I shan't ask you how you do, ma'am: to enquire after a lady's health implies that she is not in her best looks. Besides, I can see that you are in high bloom.
I see, agreed Rule. You are going to be the Sacrifice.She looked up at him rather shyly. It c-can't signify to you, can it? Except that I know I'm not a Beauty, like L-Lizzie. But I have got the Nose,...
I find myself at one with Dr Johnson, who declared—did he not?—that one green field was just like another!
I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons, but you may depend upon it none of those knight-errants would be able to rescue one from a social fix, and you must own, Meg, that one ha...
I contrive,’ said Prudence softly. ‘Do you know, sir, you puzzle me.’ ‘It has ever been my motto,’ the old gentleman pointed out triumphantly.
I believe I have several times requested you not to call Rupert 'imbecile', infant.But Monseigheur, he is an imbecile! she protested. You know he is!Undoubtedly, ma fille, but I do not tell the whole...
I am sure I do not know why a man should not be a gamester, if his talents make it an eligible profession for him!
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 would not object, he said, to accepting a post as a librarian. But as Cecilia was unable to imagine that her father or her brother would feel any marked degree of satisfaction in giving her in marr...
He was at the concert last night, and she looked at him as if he were her whole dependence and delight.’ ‘No, did she? I envy him. Not, of course, that I’ve the smallest desire that should bestow suc...
He paused and then said, as though the words were wrung out of him: ‘O God, Mama, I’ve made such a mull of it! What am I to do?
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 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.
Have you any brothers? demanded Mr. Beaumaris. No, said Mr. Scunthorpe, blinking at him. Only child. You relieve my mind. Offer my congratulations to your parents!
Do you recall Fred Merriville?She stared at him. Fred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything?The poor fellow has nothing to say: he’s dead, alas!
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...
Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you h...
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...
Child, you do not know me. You have created a mythical being in my likeness whom you have set up as a god. It is not I. Many times, infant, I have told you that I am no hero, but I think you have not...