Oh, good,” he muttered. “We’re going to discuss it now.”
“No discussion,” she said. Her mind was quite clear now, as though a fire had blazed through it, burning away all confusion. “It’s perfectly simple. No One Must
Ever Know.”
He came up onto one elbow and looked at her. “Do you know,” he said, “I can hear those five words in italics. Capitalized.
But you are a charming and beautiful dunces, madame. And,” he continued in French, “a charming and beautiful woman
can get away with murder. Can you imagine that any man here would prosecute you for assassinating our language?
I know why you want to wear the plum,” Marcelline said. “It’s ravishing. It’ll make Longmore swoon.”
“It might make him do some things,” Sophy said. “But swooning isn’t one of them. He’s the sort of man who tells a girl he l-loves her—and then l-laughs. As though
it’s a j-joke.
Shockingly tactless,” Lady Warford said. “Unfortunately, Longmore can be tactless quite fluently in several languages
Loretta ChaseHis conscience smote him. As smitings go, it wasn't much, his conscience being in poor fighting condition.
Loretta ChaseTag: humor loretta-chase historicals
Jessica: “You great drunken jackass!”
Dain: “I did not give you leave to use my Christian name.
I have dealt with the poor, Bathsheba. They need a great deal, but I do not believe they feel any great want for aristocratic females dressed in the latest stare of fashion telling them they are proud, vain, and licentious.
Loretta ChaseI spent hours yesterday talking of little but medical symptoms and insane asylums. And you listened as though it were poetry and all but swooned at my feet. It is too bad I don't have any medical treatises about. I'm sure I need read a paragraph or two, and you will become ravenous with lust and begin tearing my clothes off. (Dorian from "The Mad Earl's Bride")
Loretta ChaseA dress is a weapon. It must dazzle his eye, raise his temperature . . . and empty his purse.
Loretta ChaseTag: romance
There is no animal more invincible than a woman,
Loretta ChaseTag: humor inspirational truth
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