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"Where are we going?" she asked. "Mr. Durbin's sheep have begun to lamb, and I wanted to see how the ewes are doing." He cleared his throat. "I suppose I should have told you about today's outing earlier." Anna kept her eyes straight ahead and made a noncommittal sound. He coughed. "I might've, had you not left so precipitously yesterday afternoon." She arched a brow but did not reply. There was a lengthy lull broken only by the dog's eager yelp as he flushed a rabbit from the hedge along the lane. Then the earl tried again. "I've heard some people say my temper is rather . . ." He paused, apparently searching for a word. Anna helped him. "Savage?" He squinted at her. "Ferocious?" He frowned and opened his mouth. She was quicker. "Barbaric?" He cut her off before she could add to her list. "Yes, well, let us simply say that it intimidates some people." He hesitated. "I wouldn't want to intimidate you, Mrs. Wren." "You don't."
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"A smile flickered across Coral's face. "Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets--raspberry trifle is my own despair--it is quite impossible not to think, not to want, not to crave until you have taken another bite?" "Lord Swartingham is not a raspberry trifle." "No, more of a dark chocolate mousse, I should think," Coral murmured. "And," Anna continued as if she hadn't heard the interruption, "I don't need another bite, uh,night of him."
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"He looked up. "Is it time already?" She nodded. He rose and waited as she gathered her things. The dog followed them out the door, but then he bounded down the stairs to the drive. The animal sniffed intently at something on the ground and then rolled, happily rubbing his head and neck in whatever it was. Lord Swartingham sighed. "I'll have one of the stable boys wash him before he enters the Abbey again." "Mmm," Anna murmured thoughtfully. "What do you think of 'Adonis'?" He gave her a look so full of incredulous horror that she was hard-pressed not to laugh. "No, I suppose not," she murmured."
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"Sophia looked down her long nose at the girl. "Who are you?" "I'm Abigail, ma'am," she said, curtsying. "This is my brother, Jamie. I apologize for him." Sophia arched an eyebrow. "I'll wager you do that quite a lot." Abigail sighed, sounding world-weary. "Yes, I do." "Good girl." Sophia almost smiled. "Younger brothers can be a chore sometimes, but one must persevere." "Yes, ma'am," Abigail said solemnly. "Come on, Jamie," Alistair said. "Let's go into dinner before they form a Society for Bossy Older Sisters."
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"She leaned forward, her gaze so intense that Helen wanted to look away. "And I love him more for it. Do you hear me? He was a good man when he went away to the Colonies. He came back an extraordinary man. So many think that bravery is a single act of valor in a field of battle--no forethought, no contemplation of the consequences. An act over in a second or a minute or two at most. What my brother has done, is doing now, is to live with his burden for years. He knows that he will spend the rest of his life with it. And he soldiers on." She sat back in her chair, her gaze still locked with Helen's. "That to my mind is what real bravery is." -Sophia to Helen about Alistair."
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"But..." Both men looked over inquiringly when Maximus spoke. "But I never asked you to help me with Noakes." Makepeace nodded, his expression grave. "You didn't have to." "You never had to," St. John concurred."
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"You are different." She lifted a hand to delicately trace his hairline. He closed his eyes, feeling her fingers tremble against his skin. "For whatever reason," she said softly, "when you are with me, you are simply Isaac and I am Coral."
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"She caught his wrist, stilling the hand on her thigh. Her eyes were a little desperate. "What do you mean to do?" "I'd like to show you my way of making love," he said gently."
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"He doesn't like making others uncomfortable." -Helen to Sophia about Alistair"
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"Maximus," she whispered, all moonlight and strength. "I love you. Never forget that."
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Overhead the moon guided him, his fair mistress, his unattainable lover.
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Whatever else came tomorrow and for the rest of her life, she would have this moment: this one point in time when she was intimately linked to Maximus. Maximus the man.
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"Diana," he murmured in her ear, licking. "Diana, you are everything I've ever wanted and shall never have." Tears pricked at her eyes and she opened her mouth to sob. "That's it," he said. "Weep for me. Bear my pain. Take my come. For I can give you nothing else."
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He glanced up at her and somehow he'd come back to himself, contained all that terrible sorrow and anger and fear, enough to make ten strong men fall down like babes. Maximus held it all inside of him and straightened his shoulders, his chin level, and Artemis couldn't understand it--where he got the strength to hide that awful, bloody wound in his soul--but she admired him for it. Admired him and loved him. She felt an answering wound open within her own soul, a kind of faint reflection of all the pain he'd endured, just because she cared for him.
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