I am quite beneath your touch, sir!’ ‘No, no, that’s coming it much too strong!’ he said. ‘When I have it on excellent authority that your uncle is a General!’ For a moment she suspected him of mocker...
Humble myself? 'Fore Gad, you must be mad!Belike I am; but I tell you Tracy, that if your passion is love, 'tis a strange one that puts yourself first. I would not give a snap of a finger for it! You...
He had expected to have been received, if not with gratification, at least with pleasure: it had been a piece of condescension on the part of the head of the family to have visited its reprobate, but...
He had a singularly charming smile, and it ensured for him, no matter how exacting might be his demands, the uncomplaining exertions of his servants. He was perfectly well aware of that, just as he wa...
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.
Have you considered what people would be bound to say?’ Frederick said. ‘No, nor do I propose to burden my head with anything that interests me so little!’ retorted Mr Beaumaris.
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?
Did you imagine that you would make me believe ill of Sophy with your foolish and spiteful letter!' he demanded. 'You have tried to set me against her from the outset, but you over-reached yourself to...
Dear Papa, it seemed, had not left his family in affluent circumstances; but he had certainly endowed them with good looks, a commodity in which they had been bred from earliest youth to trade to the...
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...
Dash it, they've got no heads!''No, but you see, Freddy, they are so very old! They have been damaged.' explained Miss Charing.'Damaged! I should rather think so! They haven't got any arms either! Wel...
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.
But it was only in epic tragedies that gloom was unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy were so intermingled that when one was most wretched ridiculous things happened to make one laugh in spite...
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!
Alas, it is too true. I visited him this morning and found him en deshabille, clasping his brown. He seized on me and demanded a rhyme to some word which I have forgot. So I left him.Can no one convin...
Since he was himself of a forthright disposition he was inclined to like Sophy's frank, open manners, and obstinately refused to agree that she put herself forward unbecomingly. He did not think that...
Nothing makes one so cross as knowing one is in the wrong, does it?
He disclosed that he had been set upon by two Bedlamites, both of whom had jumped out from behind a bush, roaring at him like a couple of ferocious wild beasts ... The Sergeant cast a doubtful glance...
You're Beau Wyndham! Well, I'll be damned!''The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved