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He watched her go, wondering if life ever offered happiness in more than very small, very brief doses. T
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Adaptamos nuestra vida a las circunstancias y cogemos la felicidad donde la encontramos, aun cuando solo sea en momentos pasajeros. O hacemos eso o nos perdemos la oportunidad de aceptar la gracia en nuestra vida. Este es un momento feliz. Lo recordare.
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Lord Francis sighed. "When you get back to Bedlam, Soph," he said, "ask them to reserve a room for me, will you? There's a good girl. I am going to be needing it soon." Sophia clucked her tongue and spurred her horse to a canter. Lord Francis shook his head and went after her."
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I suppose," he said, his voice harsher than he had intended it to be, "you want marriage again." "No," she said quickly. "No, never that. Not again. Why would any woman willingly make herself the property of a man and suffer all the humiliation of submerging her character and her very identity in his?"
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She hastily tried to shut the door. But his forearm shot up and held it open. They stared at each other for several silent moments. "What are you doing here?" she demanded at last. It was only at that moment that she realized Lady Baird was standing behind him. "Pitting my strength against yours to hold the door open," he said in his usual bored, rather haughty tone. "It is a battle you cannot win, Catherine. Let us in?"
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The ladies perhaps had the advantage in the sheer size of
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with a cluster of other servants.
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unguarded moment she pictured herself waltzing with Viscount Whitleaf,
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Viscount Darleigh was charming as well as handsome, and he had the uncanny ability to look in the direction of the person who was speaking almost as if he could see that person. He moved about with the aid of a cane but with surprising confidence. It was clear that he had learned how to cope with his blindness at least within the confines of his own home.
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What if I should drop the ring?" Cyril asked on the way to the church. Surely one of the functions of the best man - the principal function, in fact - was the calm the nerves of the bridegroom. "Then you crawl around on the floor until you recover it," Percy said. "It will not happen." "I have never done this before," Cyril added. "Neither have I," Percy told him."
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And what may I do for you?" Jane had intended to try to draw her away to the refreshment room, but it seemed they were"
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when one had taken that first determined step out into the rest of one's life, one had to keep on striding forward--or retreat and be forever defeated.
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To Jane Austen, for making romance novels classics and keepers for generations.
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She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.
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Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex.
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angst
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dancing-with-clara
despair
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metaphor
rake
regency
regency-romance
romance
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Rapists do not deserve to live." And"
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He was being the scrupulously honorable gentleman, she realized, protecting her name, taking the consequences of his own indiscretion. She understood all that and was grateful for it. And resentful of it. How helpless women were. The pawns of men. To be tripped up and pitched headlong into the dirt by men, and then to be picked up by them and dusted off and restored to uprightness. But that was the way of the world.
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I perceive," he said, "that you are of the half-empty-glass school of thought, Miss Osbourne, while I am of the half-full school." "Then we are quite incompatible," she said. "Not necessarily so," he said. "Some differences of opinion will provide us with topics upon which to hold a lively debate. There is nothing more dull than two people who are so totally in agreement with each other upon every subject under the sun that there really is ..
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There is something infinitely better than happily ever after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a far more exciting prospect than that silly static idea of a happily ever after. Would you not agree?
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Now was the time for now. Now was one of those rare and precious moments with which one was gifted from time to time. That was all it was. A moment. But it was one to be enjoyed to the full while it lasted and treasured for a lifetime after it was over.
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You aren't intending to spend your married life quarreling, I hope?" Claude said, frowning as his brother passed a hand nervously through his hair and turned to the door. "I intend to be happy," Lord Francis said. "I shall see to it that I quarrel with Soph every day of our lives, Claude."
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Ah, these double meanings," she said. "Who invented the English language, I wonder? He did not do a stellar job of it, whoever he was."
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crowded about the four sides of the green to watch and cheer. Viola had set out from home early in the morning looking ladylike and elegant in a muslin dress and shawl and straw bonnet, her hair in a neatly braided coronet about her head beneath it. She had even been wearing gloves. But she had long ago discarded all the accessories. Even her hair, slipping stubbornly out of its pins during the busy morning of rushing hither and yon, had be..
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Dreams are wishes that will in all probability never come true. (Sophie)
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How fragile were the moments of chance on which the whole course of one's life hinged.
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there was many a slip twixt cup and lip.
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La vida no era perfecta. Salvo en ocasiones.
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Algunos dias eran tan tranquilos que al cabo de una semana era imposible recordar lo que habia sucedido en su transcurso. Otros estaban tan llenos de acontecimientos que era imposible creer que veinticuatro horas dieran para tanto.
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played any sort of game. Ten.
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el matrimonio es un viaje, como la vida misma. No puedo esperar que sea perfecto desde el principio.
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Algunas cosas pertenecian al corazon de cada cual.
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En ocasiones sucede algo tan catastrofico que durante un tiempo, a veces durante mucho tiempo, resulta imposible ver algo en la oscuridad, incluso parece imposible creer que haya algo mas alla. Pero siempre lo hay. Incluso, tal vez, en el momento de la muerte. Sobre todo en ese momento.
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Ese es el inconveniente de los suenos, [...]No siempre se hacen realidad. Pero siempre aparecen nuevos suenos con los que reemplazar los antiguos. En el fondo somos una especie llena de esperanza.
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Pero habia ciertos momentos a lo largo de la vida que definian a una persona para siempre... al menos ante sus propios ojos.
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La vida podia ser muy deprimente en ocasiones, pero siempre continuaba. No tenia sentido dejarse llevar por la depresion.
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Acaso existia el amor verdadero? La vida seria muy triste si no existiera... En realidad, seria insoportable si los desenganos del amor romantico convirtieran a una persona en una cinica incurable.
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En ocasiones necesitamos tiempo para adquirir sabiduria y reparar los errores del pasado
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Yet now he felt that perhaps he had missed one of the few chances life offered to step off the wheel of routine and familiarity and duty to discover if there was joy somewhere beyond its turning.
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Habia ciertos momentos en los que la vida daba un giro que cambiaba por completo el curso establecido. Y era caracteristico que dichos momentos sucedieran sin previo aviso, dejando al interesado sin tiempo para considerar sus opciones o razonar consigo mismo sobre las repercusiones. De modo que solo quedaba tomar una decision apresurada de la que casi se podia decir que dependeria el resto de la vida.
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Las mentiras solo acarreaban sufrimiento.
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Did people... really kiss like that? She had had NO idea. She had imagined being kissed, and in her imagination she had been swept away by the sheer romance of the meeting of lips. In her naivete she had not considered the possibility that a kiss, as a prelude to sexual activity, might have powerful effects on parts of her body, in fact, even parts she had been only half aware of possessing. She ached and throbbed in all sorts of unfamiliar..
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And so he drifted back to London... where he lived a life of increasingly busy idleness as he searched out one diversion after another
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He gazed at her without answering, and his fingers drummed a light tattoo on the table. "I need my sketch pad," he said. "You should do that more often, Camille." "Do what?" She could feel her cheeks grow warm at the intentness of his gaze. "Smile," he said. "With a certain degree of mischief in your eyes. The expression transforms you. Or perhaps it is just another facet of your character I have not seen before. I left my sketchbook at the..
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usual look
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