![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A jolly good riot, now, that would have been more – more appropriate. He found that almost as annoying as trees. Just preoccupied, as though what kings did wasn't really very important. There'd been quite a turnout for the funeral he recalled the lines of solemn faces. Verence had been popular enough, in his way. They didn't seem to object to anything very much. But that was odd, because the people themselves hadn't objected. It struck him that the trees were also looking back at him. He rose and paced the floor to the balcony, with its unrivalled view of trees. It seemed to contain far too much geography. What he couldn't quite fathom was this feeling that it had depth. A kingdom like that shouldn't be any trouble. It was so small, only forty miles long and maybe ten miles wide, and nearly all of it was cruel mountains with ice-green slopes and knife-edge crests, or dense huddled forests. Every once in a while a piece of plaster smashed down on the tiles, and there was a crunching from the walls as they settled still further. The duke was left alone in the vastness of the hall. The taxman gave him a look of gratitude, and bobbed a bow. Just call in at the torturer on your way out. 'You're – you're not going to force me to go back, are you?' he said. The duke drummed the fingers of his left hand on the arm of his throne. ![]() 'When I was a little boy, and staying with my aunt, and she had told me not to touch the cream, ekcetra, and she had put it on a high shelf in the pantry, and I got a stool and went after it when she was out anyway, and she'd come back and I didn't know, and I couldn't reach the bowl properly and it smashed on the floor, and she opened the door and glared at me: it was that look. What he would have said, if embarrassment, fear, poor memory and a complete lack of any kind of imagination hadn't conspired against it, was: Which demonstrates that the tax gatherer was much better at figures than words. Lord Felmet's fascination was to him what a pin is to a Purple Emperor. He tried to avoid Lord Felmet's gaze, which was giving him the distinct impression that the tiled floor was fleeing away in all directions and had already covered several acres. 'It's sort of hard to describe,' said the taxman. The duke sat with his thin face cupped in one hand. 'They said the king should maintain his own peace, sir. I mentioned how taxes help to maintain the King's Peace, sir. The tax gatherer twisted the hem of his robe distractedly. 'Did they say anything else?' said the duke. I think witches cross anything they like.' Well, I pointed out the need to build and maintain bridges, ekcetra.' I explained about the need to employ a standing army, ekcetra, and they said why, and I said because of bandits, ekcetra, and they said bandits never bothered them.' I can’t think of any GIFs to go with Managment Operations, that class is stupid and I hate it already (it has been 3 days), so here is LOW PONY ANNE SCREAMING because it’s how I feel about that class (amirite lez be honest all these GIFs are still stolen from you do you, but I’m gonna just be over here rewatching Gentleman Jack.The tax gatherer cleared his throat. Professor Lister can grade my essays any time. Isn’t advanced composition really better taught by Anne Lister? Might as well just put GJ on in the background, because what’s more comforting while studying business law than this:Īnd how could I POSSIBLY learn to communicate effectively in business if I wasn’t hearing this in the background? I am currently starting back in school and I decided to take a STUPID NUMBER OF CLASSES so I don’t have TIME to watch new things. This is a serious problem for me right now. ![]()
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