"Katherine Kurtz - Kelson 4 - King Kelson's Bride" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kurtz Katherine)

of Cloome, took to wife the fair Magrette, youngest daughter
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тАЬInteresting,тАЭ Morag said. тАЬHowever, I have never heard
that the Ramsays entertained any designs on the throne.тАЭ
тАЬThey don't,тАЭ Teymuraz chimed in. тАЬAnd the reason
they've survived is probably because they've remained
outside subsequent dynastic wranglings of the Mearan royal
house.тАЭ
тАЬAnd with the more senior lines extinguished,тАЭ Mahael
went on conspiratorially, тАЬthose who continue fighting for
Mearan independence may not long allow this last branch of
the Mearan line to remain quietly on the sidelines. It is bad
enough that Brecon, the heir to their last hope of a prince of
their own, is set to marry Richelle Haldane, Malcolm
Haldane's granddaughter. A marriage between Kelson and
Brecon's sister would strike a double blow at any further
thought of Mearan independence.тАЭ
тАЬI see,тАЭ Morag said, thoughtful as she turned her
wineglass in her fingers. тАЬAre there any other siblings?тАЭ
тАЬOne more brother, conveniently in holy orders,тАЭ Mahael
replied. тАЬWith stability in Meara at last, Kelson could turn
his full energies toward TorenthтАФand toward any thought
you might entertain of recovering the Festillic legacy for




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mountain eyrie, discussing the same potential match being
examined with such wariness in TorenthтАФthough as friends
of Kelson Haldane, not his mortal enemies.
тАЬHe has entered holy orders since we last discussed this
match,тАЭ said Laran ap Pardyce, the physician among them,
consulting a list. тАЬHe is now Brother ChristophleтАФ
affirmation of a vocation recognized in childhood. They say
he studies for the priesthood.тАЭ
A heavy sigh drew all eyes in the direction of Bishop
Denis Arilan, a man well-qualified to speak regarding
priesthood, for he had been the first of their race in nearly
two hundred years to be successfully ordained a priestтАФand
had seen others fail and die for their presumption. With an
easing of the political climate in Gwynedd, and having risen
to the episcopate, he secretly had begun ordaining other
Deryni priestsтАФ and there was a second bishop come to his
priestly status without Arilan's helpтАФbut Denis Arilan was
still the only cleric to sit on the Council since the time of