My sisters call him Slinky Simon.'Alec chuckled.'It's only funny if he's not your cousin.''It's funny because it's true.
Mother, Hyacinth said, pausing for slightly longer than normal to steal a bit of time to organize her thoughts, I am not going to chase after Mr. St. Clair. He’s not at all the right sort of man for m...
It wasn't one of my favorite boots, Marcus said, trying to cheer Miss Royle up. She looked as if someone had decapitated a puppy.
It was strange. She would have thought that she'd sense John's presence, feel him in the air, see him in the surroundings they'd shared for two years. But instead, he was simply gone, and the influx o...
Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their midday meal—a scrumptious bowl of hot, sticky porridge—he had mucked out...
In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.
I'm leaving! she said, with, in her opinion, great drama and resolve.But he just answered her with a sly half smile, and said, I'm following.And the bloody man remained two strides behind her the enti...
I'm a third son. Perpetually short of funds, I'm afraid.''Ha! You're as plump in the pocket as at least three earls,' Lady Danbury said ...Colin smiled blandly. 'Isn't it considered impolite to talk a...
I wanted to skewer her with a stare, flay her with a frown, impale her with a—I say, what are you doing?Charles would have answered her, but he was laughing so hard he was doubled over.
I think I might be ready to go upstairs, she said. Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else. His lips quirked into a boyish smile. Are y...
I never thought I would be left behind.He chuckled. Eloise Bridgerton, I don't think anyone wouldever make the mistake of leaving youbehind.
I have thoroughly compromised your niece, Alex declared. Will you plase insist that she marry me?Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. This, she announced, is most peculiar.
I had the pleasure of dining with yourbrother.Gregory? Really? You’d classify it as a pleasure? But he wasgrinning as he said it, and Honoria could instantly picture what lifemust be like in the Bridg...
I give in, she gasped. What has turned your evening into such a dreadful affair? What or ? ‘ Whom’? she echoed, tilting her head as she looked at him. This grows even more interesting. I can think of...
I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the two.
I don't even know that I could have located it on a map.'There was another silence, this one more awkward than the last. Daniel decided it was time to address the aural chasm and said, 'Well.' Which,...
I am beggining to realise, Alex murmured, why people always hope for sons. It has nothing to do with producing an heir.
He’d tried so hard to convince himself that it didn’t matter if she loved him, that having her as his wife was enough. But now…Now that she’d said it, now that he knew, now that his heart had soared,...
He was wearing that enigmatic little smile of his, as if he knew something that she didn't. Actually, she thought, it was more like he knew something that she never would.
He took a step toward her, his clothing slipping from his fingers. 'There has been a terrible mistake.''Yes, there has,' she said, her entire body shaking with emotion. 'I was mistaken to think I coul...