I do not like your name, sir, she answered.There was no thought of pleasing you when I was christened. he quoted lazily.
I didn’t sneer! said Juliana hastily. I’d no notion you behaved so dreadfully badly to her. You saidyou forced her aboard your yacht, but I never supposed that you really frightened her enough to make...
I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire - I admit, a natural one for the most part - to exterminate your fellows.
Help a smuggler!’ said Miss Thane in shocked accents. ‘My good man, do you know that you are addressing the sister of a Justice of the Peace? Let me tell you that my brother, who is in the house at th...
He will be company for you, you know. I wonder you do not have a dog already.’ ‘I do – in the country,’ he replied. ‘Oh, sporting dogs! They are not at all the same.’ Mr Beaumaris, after another look...
He did not want middle-aged men with distinguished records with him: they could be better employed elsewhere, and would, moreover, have bored him. He wanted polished young men of good families, who we...
Gone Groupy, has she?’ said Hugh. ‘How rotten for Tom!’ ‘Well, it is rather, because Connie’s started forgiving him for all sorts of things he never knew he’d done. We’re hoping that she’ll get over i...
Friday. Proposed to Cicely. Refused.
Do you know,’ she said slowly, ‘I have just thought – Mr Beaumaris, something tells me that Lady Bridlington may not like this dear little dog!’ Mr Beaumaris waited in patient resignation for his cert...
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...
But perhaps I might feel strange, and unlike myself. It wouldn't be comfortable, not to be acquainted with myself.
But it was very stupid of me not to see that of course the friend of Juliana must be this Mary Challoner. It was stupid of you too, Rupert. More stupid.
Are you aware, ma’am, that it is my intention to marry Lucilla myself?’ There was a slight pause. Miss Fairfax said rather carefully, ‘I was aware of it, sir, but I have always been at a loss to know...
After all, life was not made up of moments of exaltation, but of quite ordinary, everyday things
Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.
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...
Much discomposed, Freddy made inarticulate noises.
I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me.Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.
His lordship detested independently-minded subordinates. It was not the business of his officers to think for themselves.
Eustacie drew a deep breath. ‘I see that I have misjudged you, Cousin Tristram,’ she said handsomely. ‘One must make reparation, . I will marry you.’ ‘Thank you,’ said Sir Tristram, ‘but the matter do...