Faro's Daughter

25 "My beautiful idiot!": Mr Max Ravenscar to Deborah Grantham

60 "I make friends with that man?" exclaimed ___ flushing hotly. "I will starve rather!" "Very well, my love, I am sure that I do not want to interfere with you, but I don't want to starve," said ___ indulgently.: Deborah Grantham talking to her aunt about being friends with Max Ravenscar

75 Three women were mistaken for abigails/maids: which books, who were they, and under what circumstances?

"Stillingfleet, you must know, changed horses at the Green Man at Barnet. When he pulled out from the yard, he was in time to obtain an excellent view of a post-chaise-and-four, which was passing up the street at that moment. Ah, heading north, you understand."

Mr Ravenscar was looking a little pale, and his mouth had hardened. "Go on!" he said harshly.

"He was much struck by the appearance of the lady in the chaise. He is not acquainted with Deb Grantham, but I could hardly mistake, from his admirable description of the lady's charms! She had a young woman beside her - her maid, one supposes - and there was a quantity of baggage strapped on behind the chaise."

See also Devil's Cub (Mary Challoner escaping from Dominic)
See also The Talisman Ring (Sarah Thane to hoodwink the Bow Street Runners)

170 "I don't doubt it!" he said harshly. "By God, if I had my way, women of your stamp should be whipped at the cart's tail!": Mr Max Ravenscar talking to Miss Deborah Grantham

179 "But so it is always! Men have never the least spark of consideration for anything but their own pleasure!": Aunt Lizzie talking to Miss Deborah Grantham

220 Who affronted whom by wearing only one spur, and why?: Mr Max Ravenscar offended Lady Mabelthorpe when he visited her, she said that he looked like a postilion to which he replied that it was meant to and that it was the high kick of fashion

223 "You astonish me, _______. You are indeed accomplished!"

Mr Max Ravenscar talking to Miss Deborah Grantham

Accomplishments:

tell a Greek or a Captain Sharp within ten minutes of his entering the room
play the groom-porter
deal for a faro-bank
detect a bale of flat cinque deuces
well armed against card fuzzing

231 "What a fool that woman is never to have told her daughter that nothing can be more fatal than to weep down a man's waistcoat!": Lady Bellingham talking about Phoebe Laxton crying on Lord Mablethorpe

329 Name two offensive hats, their wearers, the books they appear in, and the people offended by them.: 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 Convenient Marriage (Pelham is offended by Crosby Drelincourt's hat)
See also Cotillion (Freddy is offended by Kitty's hat)
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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