The Convenient Marriage

7 "You'd best have a care - he's a wicked rake, my dear! Don't fall in love with him, I beg of you!" "F-fall in love!" said ---- scornfully. "I want to play c-cards with him!": Horatia Winwood

44 Which lord, and upon what occasion? "The butler brought the ratafia himself, and set the heavy silver tray down on a table. He was dismissed with a nod, and went regretfully. He would have liked to see with his own eyes my lord drink a glass of ratafia."

Lord Rule drinking to the bargain he and Miss Horatia Winwood made for their marriage

69 X made a sound rather like that of an infuriated kitten, and flounced out of the room.

A description of Horatia (X) after talking to her husband, The Earl of Rule

120 She too had acquired a French fashion, and had expected to have it much admired. But the exquisite pouf au sentiment made her own chien couchant look rather ridiculous, and quite spoiled her evening's enjoyment.

Lady Massey with the pouf au sentiment (Rule's mistress) made Mrs Montague-Damer jealous

234 This one has to do with duelling in Georgette Heyer's 18th- and19th-century novels, there may be more situations than the number specified, but you only need to find the number asked for: 1. Name three brothers (of heroines) who had been involved in a duel.: Pelham
See also The Masqueraders (Robin Tremaine)
See also Pistols for Two: The Duel (Lord Saltwood)
See also Regency Buck (Peregrine Taverner)

2. Name the five heroines for whose sake (directly and indirectly) the duels were fought.: Horatia
See also Beauvallet (Dominica de Rada y Sylva)
See also The Black Moth (Diana Beauleigh)
See also Devil's Cub (Mary Challoner)
See also Friday's Child (Kitten)
See also The Masqueraders (Letitia Grayson)
See also The Masqueraders (Prudence Tremaine)
See also Pistols for Two (Marianne Dashwood)
See also Powder and Patch (Cleone Charteris)

3. Name the eight heroes that had fought a duel in their past or during the course of the book.: Marcus, Earl of Rule
See also Beauvallet (Nick Beauvallet)
See also Devil's Cub (Dominic, Marquis of Vidal)
See also Friday's Child (Sherry)
See also The Masqueraders (Anthony Fanshawe)
See also The Masqueraders (Robin Tremaine)
See also Powder and Patch (Phillip Jettan)
See also These Old Shades (Justin, Duke of Avon)
See also Venetia (Jasper Damerel)

272 Who will pull the curtains on a summer's evening because he hates to eat in daylight?: The Earl of Rule

302 "You are - yes positively you are - a prince of secretaries, X " said Y "And you are quite right of course . How do you contrive to be so acute?": The Earl of Rule (Y) talking to Arnold Gisborne, his secretary (X)

328 Name as many novels as you can in which houses are broken into in the course of the action. The common law definition of breaking and entering involves entering at night with felonious intent, but I am willing to waive both those requirements. I do, however, require that the break-in involve someone entering a house stealthily, and in an unconventional manner. Forcing one's way in past the servants does not count. Nor does breaking into an office or a hotel. I mean someone's residence. Each novel counts only as one answer, even if there's more than one break-in.: Pelham and Drelincourt walk in through Robert's open door
See also Beauvallet (Beauvallet breaks into Dona Beatrice's country house and ties her up)
See also The Black Moth (Jack breaks into Andover's house to rescue Diana)
See also Cotillion (Kitty sneaks into her uncle's house after meeting Freddy)
See also False Colours (Kit breaks into his brother's house through a window)
See also Pistols for Two: The Duel (Dorothea Saltwood walks into Lord Rotherfield's house through the open door)
See also The Quiet Gentleman (Theo and Martin break into Gervase's room from outside through the secret entrance)
See also Regency Buck (Worth breaks into Bernard's house to rescue Judith)
See also The Reluctant Widow (Who doesn't break into Eleanor's house?)
See also The Talisman Ring (Ludovic breaks into the Beau's house)
See also The Toll-Gate (John Staple breaks into Kellands to "talk" to Nell's cousin)
See also The Unknown Ajax (Richmond and others break into the Dower House)
See also A Blunt Instrument (lots of people break into Ernest Fletcher's house)
See also Death in the Stocks (Antonia breaks into her brother's cottage through a window)
See also Footsteps in the Dark (Colonel Ackerly and Michael Strange break into the Priory, and Michael breaks into Colonel Ackerly's house)
See also The Unfinished Clue (Mrs. Chudleigh breaks into Mr. Billington-Smith's house through the front windows)
See also Why Shoot A Butler? (Basil Fountain breaks into Shirley's house)

329 Name two offensive hats, their wearers, the books they appear in, and the people offended by them.: Pelham is offended by Crosby Drelincourt's hat
See also Cotillion (Freddy is offended by Kitty's hat)
See also Faro's Daughter (Lord Mablethorpe is bemused, Ravenscar confused, and Lady Mablethorpe and Lady Bellingham offended by the hat [with the plumes that hardly fit in the carriage] that Deb Grantham wears to Vauxhall)
See also The Foundling (Gilly is offended (suggests she need not wear them) by the awful hats Harriet orders from the milliner)
See also Friday's Child (Sherry is offended by the shocking hat with the purple feathers that Hero wants to buy)
See also The Grand Sophy (Lord Charlbury is offended by Cecilia's hat)
See also Pistols for Two: Bath Miss (Sir Charles is offended by the rather too dashing hat Miss Anne Massingham purchases)
See also The Talisman Ring (Eustacie is offended by Basil's sugarloaf hat)

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