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Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls.
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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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 am relieved. May I now have the truth?
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God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.
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I have seen what comes of being patient, Amanda said with a boding look. And I have no opinion of it. What does come of it? Inquired Sir Gareth. Nothing!
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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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And now I wish I hadn’t been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!” “No, no!” said Alverstoke soothingly. “Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!
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Is it not insupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?
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Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you mean to cast me off for Another!
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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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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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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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