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Book: Black Sheep
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Georgette Heyer _ Black Sheep
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 good care none is allowed to do so when we are married!
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Georgette Heyer _ Black Sheep
She thought, in touching innocence, that in Miles Calverleigh she had found a friend, and a better one by far than any other, because his mind moved swiftly, because he could make her laugh even when she was out of charity with him, and because of a dozen other attributes which were quite frivolous – hardly attributes at all, in fact – but which added up to a charming total, outweighing the more important faults in his character.
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Georgette Heyer _ Black Sheep
Will you go with me to Wells, ma'am, or will you not?' 'Yes, sir,' said Abby meekly. 'If you are quite sure you wouldn't prefer Miss Butterbank's company to mine!' The carriage had drawn up in front of her house. Mr Calverleigh, alighting from it, and turning to hand her down, said: 'I should, of course, but having already invited you I feel it would be uncivil to fob you off.' 'Piqued, repiqued, and capoted!' said Abby, acknowledging defeat.
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Georgette Heyer _ Black Sheep
Who else is to join your expedition?' 'I don't know. Yes, I do, though! We'll take Fanny and young Grayshott!' She smiled, but said: 'You should invite Lavinia too.' 'Oliver wouldn't agree with you. Nor do I. There will be no room in the carriage for a fifth person.' 'She could take my place. Or even Mrs Grayshott. She would enjoy the drive.' 'She would find it too fatiguing. Can't you think of anyone else to take your place?' 'Yes, Lady Weaverham!' she said instantly, a gurgle of merriment in her throat. 'No, I think, if I must find a substitute for you, I shall invite your sister's bosom-bow – what's her name? Buttertub? Tallow-faced female, with rabbit's teeth.' 'Laura Butterbank!' said Abby, in a failing voice. 'Odious, creature that you are!
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Georgette Heyer _ Black Sheep
Well, if you think it nothing to send her laudatory verses masquerading as acrostics, and to ransack all the libraries for the works of her favourite poets, you must be as green as she is!' he said caustically. She could not help laughing. 'Does he do so? I thought they were his favourites too: he is certainly very well read in them.' 'Pea-goose! So would you be, if you made it your business to study them!
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Georgette Heyer _ Black Sheep
Nothing I could say had the least effect on her!' 'You can't tell that. The chances are you made her feel damned queasy.
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Georgette Heyer _ Black Sheep
He had expected to have been received, if not with gratification, at least with pleasure: it had been a piece of condescension on the part of the head of the family to have visited its reprobate, but the reprobate was apparently unaware of this.
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Georgette Heyer _ Black Sheep
I don't know how long you mean to remain in Bath, but I trust you are aware of what the charges are in this hotel!' 'Don't give them a thought!' said Miles. 'I won't chalk 'em up to you. if I find myself at a stand, I can always shoot the crow.' 'Vastly diverting, sir!' snapped Stacy
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Georgette Heyer _ Black Sheep
My – sufficiently wide experience of you, Mr Calverleigh, warns me that you are about to say something outrageous!' 'No, I assure you! Nothing derogatory! Charming girls, all of them! Only I don't want to kiss them!' She gave a startled gasp. 'You don't want – Well, upon my word! And if you mean me to understand from that –' 'I do,' he said, smiling down at her. 'I should dearly love to kiss you – here and now!
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Georgette Heyer _ Black Sheep
You're surely not going to tell me that eels find you more entertaining than I do?' he said incredulously.
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Georgette Heyer _ Black Sheep
My sister, Mr Calverleigh, was not aware, until I enlightened her, that you are not, as she had supposed, a man of character, but one of – of an unsavoury reputation!' she snapped. 'Well, what an unhandsome thing to have done!' he said reproachfully. 'Doesn't she like me any more?
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Georgette Heyer _ Black Sheep
He was obviously fencing with her, and the sooner he was made to realise that such tactics would not answer the better it would be. So she said coldly: 'You must know very well that I am Fanny's aunt.' 'Yes, you've just told me so,' he agreed. 'You knew it as soon as I made myself known to you!' She checked herself, determined not to lose her temper, and said, as pleasantly as she could: 'Come, Mr Calverleigh! let us be frank! I imagine you also know why I did make myself known to you. You certainly contrived to ingratiate yourself with my sister, but you can hardly have supposed that you would find all Fanny's relations so complaisant!' He was watching her rather intently, but with an expression of enjoyment which she found infuriating. He said: 'No, I couldn't, could I? Still, if your sister likes me – !
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