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1 month
“Of course. And I apologize for the—” “No. I apologize for asking.” “Please do not apologize.” “You apologized.” “Yes, but I… Yes.”
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“What are you trying to say, Miss Cowper? Are they not old friends?” “The oldest of friends, really. Ever since the Featheringtons moved in across the street.” “Across the street from the Bridgerton house?” “Directly.” “I see.”
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3 months
On the sixth of April, in the year 1812—precisely two days before her sixteenth birthday—Penelope Featherington fell in love.
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2 months
“I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles, and even more, for every one of your smiles.”
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1 month
“Well, I think Penelope is quite fortunate to have you as a friend.” “. . Yes. She is, um — Well, a very good acquaintance of . . . the family, of course.” “Are you alright?” “Never better.”
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1 month
“Penelope’s here?” Anthony barked. “Why?” “She’s my wife,” Colin returned. “She’s never attended before.” “She wanted to see me win,” Colin shot back, rewarding his brother with a sickly stretch of a smile.
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4 months
“Miss. My. Wife.” “Bloody hell,” Phillip finally burst out.
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4 months
“Congratulations, Lady Whistledown,” he murmured. “I prefer Mrs. Bridgerton,” she replied. He grinned. “Excellent choice.”
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4 months
“Penelope’s here?” Anthony barked. “Why?” “She’s my wife,” Colin returned. “She’s never attended before.” “She wanted to see me win,” Colin shot back, rewarding his brother with a sickly stretch of a smile.
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“Come along, Lady Whistledown—” “Mrs. Bridgerton,” she corrected. “Whatever you wish to call yourself,” he said with a grand smile, “you’re still mine. And this is your swan song.”
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2 months
Penelope had been interesting and lovely and kissable years ago, and he hadn't the maturity to notice.
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1 month
“Lord Basilio is a viscount.” “And you are Penelope Featherington. Do not forget that.”
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2 months
Colin was everything anyone could dream of in a fiancé. He stuck to her side like glue the entire evening, and Penelope didn't even think he was doing it to protect her from gossip. In all truth, he seemed rather oblivious to the talk.
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Colin had been overly protective since the first moment she'd told him she was pregnant; now that she was only a month from her due date, he was insufferable.
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1 month
“They do seem upset, do they not? Eros and Psyche battling it out.”
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27 days
“I love you,” he said, his voice low and fervent. “I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be.”
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2 months
“How can you think of food?” Gregory said angrily. “I always think of food,” Colin replied, his eyes searching the table until he located the butter. “What else is there?” “Your wife,” Benedict drawled. “Ah, yes, my wife,” Colin said with a nod.
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5 months
"Your eyes... A most remarkable shade of blue. And yet somehow, they shine even brighter when you are kind."
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2 months
“I want to marry Penelope.” “Penelope?” Mrs. Featherington echoed. “But—” “But what?” he interrupted, his voice pure menace.
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30 days
And he was learning that everything he thought he'd known about kissing was rubbish. Everything else had been mere lips and tongue and softly murmured but meaningless words.
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“Penelope,” he said, grabbing her hand and yanking her until she was pressed close to his side. “I want to marry Penelope.”
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3 months
In a quiet drawing room on Mount Street, Colin Bridgerton kissed Penelope Featherington.
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2 months
“Now, that was nice of Eloise,” Colin murmured. “What?” Penelope asked innocently. His eyes gleamed. “The door.” “The door? Oh!” she yelped. “The door.”
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Here he was, considered one of the most popular and sophisticated men of the ton, and he'd been reduced to a bashful schoolboy, hanging on Penelope Featherington's every word, just for a single scrap of praise.
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“Very well. Shall I pretend to flirt with the imaginary cellist?” “No. With the dashing suitor you just met by the refreshments. Me.” “You?” “I’m the perfect person to practice on! You don't have to be embarrassed. You know me.”
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29 days
Colin was everything anyone could dream of in a fiancé. He stuck to her side like glue the entire evening, and Penelope didn't even think he was doing it to protect her from gossip. In all truth, he seemed rather oblivious to the talk.
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"I seek you out at every social assembly because I know you will lift my spirits and make me see the world in ways I could not have imagined. You are clever and warm and. . . I am proud to call you my very good friend."
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27 days
“What do you want?” “Did Lord Debling propose?” “What business is that of yours?” “I need to know. Did he propose?”
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He turned to Phillip, leveled a hard stare at him, and said, “Just so that you are aware, I would have rather spent the night with my wife.”
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4 months
“You miss me. You miss me, but you would never court me, is that correct?” “Pen, I…” “I overheard you… at my Mama’s ball last season, telling everyone how you would never, ever court Penelope Featherington.”
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26 days
Daphne had been right. His love hadn't been a thunderbolt from the sky. It had started with a smile, a word, a teasing glance. Every second he had spent in her presence it had grown, until he'd reached this moment, and he suddenly knew.
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2 months
"I would not be angry if you found me to be a lost cause." "You must not say such things. You are Penelope Featherington. Do not forget that."
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1 month
“I am proud of your sensitivity. But living to please others? I imagine it can be wearying at times. Painful, perhaps. So, I do not blame you for putting on armor lately. But you must be careful that the armor does not rust and set so that you might never be able to take it off.”
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27 days
But no, she had to go and fall in love with Colin Bridgerton when he fell off a horse and landed on his bottom in a mud puddle.
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“I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles, and even more, for every one of your smiles.”
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“Yes, you must. Uh… Well… Um… I will go and leave you to it.” “Oh. I will go.” “Uh, Penelope. I… I hope… Well, I… I wish very much for your happiness.” “Thank you. For all your kindness. If I secure a proposal, it will be because of you.”
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“I want you,” he whispered. She looked up at him, startled. “I just wanted you to know that,” he said. “I didn't want you to think I stopped because you didn't please me.”
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Anthony turned to Benedict and said, “They'll be married within a year. Mark my words.” Colin crossed his arms. “Anthony!” “Maybe two,” Benedict said. “He's young yet.”
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14 days
He tried to picture a life without Penelope. It was impossible.
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3 months
“Mrs. Featherington,” Colin said tightly, “I suggest you begin treating my future wife with a bit more respect.”
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29 days
“Pen, I, uh… I have not been able to sleep, not been able to… eat. I—I can—I can barely even speak these days. My entire thoughts consumed by—” “By what?” “By our kiss. By you.”
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“Colin, you need to tell me what is going on.” “Well,” he said slowly, “I was kissing you....” “That's not what I meant, and you know it.”
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24 days
“Can we leave?” she whispered. “Right now?” She nodded. “Oh, yes,” he said enthusiastically. And no one saw them for several days.
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4 months
Colin had been overly protective since the first moment she'd told him she was pregnant; now that she was only a month from her due date, he was insufferable.
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1 month
“Morning, family.” “You slept late.” “. . Did I? Hmm.” “Something keep you up?” “Not at all. I slept peacefully. No sooner did my head touch the pillow that I was met with complete and immediate darkness. Not even a dream.” “. . Congratulations?”
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Funny how it no longer seemed like home. He'd grown up here, but now it was so obviously his brother's house. Home was in Bloomsbury. Home was with Penelope. Home was anywhere with Penelope.
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“For God's sake, Penelope,” he said, grabbing her hand and yanking her down. “Are you going to marry me or not?”
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29 days
“I didn't think you were a particularly religious person,” she said. “I'm not.” He waited for her to react, then added, “I intend to pray for you.”
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3 months
“I was never ashamed of you, Penelope,” he whispered. “Never.”
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26 days
Penelope couldn't speak without smiling. “He said he wanted Cressida to be forced to watch me in my triumph.” “Oh. My. Word.” Eloise looked as if she might need to sit down. “My brother is in love.” Penelope's blush turned a furious red.
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29 days
“Oh, come now, I do not see a gentleman amongst us.” [laughing] “And I concur with you there… Oh, forgive me. But it is tiring, is it not? The necessity imposed on us to remain cavalier about the one thing in life that holds genuine meaning. Do you not find it lonely?”
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4 months
“Oh, Penelope,” he said huskily, leaning in more than was proper, even with one’s wife, “don’t you want to have some fun?”
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4 months
“Something wrong, Pen? Between us, I mean. I wrote to you, this summer, as I always do, and… you did not respond. Admittedly, very few did, but… If you are going to make me say it out loud… I miss you.”
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He turned to Phillip, leveled a hard stare at him, and said, “Just so that you are aware, I would have rather spent the night with my wife.”
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2 months
“Your Mr. Bridgerton is approaching,” Lady Danbury said, the smile edging out the frown. “And he looks quite determined.”
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4 months
“I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles, and even more, for every one of your smiles.”
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if it hadn’t been for Eloise, he might never have discovered Penelope. And without Penelope, he’d be… It was funny. He couldn’t imagine what he’d be without her.
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3 months
Eventually she would find someone else and settle down into a happy and contented life. Now that thought—that she might have married another— nearly left him paralyzed with fear.
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28 days
“You—you liked it?” he finally asked. “Liked it? Colin, I loved it! I—” “Ow!” In her excitement, she'd started squeezing his hand a bit too hard. “Oh, sorry.”
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2 months
“I didn't think you were a particularly religious person,” she said. “I'm not.” He waited for her to react, then added, “I intend to pray for you.”
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25 days
“Wind or not, you certainly seemed pleased when I landed in the mud.” “I apologized!” “Yes. And you were so very charming about it. Teasing me. Mercilessly, in fact. And I think I know why. Because we were children.”
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28 days
He was still furious with her for publishing that last column, and he was bloody ashamed of himself that he was actually jealous of her for having found a life's work and purpose, but even with all that, he loved her.
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3 months
“I love you, Penelope. God help me, but I do.” Penelope could have done without the plea for God's help, but the declaration of love was quite nice.
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5 months
Anthony turned around. “Colin!” he barked. “If you don’t wish to find yourself a widower, kindly muzzle your wife.” Colin walked over to Penelope. “I love you,” he said, kissing her on the cheek.
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He turned back out to the crowd, lifted his glass, and said, “To my wife!” “To your wife!” they all boomed, caught up in the magic of the moment.
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“Colin. Finally free from your admirers… Are you well?” “There is a question I have been needing to ask you.” “. . .Colin.” “I—” [Lord Debling] “Miss Featherington. I believe it is time for our dance.”
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"For God's sake, Penelope Featherington. Are you going to marry me or not?"
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2 months
Colin watched Penelope as she read. Every now and then she would smile, and his heart would leap.
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“Ten pounds,” Daphne repeated, shaking her head. “I’m going to tell your wife.” “Go ahead,” Colin said indifferently as he nodded toward the hill sloping down to the Pall Mall course. “She’s right there.”
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Georgie grinned and kissed Colin’s nose. “Is it too much to ask for one of you to favor your Aunt Georgie and come out a little bit gingery? Just a little? I could use another redhead in the family.”
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4 months
“I thought you wanted food,” she gasped. “I do,” he murmured, tugging on the bodice of her dress. “But I want you more.”
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3 months
“Good night, Mr. Bridgerton.” “Do you not need a chaperone?” “Spinsters do not need chaperones.” “You are not a spinster.” “I am in my third year on the marriage mart with no prospects to show for it. What would you call that?”
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“I’m sorry again for reading your writing. But you truly write so well. You make it seem effortless, which is so difficult to do. I’d very much like to read more one day if you would let me.”
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“Please. Do not say things you do not mean.” “But I do mean it. It is everything I have wanted to say to you… for weeks.” “But.. Colin, we are friends.” “Yes, but we… Forgive me. Um… I do not know what I was thinking.”
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2 months
And in that moment, Benedict realized what he'd probably been too stupid (and stupidly male) to notice: Penelope Featherington was in love with his brother.
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“And getting my work published... well, it doesn't hold a candle to my real dream, which is spending the rest of my life with you.”
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He smiled against her skin. “Your servant, Mrs. Bridgerton. Always.”
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4 months
“I can't wait much longer,” he gasped. “Don't wait.” “I need you.” She reached up and grasped his face, forcing him to look at her. “I need you, too.”
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And in that moment, Benedict realized what he'd probably been too stupid (and stupidly male) to notice: Penelope Featherington was in love with his brother.
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1 month
“Do you remember when we first met? I was riding my horse, minding my own business, when I was assaulted… by a devilishly yellow head covering.” “It was not my fault. The wind blew it off my head!” “Wind or not, you certainly seemed pleased when I landed in the mud.”
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“It is my business because I care about you. You cannot marry that man. He will leave you, and he is too particular. And he is.. He is just not right for you, Pen.”
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“I don't know. I don't know when, I don't know how, and to be honest, I don't care. But I know this much is true: I love you, and I hate myself for not seeing the real you all these years.”
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“Col—Col—” she gasped. “That would be Colin,” he drawled.
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He took her into his arms. This was Penelope, and this was love.
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He wanted her to love this, to love him, and to know, when they were lying in each other's arms, sweaty and spent, that she belonged to him. Because he already knew that he belonged to her.
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“Come sit with me.” Where? Penelope almost demanded. Because the only flat surface was his lap.
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“Penelope, I love you. As long as we're together, we'll be happy.”
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18 days
“Colin! We are at your house!” “What? Oh god. Could the carriage driver not keep on driving?” [both laughing] “Do you think anyone saw us? I was not paying much attention to anything.”
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11 days
“Come sit with me.” Where? Penelope almost demanded. Because the only flat surface was his lap.
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“I want to marry Penelope.” “Penelope?” Mrs. Featherington echoed. “But—” “But what?” he interrupted, his voice pure menace.
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"I'd m-- I might say something like that if you were a suitor." "Mmm. Well, that was, uh, rather direct."
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Her cheeks flushed, and he kissed her again near her ear. “I know you so well,” he murmured.
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10 days
“Congratulations, Lady Whistledown,” he murmured. “I prefer Mrs. Bridgerton,” she replied. He grinned. “Excellent choice.”
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“Colin, you’ll ruin things between me and Debling.” “Perhaps that is for the best.” “What do you mean?” “Pen… you cannot marry him. You hardly know him.” “I know him well enough.” “I hear he is leaving. For three years.” “I know that already, Colin."
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“No one is perfect,” he said quietly. “I know.” She leaned over and planted an impulsive kiss on his cheek. “You're the imperfect man of my heart, and that's even better.”
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“You should know. I spoke to Penelope.” “..Did you? What did… What did she say?” “Well, I apologized for revealing the story about you two.” “Oh, I see. Um… Thank you for that. Excuse me.”
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24 days
“She does seem to write about Colin a great deal.” “Maybe she has a tendre for him,” Kate suggested. “Lady Whistledown?” Anthony rolled his eyes.
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“Oh. My. Word.” Eloise looked as if she might need to sit down. “My brother is in love.” Penelope's blush turned a furious red.
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“Penelope,” he said urgently, “there will be people who want to hurt you.” His words had been meant for her, but they turned around and pierced his own heart.
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“Oh, for God's sake, Penelope,” he said testily. “You clearly agreed with—” She gaped at his audacity. “When did I give you leave to interpret my sighs?”
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