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  1. Georgette Heyer _ Devil's Cub

    I could manage him,' she sighed. 'Oh, but I could!
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  2. Georgette Heyer _ Devil's Cub

    But it was very stupid of me not to see that of course the friend of Juliana must be this Mary Challoner. It was stupid of you too, Rupert. More stupid.
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  3. Georgette Heyer _ Devil's Cub

    Blister me if I can make head or tail of this coil. Vidal's damned lackeys are as close as a lot of oysters. Y'know, Léonie, the boy's a marvel, so he is. I never could keep a servant who didn't blab all my affairs to the world.
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  4. Georgette Heyer _ Devil's Cub

    Perceiving that she had constituted herself interpreter, M. Plançon opened negotiations with an impassioned plea to be preserved from these mad Englishmen who expected honest Frenchmen to understand their own barbarous language – and this in France, voyez-vous!
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  5. Georgette Heyer _ Devil's Cub

    I may be a little fool,' retorted Miss Challoner, plucking up spirit, 'but at least I meant it for the best. While as for you, my lord, you meant nothing but wicked mischief right from the start.
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  6. Georgette Heyer _ Devil's Cub

    Your presence in England is extremely – shall we say enlivening? – Vidal. But I believe I shall survive the loss of it.
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  7. Georgette Heyer _ Devil's Cub

    Oh, yes, well, if he must shoot highwaymen, it's very well, but to leave the poor man dead on the road – though I make no doubt he would have done the same to Vidal, for I believe they are horridly callous, these fellows – but that's neither here nor there. Vidal had no right to leave him. Now people will say that he is wickedly blood-thirsty, or something disagreeable, and it is quite true, only one does not want the whole world to say so.
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  8. Georgette Heyer _ Devil's Cub

    There is a corpse somewhere on the road to town. Mr Fox does not wish it there. Remove it!
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  9. Georgette Heyer _ Devil's Cub

    God knew she would ask nothing better than to be his wife, but she had sense enough to know that nothing but unhappiness could result from it. If he had loved her, if she had been of his world, approved by his family – but it was useless to speculate on the impossible.
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  10. Georgette Heyer _ Devil's Cub

    My Lord Rupert, who had been listening in rapt admiration to this speech, said in what he imagined to be a whisper: 'Wonderful, ain't it, Léonie? Never heard aught to equal it. The boy always talks like that, y'know.
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  11. Georgette Heyer _ Devil's Cub

    This is my cousin, by the way. I dare say you know of him. He is very wicked and kills people in duels. Vidal, this is Frederick.
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  12. Georgette Heyer _ Devil's Cub

    If people are only kind to me I'm sure I am the last person to quarrel with anyone.' His
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