He shrugged. I don’t know either. I can’t read Frog-speak.
He was no doubt correct. Greed is all-consuming, I remarked. He laughed. You poor idiot. The day of the gentleman is over. Only those with money will matter, only those who can pay will command respe...
A gentleman does not openly work for pay, does he?
I admired Grenville’s ability to brush aside bad encounters and continue serenely with his day, as though no one could possibly upset him. Perhaps he was practiced because he’d been raised to it, but...
I also knew Grenville was a man easily bored.
I also thought about Lady Breckenridge. After a heartbreak last year, I was not in the mood to fall in love with another lady, but Lady Breckenridge had demanded nothing of me.
I happened to like the happy ending. Life was sad enough; no need to rush to the theatre to witness more tragedy.
I have never been married. The married women of my acquaintance rarely speak of their husbands at all, except as a nuisance to be borne.
I reflected as I walked that I had come to Berkshire to find peace, and so far, it had eluded me. But perhaps peace was not in a place but within one’s self. In that case, I might never find it. There...
I returned to my rooms, enraged and no further forward. Yesterday, I had believed that Denis murdered Horne, but after meeting him, I changed my conclusion.
I was torn between anger and amusement.
Lie still, it said. If you do not rise, do not move, nothing can hurt you. Simply do nothing, say nothing, be nowhere.
Life is long, my young friend. Do not make it more difficult than it already has to be.
Louisa had been right about one thing. Many gentlemen took mistresses after they were married. It seemed almost expected. Society marriages often occurred because two families wanted to increase their...
Love of money, he said, was the root of all evil. That was in the New Testament. In Saint Paul’s letters to Timothy, if one wanted to be precise.
Marianne had learned to live by her wits, and she took a severe and cynical view of the world.
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