Kate

“Unfortunately, you, Sir Tristram, knowing nothing of me, and being possessed of a tyrannical disposition – I beg your pardon?’
‘I did not speak,’ replied Sir Tristram, eyeing her frostily.
Miss Thane met his look with one of limpid innocence. ‘Oh, I quite thought you did!’
‘I choked,’ explained Sir Tristram. ‘Pray continue! You had reached my tyrannical disposition.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Talisman Ring

“In my back bedchamber, sir,’ said Nye loudly. ‘I always house smugglers there to be handy for the riding-officers.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Talisman Ring

“To tell you the truth,’ repeated Sarah coldly, ‘she had a fright, and the bandboxes broke loose.’
‘What frightened her?’
‘A Headless Horseman,’ said Sarah. He was frowning again.
‘Headless Horseman? Fiddlesticks!’
‘Very well,’ said Sarah, as one making a concession, ‘then it was a dragon.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Talisman Ring

“My dear sir, I wish you will give me leave to address your daughter at once!’ said the Earl, quite entranced by this sudden and unexpected declaration of war on the part of his chosen bride.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman