Jack Holt

“I longed to ask if some camomile tea might set her to rights, but it did not seem respectful, what with her dying – though, to be sure, she was not.”
― Alice McVeigh, Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice

“Most English people do not have manors, but work for a living, instead.”
― Alice McVeigh, Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice

“Into the silence, the new butler said, ‘If I may say so, I still believe that Miss Bennet looked uncommonly well as they set off, and such as any young man might request an introduction to. ’Twould be the salvation of the family should she marry high, for then it might not signify whether the master had one son or fifty!’ I suspected that fifty sons would be a worse affliction than the five young ladies the master was already plagued with, but I did not say so.”
― Alice McVeigh, Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice

“Well, the new master of Netherfield has called at last and is very fine-looking indeed. A face as open as a puppy’s – a fine, fluffy, cream-coloured puppy with wide eyes and a shock of fair curls.”
― Alice McVeigh, Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice