Regency Buck

What is your name?" "Again sir, that is no concern of yours." "A mystery," he said. "I shall have to call you Clorinda." ..... "Judith! What the devil? exclaimed Peregrine. "Has there been an accident?" "Judith," repeated the gentleman of the curricle pensively. "I prefer Clorinda.

Lord Worth: 'I think you may be quite useful to me. The heiress has a brother.' Captain Audley: 'I am not the least interested in her brother,' objected the Captain.

If I were a man I would kill you!" "If you were a man we wouldn't be having this conversation!

There is always a thought of marriage between a single female and a personable gentleman, if not in his mind, quite certainly in hers.

Miss Taverner took the whip and reins in her hands, and mounted into the driving-seat, scorning assistance. "Take your orders from Miss Taverner, Henry," said the Earl, getting up beside his ward. "Me Lord, you are never going to let a female drive us?" said Henry almost tearfully. "What about my pride?" "Swallow it, Henry," replied the Earl amicably.

Nothing is so destructive of female charms as contact with fresh air.

You see, I am not pretty, not in the least, never was, and so I have to be odd. Nothing for it! It answers delightfully.