The Nonesuch Quotes
"I can’t bear handling fish! They wriggle so!"
"Not the kind of man to be cutting a dash amongst a set of quiet folk like us."
"It’s of no use to ask me what sort of coat he was wearing, or how he ties his neckcloth, because I didn’t take any note of such frippery nonsense."
"The Wedmores are to have a pension which will make them comfortable beyond anything they had hoped for."
"It was not at all the sort of party at which I should wish you to make an appearance."
"A reflection which must cause her relations to feel grave concern."
"I like to see young people enjoying themselves, which it's plain she is, bless her!"
"No, indeed! But if anything were to happen – some accident –"
"Waldo, I fancy you have already been presented to Mrs Underhill!"
"But in this instance, ma'am, I have something to assist my memory!"
"I know very little about such matters, but I seem to have heard that an upper man can command a bigger wage than a governess."
"I have no doubt at all that you earn every penny of your hire."
"You might have been killed! Bravest thing I ever saw in my life!"
"Don't see why you should faint, ma'am! Shouldn't have wondered at it if this lady had, but not she!"
"You can see how it is swelling, and he cries if you touch it!"
"You must not attend to you now, Tiffany!"
"I like being jostled by vulgar persons! Pray don't consider me at all!"
"You must promise me you won't leave the carriage, Miss Trent!"
"I did nothing to promote the scene; I refrained from adding as much as one twig to the flames; and when I did intervene it was from motives of chivalry."
"I won't have her abused! I think myself very fortunate, and if I don't dislike my position there can be no reason for anyone else to do so!"
"What could I do but respond to the appeal?"
"It's to be hoped that she doesn't have them for my edification, for I should be quite at a loss to know what to do!"
"If you can't afford to lose it, don't gamble with it."
Oh, that's enough, Laurie!" Sir Waldo interrupted, a swift smile banishing the slightly stern look on his face. "Looby! Did you suppose I had taken an affront into my head? What a gudgeon you must think me!
"You want me to pursue some occupation. And now, when I'm determined not to be idle any longer, or to hang on your sleeve – you make it impossible!"
I was hoping Miss Chartley would give us the pleasure of hearing her sing," said Mrs Underhill. "I'll be bound that's what we should all like best, such a pretty voice as you have, my dear!
"However, she did it for the best, and I'm bound to say she made Charlotte sit down in a chair, telling her that to be rampaging about the room, like she was doing, only served to make the pain worse."
"If I did, I should be begging you to forgive me," he said softly, his right hand lightly clasping her waist as they waltzed together.
"It's my belief, sorry though I am to think it, that she would have gone with him," said Mrs Mickleby, her eyes sharp with suspicion.
"There's enough trouble in the house, with Charlotte being so poorly, without us having to bear one of Tiffany's tantrums!" Mrs Underhill sighed, worry creasing her forehead.
Well, I only hope she has a rattling fall!" he said savagely. "And what have you to say to this Calver-fellow? Teaching her to drive indeed! How do we know he ain't a loose screw?
"But since she's under age we needn't tease ourselves over that. If you imagine that Tiffany would fling her cap over the windmill for a mere commoner you can't know her!"
"I'm reluctant to blight your hopes, Laurie, but I think it only right to warn you that I have reason to suppose that your suit won't prosper. Miss Wield is determined to marry into the Peerage."
"I should warn you that I don’t easily despair!"
"You must not breathe a word, if you please!"
"But I should hope I knew my own mind without your advice, or anyone’s!"
"It just shows you, doesn’t it? Only think of being grateful to Laurie!"
"What else is there to cast you into alt?"
"As for your opinion – well, I do care for that, but – but not very much!"
"There must be nothing said, you know, until he has told his mother."
"I fancy there’s thunder in the air: it always gives me the headache."
"I don’t think you uncivil: merely untruthful!"
"I was born with a natural aptitude for the sporting pursuits you regard with so much distrust."
"It’s coming to something, so it is, if I can’t talk to my cousin without having an uppish scrub of a brat prying into what don’t concern her!"
"You are becoming a dead bore, and I don’t tolerate bores."
"If you were fancying I was trying to make love to her, Waldo, you’re no better than a Jack Adams!"
"I don’t know that I’d say that, precisely, but we’re cousins, after all."
"You’re too young to know what you’re talking about."