Let me tell you, sir, that if you wish to be accepted into Bath society you will do well to mend your manners!’ retorted Abby. ‘I’ve none to mend, and not the smallest wish to be accepted into Bath, o...
They dined early, and as soon as the meal was over Margaret went up to change into the frock she had worn on the previous evening. With a praiseworthy attention to detail she made her hair look tousle...
There is always a thought of marriage between a single female and a personable gentleman, if not in his mind, quite certainly in hers.
Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!
You look very well – at least, you would if you didn’t make such a figure of yourself in that rig! When I was a girl, no gentleman would have dreamed of paying a social call without powder, let me tel...
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...
[Frederica[ is the best person I know!' He added with unexpected naïveté: 'I daresay that seems an odd thing to say of one's sister, but it's true, and I'm not ashamed to say so! She may not be a *bea...
You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.
My house seems remarkably full of people, he observed. Is it possible we were expected.
Goodbye! Oh, not goodbye! he protested. I mean to know you better, Miss Lanyon of Undershaw! To be sure, it does seem a pity you should not, after such a promising start, but life, you know, is full o...
He was obviously fencing with her, and the sooner he was made to realise that such tactics would not answer the better it would be. So she said coldly: ‘You must know very well that I am Fanny’s aunt....
[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!Mine is erratic, he said imperturbably. I remember only what interests me.
That *does* relieve my mind!''It might well - except that I fancy you don't care a straw how we may appear.''On the contrary! Think how much my credit would suffer!'She laughed, but shook her head. 'Y...
Nothing could have appealed more strongly to Miss Wantage's youthful taste, so as soon as she had changed the chip-straw hat for an Angouleme bonnet of white thread-net trimmed with lace, she sallied...
Cecilia could have told him that Mr. Fawnhope's intrepidity sprang more from a sublime unconsciousness of the risk of infection than from any deliberate heroism; but since she was not in the habit of...
It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.
She stared up at him incredulously. ‘But – but don’t you think I’m beautiful?’ ‘Very!’ ‘Well, I know I am,’ she said candidly. ‘Ancilla thinks I shouldn’t say so – and I meant not to, on account of lo...
Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!
How very odd, to be sure!’ ‘What is?’ She walked on, her brow a little furrowed. ‘Wishing to kiss someone you never saw before in your life. It seems quite mad-brained to me, besides showing a sad wan...
Miss Milborne rose to her feet somewhat suddenly. 'I send for George?' she repeated, in stupefied notes. 'Have you taken leave of your senses?''No, of course I have not! You must know that there can b...
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