I would not wish to deny you your dreams. But have a care. They can be dashed in one impulsive moment.
Mary BaloghThis was it. This was what she had longed for throughout the lonely years of her girlhood.
Suddenly she felt lonelier than she had ever felt.
And so excited she could barely breathe,
Tresham stepped up beside her, drew her arm through his again, set his free hand lightly over hers, and said not a word.
She had never loved him more.
Was something worth having, though, if it didn't present a challenge?
Mary BaloghTonight he would do anything in the world for her.
Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.
Stichwörter: love freedom duty temporary contract
Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan
Mary BaloghAnd I need you, my love," he said. "I need you so much that I panic when I think that perhaps I will not be able to persuade you to come back with me to Enfield. I need you so much that I cannot quite contemplate the rest of my life if it must be lived without you. I need you so much that—Well, the words speak for themselves. I need you."
"To look after Augusta?" she said. She dared not hear what he was surely saying. She dared not hope. "To look after Enfield? To provide you with an heir?"
"Yes," he said, and her heart sank like a stone to be squashed somewhere between her slippers and the parlor carpet."And to be my friend and my confidant and my comfort. And to be my lover.
You really love me?" she asked wistfully.
"The devil!" he exclaimed, looking over his shoulder. "Did I forget to say it? The thing I came to say?
Stichwörter: love men women forgiveness
Now she realized she had never been kissed before. Not really. Not like this.
Ah, never like this.
Everyone should know what it is like to be called by name. By the name of the unique person one is at
heart.
When one had once suffered a great hurt, there was always a weakness afterward, a vulnerability where there had been wholeness and strength before - and innocence.
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