The Rogue Quotes

“She had never met a man before or since who looked at her like Frederick Evan Sterling did, as though he cared only for what he found in her gaze.”
― Katharine Ashe, The Rogue

“I say to you now,” he said in a new voice, “with complete honesty and in all sincerity, with no hope of anything at this moment beyond being heard: in this thorough darkness your face is more clearly etched upon my memory than that of every other woman I have met.”
― Katharine Ashe, The Rogue

“Do you need the money so much?"
"Well, I don't have any at present. So, yes. Must feed the horse or he won't go, you see. But I was under the impression that ladies of your estate never acknowledge lowly trifles like actual money."
"Oh, we don't. Sometimes, however, when I am carried through town on a chair by my four Ethiopian eunuchs, the peasants toss flowers at me, and in return my little pageboy throws coins at them. So I have actually seen money."
" How affecting for you that must be."
" I enjoy consorting with the plebes," she said airily. "As long as they don't actually come too close, of course.”
― Katharine Ashe, The Rogue