The Eagle Of The Ninth Quotes
"I am native born. That is how I come to have some understanding of these matters."
"I have been here two months now, and we have never spoken of the future."
"I have loved a girl at Glevum; I have marched the Eagles from end to end of Britain."
"Afraid—afraid," and his own stomach cringed within him.
"I am a very selfish old man, perfectly well content with things as they are."
"I would sooner sit on Tiber-side and beg my bread from the slum women when they come to fill their water-pots!"
"The British take their pleasures a little less loudly, but on almost every face was the same eager, almost greedy look."
"You do not get in my way; to be perfectly honest, I forget your existence rather more than half the time."
"The only woman I ever cared about lies buried at Glevum."
"Never did like the net. Not a clean fight, no!"
"This mob, this unutterably stupid, blood-greedy mob that must somehow be swung over into forgoing the blood it wanted!"
"I am the Centurion’s hound, to lie at the Centurion’s feet."
"The time before—all the time before—that is the good time to remember."
"Eagle lost—honour lost; honour lost—all lost."
"You cannot expect the man who made this shield to live easily under the rule of the man who worked the sheath of this dagger."
"I shall be waiting at the bottom of the garden. And I shall wait there until Esca comes, whoever tries to take me away."
"For one who considers himself a somewhat skilled hunter, you can be singularly unobservant of small things."
"It may be that we shall not be able to bring back the Eagle; but the gods willing, we will at least find out the truth or untruth of your rumour for you."
"You know rather less than an addled egg about the doctoring of sore eyes."
"Save that it would not do for the parade ground, very near as serviceable as ever it was."
"The very life or death of his father’s Legion was at stake; the Legion that his father had loved."
"My stomach will be glad when we start on this hunting trail."
"The Legion was cut to pieces in the rising that followed."
"I have served Marcus, and it was not slave-service."
"I remember your face. In the Name of Light, who are you?"
"All along, I have said the child will be blind."
"It is best that you come the first part of the way now."
"Food is easily managed, but it is more than a false trail that you will need to get you in one piece to the Wall."
"Every man to his own hunting grounds, and from now on the land is strange to me."
"From now on we must go behind one another. Follow me exactly, and do not halt for so long as a heart-beat."
"The Light of the Sun be with you, Centurion."
"There is no way back through the Waters of Lethe."
"It has been slow travelling in this murk, but I think that I have not brought us greatly out of our way."
"If the wind rises, we may lose this witches’ brew at last."
"But they had left the finding of their fox-hole too late."
"Esca’s spear followed him, but it was too far for a throw."
"Only one way lay open for them, and they took it; straight uphill to their right."
"There were men all round them, on horseback, on foot."
"Once a probing spear struck like a snake within a span of Marcus’s shoulder."
"And then quite suddenly they realized that against all seeming possibility, the hunt had missed them."
"The light will be gone in the half of an hour, but much can happen in that time."
"It was a very obvious hiding-place, so obvious that it offered a bare chance of safety."
"‘Curse! That will announce our whereabouts clearly to all who may be interested,’ Marcus thought."
"‘It has been a good hunting,’ Marcus agreed."
"Marcus swung round in answer to the furious voice behind him."
"You should have had the ring to take with you, as a man takes his weapons and his favourite hound."
"When you go back to your own place, say to Tradui that I thank him for the gift of my father’s ring."
"It seems always that I visit this house at a happy hour."
"We have done it, by Jupiter! You never thought he would, did you, my Claudius?"
"So long as Rome lasts, the Eagles will pass and re-pass under the walls of Calleva."
"He has been once again a free man amongst free men."
"‘Do you not know me, Drusillus?’ Marcus said almost pleadingly."