Taken thus by surprise, it was several moments before she was able to decide whether to make herself known to him, or to await a formal introduction. The strict propriety in which she had been reared...
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...
Sir Richard sighed. Rid yourself of the notion that I cherish any villainous designs upon your person, he said. I imagine I might well be your father. How old are you?I am turned seventeen.Well, I am...
Sally, I swear you’re an angel!’ he declared. ‘Anything less angelic than her conduct during the past half-hour I have yet to see,’ observed Sir Tristram.
Oh, my poor Sparrow!’ he said, mocking her. ‘Never have I encountered so heartrending a sight! A job-horse?’ ‘No,’ replied Phoebe. ‘My cousin Anne’s favourite mount. A very safe, comfortable ride for...
Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!I don't think much of that,he said critically. Amiable snake was much better.
Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.
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...
Much discomposed, Freddy made inarticulate noises.
Mrs Scorrier ought to sit at the bottom of the table,’ said Aubrey positively. ‘You mean the foot of the table: opposite to the head, you understand,’ said Mrs Scorrier instructively. ‘Yes, of course,...
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...
Monseigneur, I have killed you! You are dead! You are dead!You display an unseemly joy, he remarked. I had no notion you were so bloodthirsty.
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...
If someone would have the goodness to inform me whether I am assisting at a tragedy or a farce I should be grateful,
I wish you did return my regard, he said. More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!
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.
I knew you’d make a champion wife, love!’ ‘On the contrary! My husband will live under the cat’s foot.’ ‘I’m very partial to cats,’ offered the Major hopefully.
How could you receive a member of the Male Sex in your bedroom, and in your dressing gown?Sir, I must request you to leave immediately!You don't mean to tell me that's a dressing gown? interrupted Mr...
He had expected to have been received, if not with gratification, at least with pleasure: it had been a piece of condescension on the part of the head of the family to have visited its reprobate, but...
Entertaining females with accounts of jug-bitten maunderings is one of my favourite pastimes.