"Nearly a hundred years after that," the duke resumed, chattily reminiscent, "a rash Frenchman, the Comte de Gaufrage, suffered himself to indulge a passion for the lovely Donna Astoria de Rivaz y Cortano, heiress of the de Rivaz lands and wealth.
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay
As Gerald picked them up, "Did I ever tell you"-she asked him chattily, and leisurely moved on,-"about the time I stood on the sidewalk to see the procession go by, in Boston, when we commemorated Bunker Hill?"
"Aurora the Magnificent"
Gertrude Hall
"Why, when I was at Oxford in the year '87," he said chattily, "I fancied myself in love with the female assistant at a tobacconist shop.
"A Damsel in Distress"
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse