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...
And let me tell you, Mr Ravenscar, that Lucius Kennet is downstairs, and if you have any notion of starting a vulgar brawl in my house, I will have you thrown out of it! There is Silas, and both the w...
No, no I wouldn't annoy him for the world! Aubrey said. I do think he was quite pleased to see his little Aubrey, don't you? I have always regarded myself as the feminine influence in the family and q...