And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way........ His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds. Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man.Julia Quinn
About This Quote
This quote is a humorous reference to a scene from Vanity Fair, a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In the scene, the character Becky Sharp tempts her lover, the dashing Reginald Taglioni, with a marriage proposal as part of a scheme to gain money from him. In the scene she says, “If you wish to have me marry your father you must first break my heart. You must first fall from my horse and kill me.” This book is a tale of young Taglioni falling in love with a beautiful woman but having to pay the price for his infatuation with her -- he has to be thrown off her horse and die, which he does rather messily.
Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton
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