Lady of Quality

10 Our heroine -- "Do you imagine him to be in love with me? He would stare to hear you say so! Good God, he regards me in light of an aunt!" Someone else -- "Do you take me for a fool?" demanded her ladyship. "If I had not seen you, I might have been deceived into believing you, but I have seen you, and it is very plain to me that you have ensnared him with your fatal beauty!": Annis Wychwood and Ninian's mother

59 "He would be incredulous, I daresay, if it were disclosed to him that he was an object for pity. In his own eyes, his consequence is so great that when people smother yawns in the middle of one of his pretentious lectures HE is sorry for THEM, because it is plain to him that they are persons of vastly inferior intellect, quite unworthy to receive instruction from him.": Oliver Carleton talking to Annis Wychwood about Lord Beckenham

62 "Who, in God's name, is the formidable dame in the wig and enough feathers to furnish an ostrich with plumage for two of her kind?": Oliver Carleton talking to Annis Wychwood about Lady Wendlebury during the party Annis has given for Lucilla

68 What two persons in what GH novels are awakened by moonlight streaming into their bedchambers? What do they discover after thus being awakened?

Ninian Elmore: "Well, what a miserable fellow I should be to let such a stupid chit jaunter about quite unprotected!"

"Is that what she did?" asked Miss Wychwood, unable to repress a note of appreciation in her voice.

"Yes, and if only I hadn't been woken up by the moonlight on my face I shouldn't have known a thing about it!" said Ninian bitterly. "Of course I got up to pull the blinds closely together, and that's why I saw Lucy. She was making off down the avenue, and carrying a portmanteau. I wish I hadn't seen her, I don't mind owning, but since I did see her, what could I do but follow her?"

See also The Talisman Ring (Sir Hugh Thane)

72 "It seems to me that it's you who have been carousing!" said ___ severely. "You had best go and sleep it off!": Sir Geoffrey talking to Miss Farlow

98 "My own dear father would never have permitted me to hunt. Not that I wished to, even if I had been taught to ride, which I wasn't.": Miss Farlow

128 "'No female is able to take care of herself', he said positively.": Geoffrey Wychwood is talking about his sister, Miss Annis Wychwood

132 "Oh, no, there is much I could say, but having been reared, unlike yourself, to respect the common decencies of established etiquette I am unfortunately debarred from uttering even one of the things which spring to my mind!" "Don't give them a thought!" he begged. "Consider under what a disadvantage you must be if you respect the common decencies which I don't!": Oliver Carleton encouraging Annis Wychwood to rake him down

149 "Believe me, X, nothing is more fatal to a girl than to have earned (however unjustly) the reputation of being a hurly-burly female, wild to a fault, and so hot-at-hand as to be ready to tie her garter in public than to submit to authority.": Annis Wychwood is admonishing Lucilla Carleton

191 "I have my pride to consider, miss, and permit you to go down with your hair looking as though you had come backwards through a bush I will not do!": Jurby is talking to her mistress, Miss Annis Wychwood,

241 Who has been called a "hubble-bubble" woman?: Maria Farlow
See also Frederica (Lady Buxted)
See also Sylvester (Anna Penistone)
See also The Unknown Ajax (Anthea)

262 "I am not an ignorant schoolgirl!" cried X, as flushed as he was.: Lucilla Carleton (X) speaking to Ninian Elmore

306 X put up his black brows in exaggerated surprise, and said in a bewildered voice: 'Now what in the world can I have said to put such a notion as that in your head? It cannot have escaped your notice, my dear Y, that I carefully refrained from saying "some other silly gudgeon!": Oliver Carleton (X) speaking to Lord Beckenham (Y)

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