Clara will break him to bridle,โ Longmore said. โAnd if she canโt cure his wild ways, who knows? Maybe heโll ride into a ditch or get run over by a post chaise, and sheโll be a young widow. Do try to look on the bright side.
Loretta ChaseYou 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.
Loretta ChaseLet me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.
Loretta ChaseDid 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.
Loretta ChaseThe Challenge is to pry Bertie loose from Dain and his circle of oafish dengenerates,โ Jessica said severely. โIt would be far more profitable to pry Dain loose for yourself,โ said her grandmother. โHe is very wealthy, his lineage is excellent, he is young, strong, and healthy, and you feel a powerful attraction.โ โHe isnโt husband material.โ โWhat I have described is perfect husband material.โ said her grandmother. โI donโt want a husband.โ โJessica, no woman does who can regard men objectively. And you have always been magnificently objective.
Loretta ChaseI must be besotted,โ he said evenly. โI have the imbecilic idea that youโre the prettiest girl Iโve ever seen. Except for your coiffure,โ he added, with a disgusted glance at the coils and plumes and pearls. โThat is ghastly.โ She scowled. โYour romantic effusions leave me breathless.
Loretta Chase