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pleased
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Why would forgiveness be of any value if it were reserved only for forgivable offenses?
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Besides," he said, "I had another reason for coming, one that will delight you, I believe, as you have been pestering me for years. I wanted you to meet Miss Goddard, the lady I plan one day soon, when the setting and the atmosphere are quite perfect, to ask to marry me. It is time, you see, to do that most dreaded of all things to men, though suddenly it does not seem so dreadful after all. Indeed, it seems infinitely desirable. It is time..
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romance
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Una luz moria tambien en el, cuando ella era infeliz.
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Sycophants
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Mary Balogh |
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Sometimes one feels the need of a word more powerful than love, or at least one more exclusive to the love of one's heart.
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love
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But that was the second version," she reminded him. "In the first one you had died and gone to heaven and found it was a brothel.."
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Mary Balogh |
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pleasure
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Mary Balogh |
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I am not afraid of being single. I am afraid of making a marriage I would regret.
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Mary Balogh |
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it. And if you ever strike me, I shall hit back. If you ever use me in anger or out of a wish to punish, I shall leave you.
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Mary Balogh |
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It was a fear that disappeared once the action started, to be replaced by the mad bloodlust that was sometimes called courage.
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Mary Balogh |
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It is just that . . . I think you are worth knowing, though I cannot be sure.
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Mary Balogh |
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You did not grow up in the gutter. Your mother housed you and fed and clothed you. But even if you had, your basic human dignity would not be the less. Why should a king be of more value as a human being than a vagabond?
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Mary Balogh |
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He was asked, rhetorically, he guessed, if he supposed the irons would heat themselves, a question that was followed by a not particularly complimentary remark about men.
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Mary Balogh |
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move a little faster than we originally planned, it is true, but we could rise to the challenge. We have been very successful during our first year." "Rebecca," he said, turning to face her, "I must tell you now once and for all that the school will never include girls. The idea is ridiculous. Why should we waste our time on educating females? What possible use could there be in our doing so?" She flushed. "I am a female, Philip," she said,..
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She could not expect any man to love her that deeply if she did not also understand that he simply was, and that his wasness or isness made him forever the love of her heart. The love of her life.
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Mary Balogh |
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that he really had suffered
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Mary Balogh |
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I believe contempt says more about the person giving it than the one receiving. It demeans what ought to be righteous punishment.
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Mary Balogh |
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Estuve muerto durante diez anos, mi amor, y me has devuelto la vida en solo un ano.
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Mary Balogh |
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set out to net him. She had her godmother and his
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any way fond of him. She was an accomplished flirt and by her own admission he was one of the few men not to fall to her charms. She had been forced by her very nature, perhaps, into using tactics other than her usual ones. She had been forced into trying what had seemed very like sincerity. Sometimes he felt guilty about suspecting her of using just another form of flirtation. And sometimes he called himself fool for wondering if she had b..
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He knew a lot of facts. But ultimately, as always, he must sketch and paint from intuition and trust that it was more true than all the facts he had amassed. Facts missed a great deal. Facts missed what lay beneath the facts. Facts missed spirit.
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But it was not just his kisses that she missed. There was something else about the man that exhilarated her, something that appealed to a kindred spirit in her. Mr. Seyton was a man with a goal in life, and he was willing to work toward that goal even at the expense of his own safety. There was a spirit of adventure in him. Kate found herself envying him greatly. If only there could be more adventure in her life! She would burst soon at the..
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boredom
daring-masquerade
kindred-spirits
made-for-each-other
regency-romance
mary-balogh
soul-mates
romance-novel
historical-romance
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There was something different about his face. It was not quite smiling, but the disciplined austerity had somehow gone from it. It was as though he had allowed some of himself to come out from that place deep within where he had hidden most of his life.
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Mary Balogh |
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I can see why men do not take up knitting and such. They would never be able to pluck up the courage to go and get what they needed.
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Mary Balogh |
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He had spent almost two years hearing a baby cry in his nightmares while he found it impossible to reach her.
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Mary Balogh |
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Maybe they do not have a breaking point. But even if they do, do you care, Abby?
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Mary Balogh |
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He had not meant the words in that way. He had been talking strictly about possession. But oh, the longing for his love was an unbearably painful ache in her.
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romance
georgian
heartless
mary-balogh
historical-romance
possession
sexy
longing
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I wish it be understood that she will always be first in my life, before any other member of my family or hers and before all my other duties. I will not tolerate criticism of that fact even from you. I will hear none from you ever again.
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romance
georgian
heartless
mary-balogh
dialogue
historical-romance
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Henrietta was bitter. Nothing in her life had turned out well. Like everyone else, she had striven all her life to achieve happiness. Yet it seemed to her that she had never been happy.
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happiness
dissatisfied
georgian
heartless
mary-balogh
striving
unhappy
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It was delicate and pretty and always semifashionable because it had never been ultrafashionable.
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Mary Balogh |
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Awfully?" she said, taking his arm to descend the stairs. "I am full of awe," he explained."
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Mary Balogh |
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He wanted desperately to love her, to be able to make her happy, to be a family with her and their children. He wanted the dream--home, wife, children, love, happiness. Not fleetingly--gone almost before he could grasp it, darkness at its heart--but forever.
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Some people look forward to going to heaven after they die," he said. "For years after I purchased it, Rose Cottage was the earthly heaven to which I aspired."
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