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Is it not insupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?
Georgette Heyer
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Georgette Heyer
Age: 71 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 16
Died: 1974
Died: July 4
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Georgette Heyer Rougier
Stella Martin
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Canter
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You don't feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain't a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don't think I could ever love anyone else.
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Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are? Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!
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Perhaps,” murmured his lordship, “I yielded to a compassionate impulse.” “A what?” gasped his best friend. “Oh, did you think I never did so?” said his lordship, the satirical glint in his eyes extremely pronounced. “You wrong me! I do, sometimes—not frequently, of course, but every now and then!
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Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel! No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time? Not such a waste of time as talking to you!
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She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.
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Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.
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What is your name? Again sir, that is no concern of yours. A mystery, he said. I shall have to call you Clorinda. ..... Judith! What the devil? exclaimed Peregrine. Has there been an accident? Judith, repeated the gentleman of the curricle pensively. I prefer Clorinda.
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As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!
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When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.
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His Grace was at her side, and lifted her down from the chair. My enfant, he said , duchesses do not dance on chairs, nor do they call their brothers 'imbécile'. Léonie's twinkled irrepressibly. I do, she said firmly.
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Do you recall Fred Merriville?” She stared at him. “Fred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything?” “The poor fellow has nothing to say: he’s dead, alas!
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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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Léonie, you will do well to consider. You are not the first woman in my life. She smiled through her tears. Monseigneur, I would so much rather be the last woman than the first,” she said.
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The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.
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What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all
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[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.
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Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes, he said with gentle reproach. Much as I love you, I cannot permit you to maul this particular coat.
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I am relieved. May I now have the truth?
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You’ve no more for me than I have for you.” Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: “How can you say so? When I am sure I have always been most sincerely attached to you!” “You deceive yourself, sister: not to me, but to my purse!
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I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.
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