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February 15 - February 20, 2023
Ian couldn’t think of a woman who would be flattered to have her breast compared to a bowl, so he didn’t bother to nod.
Too true
Ian set aside the brandy and dipped his pen in the ink. He bent down to write and caught sight of the droplet of black ink hanging on the nib in a perfect, round sphere. He stared at the droplet, something inside him singing at the perfection of the ball of ink, the glistening viscosity that held it suspended from the nib. The sphere was perfect, shining, a wonder.
This has autistic written all over it
“Find out everything you can about a Mrs. Ackerley, a widow now betrothed to Sir Lyndon Mather. Tell me about it tonight.” “Oh, aye? Why are we so interested in the right bastard’s fiancée?” Ian ran his fingertips lightly over the box again. “I want to know if she’s exquisite porcelain or a fake.”
She deserves the truth either way, but still, I do like this line
“My dear Lord Ian, don’t you think that a bit extreme? Once you’d had me in your bed, you’d still be married to me.” “I planned to bed you more than once.”
Well then!
My own fault for employing a Romany as a manservant. They’re blasted hard to tame.”
Not great! Plus one point for Romany and minus 10 for hard to tame, yikes
He lost himself contemplating the sparkle of every facet on each tiny diamond until the water turned cold, and Curry worriedly pulled the plug on the drain.
“My father called me a liar because I said I’d only heard it once. I told him I didn’t know how to lie, so he said, ‘Better be thought a liar, because what you’ve done is unnatural. I’ll teach you never to do it again.’ ”
“Are you wet?” Ian whispered, teeth on her earlobe.
Ian! Bro!!
It rose in him when he wanted to explain things but couldn’t find the words, when he couldn’t understand the nonsense everyone around him was babbling. As a child he’d done the only thing he could—lashed out with fists and screaming until two footmen had to hold him down.
I can’t read hints from others. A person has to tell me a thing plainly.”
Same
“One-on-one is much easier.” He spoke a fact. He could focus on what one person was saying, but trying to follow several people’s contributions to a conversation led to confusion.
SAME
his hair covered by a red kerchief that made him look like a Gypsy.
Using the proper term and the slur in the same book??
