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“It isn’t that I think you invulnerable to the ordinary temptations of mortals, Miss Dark; it is that although you feel them, you find the strength to resist them. It is more praiseworthy, surely, to do right when it is hard, than when it is easy.”

“A mere dabbler,” Nijam told him, gratified. Why had no one ever told her how much politer people were when you wore two million pounds’ worth of dazzling jewels?

Molly: Vasily, are you jealou—
Vasily: NO!!!!!!!!?!???!

“An ordeal? To be kissed by me?” “Do you find it so very difficult to believe?” “Yes!” He was sharing the stair with me now. “No one has ever complained before! Quite the contrary, I assure you!”

I’m sorry the hard of hearing gag is such a SCREAM 🤣

Then she turned to Vasily and added, in a strong young voice that made the windowpanes rattle, “HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR TEA, SIR?”

HOOTING, HOLLERING

“I think that if you and Vasily don’t want to be mistaken for an old married couple,” Mimi said, with much too satisfied an expression, “then you had better stop acting like one.”