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...
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...
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...
A man who would contract the mumps,’ declared Cecilia, ‘would do anything!’ Lady Ombersley saw nothing unreasonable in this pronouncement, nor was she surprised that his lordship’s unromantic behaviou...
You’ve no more for me than I have for you.Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: How can you say so? When I am sure I have always been most sincerely attached to you!You decei...
Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!
That Fish of yours is queer in her attic.''Freddy, she is not!'Must be. Dash it, wouldn't write to you about Henry VIII if she wasn't! Stands to reason.
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...
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...
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...
Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes, he said with gentle reproach. Much as I love you, I cannot permi...
Now, where will I come by a book on etiquette? You wouldn't know if his lordship's got on win the library, would you, love?'Her colour somewhat heightened, she disengaged herself from his embrace, say...
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...
I have seen what comes of being patient, Amanda said with a boding look. And I have no opinion of it.What does come of it? Inquired Sir Gareth.Nothing!
As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
As for Miss Merriville, Mr Trevor felt that she was very well able to take care of herself. He had been dazzled by her beautiful companion, but he retained a vague impression of a self-possessed femal...
There was something very taking in her face which owed nothing to the excellence of her features: an expression of sweetness, a sparkle of irrepressible fun, an unusually open look, quite devoid of se...
There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!
Their fond Uncle Martin looked anything but gratified, but managed to control his feelings until he found himself out of earshot of his sister. He then declared that if Louisa imagined that he meant t...
Sophy, strongly practical, could not feel that Mr. Fawnhope would make a satisfactory husband, for he lacked visible means of support, and was apt, when under the influence of his Muse, to forget such...