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  1. Georgette Heyer _ Sylvester

    And I should like to know why you talked of us to Mrs Scaling as though you had been our grandfather!' 'I feel like your grandfather,' he replied.
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  2. Georgette Heyer _ Sylvester

    In any event, I could hardly have remained, when his lordship was suddenly called away, could I?' 'No, your grace. Particularly seeing as how you wasn't wishful to.
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  3. Georgette Heyer _ Sylvester

    Mama –?' 'But of course! Outside, in my curricle.' Then he saw that she had turned perfectly white, and said: 'Don't be such a goose-cap! You can't suppose I would drive your mother-in-law thirty yards, let alone thirty miles!
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  4. Georgette Heyer _ Sylvester

    {Sir Nugent} wore so many rings on his fingers, and so many fobs and seals dangling at his waist, that he might have been taken for a jeweller advertising his wares.
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  5. Georgette Heyer _ Sylvester

    It was strange how the dullest party could be enjoyed because there was one person present whose eyes could be met for the fraction of a second, in wordless appreciation of a joke unshared by others: almost as strange as the insipidity of parties at which that person was not present.
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  6. Georgette Heyer _ Sylvester

    Oh, my poor Sparrow!' he said, mocking her. 'Never have I encountered so heartrending a sight! A job-horse?' 'No,' replied Phoebe. 'My cousin Anne's favourite mount. A very safe, comfortable ride for a lady, Duke.' 'I beg your pardon! I have not seen him show his paces, of course.' She cast him a glance of lofty scorn. 'He has none. He has a very elegant shuffle, being just a trifle tied in below the knee.' 'But such shoulders!' Gravity deserted her; she burst into laughter, which made Miss Mary Ingham turn her head to look at her in wondering reproof, and said: 'Oh, dear, did you ever set eyes on such a flat-sided screw?
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  7. Georgette Heyer _ Sylvester

    Whatever should I do if Mama were to arrive while you are gone?' 'Hide in the hay-loft!' he recommended. 'But if she has a particle of commonsense she won't make the smallest push to recover you!
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  8. Georgette Heyer _ Sylvester

    Sir Nugent knew that Sylvester did not like him, but it never crossed his mind that Sylvester, or anyone else, held him in contempt. If he could have been brought to believe it, he would have known that Sylvester was queer in his attic, and he would have been very much shocked.
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  9. Georgette Heyer _ Sylvester

    He is clearly unhinging.
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  10. Georgette Heyer _ Sylvester

    He then, with great presence of mind, put a stop to any further recriminations by kissing her; and his indignant betrothed, apparently feeling that he was too deeply sunk in depravity to be reclaimable, abandoned {for the time being, at all events} any further attempt to bring him to a sense of his iniquity.
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  11. Georgette Heyer _ Sylvester

    Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?
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