Templar Silks by Elizabeth Chadwick

Author:Elizabeth Chadwick [Chadwick, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780751564983
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2018-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

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Manor of Caversham, April 1219

Someone was playing an instrument in his chamber, a gittern like the one that Ptolemy had owned, but the notes fell more gently, like soft rain rather than Middle Eastern sun, and the voice was different with a higher pitch, clean and light. The person was singing a hymn in praise of the Virgin and the notes went straight from William’s ears to his heart and filled him with a sweet, poignant longing.

Poor Ptolemy. The words formed on his lips but he did not use his voice because he did not want the musician to stop playing. Heraclius had given Ptolemy a Christian burial and the truth about his demise, whatever it was, had been kept silent and hidden away in the places where all such secrets were concealed. Prayers had been said for the young musician at the Sepulchre, and candles lit. So many darknesses in the palaces of light. So many heavy secrets taken to the grave.

William drifted on a sea of exquisite sound. A new musician had taken Ptolemy’s place – another young lad, fair-haired and freckled, but with a very different air about him, and it was plain from the outset that he was never going to win the lady’s favour and patronage. That brightness had been quenched.

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