He took her face between his hands, staring down at her. She felt his fingers tremble slightly, and wondered what thoughts chased one another behind the trouble in his eyes. Suddenly his hands dropped...
He bowed, still holding her hand, and then, without a word, released it, and marched out, very dignified. It was another fine tragic effect, but Cleone, when the door closed behind him, broke into an...
Has it occurred to you, Kate, that she is placing you under an obligation?Oh, yes, indeed it has, and it is crushing me! she said earnestly. If only there were some way of requiting her - not arrangin...
From being a female sunk below reproach Sophy became rapidly an unconventional girl whose unaffected manners were refreshing in an age of simpers and high flights.
Fair Fatality, you are the most unusual female I have encountered in all my thirty-eight years! You can't think how deeply flattered I am! she assured him. I daresay my head would be quite turned if I...
Downright malten-hearted, that’s me!’ ‘Yes, but I don’t think you are! Well, how could you be? You are a soldier!’ ‘Ay, and a terrible time I had of it, keeping in the rear,’ he said, falling into rem...
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?
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 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!
A man whose raiment attracted attention, had said Mr Brummell, was not a well-dressed man.
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...
_ ¿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.
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...
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...
Well, I must own that you are not at all goodnatured to your sisters, she said frankly. Not that I blame you for that - at least, not altogether! They seem positively to take delight in setting up you...