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“What are you doing?” she nigh shrieked.
“Your feet are wet."
"A governess should never reveal her ankles.”
“Charlotte, I have seen them before. I used to lose our wager of running to the tinker’s cart deliberately so I could lag behind and watch you hoick your petticoats.”
“How contemptible,” she said, waggling her toes as he eased off her frost-sodden boots.

One viscount pinched my derriere so often, I took to wearing a cushion beneath my skirts.”
“What was his name?” he queried casually, fists balled. “I’ll break his fingers.”
She pursed her lips. “Bad for one’s references that would be.”

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“A novel of…romance, the trials of a working woman, glamorous balls and grand dinners and dukes and…romance. Like Pride and Prejudice or…or that other one. But with more dukes…and more romance.” Yeah that is not how I would describe the NOVEL Pride and Prejudice, especially if I was a woman in 1817, and also I am BEGGING HR authors to find another book to refer to besides P&P Jfc