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Professor Braithwope was undergoing a very dangerous test indeed. For queen and country, the potentate had said. For science, Sophronia thought.
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When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.
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If left together for too long, the two of them might actually take over the civilized world, through sheer application of snide remarks.
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I am entirely capable.""Of what, waddling up to someone and ruthlessly bumping into them? — Gail Carriger
Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas.
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You are about as covert as a sledgehammer.
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Really, Channing," remonstrated Alexia, "did you have to eat the man's dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.
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Where does one purchase a mustache in London? Fleet Street?
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A lady must always be prepared. Snacks are an essential part of espionage. Sophronia
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Evil genius-ness was like that--showy.
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I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.
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Bland, good as a side dish, but really only palatable when there is nothing better available.
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I think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all.
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The burden of a spy, Lord Akeldama always said, was not in the knowing of things but in knowing when to tell such things to others.
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Sheep?""Sheep."
"Sheep!"
...
"Yes, as in baaaa. — Gail Carriger
Soap understood her. Soap would always understand.
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Lord Maccon looked up. "Grovel, you say?" Lyall did not glance away from the latest vampire report he was perusing. "Grovel, my lord. — Gail Carriger
Vampires hated to lose blood - it was troublesome to replace and always left a stain.
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But there is a sign!" objected Primrose in semi-shock. "A sign indicating pets aren't permitted. Really, some people.
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They decided the mummy would be unwrapped, for the titillation of the ladies, just after dinner.
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Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.
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She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.
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Stop playing verbal games with me, madam, or I shall go out into that ballroom, find your mother, and bring her here
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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Alexia, did you know there is an entire regiment decamping on your front lawn?Laddy Maccon sighed. Really, Ivy, I would never have noticed. — Gail Carriger
Mortals trotted about in shoes and corsets made to limit movement, fashion for prey.
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And atop the wolf, looking as dignified and butlerlike as might be possible for a man riding a werewolf, was Floote. Alexia
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Well, you are a werewolf, Scottish, naked, and covered in blood, and I am still holding your hand." He
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Trust is a lot to ask of someone.
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As much as she was enjoying it, Dimity would always rather talk about reading than actually read.
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Dewan ex machina
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Death can be jolly well inconvenient, if you ask me.
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Having delivered the expected daily miracle, Floote stood in his usual stance and warily watched the Templars work.
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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.
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Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.
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Can't you tell from the hair and the cheekbones? Humans don't grow that beautiful. Not outside of Denmark, anyway.
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Shame on you! Bad vampire.
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A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.
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As Dimity said, Sidheag surely does grumpy old man very well for a sixteen-year-old girl.
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That's a very murky position," objected Felix."So's the weather. But this is England, we must learn to live with uncertainty. — Gail Carriger
Shut your cake hole, you revolting young blot.
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I believe I liked it better when she was yelling at me.
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No one ever explained the octopuses.
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Sidheag could be quite crass, the result of having been raised by men, or Scots, or soldiers, or werewolves, or all four.
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The Gamma paused. "You have a crazed werewolf in your wine cellar?""You can think of a better place to stash him?"
"What about the wine? — Gail Carriger
Floote, what is going on? Do they think Iam contagious? Should I assure them I was
born with a nose this size? — Gail Carriger
Lady Maccon declined in horror. She enjoyed most foods, but brussels sprouts were nothing more than underdeveloped cabbages.
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His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It's wrong, lack of cream.
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She hasn't caught a slight fatality, has she?
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Oh, do shove off, Lady Bling. I was thinking some rather important thoughts before you interrupted me.
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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.
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I must send a beard to rescue a mustache!
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So this pesto I enjoy so much is really an infamous Italian antisupernatural weapon?
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Here, I stole it for you. Why don't you tell me what it's for.""Aw, Sophronia, how thoughtful. You brought me a present! — Gail Carriger
Oh, Lady Maccon, I am unreservedly in love with her. That black hair, that sweet disposition, those capital hats.
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Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die?
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He dinna act like an Alpha.""He does in some areas. — Gail Carriger
A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief.
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Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.
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You have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!
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Knowing Miss Hisselpenny's constitution, if the mummy were gruesome enough, dinner might just be revisited.
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I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.
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Follow that porcupine!
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I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
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Not Alec Weebs? Never! Biffy was appreciatively shocked.
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They never could entirely control preternaturals. It's your pragmatism. Your kind cannot be persuaded by faith; pure logic must be applied.
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The monkeys, she explained, were considered reincarnated politicians, which made Rue laugh and the stick entirely understandable.
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He was awfully good at being aristocratic. Alexia, on the other hand, was only good at being autocratic. Not quite the same thing.
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It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.
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The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white.
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She was not undead, mind you; she was a living, breathing human but was simply ... lacking.
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He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.
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Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information.
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away from the ocean, heading toward the
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