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You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason? I was hungry, allowances should be made.
Gail Carriger
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Gail Carriger
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: May 4
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Lord Maccon reflected upon the state of his life wherein he had somehow gained a spouse who could not give a pig's foot for the latest dresses out of Paris but who whined about not owning an aethographic transmitter. Well, at least the two were comparable obsessions so far as expense was concerned.
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Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress.
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And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?
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Lord Akeldama sighed. 'You lovebirds, how will I endure such flirtations constantly in my company? How déclassé, Lord Maccon, to love your own wife.
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Alexia had spent long hours wondering over that mustache. Werewolves did not grow hair, as they did not age. Where had it come from? Had he always had it? For how many centuries had his poor abused upper lip labored under the burden of such vegetation?
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Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.' Conall laughed. 'Someone has to keep you off balance otherwise you'll end up ruling the empire. Or at least ordering it into wretched submission.
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I am entirely capable. Of what, waddling up to someone and ruthlessly bumping into them?
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These feelings you engender in me, my lord, are most indelicate. You should stop causing them immediately.
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Uh, my lord, I am not actually food. You do realize this, yes?
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