Finding that she was determined to get to the bottom of what seemed to him a very trivial affair, extricated himself without hesitation or compunction by advising her to apply to Vincent for informati...
[Inspector Harding] ...To start with, I know that the General didn't get on with his son, but seemed to prefer his nephew; I know that he disapproved violently of Miss de Silva, and behaved towards he...
You’ve never been in a scrape yet but what it came about by accident. The thing is, no one else has these accidents.
You see, I am not pretty, not in the least, never was, and so I have to be odd. Nothing for it! It answers delightfully.
You need have no fear. But were I to meet you, sir, you would lie dead at my feet within the space of five minutes. Possibly less. I do not know. He appeared to give the matter his consideration.
You must never marry. Don’t, I do earnestly beg of you, allow yourself to be taken in by any lure thrown out to you! You cannot hope to find a lady who will like you better than you like yourself.
You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.
You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain't expect...
You can't go about smelling of April and May, the pair of you, and then expect to gull people into thinking you don't mean to get riveted!
Why, her father would turn in his grave--well, as a matter of fact, he was cremated, but what I mean is, if he hadn't been he would have. [Ermyntrude]
Who is he, the ill-disposed gentleman in pink? inquire the Comte, when they were out of earshot.A creature of no importance, shrugged Philip.So I see. Yet he contrives to arouse your anger.?Yes, admit...
Well, if you think it nothing to send her laudatory verses masquerading as acrostics, and to ransack all the libraries for the works of her favourite poets, you must be as green as she is!’ he said ca...
Well, if you sat eating as though nothing mattered save your dinner I’m not surprised, said Julianaviciously. If I were not so angry with her, the deceitful, sly wretch, I could pity her for all she m...
Vicky had enlivened the Sabbath by coming down to breakfast in abbreviated tennis-shorts, and a sleeveless shirt.
Upon her butler’s announcing the arrival of Mr Ravenscar, Lady Mablethorpe, who had been dozing over a novel from the Circulating Library, sat up with a jerk, and raised a hand to her dishevelled cap.
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This is my cousin, by the way. I dare say you know of him. He is very wicked and kills people in duels. Vidal, this is Frederick.
These were all things which a youth chafing against the restrictions of a polite age admired: but when he met them in a rival he bitterly resented them, because he knew himself to be at a disadvantage...
She thought that Fontley had suffered as much from a negligent mistress as from an improvident master.
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.