You’re only a man! You’ve not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
My house seems remarkably full of people,” he observed. “Is it possible we were expected.
You will like her,” he persisted. “Egad, she’s after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm.””Voyons, do you think that is what I like?
I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire–I admit, a natural one for the most part–to exterminate your fellows.
If it comes to that,” retorted Frederica, with spirit, ” I am continually shocked by the things you don’t scruple to say to me,cousin! You are quite abominable!”He sighed. “Alas, I know it! The reflection gives me sleepless nights.
Queer creatures, females,” mused Mr. Standen, shaking his head. “Fellow’s only got to be a rake to have ’em all dangling after him. Silly, really, because it stands to reason—- Well never mind that!
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
Monseigneur, I have killed you! You are dead! You are dead!”You display an unseemly joy,” he remarked. “I had no notion you were so bloodthirsty.
Bustle about Noddy, or we shant be in time to snabble any of the lobster patties.
Nothing more likely,”said Hannasyde. “I’ve got to try and rattle him.””It’s him that’ll do the rattling,”said the Sergeant darkly. “he’s the nearest thing to a snake I’ve seen outside of the Zoo.
One minute he stood transfixed, the next he uttered a crushing oath, and took a hasty stride forward. Mr Ringwood, recovering from his own stupefaction, closed with him, just as George, flushing vividly, sprang to his
But it is infamous that they have not told you!’ declared Eustacie. ‘Je n’en reviendrai jamais!’‘If it’s all the same to you, miss, I’d just as soon you’d talk in a Christian language,’ said Mr. Stubbs.
People who start a sentence with personally (and they’re always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It’s a repulsive habit.
The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.
Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?
…Gentlemen don’t understand anything, however wise they may be.
Nothing doing. I’ve no doubt you think I should look noble as a sacrifice. But I’ve never wanted to look noble, and I won’t be made to. — Neville Fletcher
Don’t worry. Chivalry has practically no appeal for me whatsoever. — Neville Fletcher
But where is my son? Where is the beautiful Miss Merriot?
You know what I think? Fate! That’s what it is fate! There’s a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain’t expecting it.
My God, Justin, do you hate him so?””Bah!” said his Grace…”does one hate an adder? Because it is venomous and loathsome one crushes it underfoot, as I shall crush this Comte.
You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.
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!
Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I’ll be damned if I’ll let you sacrifice me!
Them Frenchies!’ ‘Unchristian, that’s what I call ’em,’ responded Mr. Stubbs severely. ‘I fair compassionate that wench.
He was not at the moment in very good odour at Bow Street. Such epithets as Blockhead and Blunderer had been used in connection with his last case. ‘Jeremiah Stubbs, miss,’ said the Runner. ‘I am here in the execution of my dooty.
I wish you did return my regard,” he said. “More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don’t easily despair!
Entertaining females with accounts of jug-bitten maunderings is one of my favourite pastimes.
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.
You would more probably have gone to the guillotine,’ replied Sir Tristram, depressingly matter of
You will allow that one’s curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!
O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I’m not mad yet–not so mad that I don’t know how disastrous it might be to you–to us both! You don’t realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence!
Do you recall Fred Merriville?”She stared at him. “Fred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything?”“The poor fellow has nothing to say: he’s dead, alas!
Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!
You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself
The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next – though one rapidly learns to expect the worst!
Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.
As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
Don’t you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?
And that reminds me, Mama! I have just intercepted another of that puppy’s floral offerings to my sister. This billet was attached to it.” (Charles)
That’s what you think of me, is it, girl?” said his lordship, a glint in his
When fate’s got it in for you there’s no limit to what you may have to put up with.