If you imagine that I have the smallest desire to receive your hand as a reward for having performed a difficult task to your satisfaction you're beside the bridge, my child! I've no fancy for a reluc...
You seem to forget that you wished to purchase the moon for me!’ ‘Nay, I don’t forget that! The thing is I can’t purchase it, so there was no harm in saying it. Now, if I’d said I’d like to give you a...
Eugenia never wears modish gowns. She says there are more important things to think of than one's dresses.What a stupid thing to say! remarked Sophy. Naturally there are, but not, I hold, when one is...
[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such...
Y'know, dear old boy- not my business- but she don't mean an ounce of harm! Only saying to George last night; dear little soul! Not up to snuff at all!''No, my God!' agreed the Viscount feelingly.'Tel...
She contrived, without precisely making so vulgar a boast, to convey the impression that she was escaping from courtships so persistent as to amount to persecution; and Mr Beaumaris, listening with in...
The youngest Merriville, bursting into the room some time later, found them seated side by side on the sofa. 'Buddle said I wasn't to disturb you, but I knew was fudge,' he said scornfully. 'Cousin A...
How cross you are!’ marvelled Miss Thane. ‘I suppose when one reaches middle age it is difficult to sympathize with the follies of youth.’ Sir Tristram had walked over to the other side of the room to...
It is possible, said Miss Marling stiffly, that Frederick and not Mary will have the ordering of thejourney.Vidal chuckled. Not if I know my Mary, he replied
She looked at Damerel. 'Well, my dear friend?''Well, my dear delight?' he returned, a glint in his eyes.'Do you think you will make me unhappy?''I don't - but I will offer you on promises!''No, pray d...
Well, it is very odd of you to threaten to throw your friends out of the window, I must say, remarked Juliana.He smiled. Not at all. It is only my friends that I would throw out of the window.Dear me!...
The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next – though one rapidly learns to expect the worst!
No sooner had she been favored with a scathing description of this gentleman's errand than she conceived the notion of returning to the modiste who created them, two ball-dresses, one opera-cloak, and...
I’ll say no more about that, or I’ll be falling into the dismals
He shut the door, and stood looking across the room at her. 'Cressy, what did you mean when you told that harridan that your affections were engaged?'The colour deepened a little in her cheeks, but sh...
You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in aversion, for I am sure that such a thing would be quite shocking! And Charles would not do...
How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris
I know it, and I wanted so much not to drag you into it!’ said Kitty remorsefully. ‘I thought, if only you knew nothing about it, it would serve as a reason for you to put an end to our engagement!’‘Y...
Sophia, with real nobility of character, then asked Papa to explain something she had read in Sir John Malcolm's History of Persia, which the Vicar, whose only personal extravagance was his purchase o...
There is always a thought of marriage between a single female and a personable gentleman, if not in his mind, quite certainly in hers.
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