He had written her reams and reams of letters, as well as a poem that she kept folded in a locket around her neck. Her letters were full of love and anticipation, matching his for enthusiasm and tende...
Since I don't know what execrable means, I though I should look it up so I'll be better equipped to deal with whatever I'm about to see." Ignoring the ladies' tottering Millie continued perusing the p...
This man was no servant. She looked up at him in acute agitation and knew: this man was now her master.
She, better than anyone, knew that a soul’s sore spots didn’t really disappear. They could be buried, defended, and denied, but until they were loved, they wreaked havoc with a person’s peace.
A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. Th...
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
What Mrs. Schuyler is saying, General Schuyler added, is that it is the Schuylers who would be honored by a union woth so brilliant and noble a personage as Colonel Hamilton.
Yes, she had seen Alex's temper flare over his disappointment with a lack of his own regiment to command, but she saw that as merely the fighting spirit of an ambitious and confident leader. Yet, wasn...
You don't have to say a thing except yes. You don't have to do anything, either, I'm quite willing to plan it all. You?Yes me.You'd plan all of it? Even the wedding?Why not?You don't even like to plan...
All things in Fiji are paid for in blood.
Silly man. I know the man I am marrying is destined for great things, as the many remarkable things he has done thus far have brought himto such a high oint already. Mark my words, Alex. You are a man...
..he wanted her.And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.
Who does not tremble when he considers how to deal with his wife For not only is he bound to love her but so to live with her that he may return her to God pure and without stain when God who gave sha...
to want any woman so badly was unwise, let alone his enemy's daughter." An Artful Seduction
He wished for access to all the world's languages at once, for then he would have a better word for how he felt and what she was.
In America, I appear more simple that I am, because I was completely out of my element. It was my misfortune, not my fault, that I was born in a country which was not congenial to my desires. -1815, i...
If you can write, you can read. And if you can read, you can better understand the world and its different societies. Knowledge is the key to destroying prejudice and individual hate, which always cul...
I point out. It was the most foolish, jape-fisted bit of buffoonery I have ever seen, and I am impressed in spite of that.
Think of this- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
They did go on so, don't you think, those Victorian poets, they took themselves so horribly seriously," he said, pushing the lift button, summoning it from the depths.As it creaked up, Blackadder said...
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