Quotes from Stephanie Barron

We cannot expect the men we appoint to govern us, to be better than ourselves.

My dear Jane, if you have not understood, by this time, that I love but one woman in the world--then we have nothing further to say. ~Lord Harold Trowbridge

My dear Jane, if you have not understood, by this time, that I love but one woman in the world--then we have nothing further to say.

I felt a great fear rise up in my heart: for what should my world be, after all, without Lord Harold in it?

He clutched at my fingers--a spasm, perhaps, for the touch relaxed almost instantly. 'Jane.' 'My lord.' He smiled faintly, a curving of the lips; but the face was so haggard, and beaded with sweat. 'You cry, dear? Waste. Should've married you years ago.

The chief rule of British Society: Sleep where you like, but be in your own bed by morning.

She could not give him power over her. She gave no man that. "I don't deal in bonds, sir," she called back over her shoulder as she fled for the stables. "They're too much like chains.

This is fine living, indeed," Neddie cried. "Poor Collingforth is charged with murder, and you can do nothing but consume a quantity of cake!" I closed my book and surveyed him narrowly. "Lizzy had informed me the you are invariably peevish when suffering the pangs of hunger. Call for some more cake, I beg, and tell me of the inquest.