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.
Bustle about Noddy, or we shant be in time to snabble any of the lobster patties.
Georgette HeyerAs soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
Georgette HeyerThe more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.
Georgette HeyerO God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence!
Georgette HeyerI'm really not quite as frippery a fellow as you seem to think! I own that in my grasstime I committed a great many follies and extravagances, but, believe me, I've long since out-grown them! I don't think they were any worse than what nine out of ten youngsters commit, but unfortunately I achieved, through certain circumstances, a notoriety which most young men escape. I was born with a natural aptitude for the sporting pursuits you regard with so much distrust, and I inherited, at far too early an age, a fortune which not only enabled me to indulge my tastes in the most expensive manner imaginable, but which made me an object of such interest that everything I did was noted, and talked of. That's heady stuff for greenhorns, you know! There was a time when I gave the gossips plenty to talk about. But do give me credit for having seen the error of my ways!
Georgette HeyerTag: gossip bad-behavior
The Reverend William Trent, whose mind was of a serious order, had several times warned his elder sister that too lively a sense of humour frequently led to laxity of principle. She now perceived how right he was; and wondered, in dismay, whether it was because he invariably made her laugh that instead of regarding the Nonesuch with revulsion she was obliged to struggle against the impulse to cast every scruple to the winds, and to give her life into his keeping.
Georgette HeyerTag: love laughter sense-of-humor
You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.
Georgette HeyerTag: bad-influence depraved
I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!
Georgette HeyerGod knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.
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