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1 " Were you really at school with Mums?’ she inquired, fixing Zilla with wide-open eyes. ‘Mums said you were—but you look much too old.’ Zilla was displeased and showed it; she was not inured to home-truths delivered by the young and innocent "
― D.E. Stevenson , Katherine Wentworth (Katherine, #1)
2 " It was a busy day, washing and ironing and packing, but although I had so much to do I was happy (I felt like a woman who has just been released from prison). "
3 " Nitkin brought the horses round at a few minutes before ten and I went out to have a word with him and to explain that Simon was not an experienced rider. ‘That’s all right,’ said Nitkin. ‘I’ll look after Mr. Simon. Don’t you worry, madam.’ I was not really worrying; I trusted Nitkin. As a matter of fact he was the only person at Limbourne that I trusted. "
4 " How right you are! Nowadays all that a high-spirited gentleman can do to mend his fortune is to write a best-seller.’ ‘Is that what you’re doing?’ Mr. Wade nodded gravely. ‘I haven’t really got down to it yet but it shouldn’t be too difficult.’ ‘I should think it might be very difficult indeed.’ ‘Not if you go about it properly. Obviously the right way to begin is to buy all the best-sellers and study them carefully.’ ‘A best-seller must be original, Mr. Wade.’ ‘You dismay me, Mrs. Wentworth,’ he declared. ‘I have laid out money I can ill afford on these books; surely if I study them carefully I shall discover what it is that makes them sell like hot cakes.’ I couldn’t help laughing. ‘Why not make hot cakes?’ I suggested. "
5 " Too much bother,’ said Zilla languidly. ‘I let it once to some friends of the Carews who wanted it for the shooting; the dogs slept on the beds and chairs and the sofa in the sitting-room—shooting dogs, Kit! The whole place smelt of animals. You haven’t got animals, have you?’ ‘No,’ I said, laughing. ‘Only three children; they’re quite enough for one woman to look after. "
6 " There was physical comfort in abundance, the house was full of beautiful things, but there was no love, no kindness, there was none of the gentleness and consideration which makes the smallest cottage a home. "
