The Heiress Gets a Duke (The Gilded Age Heiresses, #1)

by Harper St. George

The efforts of an army of musicians did nothing to drown out the sorrow inherent in the sound. It settled like a fog of despair over the glamorous evening, dusting it with melancholy.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft

“I would have one thing that is mine. I would choose my own wife. I choose you.” “Why me?” Her voice was quiet. “Because I have never met anyone like you. Because I want to know you. Because you challenge me. People in my world marry for much less. For money, land, a name. I want you for you, Miss Crenshaw. That is far more than most people get.”

He wanted to win her on his own merit. He wanted her to choose him. And, more importantly, he did not want to hurt her.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives, but as nouns. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What was it about the precise tenor of his voice that settled into her like hot tea on a cold and rainy day?

“Concessions are needed, dear sir, when the very fabric of the rule is inherently unfair. Change the rule and I wouldn’t need one.”

“When you love someone, I don’t think the passing years mean very much. Yesterday, or several years, the pain of their loss is still there.”