The Double Wager Quotes

“Miss Manford's hands flapped ineffectually while she chanted, 'Bless my soul!' to a God who would have been deafened had he been foolish enough to listen.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“When you read this, I shall be gone. I shall not tell you where I am going, because I do not intend ever to return.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“The only point that troubled me, I must confess, is that Miss Tallant dislikes being called Henrietta. But I thought people might be confused if I announced my betrothal to Henry Tallant. Some few might even be scandalized, do you not agree, Oliver?”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“Sit down, please. It makes me tired to see you stand there.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“I am too tired to see you work longer today.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“Absurd!" she murmured into his ear.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“Oh," she said. "Well, that did not make any difference. I loved you regardless."

"And I loved you regardless," he said.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“I was completely enchanted, and have been ever since. Don't you know how you have turned my world upside down?”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“Do you not know that I love you more than is good for me?”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“Oh," she cried, exasperated, ''I'll not stand for this, Marius!"

"Then you shall just have to lie down for it, my love," he said soothingly.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“Good-bye, Henry," he said. "You are young. You will forget this episode soon and be happy again as you were when I met you. I am sorry that I have saddened you, my love.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“It's all over now, Henry," he murmured soothingly. "You are safe, my love.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“She hoped he would come today. She dreaded the thought of having to go through all this again tomorrow.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“She was achingly conscious, as he escorted her as usual to the door of her room, that this was the last time she would be with him like this.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“He must not know that this separation would be more painful to her than it would be to him.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“I know that I am in no position to ask a favor of you. But I beg you to do one thing, not for me—I shall never ask anything more of you for myself.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“She did not feel in any mood to playact for a whole evening, but she supposed that she would somehow live through the ordeal.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“And so Henry's resolve to leave, to disappear somewhere far away from this life that she had ruined so thoroughly, was hardened.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“She would not live with him day by day, aching for every kind word or chance touch.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“Henry had never wanted a man, had never wanted caresses or tenderness. She had certainly never wanted the dependency of love. Her fall was, therefore, all the harder. She had no defense against the pain of an emotion that she had never experienced before and that she did not understand.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“Henry wanted to hate him. She did hate him! But she could not stop herself from caring. She had grown to enjoy his companionship, to need his attention and approval. She had come to love him and want his caresses. She had given herself to him completely on that one night they had had together, and had believed that for him it had been as earth-shattering an experience as it had been for her.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“I believe he would be very relieved to know how he may rescue her from her difficulties.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“You do know her rather well, your Grace," he said with respect.

Eversleigh regarded his brother-in-law steadily. "Of course," he said. "I happen to love her, you see.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“Even now Henry yearned to run to him, to curl into his arms and beg him to take her burdens on his own broad and capable shoulders. And one part of her mind was convinced that he would not turn her away, that she could trust him.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“Henry could not escape the truth. She loved Marius quite hopelessly. Finally, after believing that no man would ever be worthy of her entire trust and respect, she seemed to have found such a man.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“This was a predicament that she would have to get herself out of, though there did not seem to be any way.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“She felt very close to despair. It seemed that everything was going wrong around her.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“Do take a break soon, James. Too much work cannot be good for the health.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“Tomorrow she would think about her new problems, for, truth to tell, she had merely exchanged one nasty difficulty for another.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager

“What had happened in the last few minutes had been so totally unexpected and so completely agonizing that she did not know quite how to cope at present.”
― Mary Balogh, The Double Wager