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And I hope you will not think me foolish when I also extend my thanks. Thank you, Michael, for letting my son love her first. —from Janet Stirling, dowager Countess of Kilmartin, to Michael Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin

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She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else...

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And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way........His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds. Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man.

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And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

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She smelled like England, of soft rain and sun-kissed meadows. And she felt like the best kind of heaven. He wanted to wrap himself around, bury himself within her, and stay there for all of his days. He hadn't had a drop to drink in three years, but he was intoxicated now, bubbling with a lightness he'd never thought to feel again.

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She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all.

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There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.

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And what renders him so unmarriageable? Eloise asked. Francesca leveled a serious stare at her older sister. Eloise was mad if she thought she should set her cap for Michael. Well? Eloise prodded. He could never remain faithful to one woman, Fran-cesca said, and I doubt you‟d be willing to put up with infidelities. No, Eloise murmured, not unless he‟d be willing to put up with severe bodily injury.

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She was petite, small in that way that made a man want to slay dragons.

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You are always looking at people like this. And then she made a face, one he couldn't possibly begin to describe. If I ever look like that, he said dryly, precisely like that, to be more precise, I give you leave to shoot me.

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Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.

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Not that I knew who you were until last month. But now that I've got you, I'm not letting you go." "You're not?" Blake stared at her in irritated confusion. What was her game? "Do you think I'm an idiot?" he spat out. "No," she said. "I've just escaped from a den of idiots, so I'm well familiar with the breed, and you're something else entirely. I am, however, hoping you're not a terribly good shot.

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Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn't marry an idiot.

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He was the firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton eight times over. He had a dynastic responsibility to be fruitful and multiply.

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Every unmarried man is looking for a wife. They just don't always know it.

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He would not give her up, he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty spaces in his heart

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Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Cousin‟s Wife. Moses must have forgotten to write that one down

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Very well, he said with a small sigh. Ladies today are so very capable. It breaks my hea rt, really. He leaned in, almost as if sharing a secret. No one likes to feel superfluous. Grace just stared at him. Rendered mute by my grace and charm, he said, stepping back to allow them to exit. It happens all the time. Really, I shouldn‟t be allowed near the ladies. I have such a vexing effect on you.

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Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women.

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The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors

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It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood

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She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality.

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Raw toast," Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. "It goes against the very nature of man.

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I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.

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You're in a rather odd mood today." I'm soaking wet, Eloise." No need to snap at me about it, I didn't force you to walk across town in the rain." It wasn't raining when I left,". There was something about a sibling that brought out the eight-year-old in a body. I'm sure the sky was gray," Clearly, she had a bit of the eight-year-old in her as well.

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