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  1. Georgette Heyer _ Faro's Daughter

    I must have forgotten the outcome of your previous encounter!' Sir James continued to smile, with that air of patronage which made Adrian long to hit him. 'But he matches his grays against a very different pair this time, you must remember.' 'True, but you are driving them, are you not?' said Adrian, with deceptive innocence.
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  2. Georgette Heyer _ Faro's Daughter

    And let me tell you, Mr Ravenscar, that Lucius Kennet is downstairs, and if you have any notion of starting a vulgar brawl in my house, I will have you thrown out of it! There is Silas, and both the waiters, and my aunt's butler, and my brother too, so do not think I cannot do it!' 'This is very flattering,' he said, 'but I fear my fighting qualities have been exaggerated. It would not take all these people to throw me out of the house.
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  3. Georgette Heyer _ Faro's Daughter

    Good God, my love, what is amiss?' 'That man!' choked Miss Grantham. 'That devil!' 'Oh, heavens, you have quarrelled with Ravenscar again!' cried her ladyship. 'Don't tell me you have had him put in the cellar! I can't bear it!
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  4. Georgette Heyer _ Faro's Daughter

    Your solicitude overwhelms me,' returned Ravenscar. 'I own I had expected at least a loaf of bread and a jug of water in my dungeon – until I learned, of course, that you had some idea of starving me to death.
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  5. Georgette Heyer _ Faro's Daughter

    Upon her butler's announcing the arrival of Mr Ravenscar, Lady Mablethorpe, who had been dozing over a novel from the Circulating Library, sat up with a jerk, and raised a hand to her dishevelled cap.
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  6. Georgette Heyer _ Faro's Daughter

    You have had Ravenscar murdered, and hidden his body in my cellar!" uttered her ladyship, sinking into a chair. "We shall all be ruined! I knew it!""My dear ma'am it is no such thing!" Deborah said amused. "He is not dead I assure you!
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