Netherfield: Rogue Dragon (Jane Austen's Dragons, #3)

by Maria Grace

“He is such a dullard?” Darcy rubbed his forehead hard. “Worse. He is a dullard with opinions.

“Why are you so insistent upon confusing understanding with approval? They are hardly one and the same.

“What will it take to make you believe the very qualities that make your father most annoyed are those I most admire in you? I do not want a woman who cannot think for herself, who relies upon me for every scrap of information, and to form her every opinion. Yes, I would like you to do me the honor of talking with me and sharing your thoughts with me, but I relish your ability to leap from one specialty to another, drawing connections and conclusions others would never see.”

“But I am so very, very difficult.” “Is not anything worth having apt to be difficult?”