8 As a good comeback, which novel has this: "Well, I'll be damned!"
"The prospect" said ----, bored "leaves me unmoved."
Sir Richard Wyndham is being particularly cutting to (Captain) Horace Trimble
18 "I hesitate to wound you...but the spectacle of a woman of your name, birth, and tradition, cold-bloodedly offering herself to the highest bidder is not one calculated to impress the world with a very strong notion of her pride"
Sir Richard Wyndham to his prospective fiancée
23 "My lamentable memory! Alas, my lamentable memory! Where, oh, where have I seen you before?"
Sir Richard Wyndham talking to the Brandon necklace
45 Who are Romeo and Juliet? "A most affecting history. For myself, I find the theme of Montague and Capulet hopelessly outmoded, however."
Sir Richard Wyndham talking about Piers Luttrell (Romeo) and Lydia Daubenay (Juliet)
83 There are (at least!) two instances where "paste" causes confusion and discomforture. Name these and the reasons why....
Beverly Brandon steels the Brandon Diamonds (which are paste) and dies
See also False Colours (Evelyn Fancot)
144 "This sounds to me remarkably like mania in an acute form."
Sir Richard Wyndham to Pen Creed talking about Lydia's father
174 Having fortified himself from the decanter, X sighed. "No use, it still seems devilish odd to me. Females don't drop out of windows."
Cedric Brandon talking to Sir Richard Wyndham about Pen Creed
212 "I had not dreamt that life could hold so much excitement."
Sir Richard Wyndham to Cedric Brandon
233 "I haven't seen X for a long time, but he _can't_ have grown up as stupid as that!"
Pen Creed is talking to Lydia about Piers
269 "Certainly not, we shall go to bed like christians."
Sir Richard Wyndham speaking to Penelope (Pen) Creed
271 Can you name six characters, and the books they appear in, that end up dressing up as a member of the opposite sex. Adults only please - no toddlers in skirts!
283 "I'm not telling you anything," said X. "All I say is that he's drinking hard and plunging deep."
Lucius Wyndham (X) is speaking about his nephew Sir Richard Wyndham
291 Name seven or more male characters with the title of "Captain" that appear in GH's regencies, without using any characters from The Spanish Bride or An Infamous Army.
"Captain" Trimble
See also A Civil Contract (Captain Adam Deveril)
See also Cotillion (Captain Claud Rattray)
See also The Foundling (Captain Belper and Captain Gideon Ware)
See also The Grand Sophy (Captain Lord Francis Wolvey)
See also Pistols for Two: Hazard (Captain Henry Dobell)
See also The Quiet Gentleman (Captain Lucius Austell and Captain Viscount Desborough)
See also Regency Buck (Captain Charles Audley and Captain Crake)
See also Sprig Muslin (Captain Neil Kendal)
See also The Toll-Gate (Captain Wilfred Babbacombe and Captain John Staples)
333 Give the names of two cravat styles invented by Heyer heroes, the heroes who invented them, and the books in which they appear.
Wyndham Fall was invented by Sir Richard "Beau" Wyndham
See also Arabella (Variation on an Original Theme is the name Mr. Beaumaris mockingly gives one of his inventions)
See also The Quiet Gentleman (The Desborough tie was invented by Gervase Frant, Earl of St. Erth)
See also The Quiet Gentleman (The Stanyon Fall (or Earthquake a la St. Erth) was also invented (though not yet perfected) by Gervase)
337 Which GH hero's sister says of her brother, "I love him dearly, but I despise him with all my heart!"
Sir Richard Wyndham's sister Louisa says this of him
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