I would be pleased to participate in this conversation to a greater degree, he drawled, except that you have not seen fit to share with me of the details of your life.It was not an oversight on my pa...
I would like to request the honor of your daughter's hand in marriage.Olivia gasped, then squealed, then jumped up and down, which turned out to be a bad idea. Ow! she yelped smacking her head on the...
If I wanted Belle, he cut in, I would have asked her to marry me. He pulled her more tightly against him. Henry, I love you. I'd love you if you wore a sackcloth. I'd love you if you had a mustache. H...
If he hadn’t married Iris, he’d want her for a friend
Is it possible to be so happy for one person and at the same time be so sad for oneself? Only the most generous in spirit can manage it. The rest of us don't know how to be happy for another when our...
Is your head bothering you? Louisa asked. But she wasn't paying much attention. Frederick, her ridiculously fat basset hounds, had spotted a fellow canine in the distance and was yanking on the lead....
Isn’t it nice, the older lady said, leaning in so that only Penelope could hear her words, to discover that we’re not exactly what we thought we were?
It is a pleasure to meet you, Miss Sheffield, he said politely. I do hope you will favor me with one of your dances this evening. I— Of course. She cleared her throat. I would be honored. Kate, Mary s...
It was as if her insides were light-headed. And her heart was not beating quite properly. It wasn’t racing, and it wasn’t pounding … It was dancing. Singing.
It was cold. Really cold. And there was an awful scurrying noise that definitely belong to a small, four-legged creature.Or even worse, a large, four-legged creature. Or to be more precise, a large ve...
It was going to be embarrassing regardless of what music theychose, but Honoria didn’t have the heart to say it to her face.On the other hand, whichever piece they performed, they wouldsurely butcher...
It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood
It's just that I don't think friends tie friends to the bedpost.James choked on his tea. Caroline, you have no idea.
It‟s not your fault you had no siblings, he told her. You have no experience in intrafamilial squabbles. Trust me, it all works out in the end. I predict we shall manage to get all four to adulthood w...
Las mujeres, explicó con paciencia, se dedican desde los dieciocho a los veintiún años a afinar sus habilidades sociales. Y cuando piensan que están listas, salen al mundo, asisten a unos bailes, pest...
Let it be said, Marcus thought dryly,that nothing cooled a man's ardor like the Crusades.
My heart swells, she mimicked. She snapped out of her caricature, and said sternly, Woman don't like to be on the receiving end of sarcasm. They only like to give it, he drawled.
Neither one of you is going to kill, maim, attack, or even hug the other for at least thirty minutes.
Never, he spat out, kick a man who is pointing a gun at you.
Nothing like trapping the gentlemen where they couldn't get away.
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