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How is this?" she demanded "I had thought a Marquis must always be acceptable!"
"That, Miss Merriville, Depends on the Marquis!

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 the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!

I have never met the man who had vision large enough to appreciate my genius," he said simply. "Perhaps it was not to be expected.

Do you know, it has of late become an ambition of mine to hear my name on your lips instead of my title

But where is my son? Where is the beautiful Miss Merriot?

Lady Winwood being denied, the morning caller inquired with some anxiety for Miss Winwood, or, in fact, for any of the young ladies.

the Reverend Felix Clowne,

Tell me,is my grey hall an insuperable bar to matrimony?

I like very few people nowadays; in fact, the number of persons whom I cordially dislike increases almost hourly.

My lord, when I first encountered you the suspicion crossed my mind that your intellect was disordered. I am now certain that this is so!

Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!"
"I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.

What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all

Me, I am not a lady,' announced her grace. 'I have been very well educated, and I will drink port.

Martin,' interrupted Gervase, 'why were you stunned, kept in durance vile, and finally rolled into a sand-pit?

You have no knowledge of me. You are to be pitied.'
'Envied, more like,' said his undutiful son.

I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me."
"Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.

My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?

is my very ardent desire to be permitted to pay my addresses to you

My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.

The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.

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?

there it must end!

Speed is the curse of the age.

Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are?
Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!

[ ... ]my memory is reasonably good - unlike yours, dear sir!"
"Mine is erratic," he said imperturbably. "I remember only what interests me.

If you had not done such a shabby thing to me I would not have had you kidnapped.

She forced herself to smile, and to say magniloquently:

She thought that Fontley had suffered as much from a negligent mistress as from an improvident master.

She was generally considered to be a pretty woman; and, since she was as good-natured as she was foolish, she was almost universally liked.

The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!

I am relieved. May I now have the truth?

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

you had as well go rabbit-hunting with a dead ferret as try to get past his butler!

Is it not unsupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?

Mrs Hendred was a very pretty woman of great good-nature and much less than commonsense.

The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.

Do you have a husband concealed about you?

You are severe!' Carlyon

Don't worry. Chivalry has practically no appeal for me whatsoever.
Neville Fletcher

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.

I find it a marvellous circumstance, cousin, that no one has yet strangled you!

Just because I cut a lark with that stiff-rumped Exciseman you seem to think I'm as good as rope-ripe!

No, but on the other hand you don't enact me Cheltenham tragedies when I've barely swallowed my breakfast.

You've never been in a scrape yet but what it came about by accident. The thing is, no one else has these accidents.

Yes, darling, that is quite a nice frock, but the hankerchief is not only the wrong shade of grey, but quite damnably tied. Let me show you, my sweet.

Eggs I must instantly have!" she announced. "And Lope de Vega I will not have, though in general a fine poet, but not in the kitchen!

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

I didn't smuggle the dog into the country; I merely caused him to be smuggled out of Baluchistan.

There is a corpse somewhere on the road to town. Mr Fox does not wish it there. Remove it!' The

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!

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

I always agree on trivial points,' replied Francis. 'It saves trouble.

Much discomposed, Freddy made inarticulate noises.

Nothing makes one so cross as knowing one is in the wrong, does it?

A man whose raiment attracted attention, had said Mr Brummell, was not a well-dressed man.

I contrive,"' said Prudence softly. 'Do you know, sir, you puzzle me.' 'It has ever been my motto,' the old gentleman pointed out triumphantly.

How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris

I don't think I am green. It's true I only know what I've read in books, but I've read a great many books

After all, life was not made up of moments of exaltation, but of quite ordinary, everyday things

There was nothing in store at Undershaw for his lordship but a set-down, but it was disappointing to be granted no opportunity to deliver this.

You're Beau Wyndham! Well, I'll be damned!'
'The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

The thought flashed into her mind that she beheld the embodiment of her ideal. It was as instantly banished;

Nothing is so destructive of female charms as contact with fresh air.

If the worst comes to the worst I can always take Evelyn's place, can't I?

Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.

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!

Surprise is the essence of attack!

I cannot bear to go back alone - to the world I have lived in with you.

I may have said that I wanted to have an adventure," replied Miss Thane. "But I never said that I wanted to be murdered in my bed.

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.

He didn't choose between me and you, Julia: it was between me and ruin.

If people are only kind to me I'm sure I am the last person to quarrel with anyone.' His

Yes, Nicky, but you think I know everything because I never tell you anything I am not quite certain of

I do not like your name, sir," she answered.
"There was no thought of pleasing you when I was christened." he quoted lazily.

Entertaining females with accounts of jug-bitten maunderings is one of my favourite pastimes.' He

There is always a thought of marriage between a single female and a personable gentleman, if not in his mind, quite certainly in hers.

O God, Mama, I've made such a mull of it! What am I to do?

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

Really, I don't know what the world is coming to if I am to be suspected of staring in at windows!

May I have a workshop at Alver? For experiments? If I promise faithfully not to blow the house up? If you please, Cousin Alverstoke ... ?

I could manage him,' she sighed. 'Oh, but I could!

My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.

Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls.

This is my cousin, by the way. I dare say you know of him. He is very wicked and kills people in duels. Vidal, this is Frederick.' His

He has probably gnawed his nails down to the quick, or murdered poor Mr. Orde.

You can't go about smelling of April and May, the pair of you, and then expect to gull people into thinking you don't mean to get riveted!

She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.

This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!

Them Frenchies!'
'Unchristian, that's what I call 'em,' responded Mr. Stubbs severely. 'I fair compassionate that wench.

You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself

Gentlemen don't understand anything, however wise they may be.

Charles' driving, skilful though it might be, kept his passengers in a constant state of breathlessness.

Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?

You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.

On the toodle last night, and not feeling quite the thing today?

Cheaper still, I might miss my tip.

Besides, it was a well-known maxim that maniacs must be humoured.

[ ... ]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my - er - icy set-downs!(Alverstoke)