Unfortunately, you, Sir Tristram, knowing nothing of me, and being possessed of a tyrannical disposition – I beg your pardon?’ ‘I did not speak,’ replied Sir Tristram, eyeing her frostily. Miss Thane...
They must have had a great deal of practice, though I don’t think it can be wholly due to practice, do you? I never met a rake before, or thought much about it, but I should suppose that a man could s...
The supreme torture was to come. He discovered that it required the united energies of the three men to coax him into his coat. When at last it was on he assured them it would split across the shoulde...
The Lady Serena, never remarkable for propriety, stared incredulously, and exclaimed: ‘What in the world brings you here, I should like to know?’ ‘So should I!’ retorted his lordship. ‘How well we sho...
She thought, in touching innocence, that in Miles Calverleigh she had found a friend, and a better one by far than any other, because his mind moved swiftly, because he could make her laugh even when...
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...
Recollect that we have been acquainted for less than a month! You cannot, cousin, have fallen - formed an attachment in so short a time!''Nay, love, don't be so daft!' he expostulated. 'There's no sen...
Pray, what's the nature of his trouble? Prudence asked solicitously.Oh, cursed bad news, my boy. That old aunt of his from whom he has expectations has rallied, and they say she'll last another ten ye...
Of a certainty Madame has died, Leonie said wickedly. Tiens, c'est bien drole!
Mr Merriot cocked an eyebrow at Kate, and said: - Well, my dear, and did you kiss her good-night?Miss Merriot kicked off her shoes, and replied in kind. What, are you parted from the large gentleman a...
Mr Lavenham just asked if you were still importuning Eustacie to marry you.’‘Why should I be doing anything of the sort?’ ‘On account of her being an heiress,’ explained Sarah. Sir Tristram said dryly...
Men – witness all the histories! – were subject to sudden lusts and violences, affairs that seemed strangely divorced from heart or head, and often more strangely still from what were surely their tru...
Mama –?’ ‘But of course! Outside, in my curricle.’ Then he saw that she had turned perfectly white, and said: ‘Don’t be such a goose-cap! You can’t suppose I would drive your mother-in-law thirty yard...
It was like a bad dream, in which people one knew quite well behaved fantastically, and one was powerless to escape from some dreadful doom.
It was incomprehensible to her that anyone should be amused by such a circumstance, but both Gilly and Gideon plainly thought it excessively funny, so she smiled dutifully, realizing the truth of her...
Is it not unsupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?
If the worst comes to the worst I can always take Evelyn’s place, can’t I?
If people are only kind to me I’m sure I am the last person to quarrel with anyone.’ His
If a man gives a party, he ought to know what kind of party it is,' argued the Viscount. 'If you don't know, how are we to know? It might be a damned soirée, in which case we wouldn't have come. Let's...
I wish you will rid yourself of this nonsensical notion that I disapprove of you.’ ‘But do you not?’ inquired Miss Thane, turning her head. He stopped two stairs below her, and stood looking up at her...