Jane and the Ghosts of Netley Quotes

“Had she been less stately in her person, the gown might have been ravishing; but as it was, she appeared rather like an overlarge sweetmeat trundled through the room on a rolling cart.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Ghosts of Netley

“Did I understand what she was, that first night I saw her? a voice whispered in my ear. Did I recognise the cunning behind Beauty's mask?”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Ghosts of Netley

“He clutched at my fingers--a spasm, perhaps, for the touch relaxed almost instantly. 'Jane.'

'My lord.'

He smiled faintly, a curving of the lips; but the face was so haggard, and beaded with sweat. 'You cry, dear? Waste. Should've married you years ago.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Ghosts of Netley

“I felt a great fear rise up in my heart: for what should my world be, after all, without Lord Harold in it?”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Ghosts of Netley

“My dear Jane, if you have not understood, by this time, that I love but one woman in the world--then we have nothing further to say.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Ghosts of Netley

“My dear Jane, if you have not understood, by this time, that I love but one woman in the world--then we have nothing further to say.
~Lord Harold Trowbridge”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Ghosts of Netley