She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.

She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

She was quick.

She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.

She was bewildered.

She was standing in a thick grove.

She already knew this unwholesome, chilling atmosphere that was somehow grotesquely alive.

She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.

She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.

She was wearing nothing beneath the coat.

She was standing with her back to the glass door.

She was just not able to break the spell.

She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!

She confessed she was unhappy, he asked was it her husband??

She began to explain, `` There was this poet, in Italy '' He interrupted, `` Please don't judge all poets ''.

She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.

She was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations Environment Programme.

She is also a former Convenor of the Department of Geography and Environment, and served as Deputy Director from 1998 – 2004.

She founded the gender unit at the International Centre for Mountain Development ( ICIMOD ) in Kathmandu and was a founding Board Member of the Women's Environment & Development Organization ( WEDO )

She succeeded Achim Steiner, who was appointed Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) in June 2006.

She held the position of Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs until May 2006, when she was succeeded by David Miliband.

She also co-founded and chaired the Canadian Environment Educational Foundation, and established the Winter Garden Show at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair.

She also served as a member of the Motor Sports Licensing Appeal Authority and of the Working Party on the Environment.

She was appointed a shadow Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs minister by Harriet Harman in May 2010, and was retained in that role by Ed Miliband after his election as Leader of the Labour Party.

She is a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Delegation for relations with Iraq.

She was an administration trainee at the Department of the Environment from 1974 to 1977.

She is a member of Foresight Advisory Council of GDF Suez Environment and a Board member of the Institute for European Environment Policy.

She was the Shadow Minister for the Environment, Planning and Countryside in the Second Assembly ( 2003 – 07 ).

She was promoted to the Opposition frontbench in 2001 as a spokesperson for Culture, Media and Sport and has held a number of front bench positions since ( Transport ( 2003 – 2005 ), Foreign Affairs ( 2005 ), Work and Pensions ( 2005 – 2007 ), and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( 2007 – 2010 ), though never at shadow cabinet level.

She was also the Welsh Vice-President of the Ramblers ' Association, stepping down when appointed Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing in 2007.

She was Minister for Environment and Sustainability in Wales from 2007 to 2011 where she was responsible for the Welsh Government agreeing to make sustainable development its central organising principle.

She was the Liberal Democrat spokesperson in the Lords on Agriculture and Rural Affairs 1999-2001, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2001-07 and Home Affairs 2007-09.

She served as Minister of Health and then Minister of the Environment under Mike Harris, and Minister of Education and Deputy Premier under Ernie Eves.

She was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Arts and Administrative Services in 1993, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Environment, Sport and Territories 1993-94 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Social Security 1994-96.

She served as the Minister of Environment and Development Co-Operation in Paavo Lipponen's second cabinet between 15 April 1999 and 31 May 2002.

She has been granted the Golden Peacock Global Award for Environmental Leadership, Hart World Refining Fuels Policy Award and the International Award for Outstanding Contribution for Environment of the Priyadarshni Academy.

She was a member of the Environment and Petitions Committee in the European Parliament and a substitute member of the Regional Development Committee.

She has anchored many award ceremonies like the MTV Immies, the Car and Bike Awards 2008 for NDTV profit, the Environment awards for CNN-IBN in 2009, the 2004 edition of the ICC awards and two editions of the Ceat Cricket Ratings Awards ( 2004 and 2011 ).

She was then appointed Environment Minister in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government.