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Thank you, Dain," she said. "I should like that very much. I've never seen a proper wrestling match before." "I daresay it will be a novel experience all round," he said, gravely eyeing her up and down. "I can't wait to see Sherburne's face when I arrive with my lady wife in tow." "There, you see?" she said, unoffended. "I told you there were other benefits to having a wife. I can come in very handy when you wish to shock your friends.

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Wrestling, Wife, Waiting

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Clara will break him to bridle,” Longmore said. “And if she can’t cure his wild ways, who knows? Maybe he’ll ride into a ditch or get run over by a post chaise, and she’ll be a young widow. Do try to look on the bright side.

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Running, Trying, Looks

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That's what brings in the customers: the combination of gossip and the intricate detail about the dresses, all related as drama. It has the same effect on women, I'm told, as looking at naked women has on men.

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Drama, Men, Gossip

Loretta Chase (2012). “Scandal Wears Satin”, p.22, Harper Collins

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Did you know you could kill a person with a hatpin?" she said."I did not," he said. "Do you speak from experience? Have you murdered anybody? Not that I'd dream of criticizing.

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Dream, Speak, Said

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Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.

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Book, Shadow, Skins

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Jessica: “You great drunken jackass!” Dain: “I did not give you leave to use my Christian name.

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Christian, Names, Giving

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Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

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Parent, Want, Treated

Loretta Chase (2006). “Lord Perfect”, p.44, Penguin

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Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

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Opera, Life Is, Scene

Loretta Chase (2006). “Lord Perfect”, p.39, Penguin

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Just listen,” she said. “You can’t kill him in cold blood.” “Whyever not?” Ye gods grant me patience. “Because he’ll be dead,” she said as patiently as she could, “and Lady Clara’s reputation will be stained forever. Do not, I pray you, do anything, Lord Longmore. Leave this to us.” “Us.” “My sisters and me.” “What do you propose? Dressing him to death? Tying him up and making him listen to fashion descriptions?

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Fashion, Blood, Forever

Loretta Chase (2012). “Scandal Wears Satin”, p.37, Harper Collins

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Out of the darkness came Mr Carsington's deep voice, cool and calm. " Pray don't trouble yourselves, gentlemen. It is merely a villain come to cut our throats, rob our stores and ravish our women. No need for alarm. Mrs Pembroke has the matter in hand.

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Cutting, Hands, Voice

Loretta Chase (2005). “Mr. Impossible”, p.194, Penguin

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I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.

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Thinking, Can Do, I Can

Loretta Chase (2005). “Mr. Impossible”, p.208, Penguin

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No its you," she said. How far away her voice sounded, as though it had traveled to London already, ahead of her. "Your ducal self assurance. Everything will give way to you. Even Satan's own storm." "You are definitely improving," he said. "Full mocking sentences.

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Self, Voice, Giving

Loretta Chase, Anna Campbell (2014). “Regency Rogues and Rakes: Silk is for Seduction / Scandal Wears Satin / Vixen in Velvet / Seven Nights in a Rogue's Bed / A Rake's Midnight Kiss / What a Duke Dares (Mills & Boon e-Book Collections)”, p.157, HarperCollins UK

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I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!

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Eye, Heart, Names

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I want you," she said. "I told you so," he said.

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Want, Told You So, Said

Loretta Chase (2006). “Lord Perfect”, p.127, Penguin

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He had relieved whores beyond counting of frocks, stays, chemises, garters, and stockings. He had never before in his life unbuttoned a gently bred maiden's glove. He'd committed salacious acts beyond number. He'd never before felt so depraved as he did now, as the last pearl came free and he drew the soft kid down, baring her wrist, and his dark fingers grazed the delicate skin he'd exposed.

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Kids, Dark, Numbers

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Dain kept his gaze on his plate and concentrated on swallowing the morsel he'd just very nearly choked on. She was possessive... about him. The beautiful, mad creature - or blind and deaf creature, or whatever she was - coolly announced it as one might say, "Pass the salt cellar," without the smallest awareness that the earth had just tilted on its axis.

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Beautiful, Axes, Mad

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You are well aware of your effect on women, and I'm sure it gratifies you no end to watch them sigh and salivate over your magnificent physique. I do not wish to spoil your fun, Dain, but I do ask you to consider my pride and refrain from embarrassing me in public." Women...sighing and salivating...over his magnificent physique. Maybe the brutal bedding had destroyed a part of her brain.

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Fun, Pride, Brain

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We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

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Christian, Mean, Names

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"Miss you," he said. It was the barest murmur, scarcely a sound.

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Missing, Sound, Said

"Mr. Impossible". Book by Loretta Chase, 2005.

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But I liked you from the moment I first heard your voice,” he said, “when I had no idea what you looked like. I thought it delicious, the way you bargained for me, as though I were an old rug. Then I loved the way you looked at me. Then I loved the way you ordered me about. I loved your patient and impatient ways of explaining things to me. I love the sound of your voice and the way you move. I love your courage and your kindness and your generosity and your obstinacy and your passion.” He paused. “You’re the genius. What do you think that means?

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Kindness, Moving, Passion

Loretta Chase (2005). “Mr. Impossible”, p.362, Penguin

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Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

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Moon, Men, Orbit

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Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men’s trousers, you needn’t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

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Men, Brain, Size

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Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing

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Pride, Fragile Things, Masculine

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We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

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Men, Mind, Accounts

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Women don't have a sense of humor. They don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce tha the Almighty is a female.

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Men, Female, Needs

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