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Oh, you mustn't blame the poor fellow! I told him I would announce myself.' 'You had no business to do so!' scolded Abby. 'If you hadn't startled me - if I had had a moment's warning - I shouldn't have - it wouldn't have happened!' 'Well, you might not have kissed me, but I had every intention of kissing you, so it's just as well he didn't announce me,' said Mr Calverleigh. 'Do you always kiss gentlemen who walk in unannounced? I'll take ..
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Live where you choose! It's all one to me. Have you anything more to say?' 'No, I have not, and I should be very happy to think I need never say another word to you for as long as I live - and of all things in the world there is nothing - nothing - so abominable, and contemptible, and cowardly, and ungentlemanly as persons who walk out of the room when one is addressing them!
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Georgette Heyer |
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How cross you are!' marvelled Miss Thane. 'I suppose when one reaches middle age it is difficult to sympathize with the follies of youth.' Sir Tristram had walked over to the other side of the room to pick up his coat and hat, but this was too much for him, and he turned and said with undue emphasis: 'It may interest you to know, ma'am, that I am one-and-thirty years old, and not yet in my dotage!' 'Why, of course not!' said Miss Thane so..
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And let me tell you, Mr Ravenscar, that Lucius Kennet is downstairs, and if you have any notion of starting a vulgar brawl in my house, I will have you thrown out of it! There is Silas, and both the waiters, and my aunt's butler, and my brother too, so do not think I cannot do it!' 'This is very flattering,' he said, 'but I fear my fighting qualities have been exaggerated. It would not take all these people to throw me out of the house.
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Georgette Heyer |
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I must have forgotten the outcome of your previous encounter!' Sir James continued to smile, with that air of patronage which made Adrian long to hit him. 'But he matches his grays against a very different pair this time, you must remember.' 'True, but you are driving them, are you not?' said Adrian, with deceptive innocence.
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If you want to see her, you can do it here, can't you? I've no objection.' 'I fear you can have no romantic leanings,' said Shield, before Miss Thane could speak. 'A star-lit sky, the balmy night breezes-' 'But this is February! The breeze isn't balmy at all - in fact, there's been a demmed north wind blowing all day,' pointed out Sir Hugh. 'To persons deep in love,' said Sir Tristram soulfully, 'any breeze is balmy.' 'Hateful wretch!' ..
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Georgette Heyer |
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I have not always appeared to be sensible of the care you have bestowed on me, but I know now that it has been unceasing.
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Georgette Heyer |
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He did not want middle-aged men with distinguished records with him: they could be better employed elsewhere, and would, moreover, have bored him. He wanted polished young men of good families, who were of his own world, who knew how to make themselves pleasant in exalted circles, and could amuse his leisure moments with their adventures, and their fun, and their bubbling energy.
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Georgette Heyer |
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the piece de resistance for most of his guests was the appearance of La Catalani. His lordship described her as being as sharp as a Jew, and Colonel Fremantle had certainly found her so.
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Georgette Heyer |
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He took her face between his hands, staring down at her. She felt his fingers tremble slightly, and wondered what thoughts chased one another behind the trouble in his eyes. Suddenly his hands dropped to her shoulders, and thrust her away from him. 'No!' he said curtly.
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Miss Thane gazed at him with an expression of outrage in her face, and said: 'Tristram, are you daring - actually daring - to choose this out of all other moments to make me an offer?' 'Yes,' replied Sir Tristram. 'I am. Why not?' Miss Thane sat up. 'Have you sense of romance?' she demanded. 'I won't - no, I be proposed to with my hair falling down my back, a bandage round my head, and very likely a black eye as well! It is quite mons..
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Georgette Heyer |
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It is a long time now since I have been able to look at you without thinking how very beautiful you are,' said Sir Tristram simply. 'Oh!' said Miss Thane, blushing, 'you forget yourself! Do pray, recollect that you do not look for romance in marriage! Remember your previous disillusionment! This will never do!
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Georgette Heyer |
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To tell you the truth,' repeated Sarah coldly, 'she had a fright, and the bandboxes broke loose.' 'What frightened her?' 'A Headless Horseman,' said Sarah. He was frowning again. 'Headless Horseman? Fiddlesticks!' 'Very well,' said Sarah, as one making a concession, 'then it was a dragon.
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I have yet to learn that a governess's life is adventurous!' he said. 'I should be grateful to you if you would tell me the truth!' 'Come, come, sir!' said Miss Thane pityingly, 'it must surely be within your knowledge that the eldest son of the house always falls in love with the governess, and elopes with her in the teeth of all opposition?' Sir Tristram drew a breath. 'Does he?' he said. 'Yes, but not, of course, until he has rescued ..
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Help a smuggler!' said Miss Thane in shocked accents. 'My good man, do you know that you are addressing the sister of a Justice of the Peace? Let me tell you that my brother, who is in the house at this moment, holds the strongest views on smugglers and smuggled goods!' This, after all, she reflected, was quite true, and ought to impress the Exciseman - provided, of course, that Sir Hugh did not take it into his head to appear suddenly and ..
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Georgette Heyer |
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Lady Barbara drove herself in a phaeton, with a tiger perched up behind;
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Georgette Heyer |
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In my back bedchamber, sir,' said Nye loudly. 'I always house smugglers there to be handy for the riding-officers.
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Georgette Heyer |
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Eustacie drew a deep breath. 'I see that I have misjudged you, Cousin Tristram,' she said handsomely. 'One must make reparation, . I will marry you.' 'Thank you,' said Sir Tristram, 'but the matter does not call for such a sacrifice as that, I assure you.' He saw a certain raptness steal into her eyes, and added: 'Don't waste time picturing yourself in the role of a martyred bride, I beg of you! I haven't the smallest desire to marry you.
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Georgette Heyer |
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It seemed to him that Serena brought light into a sunless room, and it never occurred to him that anyone could find it too strong.
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Georgette Heyer |
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Mr Lavenham just asked if you were still importuning Eustacie to marry you.' 'Why should I be doing anything of the sort?' 'On account of her being an heiress,' explained Sarah. Sir Tristram said dryly: 'Of course. I should have thought of that. I trust neither of you will hesitate to vilify my character whenever it seems expedient to you to do so.' 'No, of course we shall not,' Miss Thane assured him. 'But you do not mind, mon cousin, ..
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Sally, I swear you're an angel!' he declared. 'Anything less angelic than her conduct during the past half-hour I have yet to see,' observed Sir Tristram.
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I wish you will rid yourself of this nonsensical notion that I disapprove of you.' 'But do you not?' inquired Miss Thane, turning her head. He stopped two stairs below her, and stood looking up at her, something not quite a smile at the back of his eyes. 'Sometimes,' he said.
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You seem to forget that you wished to purchase the moon for me!' 'Nay, I don't forget that! The thing is I can't purchase it, so there was no harm in saying it. Now, if I'd said I'd like to give you a diamond necklace, or some such thing, you might have taken me up on it. I remembered that just in time to stop myself,' he explained, apparently priding himself on his forethought. 'I should like very much to have a diamond necklace,' said A..
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Miss Thane turned her head to look up at Sir Tristram. 'I wish you will tell me what you did,' she said. 'You were not on the Brighton mail, were you? Is it possible that you rode here ?' 'No,' replied Sir Tristram. 'I came post.' Miss Thane seemed to abandon interest in his proceedings.
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I would give much to see you fleeing in terror from a matchmaking mother,' remarked Anthea wistfully. 'Or, indeed, from anyone. But as you are utterly brazen-' 'Nay!' '... and in need of a set-down-' 'I'm not in need of that, lass, for I'm getting one,' he interpolated ruefully.
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You must never marry. Don't, I do earnestly beg of you, allow yourself to be taken in by any lure thrown out to you! You cannot hope to find a lady who will like you better than you like yourself.
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Sir Nugent knew that Sylvester did not like him, but it never crossed his mind that Sylvester, or anyone else, held him in contempt. If he could have been brought to believe it, he would have known that Sylvester was queer in his attic, and he would have been very much shocked.
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Mr Ringwood, too relieved for speech, took the weapon,
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In a nobler age one could have answered such impertinence by jostling his lordship as he stood holding open the door, so that he would have been obliged to demand a meeting. Or did one, even in that age, refrain from jostling people in doorways when a lady was present?
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It's my belief, Kit, the woman's touched in her upper works.' 'No, she is merely addicted to poetry,' explained Kitty.
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Georgette Heyer |
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keep my hands still." Richard paused. He drew his hand across his eyes, shuddering. "Milward saw the scratch. He cried out that the cards were marked! Suddenly everyone seemed to be gathered about our table--all talking! Jack had his hand on my shoulder; he and Dare were running through the pack. But all the while I could look at no one but Tracy--Andover. He seemed so sinister, so threatening, in those black clothes of his. His"
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you, Warburton, I would have
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Georgette Heyer |
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At the end of the war I was shipped over to England and Dr. Strange--you've heard of him? He's a marvel--put me right.
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Georgette Heyer |
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Whatever should I do if Mama were to arrive while you are gone?' 'Hide in the hay-loft!' he recommended. 'But if she has a particle of commonsense she won't make the smallest push to recover you!
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Oh, my poor Sparrow!' he said, mocking her. 'Never have I encountered so heartrending a sight! A job-horse?' 'No,' replied Phoebe. 'My cousin Anne's favourite mount. A very safe, comfortable ride for a lady, Duke.' 'I beg your pardon! I have not seen him show his paces, of course.' She cast him a glance of lofty scorn. 'He has none. He has a very elegant shuffle, being just a trifle tied in below the knee.' 'But such shoulders!' Gravit..
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It was strange how the dullest party could be enjoyed because there was one person present whose eyes could be met for the fraction of a second, in wordless appreciation of a joke unshared by others: almost as strange as the insipidity of parties at which that person was not present.
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Sir Nugent] wore so many rings on his fingers, and so many fobs and seals dangling at his waist, that he might have been taken for a jeweller advertising his wares.
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regency
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Mama -?' 'But of course! Outside, in my curricle.' Then he saw that she had turned perfectly white, and said: 'Don't be such a goose-cap! You can't suppose I would drive your mother-in-law thirty yards, let alone thirty miles!
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In any event, I could hardly have remained, when his lordship was suddenly called away, could I?' 'No, your grace. Particularly seeing as how you wasn't wishful to.
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