I see you will have it, Mr. Jettan. I will meet you when and where you will.Philip patted his sword-hilt.I have noticed, Mr. Bancroft, that you habitually don your sword. So I took the precaution of w...
I have yet to learn that a governess’s life is adventurous!’ he said. ‘I should be grateful to you if you would tell me the truth!’ ‘Come, come, sir!’ said Miss Thane pityingly, ‘it must surely be wit...
I find it a marvellous circumstance, cousin, that no one has yet strangled you!
I don’t know how long you mean to remain in Bath, but I trust you are aware of what the charges are in this hotel!’ ‘Don’t give them a thought!’ said Miles. ‘I won’t chalk ’em up to you. if I find mys...
I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!
I am not quite sober you know. In fact, I am drunk, but I cannot help feeling this is all a trifle, shall we say, irregular?
I am not in a heat at all,’ Léonie said with great precision. ‘I am of a coolness quite remarkable, and I would like to kill that woman.
How the deuce would you know the right way to go on if you was never taught anything but the wrong way?
Have you limitations, my lord? asked Sir Anthony.My lord looked at him seriously. I do not know, he said, with a revealing simplicity. I have never yet discovered them.
Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?
Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.
Damn this curst family nose!’ said Ludovic. ‘It’ll ruin me yet.’ ‘That’s what I’m thinking,’ agreed Bundy.
Compassion certainly seems to be wasted on you, sir!’ she said tartly. ‘Yes, of course it is. Besides, I like you, and I shan’t if you pity me.
Blister me if I can make head or tail of this coil. Vidal’s damned lackeys are as close as a lot of oysters. Y’know, Léonie, the boy’s a marvel, so he is. I never could keep a servant who didn’t blab...
As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!
And everything – but everything! – we did was quite useless!’ said Eustacie, quite disgusted. ‘I know,’ said Miss Thane, sadly shaking her head. ‘It does not bear thinking of.’ ‘I do not know why you...
May I have a workshop at Alver? For experiments? If I promise faithfully not to blow the house up? If you please, Cousin Alverstoke … ?
It is so stupid to say, as Edward does, that Aubrey ought to like what he detests, because other boys do. Aubrey is himself, and no one can alter him, so what is the use of saying he ought, when he wo...
Is my very ardent desire to be permitted to pay my addresses to you
He never allowed himself to think about unpleasant things, which answered very well, and could be supported in times of really inescapable stress by his genius for persuading himself that any disagree...