Michael, I am most pleased to see you up and about and looking so fine and healthy.He inclined his head, thanking her for the compliment.She dabbed the corners of her mouth daintily with her napkin. B...
Say whatever is in your heart, Violet said. Her lipstwisted wryly. And if that doesn’t work, I suggest thatyou take a book and knock him over the head with it.Hyacinth blinked, then blinked again. I b...
See? Margaret smiled, looking terribly pleased with herself. That's why you're in such a dither. His expression moved to the comical side of haughty. Men do not dither. Her expression moved to the rid...
She hadn’t expected the world to be handed to her upon a golden platter, but she’d always assumed that if she worked hard enough for something, treated everyone the way she would like to be treated, t...
She sighed. It was a sad, weary sound, and it nearly broke his heart. You’re very kind to try to help me, she said, but I have already explored all of those avenues. Besides, I am not your responsibil...
Siempre me pareció una tontería desear a una mujer que conversara apenar mejor que una oveja.
Simon winced as the man fought for words. He didn't appear to be stuttering so much as emotionally overcome, but it was never pleasant when one couldn't get a sentence out.
So now you're jumping out at me from ?Of course not. He looked affronted. That was a staircase.Sophie peered around him. It was the side staircase. The staircase. Certainly not anyplace a family memb...
That man had deliberately set out to charm her. It didn't matter that he'd succeeded, she thought perversely. It only mattered that he had done it deliberately, probably because he wanted something fr...
The way he had always tried to tell her he loved her when she least expected it.
There are moments in a woman's life when her heart flips in her chest, when the world suddenly seems uncommonly pink and perfect, when a symphony can be heard in the tinkle of a doorbell.
There’s more, you know, he whispered, letting his breath caress her ear. I’m sure there must be, she replied, her voice mere breath. You are? he asked teasingly, squeezing her again. I’m not so green...
This is none of your concern,' his uncle spat.'I beg to differ,' Sebastian said quietly. 'A lady in distress is always my concern.
This was Penelope, and this was love.
Thus far, four men had asked for her hand, but when Daphne had thought about living the rest of her days in the company of any of them, she just couldn’t do it. There were a number of men she thought...
Today I glory in my sixdom.Sixdom?Sixitude.Annabel started to grin.Sixulation, Louisa proclaimed.
Turn right up ahead, he directed. It'll take us directly to my cottage.She did as he asked. Does your cottage have a name?My Cottage.I might have known, she muttered.He smirked. Quite a feat, in her o...
Violet sniffed and shot him a haughty look. I should not be so quick to mock me, my son. I merely point out the truth. You should be down on your hands and knees thanking your maker every day that you...
What did one say when a gentleman confessed to a shortcoming? She couldn’t recall ever hearing one do so before, but surely, sometime in the course of history, some gentleman had.(Lucy about Gregory,...
What if you were to get lost, he pointed out.Oh, that was the final straw. She whirled around. However could that happen, my lord? She notched her chin up a bit. We’re standing on an island. Eventuall...
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