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The tips of the empress's lip quivered, just enough to reveal a gleam from her glistening white teeth.

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Cashmere throw rugs, Persian carpets, fresh roses and paintings from the empress's era complement the comfortable French regency armchairs.

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You can't just waltz into the empress's court, announce you're a G'lder, and get taken to her bed.

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So it was one of the empress's own men who advanced to the head of the bed, and stooped to take up the swathed body by the shoulders.

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The presence of women in the castle had already made some changes in the furnishings of the chapel, by the provision of an embroidered altar-cloth, and the addition of a green-cushioned prie-dieu for the empress's use.

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In that almost entirely masculine assembly, with only three women present, and all of them under the empress's canopy of inviolability, it had never entered his mind.

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Some who were there, and escaped in time, many others of the empress's following who were not there, but hold the treason bitterly against him no less.

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The empress's gentlewoman could hardly approve her niece's dalliance, however restrained, with the empress's traitor and renegade.

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And by the sound of it, thought Cadfael, I at least had better venture in there before they come, for somewhere in the rubble there may well be a discarded cloak with the imperial eagle on the shoulder, and what I need least, at this moment, is the empress's officers asking too many questions.

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He turned in the empress's hand, now one of his own has turned in his.

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