Ah, but I’m not a gentleman, said the Marquis. I have it on the best of authority that I am only anobleman.Good gracious, Vidal, who in the world dared to say such a thing? cried his cousin, instantly...
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.
Do hope he didn’t bite anyone? He isn’t savage, but if he thought anyone was trying to steal him –’ ‘Ah, so that was it!’ said his lordship. ‘He was labouring under a delusion, but I daresay that was...
You’re surely not going to tell me that eels find you more entertaining than I do?’ he said incredulously.
You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!
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 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 don’t feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain’t a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don’t think I could ever love anyone else. Daresay it ain’t any use telli...
Wonderful! said the Duke. We progress!We...? Progress? You said we? Progress?It seems I erred, Avon sighed. We remain at the same place.
With Philip's departure had come a void which only could be filled by Philip's return.
What is it, my dear delight?'She gave a tiny sigh, but shook her head, and looked up smilingly into his face. 'Mere irritation of the nerves, perhaps. Never mind it! I'm better now.''I do mind it.' He...
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...
Venetia had no guile, and no affectations; she knew the world only by the books she had read; experience had never taught her to doubt the sincerity of anyone who did her a kindness.
To listen to a poet arguing with himself – for she could scarcely have been said to have borne any part in the discussion – on the merits of blank verse as a dramatic medium was naturally a privilege...
They used to say of me that I'd as many lucky escapes as Harry Smith!''Shouldn't be at all surprised: I've seen one of 'em myself,' Brough said cryptically.
Sit down, and I’ll give you a drink. What would you like?’ ‘I’ll have a Side-car, please.
Sir Nugent knew that Sylvester did not like him, but it never crossed his mind that Sylvester, or anyone else, held him in contempt. If he could have been brought to believe it, he would have known th...
She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.
Really, I don’t know what the world is coming to if I am to be suspected of staring in at windows!
Perhaps Charis did not realize that when one had passed through a time of terrible anxiety relief did not immediately restore the tone of one's mind. To be sure, she herself had not expected that afte...