Quotes by Anni Swan

“Tell me about it”

“Then the blundering Richard proceeded to make matters worse, although he only gave expression to a very genuine feeling. “I say, how awfully jolly if you had been a man; then we could have gone together.””

“All right, but, I say, I want the handsomest set of furs you have in the place to send home to England as a Christmas gift. Perhaps I had better look at them now.” The American opened his eyes, and Richard felt annoyed that the colour rose in his own face. “Don’t be a fool,” he said in that hot way of his. “There’s nothing in that. They’re only for a poor little music governess who lodged in the same house with me in London. She has the best heart in the world, and likes all sorts of pretty things, though she is rather uninteresting herself.””

“We of course dismissed Miss Powell instantly, and without a character. Fortunately she has had the good sense not to refer to us any person who might seek to employ her. It would be our duty, of course, to say that we consider her utterly unfit to have anything to do with youth.” “Not so unfit as you, madam,” said Richard, losing his self-control. “I say, that if the truth were told about this wretched place, any parent would rather see a child in the grave than entrusted to your care. Have a care, madam, such things cannot always remain hid and unavenged. Your day will come.””

“Love beautifies and invests its object with a thousand nameless graces unrevealed to the indifferent eye.””