Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, whe...
Sir, do you know how they were used to fill balloons, and how they now do it?No, said Alverstoke. I’ve no doubt, however, that I soon shall.He was right. From then on Felix, who had acquired a tattere...
My goddess! My queen!''Oh, no, no, no!'He raised his head, smiling a little crookedly down at her. 'Do you dislike to hear yourself called so? There is nothing I would not do to please you, but you ca...
Mrs Hendred did not like the people around her to be unhappy. Even the sight of a housemaid crying with the pain of the toothache made her feel low, for misery had no place in her comfortable existenc...
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!
Lord Worth: 'I think you may be quite useful to me. The heiress has a brother.'Captain Audley: 'I am not the least interested in her brother,' objected the Captain.
Lady Winwood being denied, the morning caller inquired with some anxiety for Miss Winwood, or, in fact, for any of the young ladies.
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...
It is abominable, Sophy!Yes, if the motive were not pure!
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...
In a nobler age one could have answered such impertinence by jostling his lordship as he stood holding open the door, so that he would have been obliged to demand a meeting. Or did one, even in that a...
I may be a little fool,’ retorted Miss Challoner, plucking up spirit, ‘but at least I meant it for the best. While as for you, my lord, you meant nothing but wicked mischief right from the start.
He said nothing. Juliana peeped at him again. You’re very anxious to get her in your power again,Vidal. But I don’t quite know why you should be, for you meant to marry her only because you hadruined...
God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.
Nothing more likely,"said Hannasyde. "I've got to try and rattle him.""It's him that'll do the rattling,"said the Sergeant darkly. "he's the nearest thing to a snake I've seen outside of the Zoo.
You had as well go rabbit-hunting with a dead ferret as try to get past his butler!
She was generally considered to be a pretty woman; and, since she was as good-natured as she was foolish, she was almost universally liked.
Is a source of constant wonder to me how I came to have such a cork-brained parent. However, I have not the slightest reason to believe that my poor mother played him false. It must remain an enigma.
Even if there is a ghost it cannot possibly be more disagreeable to live with than your grandfather