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| 3bbfb4e | Furthermore, she poured tea on a regular basis. Madeline didn't care to, while Eleanor found comfort in the scent, the warmth, the routine. But right now, with all of Mr. Knight's attention focused on her, the task became an ordeal. The pot seemed to weigh too much. The cup rattled in the saucer as she picked it up. She tilted the pot, aimed the spout toward the cup- And in that same, smiling, deceptively pleasant voice, Mr. Knight said, "I.. | eleanor-de-lacy intimate remington-knight | Christina Dodd | |
| 8a629f6 | What in Hades were you doing, lady? I almost hit you." Remington rose to confront him, but before he could say a word, Madeline came up like an infuriated wasp. "What was I doing? What were you doing? You almost hit this dog." Her cheeks and the tip of her nose glowed scarlet with fury. Her eyes sparked with brilliant blue. She had a smudge on one cheek and her hat was askew, but that didn't matter, for all the passion she had revealed in t.. | disarming eleanor-de-lacy | Christina Dodd | |
| b4ebf99 | It's that when the best hostesses pluck someone to be their new original, they can sometimes drop him as swiftly." "I hold in my palm a guarantee they will not." Lifting her hand to his again, he pressed his lips to the back of her fingers. This was awful! Awful that he flirted with her. Awful that she relished his attentions. "I wish you wouldn't... court me. It makes me uncomfortable." Taking no notice of her appeal, he remained on his kn.. | eleanor-de-lacy | Christina Dodd | |
| bcba13d | Now that you're here, you cannot leave." He leaned close and whispered, "My future wife stays in my house- with me." . Eleanor was trapped in this man's house. "I can't stay here." She shrank from Mr. Knight, from the visions he inspired. Visions of villainous seduction and of social banishment. And beneath it all, a desperate excitement, an excitement that she wouldn't admit to, but it was there nonetheless. If he came to her bedchamber in.. | remington-knight | Christina Dodd | |
| 00c5046 | He did not need to be distracted by a woman. A gorgeous woman, yes, but just a woman. He didn't understand her. That was the problem. She was beautiful but unaware of her beauty. She was rich but not grasping. She was timid, yet she rode fearlessly, and for a scroungy dog she roared like a lion. Because of her, he'd had his best boots nipped by a mutt's sharp teeth. Because of her, he'd ordered all flower arrangements changed from red to ye.. | eleanor-de-lacy | Christina Dodd | |
| 5cf998d | But I fear my senses can't be trusted in this new land." Eleanor sneaked a glance at his harsh and handsome features. No matter how much she wanted to dislike his presumption and his arrogance, she found herself drawn to him. She would have noticed him if he'd been courting Madeline, and quivered over the most careless glance. But with all his attention focused on her in the belief she was Madeline, her mind was blank. She couldn't taste he.. | eleanor-de-lacy timid | Christina Dodd | |
| 9cdc9e6 | What an expression of relief, my dear fiancee. However did you make your way through London society with such a revealing face? Not that I object, you understand." Leaning toward her, Mr. Knight smiled with the kind of intimate bewitchment that made her swallow to relieve her suddenly dry mouth. "When a woman is as beautiful as you are, she's usually adept at hiding her emotions. With you, I'll always know what gives you pleasure, and striv.. | remington-knight | Christina Dodd | |
| 2f05c79 | Staring into his cold, pale eyes, she felt the chill of the future. Slowly, as if irresistibly drawn, he slid his fingers into her hair, loosening the already drooping chignon at the base of her neck. Leaning his face toward her, he spoke, his voice gravelly with desire. "I love your hair. It's as thick and rich as sable. I'll see this spread over my pillow before a fortnight has passed. I'll bury my face in it and drink in the scent. I'll .. | remington-knight | Christina Dodd | |
| a28c48d | The viola and the clarinet made for an interesting pairing: we had to imagine the accompaniment of other instruments, ideally a violin and a cello. | music viola | Nicholas Christopher | |
| 97719f3 | You did this on purpose." For the first time, he saw the flash of anger in her blue eyes. "Of course. Did you really think I would meekly wear the clothing you had procured for me, as if I were some light-o'-love you rented for the month?" Lady Gertrude gasped and covered her mouth. Gradually, her shocked expression changed, and her eyes began to twinkle. Then the truth was borne in on him. He had lost. It was a small battle, unimportant am.. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 4cc005c | Look, Madeline," Lady Gertrude said, "everyone's gaping at you!" "I know." The future duchess stared straight ahead, her shoulders stiff, her back straight. Never had Remington seen a woman less comfortable with her own distinction. Never had he enjoyed the success of his own plan quite so much. The ton adored only one thing more than a romance, and that was a scandal. He had- and would- give them both. "Maybe it's because of your hair," he.. | teasing | Christina Dodd | |
| 3d13ce5 | In a deep voice, he called her name. "Madeline." Still she ignored him. Taking her hand, he lifted it to his lips and, at the last minute, he turned it and kissed her wrist. That got her attention. She looked at him, her eyes as wide and startled as those of a doe who had never seen a human before. All around them, the tittle-tattle of gossip grew louder. "Mr. Knight!" Lady Gertrude used her most disapproving tone. didn't care whether she.. | eleanor-de-lacy | Christina Dodd | |
| 7cc76d6 | The consequence of the duchess of Magnus is so great, even arriving at a ball on your arm, Mr. Knight, cannot damage it." She smiled as she made the claim, as if she were amused by her own temerity. Under the influence of that merriment, her skin glowed, her eyes lit up, and her delightful dimples quivered in her cheeks. With a start, he thought, . He had expected to be challenged by this woman, not captivated. She surprised him, and surpr.. | eleanor-and-rem eleanor-de-lacy surprised | Christina Dodd | |
| dc85158 | I'm Lady Codell-Fitch, and like so many of us, I wish to offer congratulations on your betrothal." "Yes, congratulations." "Congratulations!" "Amazing betrothal!" The felicitations were insincere and accompanied by many an ogling stare, but Eleanor pretended, as Madeline would, to be pleased. Taking Mr. Knight's arm, she pressed it. "He is quite handsome." She found herself daring to defy them all with an up-tilted chin. "I wish you all cou.. | eleanor-de-lacy remington-knight | Christina Dodd | |
| 4596c83 | When we're married, we'll make a place for your cousin in the household. Never fear, dear duchess. I will love her as you do." Eleanor flushed. Mr. Knight had a way of saying the right thing and lighting a glow in her heart. He would hate her when he found out the truth. But she wouldn't let that dismal prospect ruin tonight. Tonight he belonged to her. As she moved with him, he filled her vision, soaked into her pores. Occasionally she wou.. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 0785b8a | But perhaps, tonight, Eleanor should do as Madeline would do- and live for the moment. Tonight, she would abandon her fears and behave as any young lady would who danced her first dance at her first ball with the most handsome man in the room. Catching a glimpse of the dancers in one of the mirrors, she admired one young lady who moved with grace, who dressed with flare and whose hair looked dashing and sophisticated. As Eleanor watched, th.. | eleanor-de-lacy happiness live-in-the-moment remington-knight | Christina Dodd | |
| 19999a6 | A]ll worship of a divinity is a necrophilia. | Antireligion | ||
| 9425960 | A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism. | Antisemitism | ||
| 9943f0b | At the moment of greatest fear, the best solution is to go boldly and without hesitation. | Robert Ferrigno | ||
| f10a0d6 | The most important thing in this life, Master Oklahoma used to say at the end of each session, is to have a destiny. | Valeria Luiselli | ||
| c286931 | Bourgeois society continuously brings forth the Jew from its own entrails. | Antisemitism | ||
| 6a54c37 | The Jewish cabal is out to get me. | Antisemitism | ||
| 4ea52ad | For generations, the Stafford men had been known throughout the ton for their appearance--the epitome of tall, dark, and handsome. Alex's father was a mere six feet tall, and was teased relentlessly by his brothers and cousins as "the diminutive duke." His sons did not suffer the same fate--all standing taller than six feet, four inches, proving that the next crop of Staffords would reclaim their statuesque heritage. The sons in question--W.. | Sarah MacLean | ||
| c711751 | MARGARET Have any of you Seen that poor child Alizon? I think she must be lost. NICHOLAS Who isn't? The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can. Now don't be worried. She can't be more lost than she was with us. | Christopher Fry | ||
| 8d75d4d | The meal she served was unlike any I had encountered in Vienna, or anywhere else: red seaweed garnished with pickled radishes; black rice noodles and spotted mushrooms boiled in wine, grilled squid stuffed with flying fish roe; and yellow cherries sauteed in butter. The hot bread was laced with cinnamon and paprika. The goat cheese was coated with thyme honey. | food | Nicholas Christopher | |
| c10cb36 | They were the only members of their family, and they were both humble, crushed, and thrust aside by life; they were united in sadness and tenderness by a bond of mutual pity and common suffering, borne in secret. With the Kraffts--robust, noisy, brutal, solidly built for living, and living joyously--these two weak, kindly creatures, out of their setting, so to speak, outside life, understood and pitied each other without ever saying anythin.. | Romain Rolland | ||
| d9839aa | But, uncle, isn't it possible to make other songs, new songs?" "Why make them? There are enough for everything. There are songs for when you are sad, and for when you are gay; for when you are weary, and for when you are thinking of home; for when you despise yourself, because you have been a vile sinner, a worm upon the earth; for when you want to weep, because people have not been kind to you; and for when your heart is glad because the w.. | Romain Rolland | ||
| 8c60644 | The sheer volume of granite, diorite, and alabaster that was cut precisely into statues around Luxor attests to the ancient Egyptians' mastery of their craft. The Greeks and Romans did not sculpt statues in igneous rock. Granite was not fashioned into statues until the development of more modern power tools with steel bits. In "The Materials of Sculpture", Nicholas Penny writes: "Granite had occasionally been worked in shallow relief, for a.. | architecture building igneous-rock sculpting statues | Christopher Dunn | |
| aa0330a | As summed up in the book "Prolife Feminism", these pioneering women felt that "abortion was the product of a social system that compelled women to remain ignorant about their bodies, that enabled men to dominate them sexually without taking responsibility for the consequences, that denied women support during and after the resulting pregnancies, and that placed far more value on a child's 'legitimacy' than on his or her life and well-being... | Russ Kick | ||
| f536a57 | We are aware that many women attempt to excuse themselves for procuring abortions, upon the ground that it is not murder. But the fact of resort to so weak an argument only shows the more palpably that they fully realize the enormity of the crime. It is not equally destroying a would-be future oak, to crush the sprout before it pushes its head above the sod, as it is to cut down the sapling, or cut down the tree? Is it not equally to destro.. | Russ Kick | ||
| 1ce2d6b | At the age of twelve [his daughter] Mary Rodgers Guettel asked her father whether he believed in God and he answered that he believed in people. 'If somebody is really sick, I don't pray to God, I look for the best doctor in town. | Russ Kick | ||
| 0499ee5 | Despite his explicit and repeated disavowal of anti-Semitism, LaHaye has made odd comments about Jews, saying to Slate.com journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, "Some of the greatest evil in the history of the world was concocted in the Jewish mind." | Russ Kick | ||
| d74a8d1 | Perhaps the right word is recognition, in the sense of re-cognizing, knowing again, for a second or third time, like an echo of a knowledge, which brings acknowledgment, and possibly forgiveness. | Valeria Luiselli | ||
| c2d1439 | Genetics is a science full of gods, Mr. Sanchez. | Valeria Luiselli | ||
| 65950e5 | Mouths open to the sun, they sleep. | opening-lines | Valeria Luiselli | |
| a1294fc | The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards. | Antisemitism | ||
| b9d08c5 | The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality. | Antisemitism | ||
| 9fe5376 | As I always say, the "oldest hatred" didn't get that way without an ability to adapt. | Antisemitism | ||
| 99d6e52 | Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings | Antoine de Saint Exupéry | ||
| 8ed5f2a | Fill your lungs. Beat your heart. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| dd9909e | It is true that I have not come on the Mayflower but I came as fast as I could. | Anton Cermak | ||
| 3058f25 | I'm glad it was me instead of you | Anton Cermak | ||
| 16c1c8a | That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be. | Anton Chekhov | ||
| ea8189a | We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating. | Anton Chekhov |