And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way.... ....His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds. Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man.

Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their midday meal-a scrumptious bowl of hot, sticky porridge-he had mucked out the stable stalls, milked a cow, been pecked by three separate hens, weeded a vegetable garden, and fallen into a trough.

Your heart is free now." "No," he whispered. "It's yours.

I was told once that the most important part of a fight is making sure your opponent looks worse than you do when you’re through.

If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?

There was a huge difference between dislike and disregard.

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.