Julia Quinn Quote
Violet pulled a face. Of course I have great ambition that my children marry well and happily, but I am not the sort who’d marry her daughter off to a seventy-year-old man just because he was a duke! Did the dowager countess do that? Benedict couldn’t recall any seventy-year-old dukes making recent trips to the altar. No, Violet admitted, but she would. Whereas I—Benedict bit back a smile as his mother pointed to herself with great flourish. I would allow my children to marry paupers if it would bring them happiness. Benedict raised a brow. They would be well-principled and hardworking paupers, of course, Violet explained. No gamblers need apply. Benedict didn’t want to laugh at his mother, so instead he coughed discreetly into his handkerchief.
Violet pulled a face. Of course I have great ambition that my children marry well and happily, but I am not the sort who’d marry her daughter off to a seventy-year-old man just because he was a duke! Did the dowager countess do that? Benedict couldn’t recall any seventy-year-old dukes making recent trips to the altar. No, Violet admitted, but she would. Whereas I—Benedict bit back a smile as his mother pointed to herself with great flourish. I would allow my children to marry paupers if it would bring them happiness. Benedict raised a brow. They would be well-principled and hardworking paupers, of course, Violet explained. No gamblers need apply. Benedict didn’t want to laugh at his mother, so instead he coughed discreetly into his handkerchief.