Upon Mrs Scorton's reappearance, she found herself confronted, not by the fool of his family, but by the Honourable Frederick Standen, a Pink of the Pinks, who knew to a nicety how to blend courtesy w...
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.
Venetia was then twenty-two, perilously near to being on the shelf.'Without ever having been *off* it, Sir John - though that's not precisely what I mean, only that its is a wicked shame, so beautiful...
Well, I think I laid down my sunshade first,'said Mrs. Twining reflectively. 'Ah, that doesn't interest you. I told Finch that I wanted to tidy my hair (a euphemism for powder my nose, of course), and...
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...
What a leg. What an air. A most engaging smile.
What brings you here, Kit? No wish to offend you, but not quite the thing, you know!’Her lip trembled. She replied with a catch in her voice: ‘I am running away!’‘Oh, running away!’ said Mr Standen, s...
Whatever should I do if Mama were to arrive while you are gone?’ ‘Hide in the hay-loft!’ he recommended. ‘But if she has a particle of commonsense she won’t make the smallest push to recover you!
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...
Wonderful! said the Duke. We progress!We...? Progress? You said we? Progress?It seems I erred, Avon sighed. We remain at the same place.
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're Beau Wyndham! Well, I'll be damned!''The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved
You’re surely not going to tell me that eels find you more entertaining than I do?’ he said incredulously.
[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...
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...
Is a source of constant wonder to me how I came to have such a cork-brained parent. However, I have not the slightest reason to believe that my poor mother played him false. It must remain an enigma.
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...
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...
That if you were offered the choice between a splendid body or a splendid mind you would choose the mind, because it would long outlast the body.
And now I wish I hadn’t been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!No, no! said Alverstoke soothingly. Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!
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