The Making of a Marchioness Quotes

“She was all in pink, and a wreath of little pink wild roses lay close about her head, making her, with her tall young slimness, look like a Botticelli nymph.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Making of a Marchioness

“I am almost ashamed to answer,' she said. 'As I have said before, Emily
Fox-Seton has become the lodestar of my existence. I cannot live without
her. She has walked over to Maundell to make sure that we do not have a
dinner-party without fish to-night.'

'She has _walked_ over to Maundell,' said Lord Walderhurst--'after
yesterday?'

'There was not a pair of wheels left in the stable,' answered Lady
Maria. 'It is disgraceful, of course, but she is a splendid walker, and
she said she was not too tired to do it. It is the kind of thing she
ought to be given the Victoria Cross for--saving one from a dinner-party
without fish.'

The Marquis of Walderhurst took up the cord of his monocle and fixed the
glass rigidly in his eye.

'It is not only four miles to Maundell,' he remarked, staring at the
table-cloth, not at Lady Maria, 'but it is four miles back.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Making of a Marchioness

“He felt the scent and the golden glow of the sunset light as intensely as he felt the dead silence which reigned between himself and Hester almost with the effect of a physical presence.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, Emily Fox-Seton

“The obsession which is called Love is an emotion past all explanation. The persons susceptible to its power are as things beneath a spell. They see, hear, and feel that of which the rest of their world is unaware, and will remain unaware for ever.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Making of a Marchioness / The Methods of Lady Walderhurst

“And kissed her trembling honest mouth almost as if he had been a man—not quite—but almost.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Making of a Marchioness