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And so ends Queen Lucia, long may she reign

"'Yes, Georgie suspects something, but luckily he doesn't know what he suspects.'" (170)

"What did Robert know? Had they exquisite secrets from each other?" (165)

"'What she meant I suppose was consecutive fifths; you can't invert a fifth.'" (154) mmm you absolutely can, it's called a fourth, m'dear

"'Primarily it's Mrs. Lucas's fault, because she's quite the stupidest woman I ever saw, but it's partly your fault, too.'" (153)

"'She called Mrs Quantock Margarita, which, as you may know, is the Italian for Daisy.'" (137) is it?

"She had thought of starting a Dante class this winter, for printed Italian, if you had a dictionary and a translation in order to prepare for the class, could be easily interpreted; it was the spoken word which you had to understand without any preparation at all and not in the least knowing what was coming, that had presented such insurmountable difficulties." (132)

"She gave her silvery laugh, that started, so she had ascertained, on A flat above the treble clef." (100)

"'Tell me what happens here! I've always lived in town since the time a hook-nosed Hebrew, rather like Lady Ambermere, took me out of the gutter.'" (65) oh boy

"Mrs. Quantock, still impotently rebelling, resorted to the most dire
weapon in her armory, namely, sarcasm.
...
Lucia had a deadlier weapon than sarcasm, which was the apparent unconsciousness of there having been any. For it is no use plunging a dagger into your enemy's heart, if it produces no effect whatever on him." (47)