Do you know, it has of late become an ambition of mine to hear my name on your lips instead of my title
Do you have a husband concealed about you?
Dashed if I don't think he's begun to get queer in his attic! Well, what I mean is, hubble-bubble! I don't set up as one of these clever coves, but I've got more sense in my knowledge-box than to say...
But that’s what he did, and if he has made up his mind to be idiotishly noble – Yes, it is going to be very difficult. I must think!
After eyeing her for a moment or two, he said: ‘If you let this chance of achieving a respectable alliance slip, you are a bigger fool than I take you for, Hester!’ Her eyes came round to his face, a...
A jaw like a mastiff's, a frame like a giant's, eyes like two daggers, a smile like a tiger's snarl,Bernard murmured.Aye, he is all that!! Master Herbert said.A murrain be on him! And when I came to h...
You had as well go rabbit-hunting with a dead ferret as try to get past his butler!
Nothing makes one so cross as knowing one is in the wrong, does it?
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.
Your strength lies in being precisely the kind of man who can procure one a chair when it has come on to rain.
You're Beau Wyndham! Well, I'll be damned!''The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved
You were not acquainted with my father, Mr Morville. I have often been sorry that you were not, for you would have been excessively pleased with one another. My father was a great reader, though not,...
Yes, but if you cannot clear your name, what then are we to do? she demanded.Forget we ever met! said Ludovic with a groan.This Spartan resolve did not commend itself to Eustacie at all. Two large tea...
With Philip's departure had come a void which only could be filled by Philip's return.
When I wasn’t trying to swallow something that no one is ever going to make me believe wasn’t drained off from the kennels, I was sitting watching your aunt knot a fringe in the most uncomfortable hol...
What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all
Well, I can understand that that must be very comfortable, for if you don't care for anybody or anything you can't be cast into dejection, or become sick with apprehension, or even get into high fidge...
This embittered thought brought to her mind the several occasions upon which she might, had she been the kind of female his lordship no doubt admired, have kindled his ardour by a display of sensibili...
They used to say of me that I'd as many lucky escapes as Harry Smith!''Shouldn't be at all surprised: I've seen one of 'em myself,' Brough said cryptically.
There was nothing in store at Undershaw for his lordship but a set-down, but it was disappointing to be granted no opportunity to deliver this.