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“the Bridgerton method of naming children. Guaranteed to make certain no one forgets who you are.”
“I’ve promised my mother I’ll have dinner at Bridgerton House later this week with the family. Why don’t you join me?”
“Didn’t you just warn me about society mothers and debutante daughters?”
Was Anthony playing matchmaker?
“Good God, you don’t think I’m trying to pair you off with Daphne, do you?”
“You would never suit. You’re a bit too brooding ...
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“Has she had any offers, then...
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“Love is probably too much to hope for in a marriage these days, but I don’t see why she shouldn’t be happy with her husband.
“I didn’t particularly enjoy breaking this poor fool’s heart.” “Er, wasn’t Daphne the one to do that?” “Yes, but I had to tell him.”
“Not many brothers would allow their sister such latitude with their marriage proposals,”
“Eloise is due out in two years, and Francesca the year after that, but then I’ve a bit of a reprieve before Hyacinth comes of age.”
He had no plans to start a family of his own, but maybe if he’d had one to begin with, his life would have turned out a bit differently.
“that you’re going to be able to go to the party, pay your respects to Lady Danbury, and leave?”
The new Duke of Hastings is a most interesting character. While it is common knowledge that he was not on favorable terms with his father,
Nigel Berbrooke had sought him out two days earlier and asked for her hand. Again. Anthony had, of course, refused (again!),
Nigel Berbrooke, wants to marry Daphne Bridgerton. This is his second proposal to her.
After all, two marriage proposals in two weeks did not paint a picture of a man who accepted defeat easily.
He wasn’t very bright, but he also wasn’t unkind, and though she knew she had to somehow put an end to his infatuation,
“She made a list of potential brides.”
You’re a full eight years older than I am!”
Anthony and Daphne, are eight years apart from one another.
After all, bachelors are a challenge. Spinsters are merely pathetic. And in case you hadn’t noticed, I’m female.”
the slow, devastatingly wicked smile that all Bridgerton males seemed to possess.
She will kill you. And then, somehow, she’ll find a way to blame me.” “I’m counting on it.”
The Viscountess Bridgerton had listed the names of eight women. Eight very eligible, very wealthy young women.
Violet Bridgerton, is trying to find a bride for Anthony.
Philipa Featherington is as dumb as a post.”
“You didn’t really want to get married this year, anyway, did you?”
Three of the five married last season. Mother is still berating me for letting them slip through my fingers.”
Violet Bridgerton was undeterred in her mission to marry off her children. Anthony, her eldest son, and Daphne, her eldest daughter, had borne the brunt of the pressure,
Daphne suspected that the viscountess might have cheerfully married off ten-year-old Hyacinth if she...
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Three times this week she has reminded me I may have to provide the next viscount, if Anthony here doesn’t get busy.”
Nigel—” “Is more monkey than man,”
“but he isn’t terribly bright,
her two older brothers, both an inch above six feet with broad shoulders and melting brown eyes. They each sported thick chestnut hair—much the same color as her own—and
Ambitious mamas were nudging their daughters and pointing to the two Bridgerton brothers, off by themselves with no company save for their sister.
Colin, always the most devil-may-care of the family,
Of all her siblings, Colin was the closest to her in age—only eighteen months her elder. As children, they had been inseparable—and
Colin is eighteen months older than Daphne. They are very close in age with each other.
Colin was a natural prankster,
I have no wish to be flayed alive by that dragon.”
“Speaking of dragons,”
Lady Danbury’s often cutting wit was legendary among the ton.
“I’d nip that one in the bud, were I you, Miss Bridgerton.”
“It’d be a waste of a good mind if you were shackled to that nitwit,”
“and the good Lord knows that the ton can’t afford to waste the few good minds we’ve got.”
Anthony—“I’m inclined to be favorable toward, since you refused Berbrooke’s suit on your sister’s behalf,
he was only attending this particular ball out of loyalty to Lady Danbury, who, despite her curmudgeonly ways, had always been quite nice to him as a child.
He’d traveled the length and breadth of Europe, sailed the exquisitely blue seas of the Mediterranean, and delved into the mysteries of North Africa. From there he’d gone on to the Holy Land, and then, when inquiries revealed that it was not yet time to return home, he crossed the Atlantic and explored the West Indies.
he’d learned that his father, ill for several years, had finally died.
Six years gave a man a lot of time to think, a lot of time to learn what it meant to be a man.
twenty-two-year-old Simon had left England was because his father had suddenly decided that he was finally willing to accept his son. Simon hadn’t been willing to accept his father, though, and so he’d simply packed his bags and left the country,
The duke hadn’t originally wanted to pay for his son’s schooling;
he refused to let his idiot son make a fool of the family at Eton. But Simon had had a hungry mind as well as a stubborn heart,
