It must have been-hell! Merivale said.Just so, bowed his Grace. It was the very worst kind of hell, as I know.The wonder is that she has come through it unscathed.The hazel eyes lifted.Not quite unsca...
Much discomposed, Freddy made inarticulate noises.
My – sufficiently wide experience of you, Mr Calverleigh, warns me that you are about to say something outrageous!’ ‘No, I assure you! Nothing derogatory! Charming girls, all of them! Only I don’t wan...
Oh, Philippe, thou are a rogue.So I have been told. Presumably because I am innocent of the slightest indiscretion. Curious. No one dubs you rogue who so fully merit the title. But I, whose reputation...
Once, when she was apparently not in the humour for gallantry, she actually had the effrontery to cut him short, saying: ‘Oh, never mind that! Who was that odd-looking man who waved to you just now? W...
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...
You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.
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...
Your presence in England is extremely – shall we say enlivening? – Vidal. But I believe I shall survive the loss of it.
Is my very ardent desire to be permitted to pay my addresses to you
Skimble-skamble
A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul.
After all, life was not made up of moments of exaltation, but of quite ordinary, everyday things
After all, when one approaches Middle Age…Middle Age? Has anyone ever boxed your ears Miss Thane?No, never, said Miss Thane, looking blandly up at him.You have been undeservedly fortunate, said Sir Tr...
As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!
At the end of the war I was shipped over to England and Dr. Strange—you’ve heard of him? He’s a marvel—put me right.
Crawley, I do trust that you have rung that bell, for if I stand in this disagreeable wind you know I shall take cold, and my colds always descend upon my chest. How thoughtless it was in you to have...
Creo que jamás aconsejaría a nadie que se diera por vencido, porque no soporto esa actitud tan débil.
Desford said abruptly: How old are you, my child? Sixteen? Seventeen?Oh, no, I am much older than that! she replied. I'm as old as Lucasta - all but a few weeks!Then why are you not downstairs dancing...
Do you mean to tell me that Mr. Trevor read my letter? demanded Lady Buxted indignantly. Your secretary?I employ him to read my letters, explained his lordship.(Alverstroke)Not those written by your n...
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