London Holiday Quotes

“but there must be some manner in which we can… perhaps something can be arranged. You would not need to wed that fool.” Darcy dropped his hands from his face. Had he truly said that? By heaven, she must have thought him to be asking something utterly the reverse of his true intentions!”
― Nicole Clarkston, London Holiday

“He meant to be the master once again, and this time, he would take care to know each person who worked for him as well as his own friends. After all, it did not take so very long to know someone intimately… one day, to be exact. His head fell between his hands.”
― Nicole Clarkston, London Holiday

“My dearest girl, I cannot think whether I should congratulate you or confine you to your bedroom until you turn eighty.”
― Nicole Clarkston, London Holiday

“It was not so bad walking slightly behind her, and he happily satisfied himself with looking on her form as she walked. She was no conventional Grecian beauty, but those curves… no man would regret her figure once he knew more of it.”
― Nicole Clarkston, London Holiday

“One side of his mouth curled, revealing a flash of white teeth. “You think me handsome?” “Surely it is only an effect of the dashing livery,”
― Nicole Clarkston, London Holiday

“I am not a lady of easy virtue.” “I am relieved to hear it. Be easy, Miss Bennet, for you are as safe with me as with your uncle.”
― Nicole Clarkston, London Holiday

“These handicaps might have been sufficient, but alas, the woman had the feet of a horse and the teeth of a donkey, and owing to her persistently bad health, breath which could knock down either.”
― Nicole Clarkston, London Holiday

“Darcy had never in his life walked—simply walked—behind a lady, save his own mother, but he decided at once to make an effort to do so more often.”
― Nicole Clarkston, London Holiday

“She turned it over and read the engraving. Elizabeth Darcy A day I will cherish As long as I live She clasped it in her hand, and her eyes glistened. “Thank you, William.”
― Nicole Clarkston, London Holiday

“Elizabeth,” he warned, “the last time I stepped behind a tree with you, I nearly kept you there.”
― Nicole Clarkston, London Holiday

“Miss Elizabeth, I believe I understand you. When last we spoke in the Gardens, and I so inelegantly made you an offer, it was not the sort of offer you must have supposed.”
― Nicole Clarkston, London Holiday

“Elizabeth had a rather… unique holiday in London. Perhaps I might say that her experience in Town is one that she is likely to recall with equal measures of sentiment and regret for many years.” “Oh, dear!” Jane cried. “That sounds serious. I hope she has done nothing too shocking.” “That,” Mrs Gardiner raised a brow, “would be a mild description.”
― Nicole Clarkston, London Holiday

“At last, he could bear the waiting no longer, and if he were honest, he was less impatient to be off than he was violently beset by improper urges. He would behave the gentleman!”
― Nicole Clarkston, London Holiday

“Come away at once, or I shall abandon you in this house in the company of the most insufferable man you have ever encountered!” “Forgive me for asking, but was I not a candidate for that title not half an hour ago?”
― Nicole Clarkston, London Holiday