The Rake: Lessons in LoveHarper Collins, 17. 3. 2009 - Počet stran: 384 A Regency romp about a young lady who vows revenge on the rakish lord who loved and left her, only to find herself unexpectedly caught in Cupid′s net along with the handsome viscount when her plan to love and leave him backfires. |
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Výsledky 1-5 z 14
Strana 10
... Milly is recovering , though not as quickly as she would like . Why ? " Ha . She had no intention of explaining the reason behind her question . Let him wonder until she had the details of her plan figured out . " No reason . Please ...
... Milly is recovering , though not as quickly as she would like . Why ? " Ha . She had no intention of explaining the reason behind her question . Let him wonder until she had the details of her plan figured out . " No reason . Please ...
Strana 14
... Milly's lat- est attack of gout . " What the devil is she up to ? " he murmured . Given their past , he didn't trust her as far as he could throw her . Tristan stood again , leaving the remains of his breakfast on the table in case one ...
... Milly's lat- est attack of gout . " What the devil is she up to ? " he murmured . Given their past , he didn't trust her as far as he could throw her . Tristan stood again , leaving the remains of his breakfast on the table in case one ...
Strana 15
... Milly ? " he called , topping the stairs and an- gling to the left . When he'd invited his aunts to live with him three years before , he'd given up the domain of the morning room , and they and every imaginable foot of bombazine and ...
... Milly ? " he called , topping the stairs and an- gling to the left . When he'd invited his aunts to live with him three years before , he'd given up the domain of the morning room , and they and every imaginable foot of bombazine and ...
Strana 16
... Milly ? Miss Edwina ? " “ Oh , do dispense with the miss this and miss that , if you please . I don't need to be reminded that I'm an an- cient spinster . " Milly chuckled again . “ And poor Ed- wina is even more ancient . " " Nonsense ...
... Milly ? Miss Edwina ? " “ Oh , do dispense with the miss this and miss that , if you please . I don't need to be reminded that I'm an an- cient spinster . " Milly chuckled again . “ And poor Ed- wina is even more ancient . " " Nonsense ...
Strana 20
... Milly and I never married , and we have never suffered from the lack of a husband . " " Not that we ever lacked beaux , of course , " Milly broke in . " Just never found the right ones . I don't miss marriage one bit . Though I admit ...
... Milly and I never married , and we have never suffered from the lack of a husband . " " Not that we ever lacked beaux , of course , " Milly broke in . " Just never found the right ones . I don't miss marriage one bit . Though I admit ...
Obsah
Oddíl 13 | 195 |
Oddíl 14 | 215 |
Oddíl 15 | 232 |
Oddíl 16 | 249 |
Oddíl 17 | 272 |
Oddíl 18 | 285 |
Oddíl 19 | 308 |
Oddíl 20 | 325 |
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Strana 216 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Strana 48 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues We write in water.
Strana 196 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness, and humility : But when the blast of war...
Strana 127 - The world's a huge thing; it is a great price For a small vice.
Strana 6 - By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
Strana 91 - The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices • Make instruments to plague us.
Strana 13 - Fair is foul, and foul is fair. —Macbeth, Act I, Scene i Tristan Carroway, Viscount Dare, looked up from the London Times as the brass knocker banged against his front door.
Strana 206 - He leaned closer, tilting her chin up so she had to look him in the eye. "Would you choose to be a pauper? Would you be any less suspicious of a suitor's motives if you were poor and pretty?