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The Fortune Hunter (Lovers and Ladies, #5) QUOTES

The Fortune Hunter (Lovers and Ladies, #5) QUOTES

1 " She looked at him and smiled. She placed her hand upon his shoulder.
He took her right hand in his left and placed his other at her waist, looking at her as if she were an unexploded bomb.
They began to dance. "

― Jo Beverley , The Fortune Hunter (Lovers and Ladies, #5)

2 " He'd forgotten just how beautiful she was.
She was wearing a plain gown the color of weak, milky tea, largely covered by a black apron. There was a smudge of dirt across her cheek, and her gilded curls were an untamed riot with a cobweb draped across one side.
She was exquisite. "

― Jo Beverley , The Fortune Hunter (Lovers and Ladies, #5)

3 " She made a decision and forced out the words. “I’m sorry.”
“For what?” he asked coolly, not even looking at her. “You dance as beautifully as anyone would expect.”
“For being intolerably rude,” she persisted. “If that is how you see it.”
He glanced down and raised a brow. “Is not that how you see it?”
Amy kept a hold on her temper. “Perhaps. But chiefly, I was being honest.”
“So was I.”
“When?” she asked, confused.
“When I called you a bitch.” He smiled and executed a particularly dizzy turn. "

― Jo Beverley , The Fortune Hunter (Lovers and Ladies, #5)

4 " The rake himself lived up to Amy’s expectations, however, when he came out to greet his guests. Tall, dark, handsome, and dressed with devastating informality in an open-necked shirt, sleeves rolled up to expose his arms like a laborer. No one could fair to be aware of a lithe body beneath the slight amount of clothing, and there was a wicked gleam in his eye even if he was supposed to have been tamed by matrimony.
Amy found it difficult to believe that the very ordinary woman by his side had achieved such a miracle. Lady Templemore was short and her gown was a simple green muslin. Her face was close to plain and her brown hair was gathered into a simple knot at the back.
But then she smiled at her guests and was beautiful. When she turned to her husband with a comment, she was dazzling, and the look in his eye showed he was tamed indeed, if devotion so heated could be called tame at all. "

― Jo Beverley , The Fortune Hunter (Lovers and Ladies, #5)

5 " And the simple fact was that it might be possible to make oneself fall in love, but only when the heart was free.
Amy was having to accept that her heart was not free. "

― Jo Beverley , The Fortune Hunter (Lovers and Ladies, #5)

6 " How do you find your mount, Miss de Lacy?”
Amy found it a slug. It was clear Rowanford had taken her caution too seriously. This horse would be ideal for a non-equestrian grandmother. “I feel very safe,” she said.
“Excellent. I shall take good care of you, Miss de Lacy. Have no fear.”
Amy sighed and wished there was a convenient piece of furniture to heft to prove she was not as fragile as she appeared. "

― Jo Beverley , The Fortune Hunter (Lovers and Ladies, #5)