Quotes About Georgette

If I were you, I'd put up that pistol, Mr. Ottershaw,' said Hugo. 'Were you meaning to challenge the ghost with it? You'd catch cold if you did, you know. It's no crime that I ever heard of to caper about rigged up as a boggard.

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

Mr Ringwood, too relieved for speech, took the weapon

But I'm about to offer for you!' said the Viscount, with more than a touch of asperity.

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.

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

Wolf exchanged objurgations with an Airedale seated in a large touring-car and

How can you, Charles? When you must know that almost your only claim to fashion is being noticed by me!

The girl's not like the one you saw. She's a lady. You know her.' 'I don't,' contradicted Miss Marling positively. 'Mamma would never let me know the sort of female who would run off with you, Dominic.

Only one lady saw any impropriety in it, and as she was notoriously spiteful, and had two rather plain daughters of marriageable age on her hands, no one paid any heed to her.

It may seem famous to you,' retorted Elinor, with some tartness, 'but I can assure you it does not to me! I have not the smallest desire to be married to your odious cousin!

Don't keep on hovering round me, Spiddle! I can't abide hoverers!

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!

I stole the character straight out of Georgette's A Civil Contract." Jenny considered herself on a first name basis with the late, legendary Regency novelist Georgette Heyer.

I called up Georgette, and made a date to meet her for dinner that evening at the Van Barth. She sounded extra gay, though I couldn't imagine why. I was the only member of the family who knew what it meant to go all the way through life and come out of it alive.

I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!