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Cardington Crescent (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #8) QUOTES

Cardington Crescent (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #8) QUOTES

1 " The next few days passed in the customary fashion of Society during the Season. In the mornings they rode in the park, at which Emily had taught herself to be both graceful and skilled. "

― Anne Perry , Cardington Crescent (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #8)

2 " had not the outrageous flair of Sybilla, and since George was a natural horseman it seemed almost inevitable that they should more often than not end up side by side, at some distance from the others. William never came, preferring to work at his painting, which was his profession as well as his vocation. He was gifted to the degree that his works were admired by academicians and collected by connoisseurs. Only Eustace affected to find it displeasing that his only son preferred to retire alone to the studio arranged for him in the conservatory and make use of the morning light, rather than parade on horseback for the fashionable world to admire. When they did not ride, they drove in the carriage, went shopping, paid calls upon their more intimate friends, or visited art galleries and exhibitions. "

― Anne Perry , Cardington Crescent (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #8)

3 " Luncheon was usually at about two o’clock, often at someone else’s house in a small party. In the afternoon they attended concerts or drove to Richmond or Hurlingham, or else made the necessary, more formal calls upon those ladies they knew only slightly, perching awkwardly around withdrawing rooms, backs stiff, and making idiotic chatter about people, gowns, and the weather. The men excused themselves from this last activity and retired to one or another of their clubs. At four there was afternoon tea, sometimes at home, sometimes out at a garden party. Once there was a game of croquet, at which George partnered Sybilla and lost hopelessly amid peals of laughter and a sense of delight that infinitely outweighed Emily’s, who won. The taste of victory was ashes in her mouth. Not even Eustace, who partnered her, seemed to notice her. All eyes were on Sybilla, dressed in cherry pink, her cheeks flushed, her eyes radiant, and laughing so easily at her own ineptitude everyone wished to laugh with her. "

― Anne Perry , Cardington Crescent (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #8)

4 " She was discreet, and "

― Anne Perry , Cardington Crescent (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #8)

5 " the cuckolded husband but there was also laughter, a pity profoundly scarred with cruelty, relief that it was someone else. There were ribald jokes, slurs against manhood—and that was the ultimate insult, the unbearable thing that robbed the stuff of life but denied the peace of death. The victim was still sentient and raw to all the awareness of his loss. He would never have brought that upon himself, never—not in hot temper nor in cold revenge. "

― Anne Perry , Cardington Crescent (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #8)

6 " We never do know anyone else completely,” she said instead. “And nor should we—it would be an intrusion. And I daresay, at times it would be painful and destructive. And perhaps boring. How long would you stay in love with someone you could look through like glass, and see everything? One has to have mystery somewhere ahead left to explore, or why go on?” She crept a hand forward and took Emily’s gently. “I’d hate Thomas to know everything I thought or did—some of the weak and selfish things. I’d rather fight them on my own, and then forget them. "

― Anne Perry , Cardington Crescent (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #8)