![]() “He would have burned the entire report to ash and returned it to her in a snuff box, just to make a point, but he couldn’t quite bring himself to do it.” 99 “Michael was dressed for the occasion in a pair of tall black boots, polished to such a shine that they could have turned Medusa herself to stone if no mirrors were handy, and the coat was his very best-which is to say, the one upon which he received the most frequent compliments from the ladies.” 67 ![]() ![]() “Wendy knew, however, that sometimes the best way to win an argument was to not engage in it.” 63 It wasn’t right that such an indecent man should have such a memorable gaze.” 56 “She met his regard with a confident, upward tilt of her chin, and discovered in doing so that his eyes were the exact blue of the forget-me-not. “She lay on her simple cot and stared up at the bare ceiling, a thousand thoughts and memories swirling through her mind like a rainbow of glittering debutantes, each idea more enticing that the last, all jostling for her attention.”46 “Pray tell,” Michael echoed, smirking at John with the confidence of a man who has just been catapulted miraculously out of trouble by someone else who has had the misfortune of stumbling into it.” 45 “sounding much more like himself and at the same time nothing like himself at all” 28. ![]()
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