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  1. Georgette Heyer _ The Nonesuch

    She stared up at him incredulously. 'But – but don't you think I'm beautiful?' 'Very!' 'Well, I know I am,' she said candidly. 'Ancilla thinks I shouldn't say so – and I meant not to, on account of losing some of my beauty when I do. At least, that's what Ancilla said, but I don't see how it could be so, do you?' 'No, indeed; quite absurd! You do very right to mention the matter.' She thought this over, darkly suspicious, and finally demanded: 'Why?' 'People are so unobservant!' he answered in dulcet accents. She broke into a trill of delicious laughter. 'Oh, abominable! You are the horridest creature! I'll have no more to do with you!
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  2. Georgette Heyer _ The Nonesuch

    I am quite beneath your touch, sir!' 'No, no, that's coming it much too strong!' he said. 'When I have it on excellent authority that your uncle is a General!' For a moment she suspected him of mockery; then she met his eyes, and realized that the laughter in them was at a joke he believed she would appreciate. She said, with a quivering lip: 'D-did Mrs Underhill say that? Oh, dear! I shouldn't think you could possibly believe that she didn't learn about my uncle from me, but I promise you she didn't!' 'Another of my misapprehensions! I had naturally supposed that you introduced him into every conversation, and had been wondering how it came about that you forgot to mention him when we first met.
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  3. Georgette Heyer _ The Nonesuch

    I didn't make my face, so why shouldn't I say it's beautiful? Everyone else does!"
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  4. Georgette Heyer _ The Nonesuch

    It was this impulsive utterance which made Mrs Chartley say, later: 'My dear John, I marvel at your countenancing this most improper dance! When they went down the room together, with his left hand holding her right one above their heads, his right hand was clasping her waist!
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  5. Georgette Heyer _ The Nonesuch

    The thought flashed into her mind that she beheld the embodiment of her ideal. It was as instantly banished;
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