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When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.

Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry.

The redhead looked back and forth between them with dread in her eyes. Oh, dear, scheming. I was afraid this would happen if we got chummy again.

If left together for too long, the two of them might actually take over the civilized world, through sheer application of snide remarks.

There is an art to irritation that only few of us can achieve.

We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.

She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.

Do not trouble me with such weak excuses

How often have I warned you against fraternizing with technology?

Could that technique, she wondered, be legitimately referred to as a "parassault"?

Uh, my lord, I am not actually food. You do realize this, yes?

Pretty as a pineapple," pronounced

Falling out of the sky was one thing, but doing so for unknown reasons was quite unacceptable. Having

Really, Channing," remonstrated Alexia, "did you have to eat the man's dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.

Perhaps to the north? I hear Scotland is lovely this time of year." "Are you barmy? Scotland is wholly abysmal this time of year.

Where does one purchase a mustache in London? Fleet Street?

Really, Sophronia, it makes me most uncomfortable how you manage to sort everything out every time I faint.

Espionage, Sophronia had learned, was tough on petticoats.

My sister is a woman of mean understanding," explained Lady Maccon apologetically.
"And what are you?" asked Sedheag.
"Oh, I am simply mean.

I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.

Your father, madam, was fully cremated. I made absolutely certain."
Alexia swallowed silently and then said fervently, "Thank you, Floote.

Knives can be quite useful to a lady of quality. Swords are for men; they are too easily caught in the skirts.

Excellent. Ignorance is most undervalued in a student.

These feelings you engender in me, my lord, are most indelicate. You should stop causing them immediately.

What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to exasperation.
"Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves.

He wants to know why my marks aren't better. Why I don't speak fluent French. Why I can't kill a fully grown man with a nutcracker.

Trust me, darling, it is never a good idea to have too many queens in one place, let alone one palace." "To

I never read if I can help it. It is terribly bad for the eyes. And it causes one's forehead to wrinkle most horribly, just there.

Sidheag, you think like a predator.' The Lady of Kingair glowed in pleasure. 'Thank you very much, Sophronia. What a nice thing to say.

As a general rule, Lord Maccon appreciated a voluptuous woman. He liked a bit of meat on the female form, more to grab on to - and more to chew off.

I simply feel that world domination is not my cup of tea. Is that shortsighted?

Steampunk is ... the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama

Just a short visit, enough for a mild dismemberment?

Alexia was rather strapping. He preferred her that way. Undersized women reminded him of yippy dogs.

Hail to the Victorious Parasol!

She ought to remember to stay on her guard, for it was when an illegal activity became easy that one was most at risk of exposure.

Everyone's secrets are coming to light tonight, thought Sophronia, wondering how she had missed this little facet of inter-teacher dynamics.

Felicity was horrible and snide, but then Felicity had been a repulsive earwig ever since she first grew a vocabulary.

You know vampires and solicitors - practically indistinguishable.

I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.

It's all very well to be an intellectual, but one shouldn't let other see. That's embarrassing.

She also had a French accent, which hundreds of years of animosity had trained nice young Englishwomen to suspect as evil.

How did we go from tea to death so quickly?" wondered Quesnel. "Sometimes," said Prim darkly, "there is a very fine line between the two." "There's

I'd rather be loyal than right.

What she said was I want a man who stays out of my way.

A lady is never disreputable in public, unless intended for manipulation of sympathies.

That was a remarkable display of whatnot.

He also seemed to speak predominantly in italics.

Saw your nicely strung-up slab of bacon." "Don't insult bacon," said Sidheag.

In the end you'll have to cede to Lord Mersey. He's too much of a peer, you understand? And a bit of a prick as well.

He was clutching at his indelicate bits and writhing about.

Some of the most disagreeable people I know are the most ladylike.

As much as she was enjoying it, Dimity would always rather talk about reading than actually read.

Rain, in your glorious presence, Miss Temminnick? I hardly think it should dare.

Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed.

One could not blame a people for disliking vampires. Vampires were like brussels sprouts - not for everyone and impossible to improve upon with sauce.

Even children, Lady Linette said, must be allowed some time to conspire together.

But there is a sign!" objected Primrose in semi-shock. "A sign indicating pets aren't permitted. Really, some people.

She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

I was rather hoping we could live happily in sin for a very long time.

Alexia, did you know there is an entire regiment decamping on your front lawn?
Laddy Maccon sighed. Really, Ivy, I would never have noticed.

I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.

Knowing Miss Hisselpenny's constitution, if the mummy were gruesome enough, dinner might just be revisited.

I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.

I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.

Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.

Lord Maccon looked up. "Grovel, you say?"
Lyall did not glance away from the latest vampire report he was perusing. "Grovel, my lord.

Floote, what is going on? Do they think I
am contagious? Should I assure them I was
born with a nose this size?

She hasn't caught a slight fatality, has she?

Felix ran his hands through his dark hair, sounding like a resigned maiden aunt. 'It'll all end in tears and coal dust, you see if it doesn't.

I must send a beard to rescue a mustache!

So this pesto I enjoy so much is really an infamous Italian antisupernatural weapon?

He dinna act like an Alpha."
"He does in some areas.

Oh, dear me, no. Then I should be known as that vampire with all the cats.

My petal.
Westminster's toy had tea issues. Thank Biffy and Lyall. Toodle pip.
A.

He was awfully good at being aristocratic. Alexia, on the other hand, was only good at being autocratic. Not quite the same thing.

Follow that porcupine!

One should do what one is best at on as large a scale as possible.

We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.

Like a proper gentleman, the good captain never made mention of the undergarment murder.

Please don't. When you think about things, Sophronia, they only get more complicated. This thing between us could be so very easy, if you let it.

Ah, no, deployment was delayed after you left. Technical difficulties."
"Oh?"
"Yes, it was technically difficult to leave a heartbroken Alpha.

No one said learning etiquette and espionage would be easy, my dear.

Tonight I crash an airship. On purpose.

[She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing.

Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.

If we provide the right incentive, all things are possible, even perfection.

Well, you are a werewolf, Scottish, naked, and covered in blood, and I am still holding your hand." He

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

Dewan ex machina

Death can be jolly well inconvenient, if you ask me.

He wore a tweed suit, of all horrible things, and a cravat tied with such carelessness it was almost as much a sin as his actions.

Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.

Really, Alexia, what could have possessed you to attach yourself to the side of the ship in such a juvenile fashion? It is positively barnacle-like.

I believe I liked it better when she was yelling at me.

Vampires hated to lose blood - it was troublesome to replace and always left a stain.

Evil genius-ness was like that--showy.

I think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all.

Sheep?"
"Sheep."
"Sheep!"
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"Yes, as in baaaa.