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I am not in a heat at all,' Léonie said with great precision. 'I am of a coolness quite remarkable, and I would like to kill that woman.

You have no knowledge of me. You are to be pitied.' 'Envied, more like,' said his undutiful son.

You're Beau Wyndham! Well, I'll be damned!' 'The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved

Positively you overwhelm me!' my lord said. 'You oppress me with kindness, sir

You asked me for a rhyme, De Vangrisse reminded him. So I did! A rhyme for tout and fou, and you gave me chou! Whereupon you threw your wig at me, and I fled.

I shall write an ode! threatened Philip direfully. Ah no, that is too much! cried De Vangrisse with feeling.

You're surely not going to tell me that eels find you more entertaining than I do?' he said incredulously.

Entertaining females with accounts of jug-bitten maunderings is one of my favourite pastimes.

I contrive,"' said Prudence softly. 'Do you know, sir, you puzzle me.' 'It has ever been my motto,' the old gentleman pointed out triumphantly.

In my back bedchamber, sir,' said Nye loudly. 'I always house smugglers there to be handy for the riding-officers.

He was at the concert last night, and she looked at him as if he were her whole dependence and delight.' 'No, did she? I envy him. Not, of course, that I've the smallest desire that Fanny should bestow such a look upon me, but I wish that you would.

Oh –! At least own that you would provoke a saint!' 'I never tried to. You are no saint!

You must know I can't – how impossible it would be!' 'No, I don't. Why should it be?' 'The – the circumstances!' she uttered, in a stifled voice. He looked to be a good deal puzzled. 'What circumstances? Mine? Oh, I'm perfectly well able to support a wife! You must have been listening to my horrid nephew.

He will be company for you, you know. I wonder you do not have a dog already.' 'I do – in the country,' he replied. 'Oh, sporting dogs! They are not at all the same.' Mr Beaumaris, after another look at his prospective companion, found himself able to agree with this remark with heartfelt sincerity.

I allow you all the vices you choose to claim -- indeed, I know you for a gamester, and a shocking rake, and a man of sadly unsteady character! -- but I'm not so green that I don't recognize in you one virtue and least, and one quality.' 'What, is that all? How disappointing! What are they?' 'A well-informed mind, and a great deal of kindness.

Your presence in England is extremely – shall we say enlivening? – Vidal. But I believe I shall survive the loss of it.

Providence has decreed that he should succeed to his dear father's honours,' pronounced the Dowager, thinking poorly of Providence.

my debts, sir!' A dreadful thought occurred to him; he stared very hard at his

She said reflectively. 'Ma'am, I think fathers are– are the veriest plague.' 'We have suffered, child,' said Miss Merriot.

Mr Ringwood, too relieved for speech, took the weapon

Vauxhall. 'I did not scruple to accept, my

Indeed, my fear is that my overbearing, self-willed ways may have given you a distaste of me which not all my future efforts may serve to eradicate.

There was nothing romantic about Miss Charing's appearance, but her entrance would not have shamed a Siddons. You, she uttered in accents of loathing. I might have known it!

Them Frenchies!' 'Unchristian, that's what I call 'em,' responded Mr. Stubbs severely. 'I fair compassionate that wench.