Good God, the fellow's a dead bore!' 'He is, of course, but there's no saying he wouldn't be a good husband, for he is very kind, and honourable and -- and respectable, which I believe are excellent q...
Do you forget that I am your sister?No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.
Dashed if I didn’t receive a letter from him this morning! Yes, and what’s more, I had to pay sixpence for it, which I’d as lief not have done. It ain’t that I grudge sixpence, but what I mean is, why...
Charles' driving, skilful though it might be, kept his passengers in a constant state of breathlessness.
Believe me, it is quite unnecessary! I neither know nor care what it cost to redeem Lufra—and if you badger me on this very boring matter I shall not invite you to go with me when I try out my new tea...
Yes, but we do not know that he snores, my love,’ Lady Ombersley pointed out. ‘Indeed, we may be almost certain that he does not, for his manners are so very gentleman-like!’ ‘A man who would contract...
Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are?Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!
Who else is to join your expedition?’ ‘I don’t know. Yes, I do, though! We’ll take Fanny and young Grayshott!’ She smiled, but said: ‘You should invite Lavinia too.’ ‘Oliver wouldn’t agree with you. N...
Unless, of course, he fears I may corrupt Aubrey. Evil communications, you know!''I shouldn't think you could,' she said, dispassionately considering the matter. She saw his lips quiver, and her own g...
This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!
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!
There is so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.
The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.
Simplicity was abhorrent to his lordship; he revelled in a net-work of intrigue; he loved to accomplish the impossible.
Positively you overwhelm me!’ my lord said. ‘You oppress me with kindness, sir
People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
Miss Taverner took the whip and reins in her hands, and mounted into the driving-seat, scorning assistance.Take your orders from Miss Taverner, Henry, said the Earl, getting up beside his ward.Me Lord...
Lady Cinderford,’ said the Dowager, referring to her widowed sister-in-law in accents of loathing, ‘will act as hostess at Stanyon over my dead body!’ ‘That would be something quite out of the ordinar...
I'll see the color of your money, my lord.My lord folded the paper. He was still smiling. It would disappoint you, my friend. It is just the same colour as everyone else's.
I will not listen to your verse on an empty stomach! declared the Vicomte. You have no soul, said Philippe sadly.But I have a stomach, and it cries aloud for sustenance. I weep for you, said Philip. W...