Quotes from Carola Dunn

One should not allow untoward events to interfere with one's regular habits or social obligations.

Gentlemen, for all their talk of honour, really had the oddest morals.

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I'm as broadminded as the next person, I hope, but at my age thirty miles an hour and actresses all in one day is rather too much of a good thing.

muniments room. Toodle-oo.

While she admired those who excelled, she considered sports a torture to be avoided if at all possible.

Coconut shies and

Daisy had her own criteria for judging people. On the whole, she expected to like people she met, and on the whole, she did. It seemed to her a much pleasanter way to live than to go about looking for superficial defects such as the wrong class, or a brown face, thus eliminating a lot of delightful people from one's acquaintance.

still in use though coeval with the old house. Then

embonpoint.

tittupped after her.

Sarky beast," said

by Saturday,

some sort of havey-cavey business where

walnut kneehole desk. It

impecunious phases.

rubicund face

That generation's shibboleths—well, you know. What

Norville invited him in the first place.

Assuming they're really Albert's sons, they're the present earl's first