Nameless Quotes

“The children were somewhat in awe of Mr Darcy, for even in ruined neckcloth and wrinkled coat he was a figure of nearly overpowering distinction. His manners were of the most formal and grave sort,”
― Julie Cooper, Nameless

“Mr Darcy, a murderer. They might just as easily have accused him of being a leech hunter or a resurrectionist, for all the sense it made.”
― Julie Cooper, Nameless

“Some people, I believe, have gifts of darkness, just as some are charming or pretty. Their darkness pervades the rooms they inhabit, the people they associate with, and, even the air they breathe. Mrs de Bourgh had polluted my rooms and, it seemed likely, all of Pemberley. Had it begun with her grief?”
― Julie Cooper, Nameless

“I was to be mistress of Pemberley, of this country house larger than Rosings Park and Netherfield combined, while his dead wife’s mother looked on. Oh, and she would hate me. Perfect.”
― Julie Cooper, Nameless

“forced myself to remember that she was a human being who grieved her husband’s loss and possessed not an ounce of charm with which to fill it. She only had me, and that because I required a roof over my head and meals to eat and a bit of money besides.”
― Julie Cooper, Nameless

“forbore pointing out that as her son was in his mid-forties, she must have seen her half-century mark decades’ past.”
― Julie Cooper, Nameless

“My thoughts on what good a Christian burial would do for a woman who had lived an amoral life filled with hatred and destruction, I kept to myself.”
― Julie Cooper, Nameless

“I had resided at Pemberley all of two days. Perhaps I ought to wait a few more before deciding I knew best.”
― Julie Cooper, Nameless

“I am eight and twenty, and in my heart—if not to the world—a girl yet.”
― Julie Cooper, Nameless

“my cousin was even more repellent as the Master of Longbourn than he had been as Lady Matlock’s loathsome vicar.”
― Julie Cooper, Nameless