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| e49e1d4 | He bowed, still holding her hand, and then, without a word, released it, and marched out, very dignified. It was another fine tragic effect, but Cleone, when the door closed behind him, broke into an hysterical laugh. She was rather amazed, and a little apprehensive. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| aa868a0 | He has probably gnawed his nails down to the quick, or murdered poor Mr. Orde. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| f260397 | Has it occurred to you, Kate, that she is placing you under an obligation?" "Oh, yes, indeed it has, and it is crushing me!" she said earnestly. "If only there were some way of requiting her - not arranging flowers, or entertaining Sir Timothy, or bearing Torquil company, but a big thing! Something that was vital to her, or - or even something that entailed a sacrifice! But there isn't anything that I can discover." There was a pause, durin.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ce2da0f | He paused and then said, as though the words were wrung out of him: 'O God, Mama, I've made such a mull of it! What am I to do? | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 540adfd | You need have no fear. But were I to meet you, sir, you would lie dead at my feet within the space of five minutes. Possibly less. I do not know." He appeared to give the matter his consideration." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| b311c0f | Oh, Auntie, please take Jenny to the Dering ball next week!" she said impulsively. "You will come, won't you, sweet?" Jennifer blushed and stammered. "To be sure," nodded her ladyship. "Of course she will come! James, sit down! You should know by now the sight of anyone on their feet fatigues me, silly boy! Dear me, child, how like you are to your brother! Are you looking at my wig? Monstrous, isn't it?" | Georgette Heyer | ||
| dbbe036 | You asked me for a rhyme," De Vangrisse reminded him. "So I did! A rhyme for tout and fou, and you gave me chou!" "Whereupon you threw your wig at me, and I fled." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 577751d | Simplicity was abhorrent to his lordship; he revelled in a net-work of intrigue; he loved to accomplish the impossible. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| c1dcf1e | He was silent. Well! Now she knew how right she had been. He was not in the least in love with her, and very happy she was to know it, All she wanted was a suitable retreat, such as a lumber-room, or a coal-cellar, in which to enjoy her happiness to the full. | humour regency | Georgette Heyer | |
| 526f233 | It might have been supposed that Freddy, whose intellect was not of the first order, would have found it impossible to grasp the gist of an extremely tangled and discursive story, but once more the possession of three volatile and excitable sisters stood him in good stead. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 123bca0 | If someone would have the goodness to inform me whether I am assisting at a tragedy or a farce I should be grateful, | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 52ee48d | She was up again at that. "In love? You? Nonsense! Nonsense! Nonsense! You do not know what the word means. You are like a--like a fish, with no more love in you than a fish, and no more heart than a fish, and--" "Spare me the rest, I beg. I am very clammy, I make no doubt, but you will at least accord me more brain than a fish?" | repartee | Georgette Heyer | |
| 5b7d38e | The landlord was trying to explain that there were a great many English people in his house, all fighting duels or having hysterics. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| b63be24 | Eugenia never wears modish gowns. She says there are more important things to think of than one's dresses.' 'What a stupid thing to say!' remarked Sophy. 'Naturally there are, but not, I hold, when one is dressing for dinner. | dresses | Georgette Heyer | |
| cfcb620 | If Deb had only told me what was amiss I would have acted for her, and I hope I know how to protect my own sister! But to have you kidnapped is beyond anything! You are angry, and I cannot wonder at it, but -' 'Go to the devil!' said Ravenscar. 'But - but shan't I untie you?' asked Kit, utterly bewildered. 'You cannot mean to remain here all night!' 'What I mean to do is no concern of yours! How did you come by that key?' 'I took it from.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 97a6358 | I'm dashed if I can see why you should be in such a quake!' 'It ain't that,' growled Endymion. 'I mean, I'm not afraid of Cousin Vernon! It's - it's his sisters, and my mother, and Frederica! I daresay you don't know.' This inarticulate appeal for understanding touched chord of sympathy. Harry had had no personal experience of the trials which Endymion so obviously feared, but he had the instinctive male dread of feminine storms. He said, i.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 3d8ee20 | After all, when one approaches Middle Age..." "Middle Age? Has anyone ever boxed your ears Miss Thane?" "No, never," said Miss Thane, looking blandly up at him. "You have been undeservedly fortunate," said Sir Tristram grimly." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| fa9ff5a | Now, do listen, Deb! Seven hundred pounds for the bays and a new barouche! Well I can't think where the money is to come from. It seems a monstrous price.' 'We might let the bays go, and hire a pair of job horses,' suggested Miss Grantham dubiously. 'I can't and I won't live in Squalor!' declared her aunt tearfully. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| b368a69 | I do think,' said Kitty fervently, 'that Freddy is the most truly chivalrous person imaginable!' Freddy's sister, regarding her with awe, opened her mouth, shut it again, swallowed, and managed to say, though in a faint voice: 'Do you, indeed?' 'Yes, and a great deal more to the purpose than all the people one was taught to revere, like Sir Lancelot, and Sir Galahad, and Young Lochinvar, and--and that kind of man! I daresay Freddy might not.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 7ce5966 | Have you limitations, my lord?" asked Sir Anthony. My lord looked at him seriously. "I do not know," he said, with a revealing simplicity. "I have never yet discovered them." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 80f1626 | I believe I have several times requested you not to call Rupert 'imbecile', infant." "But Monseigheur, he is an imbecile!" she protested. "You know he is!" "Undoubtedly, ma fille, but I do not tell the whole world so." "Then I do not know what I am to call him," said Leonie." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| c722737 | I must have dislocated my pelvis!" -Rurouni" | kenshin nobuhiro rurouni watsuki manga | nobuhiro watsuki | |
| 8784850 | Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained? | money politics | Ina May Gaskin | |
| 1bc9a6e | I have felt incredible energy and life force through my body, and I have really been reborn a happier, healthier, and more confident person. I have learned I can choose to focus on the darker side or the lighter side of all that is around me. I choose the lighter side and have the discipline to keep it up. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| 34cf8e8 | I have also known of weight estimates by ultrasound to be off by as much as five pounds. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| feac2d8 | But as the late socialist politician Tony Benn would often put it, social change is a combination of two things: 'the burning flame of anger at injustice, and the burning flame of hope for a better world'. | Owen Jones | ||
| 72513c7 | Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering. ~ Unknown | Melinda Curtis | ||
| 6e2585e | I'm sorry to say that too often, I haven't a clue why people do things like this. Why they drown their babies or strangle their wives or shoot their coworkers. I see the results of their actions, but I can't tell you what sets them off. I just know that it happens. And people are capable of doing terrible things. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 5d05fcd | Be aware every morning that you may not last the day, And every evening that you may not last the night. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 4226ac8 | I believe one has to get one's hand dirty or you're nothing but a hobbyist. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| d5c9b95 | Now we sit and wait," the woman said, and she settled into a chair, the gun on her lap. "What are we waiting for?" Jane asked. The woman stared at her. Said, calmly: "The end." | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 8a632a4 | I believe that every experience, every wrong decision, teaches us something. That's why we shouldn't be afraid to make mistakes. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 58757ba | men that age aren't known for their superior judgment. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 0569e27 | Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way, the [prion] seems the strangest thing in all biology, and, until someone in some laboratory figures out what it is, a candidate for Modern Wonder. (quote originally by Lewis Thomas) | science | D. T. Max | |
| 98afb40 | Here is the rule: the way you live reveals what you really think about God, | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 18fdbd2 | Sin can certainly be a cause of depression, but you must be careful about connecting the dots between the two. If you are being honest, you will always find sin in your life. Everyone does. That doesn't mean that sin caused your depression. No sin is necessarily connected with sorrow of heart, for Jesus Christ our Lord once said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death." There was no sin in Him, and consequently none in His deep de.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 185b89a | We are all mutants. But some of us are more mutant than others. | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| 89e375a | None of it seemed very real, but I suppose that's the trouble with history. It's the one thing we have to make up for ourselves. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| 8d97100 | sorrow was always the bedfellow of depravity. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| 16a3287 | School is pure psycology warfare. | Benjamin Lebert | ||
| 633d591 | Ich werde nicht alles erreichen, was ich will, aber ich werde alles probieren, was ich kann. | youth fear | Benjamin Lebert | |
| a1faa26 | There is a degree of emotional impact in the nature poetry of the eighteenth century which marks a shift in sensibility towards what came to be called 'the sublime'. The concept, from classical Greek, came to England through the French of Boileau, and reached its definitive explication in Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757-59). This is a key text of the times, displaying .. | Ronald Carter | ||
| d7ef0d9 | The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself. | literature music | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 1ac643b | Books do not perish like humankind. Of course we commonly see them broken in the haberdasher's shop when only a few months before they lay bound on the stationer's stall; these are not true works, but mere trash and newfangleness for the vulgar. There are thousands of such gewgaws and toys which people have in their chambers, or which they keep upon their shelves, believing that they are precious things, when they are the mere passing folli.. | Peter Ackroyd |