The Blog is right about exclamation marks. Georgette Heyer got worse, not better, with time, and in one of her last novels - A Lady of Quality - she has said lady, and a gentleman, holding a discussion in a public place and almost every sentence spoken ends in an exclamation mark. None of the exclamation marks indicated an actual exclamation, and it becomes clear that Ms Heyer was misusing the exclamation mark to indicate firmness of tone--firmness which was self evident anyway. All those exclamation marks make that scene very annoying to read.
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