"Sharon Green - Lady Blade, Lord Fighter" - читать интересную книгу автора (Green Sharon)

"And how may I help you, sir?" the vision asked, smiling at him encouragingly as she straightened in her
chair. "Would you care to describe the sort of lady you seek, or would you prefer looking about before
voicing1 your thoughts? Do you seek someone of your own age, or might it possibly be someone
moreтАФexperiencedтАФthat you search for? It would be my greatest pleasure toтАФassist you in any manner
possible."

Her lovely voice had softened and she had leaned forward, her red lips glistening in a way that had
Timper completely convinced regarding her sincerity. His gaze had somehow become riveted to her full,
heaving bosom, a bosom less

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well-covered than perhaps she realized, and it was with the greatest difficulty that he brought his eyes to
her face again.

"Madam, IтАФ" he began, then paused to bring his voice down from the higher ranges where it had
embarrassingly strayed. "Madam, I thank you for your offer of-assistance, and shall most willingly accept
it," he said on his second attempt, striving to project a maturity of his own. "I am the courier of Duke
Rilfe of Gensea, and have come seeking the lady Sofaltis of Gensea, daughter of the Duke, for whom I
have a most urgent communication. I've been told I would find her here in this house, and although 1 have
never seen her, she was described to me as being perhaps a year my junior, delicately pretty with
unusually lovely gray eyes, brown-haired and lithe ..."

"Wait just a minute here!" the woman interrupted in sudden annoyance, no longer appearing quite as
winsome as she had a moment earlier. "Are you saying you're here looking for someone, an actual, real
someone? You have a message to deliver?"

"Hardly so simple a thing as a message," Timper responded, stung by the change in the beautiful woman's
attitude. "A ducal courier is not a mere message bearer, the responsibilities of the position are a good deal
more complex than . . ."



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"But you don't deny you're here looking to talk to someone," the woman insisted, nearly in accusation.
"And not for the usual reason. Well, I'm afraid I can't help you. I've never heard of thisтАФlady, and doubt
that she's ever been here. I wish you a pleasant eveningтАФelsewhere."

The lovely woman had risen to her feet behind the desk, her expression now closed and cold, and Timper
found himself almost completely at a loss. Not only had he no desire to leave, he could not leave before
learning for certain that the lady Sofaltis wasn't there. Firm insistence had often gotten him what
information and assistance he required, and just then he knew he needed to try something of the same
again.

"Madam, I must beg your indulgence for a few moments more," he said at once with more desperation
than assertive-ness, not precisely the attitude he'd been attempting but one that would have to do. "I've