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She had not wanted to come, and now that she was there, she was still praying for deliverance. "Aunt Berta!" she said forcefully as the front door of the great, rambling house was swung open. The butler stepped aside, and footmen hurried forward. "Aunt Berta!" she said urgently, and in desperation Elizabeth reached for the maid's tightly clenched eyelid. She pried it open and looked straight into a frightened brown orb. "Please do not do th..
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He stared at it in utter disbelief while his secretary, Peters, who'd only been with him for a fortnight, muttered a silent prayer of gratitude for the break and continued scribbling as fast as he could, trying futilely to catch up with his employer's dictation. "This," said Ian curtly, "was sent to me either by mistake or as a joke. In either case, it's in excruciatingly bad taste." A memory of Elizabeth Cameron flickered across Ian's mind..
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If being ugly was a crime, they'd be hunting that woman down with helicopters and bloodhounds.
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How are babies made?" Visibly startled, Jordan turned and opened his mouth, as if he intended to speak, but for some reason no words came out. At first Alexandra was puzzled by his involuntary silence, but then understanding dawned. She shook her head and sighed with sympathy for their mutual plight. " You don't know either, do you?"
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I meant," Jenny said, her eyes filled with ire, plunking her hands on her slim hips, "if I were your daughter, and your sworn enemy kidnapped me, how would you want me to behave?"
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Nay. I wanted only to be loved by those whom I love; to be looked upon and not found wanting.
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And so I invented a kingdom of dreams where I could accomplish great and daring deeds to make it happen.
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Fate had already done everything it could to torment her.
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I feel like hell...I ache all over, but mostly inside.
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I wanted you to have the best pears in New York and I wanted to be the man to buy them for you.
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To accomplish that, I created Victoria Seaton, a young American who was
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If you will kiss me
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Sweeping her up into her arms, Jenny hugged her tightly. "Everybody"
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Bazi insanlar aski kalplerinde,bazilariysa butun benliklerinde hissederler...
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Victoria lifted her chin. "In my country, Mr. Fielding, it is considered ill-bred to argue at the table." Her veiled reprimand filled him with amusement. "How very inconvenient for you," he remarked softly." --
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and gains at the gaming tables spread from White's
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Dying over an argument isn't honor, it's a waste of a man's life. A man volunteers to die for a cause he believes in, or to protect others he cares about. Any other reason is nothing more than stupidity." ~Ian Thornton"
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I can't sleep, because I'm afraid I'll start dreaming...
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What is it about you that demolishes my mind?
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Despite all her diligent efforts to remake herself into a model of propriety, when it come to falling in love she'd reverted to from and fallen in love with a man who was a renegade, a black sheep, a daring, cynical, tough social outcast who in some ways reminded her of the boys she'd known on the Chicago streets.
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Whitney, My Love is the story of Clayton Westmoreland, the Ninth Duke of Claymore. Until You features Stephen Westmoreland's
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heart she faced the wrenching truth: Impulsiveness and recklessness, her two greatest faults, had brought her to this dire end--the same two character flaws that had
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she'd only looked at him for a second before she'd walked out of the woods, Jenny had registered the odd light in his eyes and
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Lisa, have you ever met anyone and then known within minutes that he's the most special person you're ever going to meet in your life?
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Let's hear it," he said. "Hear what?" Elizabeth said nervously. "An explanation-the truth, if you're capable of it. Last night you drew a gun on me, and this morning you're awash with excitement over the prospect over the prospect of cleaning my house. I want to know why." "Well," Elizabeth burst out in defense of her actions with the gun, "you were extremely disagreeable!" "I am still disagreeable," he pointed out shortly, ignoring Elizabe..
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Let's hear it," he said. "Hear what?" Elizabeth said nervously. "An explanation-the truth, if you're capable of it. Last night you drew a gun on me, and this morning you're awash with excitement over the prospect over the prospect of cleaning my house. I want to know why." "Well," Elizabeth burst out in defense of her actions with the gun, "you were disagreeable!" "I am disagreeable," he pointed out shortly, ignoring Elizabeth's raised ..
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