35 "Entertaining females with accounts of jug-bitten maunderings is one of my favourite pastimes."
Mr. Miles Calverleigh to his nephew Stacy
54 "My sister,------, was not aware, until I enlightened her, that you are not, as she had supposed, a man of character, but one of-of unsavoury reputation!" she snapped.
"Well, what an unhandsome thing to have done!" he said reproachfully. "Doesn't she like me anymore?"
Miss Abigail Wendover talking to Mr Miles Calverleigh when she mistook him for his nephew Stacy
91 Name three people who "make it a rule to get over the heavy ground quickly," in the words of one.
[Mr Wendover, Miss Abigail Wendover says to her niece, Fanny] "...But your father, you know, was an excellent dragsman and he used to say that you should always get over heavy ground as light as possible."
See also Friday's Child (Lord Carlyon)
See also The Quiet Gentleman (Captain Jack Morville )
See also The Reluctant Widow (Lord Carlyon)
151 "I daresay icebergs don't feel cold either, but I do."
Mr Miles Calverleigh to Miss Abigail Wendover
156 "I can see that you are sadly pulled, and my suspicion is that you have been trotting too hard!"
Mr Stacy Calverleigh is being concerned about Miss Selina Wendover
236 "Oh yes" she said bitterly. "Playing off his cajolery! He tried to turn me up sweet, but it's my belief he is one who hides his teeth."
Miss Abigail Wendover speaking to Mr Miles Calverleigh about his nephew Stacy
323 Name four English country estates from GH's Georgian period novels that change hands (through sale or inheritance) in the course of the novel, the novels they appear in, and the names of the old and new owners.
Danescourt, from Stacy Calverleigh to Miles Calverleigh
See also The Grand Sophy (villa at Merton, to Sir Horace)
See also The Masqueraders (Barham Court, from Mr Rensley to Lord Barham)
See also Powder and Patch (Jettan's Pride, from Sir Thomas Jettan to Sir Maurice Jettan)
See also The Reluctant Widow (High Noons, from Eustace Cheviot to Eleanor Cheviot)
See also The Talisman Ring (Lavenham Court, from Sylvester to Ludovic)
See also The Toll-Gate (Kellands, from Sir Peter Stornaway to Sir Henry Stornaway)
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