The sight which met her eyes held her frozen on the threshold, and the thought flashed across her mind that she knew now how it felt to die
Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?Not such a waste of time as talking to you!
Surely, cousin, you cannot mean to *jilt* her?' said Anthea, in accents of reprobation.'Nay, it wouldn't be seemly,' he agreed. 'I'll just have to dispose of her, as you might say.''Good God! *Murder*...
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...
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.
Only that if ever he meets you he will be quite green with jealousy, for you are precisely what he thinks he would like to be – even though you don’t study the picturesque in your attire.’ He looked t...
Oh, you mustn’t blame the poor fellow! I told him I would announce myself.’ ‘You had no business to do so!’ scolded Abby. ‘If you hadn’t startled me – if I had had a moment’s warning – I shouldn’t hav...
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.
No, no, Kit, don’t cry!’ begged Freddy, putting his arm round her. ‘Can’t bear you not to be happy! I won’t say another word. Never thought there was any hope for me. Just wanted to tell you.
Entertaining females with accounts of jug-bitten maunderings is one of my favourite pastimes.
My dearest goose, why didn't you trust me, when I assured you that you might?' he countered. 'I have cherished throughout the believe that you would confide in me, and you see I was quite right.
Mrs Patch was all that she had hoped. She was an improbable blonde of uncertain years, with a very much painted face, a singularly penetrating voice, and a laugh which made Mablethorpe wince.
Miss Darracott, an intelligent girl, now perceived that in harboring for as much as an instant the notion of marrying a man who fell so lamentably short of the ideal lover she was an irreclaimable nin...
Meg, as good-natured as her mother and brother, would have been amiable to anyone for whom her kindness had been solicited. Had she found herself confronted by a dazzling blonde she would not have spu...
I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.
It is abominable, Sophy!Yes, if the motive were not pure!
It may seem famous to you,’ retorted Elinor, with some tartness, ‘but I can assure you it does not to me! I have not the smallest desire to be married to your odious cousin!
Just because I cut a lark with that stiff-rumped Exciseman you seem to think I'm as good as rope-ripe!
It might have been supposed that Freddy, whose intellect was not of the first order, would have found it impossible to grasp the gist of an extremely tangled and discursive story, but once more the po...
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...
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