Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?
Creo que jamás aconsejaría a nadie que se diera por vencido, porque no soporto esa actitud tan débil.
Cecy, help me to collect the ducklings, and put them back into the box! If we were to place your muff on top of them they will very likely believe it to be their mother, and settle down!
Are you well? You look a trifle peaked.If I do, it is because black doesn't become me. I mean to lighten my mourning, and have ordered a charming gray gown.You are mistaken.What, in going into half-mo...
And I should like to know why you talked of us to Mrs Scaling as though you had been our grandfather!’ ‘I feel like your grandfather,’ he replied.
You* may call [Charis] angelic to be for ever trying to please everyone, and being sorry for those she *can't* please, but I don't! Addle-brained is what *I* call it!''Oh, no!' uttered Charis implorin...
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.
_ ¿Y si me caso con vos, mi señor? ¿Me dejareis seguir mi camino? ¿No vendréis a mi lado siyo no lo deseo? ¿ No os enfadaréis conmigo ni seréis mi tiran o?Te lo juro _ dijo él.
You’re surely not going to tell me that eels find you more entertaining than I do?’ he said incredulously.
Your solicitude overwhelms me,’ returned Ravenscar. ‘I own I had expected at least a loaf of bread and a jug of water in my dungeon – until I learned, of course, that you had some idea of starving me...
You will very soon be. Sit down. Why are you not at the ball?I had no inclination for it, sir. I might ask, why are not you?Not finding you there, I came here, he replied.I am indeed flattered, said M...
You must know I can’t – how impossible it would be!’ ‘No, I don’t. Why should it be?’ ‘The – the circumstances!’ she uttered, in a stifled voice. He looked to be a good deal puzzled. ‘What circumstanc...
You have fallen into a fit of despondency, and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! It encourages one to suppose that there is nothing to be done, whe...
You do mean to remain, then?''If I get what I want.''The Dower House?''Nay, that's a small matter! I'll tell you what it is one of these days, but I'm not so very sure I can get it yet, so happen I'll...
Wonderful! said the Duke. We progress!We...? Progress? You said we? Progress?It seems I erred, Avon sighed. We remain at the same place.
When I think of all the pretty and lovely girls who have done their best to attach him, and he tells me that he has offered for an insipid female who has neither fortune nor any extraordinary degree o...
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...
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.
Sit down, and I’ll give you a drink. What would you like?’ ‘I’ll have a Side-car, please.
She had every intention of maintaining her punctilious civility, and might have done so had he not said, as he took his seat beside her in the carriage he had hired for the evening: ‘I wish I had orde...