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Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer (/ˈheɪ.ər/; 16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English historical romance and detective fiction novelist. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story for her younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. The couple spent several years living in Tanganyika Territory and Macedonia before returning to England in 1929. After her novel These Old Shades became popular despite its release during the General Strike, Heyer determined that publicity was not necessary for good sales. For the rest of her life, she refused to grant interviews, telling a friend: "My private life concerns no one but myself and my family."

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Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!

Ifs, Let, Make, Right, Sacrifice, Wells

My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.

Abduction, Dear, Girl

O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence!

Edge, Know, Love You, Mad, Might, Realize

Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you have is common sense, and of what use is that, pray?

Common Sense, Girl, Glad, Men, Use, Wretched

I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me. " "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.

Give, Giving, Imagine, Possessed, Sleep, Time

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

Diverting, Mama, May, Wife

His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in a look of aloof enquiry. 'What's that? Did you say something to me, Venetia?' 'Yes, love,' responded his sister cheerfully, 'but it wasn't of the least consequence, and in any event I answered for you. You would be astonished, I daresay, if you knew what interesting conversations I enjoy with myself.

Aloof, Book, Eye, Interesting Conversation, Raised, Venetia

Your fate is writ clear;you will be murdered. I cannot conceive how it comes about that you were not murdered long since! How odd!Charles himself once said that to me, or something like it! There is nothing odd in it; any sensible man must say it!

Fate, Long, Men, Murdered, Sensible

And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

Jessamy, Kind, Person, Persons, Say, Wish

I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

Despair, May, Regard, Said, Wish

And that reminds me, Mama! I have just intercepted another of that puppy’s floral offerings to my sister. This billet was attached to it. ” (Charles)

Billet, Floral, Mama, Offering, Puppy, Reminds

Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?

Arrogant, Call, Deny, Having, Imagine

Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! It encourages one to suppose that there is nothing to be done, when a little resolution is all that is wanted to bring matters to a happy conclusion.

Done, Fallen, Littles, Needs, Suppose

Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.

Lack, Objects, Qualities, Quality, Vice, Vices

You’ve no more for me than I have for you. ” Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: “How can you say so? When I am sure I have always been most sincerely attached to you!” “You deceive yourself, sister: not to me, but to my purse!

Attack, Considerably, Deceiving, Purse, Purses, Sincerely

Miss Trent regarded her thoughtfully. "Well, it's an odd circumstance, but I've frequently observed that whenever you boast of your beauty you seem to lose some of it. I expect it must be the change in your expression. " Startled, Tiffany flew to gaze anxiously into the ornate looking-glass which hung above the fireplace. "Do I?" she asked naively. "Really do I, Ancilla?" "Yes, decidedly," replied Miss Trent, perjuring her soul without the least hesitation.

Decidedly, Expression, Glasses, Miss, Missing, Odd

Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

Eye, Red, Thing, Use, Would Be

Horatia said eagerly: "Oh, you will take m-me instead?" "No," said Rule, with a faint smile. "I won't do that. But I will engage not to marry your sister. It's not necessary to offer me an exchange, my poor child. " "B-but it is!" said Horatia vigorously. "One of us m-must marry you!

Children, Faint, Poor, Rule, Said, Smile

I will not listen to your verse on an empty stomach!" declared the Vicomte. "You have no soul," said Philippe sadly. "But I have a stomach, and it cries aloud for sustenance. " "I weep for you," said Philip. "Why do I waste my poetic gems upon you?

Declared, Listen, Poetic, Soul, Waste

You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in aversion, for I am sure that such a thing would be quite shocking! And Charles would not do so either, would you, dear Charles?”(Elizabeth Ombersley) “No, certainly not. But neither would I consent to her marriage with any such frippery fellow as Augustus Fawnhope!” “Augustus,” announced Cecilia, putting up her chin, “will be remembered long after you have sunk into oblivion!” “By his creditors? I don’t doubt it.

Announced, Doubt, Long, Notion, Papa, Quite

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