Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you!
It was this impulsive utterance which made Mrs Chartley say, later: ‘My dear John, I marvel at your countenancing this most improper dance! When they went down the room together, with his left hand ho...
In all of this she was only partially successful, for although Nurse knew that once Miss Venetia had made up her mind she was powerless to prevent her doing whatever she liked, and was obliged to admi...
If I were a man I would kill you!If you were a man we wouldn't be having this conversation!
I'm really not quite as frippery a fellow as you seem to think! I own that in my grasstime I committed a great many follies and extravagances, but, believe me, I've long since out-grown them! I don't...
I wish to God I might induce her to mind me!' he ejaculated.
I think the hardest thing of all is to be wise in our dealings with the people we love,’ he said. ‘I know I have found it so.
I must have forgotten the outcome of your previous encounter!’ Sir James continued to smile, with that air of patronage which made Adrian long to hit him. ‘But he matches his grays against a very diff...
I like very few people nowadays; in fact, the number of persons whom I cordially dislike increases almost hourly.
He has probably gnawed his nails down to the quick, or murdered poor Mr. Orde.
Good God, my love, what is amiss?’ ‘That man!’ choked Miss Grantham. ‘That devil!’ ‘Oh, heavens, you have quarrelled with Ravenscar again!’ cried her ladyship. ‘Don’t tell me you have had him put in t...
Don't worry. Chivalry has practically no appeal for me whatsoever. -- Neville Fletcher
Do let me assure you that if ever Endymion should ask me to give a ball in his honour I shall take steps to have him placed under restraint!
You would more probably have gone to the guillotine,' replied Sir Tristram, depressingly matter of fact.'Yes, that is quite true,' agreed Eustacie. 'We used to talk of it, my cousin Henriette and I. W...
What do you mean to do when you reach Lacy Manor?’ asked Sir Horace, regarding him in some amusement. ‘Wring Sophy’s neck!’ said Mr Rivenhall savagely. ‘Well, you don’t need my help for that, my dear...
What a leg. What an air. A most engaging smile.
To tell you the truth,’ repeated Sarah coldly, ‘she had a fright, and the bandboxes broke loose.’ ‘What frightened her?’ ‘A Headless Horseman,’ said Sarah. He was frowning again. ‘Headless Horseman? F...
No one had ever looked at her just like that before, and it had the effect upon her of making her feel, for perhaps the first time in her life, a strong desire to lay the burden of her cares upon othe...
Miss Allison realised with a slight sinking of the heart that she was to be made the recipient of confidences.
Lord, if we were all to marry our first loves what a plague of ill-assorted marriages there would be!