhung the loch like a thundercloud; and the hills lay piled against one another, more purple… — Jan Cox Speas Copy Share Image
“The MacHugh thought it small wonder that he had loved her from his first sight of her. She was gay and lovely and hot-tempered,… — Jan Cox Speas Copy Share Image
“It was good, she reflected, to be among the proud Gaels. There was no formality among men here, where a man's pride of race… — Jan Cox Speas Copy Share Image
“I had been too long in a hot land. The skies were always blue and one never escaped from the smell of flowers. I'd… — Jan Cox Speas Copy Share Image
“Aye, he thought, loyalty, that most irrevocable of clan codes, was a point of honor more fiercely and tenaciously held than a man's life;… — Jan Cox Speas Copy Share Image
“The honor a man carries in his heart cannot be explained, lass," he said slowly. "Nor can you measure the courage of a man… — Jan Cox Speas Copy Share Image
“Honesty must sometimes be taken in small measure, like a bitter medicine.” — Jan Cox Speas Copy Share Image
“Dreams were frail things, when all was said, and loneliness the only certainty.” — Jan Cox Speas Copy Share Image
