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as an editor and english major i find it very annoying that some of the dialogue isn’t in quotations or even italicized 🫩

“But she knows that had it not been Alfonso it would have been someone else-a prince, another duke, a nobleman from Germany or France, a second cousin from Spain. Her father would have found her an advantageous match because that is, after all, what she has been brought up for: to be married, to be used as a link in his chains of power, to produce heirs for men like Alfonso.”