Alexia found herself surrounded and embraced by a room of such unmitigated welcome and personality that it was akin to being yelled at by plum pudding.
I think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all.
The Earl of Woolsey glared at her. “Cheap clothing is no excuse for killing a man.” “Mmm, that’s what you say.
Some of the most disagreeable people I know are the most ladylike.
Professor Lyall said, “His lordship did say something about dealing with an embarrassing family emergency.” “Am I not family?” wondered Lady Maccon. To which Lyall muttered under his breath, “And often embarrassing.
Her heart was beating a marathon somewhere in the region of her throat, her skin felt hot and stretched taut over her bones, and she was damp in places she was tolerably certain unmarried gentlewomen were not supposed to be damp in.
We like the shadows. That’s where all the power is.
It was their vampire teacher’s custom of late to administer decidedly oddball lessons. Which is to say, more oddball than an ordinary lesson with a vampire in a floating dirigible espionage school.
Lord Akeldama never did anything by halves, especially if he might double it at three times the expense.
The werewolf hit the exsanguination chamber in a vicious storm of fang and claw and began unceremoniously tearing everything apart. Including the scientists.
A ball, at last!” Dimity Plumleigh-Teignmott sank back into her chair in delight.
But there is a sign!” objected Primrose in semi-shock. “A sign indicating pets aren’t permitted. Really, some people.
The redhead whispered, “No, what’s a man like down there?” “Oh.” Sidheag wrinkled her nose. “Unimpressive. They have” – she gestured toward her own nether regions with one hand – “a sort of dangly sausage – lacks tailoring.” Sophronia blinked in surprise. That sounded worse than Sidheag’s description of a werewolf shift.
But wait. What blood from yonder mortal drips?” Lord Akeldama misquoted.
It is a great skill to have friends in low places. They, too, have things to teach you.
We are an institution of high learning and higher manners. We simply cannot shoot first; it isn’t done. Now, remember that, Miss Temminnick, do – a lady never shoots first. She asks questions, then she shoots.
It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.
It was typical of her character that she simply assumed she would, eventually, gain control over the situation.
He was not very big, mostly because he was not a very big human, and the basic principles of conservation of mass still applied whether supernatural or not. Werewolves had to obey the laws of physics just like everyone else.
You, sir, are a bad scientist!