Cao Yong SUMMER BREEZECao Yong SACRED POOLSCao Yong Red Umbrella
Beans, peas . . . you know. Nitrogen fixers. And marl and lime, of course. Scientific husbandry. Come and look at this.”
He bounced away enthusiastically.
“You know,” he said, “we could really make this king-dom work.”
Magrat trailed with it.
21
Terry Pratchett
Perhaps that was normal. Kings were busy people.
Magrat’s experience of marrying them was limited.
“Where are we going?” she said.
“The old rose garden.”after him.So that was all settled, then. Not a proposal, just a state-ment. She hadn’t been quite sure how the moment would be, even in the darkest hours of the night, but she’d had an idea that roses and sunsets and bluebirds might just possibly be involved. Clover had not figured largely Beans and other leguminous nitrogen fixers were not a central feature.On the other hand Magrat was, at the core, far more practical than most people believed who saw no further than her vague smile and collection of more than three hundred pieces of occult jewelry, none of which worked.So this was how you got married to a king. It all got arranged for you. There were no white horses. The past flipped straight into the future, carrying you
Friday, 17 April 2009
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