The Toll-Gate Quotes

“No one had ever looked at her just like that before, and it had the effect upon her of making her feel, for perhaps the first time in her life, a strong desire to lay the burden of her cares upon other shoulders. Captain Staple’s were certainly broad enough to bear them.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Toll-Gate

“So off had gone John to the wars again. But he had not remained for long in the position of a humble volunteer. Colonel Clifton, commanding the 1st Regiment of Dragoons, no sooner heard that Crazy Jack was back then he enrolled him as an extra aide-de-camp.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Toll-Gate

“You’ve never been in a scrape yet but what it came about by accident. The thing is, no one else has these accidents.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Toll-Gate

“I’m going out, and I want you to wait for me here. If all goes as I hope it may, I shall need you in the morning. I’ve seen Stogumber today, and he has agreed to stay within doors until he hears from me again.’ ‘Are you going to tell him where the ready and rhino’s hid?’ ‘No: you will do that! You’ve nothing to fear from him. I must go now: I’ll tell you what”
― Georgette Heyer, The Toll-Gate