If someone would have the goodness to inform me whether I am assisting at a tragedy or a farce I should be grateful,
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...
It has always seemed to me that if one falls in love with any gentleman one becomes instantly blind to his faults.But I am not blind to your faults, and I do not think that everything you do or say is...
It is now obvious to us all that he has every objection, said Randall. You know, you had very much better withdraw, my dear aunt. I feel sure that Uncle Henry's double life is going to be exposed. My...
Lady Theresa prophesied disaster for all concerned, and hoped that when Serena was dying an old maid she would remember these words, and be sorry. Meanwhile she remained her affectionate aunt.
Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you mean to cast me off for Another!
Miss Trent regarded her thoughtfully. Well, it's an odd circumstance, but I've frequently observed that whenever you boast of your beauty you seem to lose some of it. I expect it must be the change in...
Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls.
Oh, Auntie, please take Jenny to the Dering ball next week! she said impulsively. You will come, won't you, sweet?Jennifer blushed and stammered.To be sure, nodded her ladyship. Of course she will com...
Perhaps Charis did not realize that when one had passed through a time of terrible anxiety relief did not immediately restore the tone of one's mind. To be sure, she herself had not expected that afte...
Perhaps you have friends already who laugh when you do,’ she said diffidently. ‘I haven’t, and it’s important, I think – more important than sympathy in affliction, which you might easily find in some...
Perhaps, murmured his lordship, I yielded to a compassionate impulse.A what? gasped his best friend. Oh, did you think I never did so? said his lordship, the satirical glint in his eyes extremely pron...
Queer creatures, females, mused Mr. Standen, shaking his head. Fellow's only got to be a rake to have 'em all dangling after him. Silly, really, because it stands to reason---- Well never mind that!
She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.
She had herself been sadly disappointed, for she had thought him a man of sense, certainly not one to be succumbing to childish ailments at inopportune moments.
She said despairingly: ‘I see that I might as well address myself to a gate-post!’ ‘What very odd things you seem to talk to!’ he remarked. ‘Do you find gate-posts less responsive than eels?
She thought that Fontley had suffered as much from a negligent mistress as from an improvident master.
She walked home', explained Sir Roland. 'We were walking home, weren't we? Very well, then. She walked home. Passed Lethbridge's house. Went in. Hit him on the head with the poker. Came out. Met us in...
Sir Nugent knew that Sylvester did not like him, but it never crossed his mind that Sylvester, or anyone else, held him in contempt. If he could have been brought to believe it, he would have known th...
Sir Tristram was contemplating with grim misgiving the prospect of encountering vivacity at the breakfast-table for the rest of his life...
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