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“You call her Daff?”
“Did you give him permission to use your given name?”
“that we are going to have to come clean.”
“You want to know what the devil is going on? It’s like this . . .”
Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow.
Simon had finished explaining their little plan
Simon and Daphne tell Anthony of their arrangement. He does not like this idea. In the end he agrees, but has some rules they have to follow.
“Are you mad?”
“Are you both completely, irrevocably, abominably insane?”
“I don’t know which of you is more clearly
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“Mother would perish of heart failure if she knew what you were about,”
“But Mother is not going to hear of it, is she?”
“because your little scheme is finished as of this very moment.”
“You can’t do anything to stop me.” Anthony jerked his head toward Simon. “I can kill him.” “Don’t be ridiculous.” “Duels have been fought for less.”
“He’s your best friend!” Daphne protested. “Not,”
Anthony Bridgerton doesnt want to be friends, with Simon Basset anymore. Because he is courting Daphne, and he knows of their plan.
“I want you out of this house.” “Before I may defend myself?” “It’s my house, too,” Daphne said hotly, “and I want him to stay.”
“First of all, I must point out that I have far more to gain from this alliance than his grace.
Daphne has way more to gain than Simon. She gets many suitors, and he won't have unmarried women.
he wishes to use me to keep the other women—” “And their mothers,” Simon interrupted. “—and their mothers at bay.
I think he’s wrong. The women aren’t going to stop pursuing him just because they think he might have formed an attachment with another...
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“I explained to your brother your theory on why you have not had more suitors,”
Today I had six callers. Six! Can you recall the last time I had six callers?”
“Because it has never happened. Six men marched up our steps, knocked on our door, and gave Humboldt their cards. Six men brought me flowers, engaged me in conversation, and one even recited poetry.”
“And do you know why?” she demanded, her voice rising dangerously. “Do you?”
Simon—“was kind enough to feign interest in me last night at Lady Danbury’s ball.”
Simon showed Daphne that he was interested at the ball. Without that she wouldn't have suitors at her door.
“Because I can assure you those men have never seen fit to call on me before.”
He’s an ass.” “Maybe,” she sniffled. “But he’s an intelligent ass.”
“Were there really six men here this afternoon?” She nodded. “Seven including Hastings.”
“were any of them men you might be interested in marrying?”
“They are all men with whom I have enjoyed a previous friendship. It is only that they never viewed me as a candidate for romance before Hastings led the way. I might, if given the opportunity, develop an attachment for one of them.”
if those men had only noticed Daphne’s charms because a duke had shown interest in her, then they were idiots, and thus she shouldn’t even contemplate marrying them.
his interest would gain her more suitors—well,
“Do you admit the wisdom of our plan, then?”
I can see where you might think it might benefit you.”
“Anthony, I have to find a husband. Besides the fact that Mother is pestering me to death, I want a husband. I want to marry and have a family of my own. I want it more than you could ever know.
“Mother would be devastated if she learned the truth.”
under no circumstances are the two of you to be alone together. Ever.”
“as we wouldn’t be allowed to be alone if we were courting in truth, anyway.”
“because the third condition is this: If I ever, even once, catch you in any behavior that compromises her . . . If I ever even catch you kissing her bloody hand without a chaperon, I shall tear your head off.” Daphne blinked. “Don’t you think that’s a bit excessive?”
“I assume this means I am disinvited for supper this evening?”
“Is Hastings invited for supper? Why did you not say something?”
Simon Basset is having dinner with the Bridgerton family.
“It was days ago,” Anthony grumbled. “Years.” “It was Monday,” Simon said.
I attended school with him for nearly a decade.
Anthony and Simon attended school together.
“I shall kill him,” Anthony said to himself. “Before the week is out, I shall kill him.”
Six years ago, when Simon had left England, he and Anthony had been boys. Oh, they’d thought they were men. They’d gambled and whored and strutted about society,
Now they were men in truth.
Anthony had responsibilities Simon had never even dreamed of. He had brothers to guide, sisters to protect. Simon had a dukedom, but Anthony had a family.
Anthony is head of the household now. He has to marry off his sisters and protect them. Guide his brothers as well.
“that your brother and I are both different people than we were when we ran wild six years ago. And I think that might not be such a bad thing.”
“that Anthony forgot to tell me he invited the duke to dinner. I had no time to prepare. None at all.”
“No meal is informal when a duke is calling.”
