Envious Casca Quotes

“I don’t care! I’d rather walk all the way to London than stay here now!’ ‘It’s an engaging thought,’ said Stephen. ‘Orphan of the Storm.”
― Georgette Heyer, A Christmas Party

“Difficult master?’ ‘Mr Herriard was very particular, and not, I regret to say, above throwing his shoes, or, upon occasion, even weightier articles at his valet, when his rheumatic complaints troubled him. Modern servants, as no doubt you are aware, do not Hold with that sort of thing.’ ‘Doesn’t seem to have bothered you,’ remarked the Inspector humorously. ‘I need hardly say,’ said Sturry coldly, ‘that the late Mr Herriard never so demeaned himself with Me.”
― Georgette Heyer, Envious Casca

“I gathered, Inspector,’ said Sturry grandly, ‘that he considered Miss Paula’s friendship with the young man Unsuitable.’ ‘I could see he wasn’t out of the top-drawer.’ ‘Mr Roydon,’ said Sturry, with impressive reserve, ‘is a very estimable young man, I am sure, but he is Out of Place in an establishment where eight indoor servants are employed.”
― Georgette Heyer, Envious Casca

“Mr Joseph Herriard is a very well-meaning gentleman,’ he said, ‘but the Peculiar Circumstances of his life have made him, I regret to say, forgetful of his dignity. He is Familiar with the Staff.’ The Inspector nodded feelingly. ‘I know what you mean. What about the young one? Cross-grained-looking chap, I thought.’ ‘Mr Stephen Herriard,’ said Sturry, ‘is not a gentleman with whom I could ever contemplate taking service. Mr Stephen’s temper is quite as violent as his late uncle’s, and although I would not wish to imply that he is not Quite the Gentleman, he is careless of appearances to a degree which I could not bring myself to overlook. He has, moreover, become engaged to a young lady who will not, in my opinion, Do for Lexham Manor.’ He paused, fixing the Inspector with a basilisk eye. ‘I could not, in any case, reconcile it with my conscience to serve any gentleman who had been on such inimical terms with the late Mr Herriard,’ he said.”
― Georgette Heyer, Envious Casca

“Nathaniel, regarding him with a contemptuous eye, said that a real English Christmas meant, in his experience, a series of quarrels between inimical persons bound to one another only by the accident of relationship, and thrown together by a worn-out convention which decreed that at Christmas families should forgather.”
― Georgette Heyer, Envious Casca

“Just as you say, Santa Claus. But why the reunion?”
― Georgette Heyer, Envious Casca

“Damn it, he was in here with the door locked!' Stephen said. 'He can't have been stabbed'.”
― Georgette Heyer, Envious Casca

“The whole pack of them were lying, one way or another, some to shield others, some from fear.”
― Georgette Heyer, Envious Casca