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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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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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Do you forget that I am your sister?” “No I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.
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Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you have is common sense, and of what use is that, pray?
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My dearest goose, why didn't you trust me, when I assured you that you might?' he countered. 'I have cherished throughout the believe that you would confide in me, and you see I was quite right.
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I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me. Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.
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The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.
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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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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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You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.
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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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She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it.
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My house seems remarkably full of people, he observed. Is it possible we were expected.
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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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Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.
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I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.
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Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.
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I am relieved. May I now have the truth?
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