ThePurpleFox

“Have you any brothers?" demanded Mr. Beaumaris.

"No," said Mr. Scunthorpe, blinking at him. "Only child."

"You relieve my mind. Offer my congratulations to your parents!”
― Georgette Heyer, Arabella

“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!”
― Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy

“I find it a marvellous circumstance, cousin, that no one has yet strangled you!”
― Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy

“Fair Fatality, you are the most unusual female I have encountered in all my thirty-eight years!" "You can't think how deeply flattered I am!" she assured him. "I daresay my head would be quite turned if I didn't suspect that amongst so many a dozen or so may have slipped from your memory.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia