As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
You’re only a man! You’ve not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.
Randall laid his hand on Stella’s, but only to remove it from his sleeve. “My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes,” he said with gentle reproach. “Much as I love you, I cannot permit you to maul this particular coat.
My house seems remarkably full of people,” he observed. “Is it possible we were expected.
Queer creatures, females,” mused Mr. Standen, shaking his head. “Fellow’s only got to be a rake to have ’em all dangling after him. Silly, really, because it stands to reason – - Well never mind that!
My dearest goose, why didn’t you trust me, when I assured you that you might?′ he countered. ‘I have cherished throughout the believe that you would confide in me, and you see I was quite right.
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!
O God, Mama, I’ve made such a mull of it! What am I to do?
If you had not done such a shabby thing to me I would not have had you kidnapped.
I am not quite sober you know. In fact, I am drunk, but I cannot help feeling this is all a trifle, shall we say, irregular?
Sophia, with real nobility of character, then asked Papa to explain something she had read in Sir John Malcolm’s History of Persia, which the Vicar, whose only personal extravagance was his purchase of books, had lately added to his library.
Simplicity was abhorrent to his lordship; he revelled in a net-work of intrigue; he loved to accomplish the impossible.