Deanna Raybourn - Silent in the Grave (2006)

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I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

Deanna Raybourn

Oh, yes. I mean to marry him. But not because I want him to give me a life. I want to marry him to share the life I already have. The difference, I think you will find, is a significant one.

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I will make arrangements for you and Portia to return to London the following day. I will be closing up the house. I am leaving England for a while." "For how long?" I asked him, determined to keep my composure. "Until I am quite recovered from you," he said evenly. "When will you return?" "Never.

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She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person I had been and the person I was finally becoming. Caught between the two of them, I felt rather lonely, as one often does with a new acquaintance.

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If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.

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I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

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