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How could you receive a member of the Male Sex in your bedroom, and in your dressing gown?Sir, I must request you to leave immediately!" "You don't mean to tell me that's a dressing gown?" interrupted Mr Carlton, a dangerous gleam in his eyes." Well, it's by far the most elegant one I've ever been priviledged to see, and I suppose I must have seen scores of 'em in my time-paid for them too!"
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georgette heyer |
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f46b4c4
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Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!
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wife
expectations
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Georgette Heyer |
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e10f782
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If you imagine that I have the smallest desire to receive your hand as a reward for having performed a difficult task to your satisfaction you're beside the bridge, my child! I've no fancy for a reluctant wife. I want your love, not your gratitude.
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gratitude
love
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Georgette Heyer |
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644b28b
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Mr Merriot cocked an eyebrow at Kate, and said: - "Well, my dear, and did you kiss her good-night?" Miss Merriot kicked off her shoes, and replied in kind. "What, are you parted from the large gentleman already?" Mr Merriot looked into the fire, and a slow smile came, and the suspicion of a blush. "Lord, child!" said Miss Merriot. "Are you for the mammoth? It's a most respectable gentleman, my dear." Mr Merriot raised his eyes. "I believe I..
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Georgette Heyer |
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Cecy, help me to collect the ducklings, and put them back into the box! If we were to place your muff on top of them they will very likely believe it to be their mother, and settle down!
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Georgette Heyer |
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My lord said, amongst other things, that he did not propose to burden the doctor with the details of his genealogy. He consigned the doctor and all his works, severally and comprehensively described, to hell, and finished up his epic speech by a pungent and Rabelaisian criticism of the whole race of leeches.
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dominic
leeches
doctor
french
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Georgette Heyer |
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a9a69fb
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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!
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Georgette Heyer |
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4441f87
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Horatia said eagerly: "Oh, you will take m-me instead?" "No," said Rule, with a faint smile. "I won't do that. But I will engage not to marry your sister. It's not necessary to offer me an exchange, my poor child." "B-but it is!" said Horatia vigorously. "One of us m-must marry you!"
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Georgette Heyer |
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You will very soon be. Sit down. Why are you not at the ball?" "I had no inclination for it, sir. I might ask, why are not you?" "Not finding you there, I came here," he replied. "I am indeed flattered," said Miss Challoner. He laughed. "It's all I went for, my dear, I assure you. Why was that fellow holding your hands?" "For comfort," said Miss Challoner desolately. He held out his own. "Give them to me."
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Georgette Heyer |
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Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you mean to cast me off for Another!
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Georgette Heyer |
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91b4e8b
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Ah, but I'm not a gentleman," said the Marquis. "I have it on the best of authority that I am only a nobleman." "Good gracious, Vidal, who in the world dared to say such a thing?" cried his cousin, instantly diverted. "Mary," replied his lordship, pouring himself out a glass of wine."
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Georgette Heyer |
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1027d97
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How very odd, to be sure!' 'What is?' She walked on, her brow a little furrowed. 'Wishing to kiss someone you never saw before in your life. It seems quite mad-brained to me, besides showing a sad want of particularity.
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Georgette Heyer |
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22bb15b
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I do not want a boy. I only want Monseigneur!
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Georgette Heyer |
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691887e
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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!
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Georgette Heyer |
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ba0ae51
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That Fish of yours is queer in her attic.' 'Freddy, she is not!' "Must be. Dash it, wouldn't write to you about Henry VIII if she wasn't! Stands to reason."
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Georgette Heyer |
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a0bc981
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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?
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norma-harte
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Georgette Heyer |
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33765b4
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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!"
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love
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Georgette Heyer |
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6a513d6
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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.
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Georgette Heyer |
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52aadc1
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The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.
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Georgette Heyer |
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973268a
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I find it a marvellous circumstance, cousin, that no one has yet strangled you!
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Georgette Heyer |
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4d9a4f6
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Morals and medicine warred within his breast, and medicine won the day- but I dare say morals may give him a sleepless night.
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Georgette Heyer |
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b90b8aa
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God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.
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sinner
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Georgette Heyer |
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3d47845
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You don't feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain't a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don't think I could ever love anyone else. Daresay it ain't any use telling you, but--well, there it is!
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Georgette Heyer |
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4218b3b
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No, no, Kit, don't cry!' begged Freddy, putting his arm round her. 'Can't bear you not to be happy! I won't say another word. Never thought there was any hope for me. Just wanted to tell you.
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Georgette Heyer |
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3d256d4
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And don't you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don't like a person, you don't wish to be obliged to him!
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obligations
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Georgette Heyer |
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223e2c0
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Crawley, I do trust that you have rung that bell, for if I stand in this disagreeable wind you know I shall take cold, and my colds always descend upon my chest. How thoughtless it was in you to have handed me down from the chaise until the door had been opened! Ah, here is that deplorable henchman! Yes, Barrow, it is I indeed. Take my hat - no, Crawley had best take my hat, perhaps. And yet, if he does so, who is to assist me out of my gre..
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Georgette Heyer |
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I am relieved. May I now have the truth?
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truth
white-lies
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Georgette Heyer |
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40ce251
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Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.
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Georgette Heyer |
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57e7928
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Sophy, strongly practical, could not feel that Mr. Fawnhope would make a satisfactory husband, for he lacked visible means of support, and was apt, when under the influence of his Muse, to forget such mundane considerations as dinner-engagements, or the delivery of important messages.
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marriage
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Georgette Heyer |
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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?
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Georgette Heyer |
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since he was himself of a forthright disposition he was inclined to like Sophy's frank, open manners, and obstinately refused to agree that she put herself forward unbecomingly. He did not think that she put herself forward at all, which made it difficult to see just how it was that she contrived to introduce quite a new atmosphere into the house.
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Georgette Heyer |
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I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and frank. He has an air of honest manliness, too, which, in these days of fribbles and counter-coxcombs, I own I find refreshing!
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manners
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Georgette Heyer |
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58b3bc6
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They used to say of me that I'd as many lucky escapes as Harry Smith!' 'Shouldn't be at all surprised: I've seen one of 'em myself,' Brough said cryptically.
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Georgette Heyer |
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Who is he, the ill-disposed gentleman in pink?" inquire the Comte, when they were out of earshot. "A creature of no importance," shrugged Philip. "So I see. Yet he contrives to arouse your anger.?" "Yes," admitted Philip. "I do not like the color of his coat."
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Georgette Heyer |
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9af5f69
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He did not defy convention: when it did not interfere with whatever line of conduct he meant to pursue he conformed to it; and when it did he ignored it, affably conceding to his critics their right to censure him, if they felt so inclined, and caring neither for their praise nor their blame.
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Georgette Heyer |
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Well aware that to bring the voice of sober reason to bear upon the exaggerations of agitated females was both fruitless and perilous, Freddy wisely let this pass...
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humor
exaggerations
freddy-standen
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Georgette Heyer |
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533e5f2
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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
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Georgette Heyer |
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ab4eb05
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Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you!
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insult
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Georgette Heyer |
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3afd27f
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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!"
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Georgette Heyer |
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You've no more for me than I have for you." Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: "How can you say so? When I am sure I have always been most sincerely attached to you!" "You deceive yourself, sister: not to me, but to my purse!"
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siblings
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Georgette Heyer |
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d54b51e
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Oh, Philippe, thou are a rogue." "So I have been told. Presumably because I am innocent of the slightest indiscretion. Curious. No one dubs you rogue who so fully merit the title. But I, whose reputation is spotless, am necessarily a wicked one and a deceiver. I shall write a sonnet on the subject." "Ah, no!" begged Saint-Dantin in alarm. "Your sonnets are vile, Philippe! So let us have no more verse from you, I pray!"
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Georgette Heyer |
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c611502
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I will not listen to your verse on an empty stomach!" declared the Vicomte. "You have no soul," said Philippe sadly. "But I have a stomach, and it cries aloud for sustenance." "I weep for you," said Philip. "Why do I waste my poetic gems upon you?"
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Georgette Heyer |
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8a007bd
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Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better."
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Georgette Heyer |
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Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?
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romance
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Georgette Heyer |