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There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.

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Gail Carriger
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: May 4
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His lordship can eat my fat—
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Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous familiarity with near-death experiences and their comparative frequency with regards to her good self, Alexia should probably have allowed extra time for such a predictable happenstance.
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Alexia,” she hissed to her friend, “there are knees positively everywhere. What do I do?
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A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.
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My father, she admitted, was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured. She paused. Though he did die.
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Ah, Ivy, thought Alexia happily, spreading a verbal fog wherever she goes.
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Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.
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Please, Lord Maccon, use one of the cups. My delicate sensibilities.” The earl actually snorted. “My dear Miss Tarabotti, if you possessed any such things, you certainly have never shown them to me.
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Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing a very strong cognac when one was expecting to imbibe fruit juice--that is to say, startling and apt to leave one with a distinct burning sensation.
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Alphas simply did not grovel arrogance was part of the job description.
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His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It's wrong, lack of cream.
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I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.
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Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap.
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I do not giggle without purpose. Lady Linette says you should never misapply a giggle.
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Why? I mean, why you? I can perfectly comprehend not liking my husband. I dislike him intensely most of the time.” Professor Lyall stifled a chuckle. “I am given to understand that he does not approve of spelling one’ s name with two ll’s. He finds it inexcusably Welsh. I suspect he may be quite taken with you, however.
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No one ever explained the octopuses.
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It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.
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I love him so very much. As Romeo did Jugurtha, as Pyramid did Thirsty, as- Oh, please, no need to elaborate further, interjected Alexia, wincing. But what would my family SAY to such a union? They would say that yours hats had leaked into your head, muttered Alexia, unheard under her breath.
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These things, regrettably, are bound to occur when one is married and befriended.
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