💎Gif Quote Series: The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn💎part 2 of 3💎
My edition. (For the page number references).
My audible audiobook.
From the transcript of 2x07 of the Netflix's Bridgerton, "Harmony":
You should try the lily soap today. It is good for the nerves.
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Would she smell like the garden? Or would she push that maddening scent of lilies and soap still cling to her skin?
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"Well, if you are brave enough to play Pall Mall with the Bridgertons, I definitely want you as my friend," Daphne said with a wide smile. "Therefore you must call me Daphne. And my husband Simon. Simon?"
"Oh, of course," he said, and Kate had the distinct impression that he would have said the same had she just declared the sky orange. Not that he wasn't listening to her, just that it was clear he adored her to distraction.
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-Anthony Bridgerton to Kate
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selection of the mallets for pall mal
And then, with quite the most evil grin her lips had ever formed, she drew back her mallet and smacked her ball with every ounce of every single emotion within her. It knocked into his with stunning force, sending it hurtling even farther down the hill. Farther… Farther… Right into the lake. Openmouthed with delight, Kate just stared for a moment as the pink ball sank into the lake. Then something rose up within her, some strange and primitive emotion, and before she knew what she was about, she was jumping about like a crazy woman, yelling, “Yes! Yes! I win!” “You don’t win,” Anthony snapped. “Oh, it feels like I’ve won,” she reveled.
This scene is recreated almost exactly in Bridgerton 2x03. Kate takes Anthony's black "Mallet of Death", and Anthony is left with the pink one. Unfortunately Simon wasn't in this scene :(. There is a cute couple-y moment for Daphne and Simon in the book.
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“I know you did it just to vex me.” (Chapter 10)
“This has to be the most self-centered thing I’ve ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.” (Chapter 10)
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"He wasn’t sure how it had come about, but her good opinion meant a great deal to him. Of course he needed her approval in his much-neglected suit of Edwina, but there was more to it than that. She’d insulted him, she’d nearly dunked him in The Serpentine, she’d humiliated him at Pall Mall, and yet he craved her good opinion. Anthony couldn’t remember the last time someone’s regard had meant so much, and frankly, it was humbling."
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Kate swallowed convulsively. Whatever she’d been expecting him to ask, it hadn’t been this. She licked her lips, preparing to speak, even though she had no idea what she’d say, but not a sound emerged.
His lips curved into a slow, masculine smile. “I’ll take that as a no.”
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Edwina, who was sharing a room with Kate, had already gone to Mary's chamber to help her choose a necklace...
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Regency Era + Haberdashers & Dressmaker shops
Penelope wasn't a tall girl, and the gown positively overwhelmed her. It was a pity, because she might be quite attractive if someone could convince her mother to stay away from the modiste and let Penelope chose her own clothing.
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Penelope had a rather pleasing face, with her pale, pale skin of a redhead, except that her hair was truly more auburn than red, and if one really wanted to put a fine point on it, more brownish red than auburn.
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Penelope gave her head a weary shake. "My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl will snare a gentleman."
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cressida's costumes in season 1
If Edwina had any competition for the role of 1814's reigning beauty, it was Cressida Cowper. Tall, slender, with honeyblond hair and sparkling green-eyes, Cressida was almost never without a small bevy of admirers. But where Edwina was kind and generous, ill-mannered witch who took joy in the torment of others.
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"No, she really hates me."
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The first episode of season 1 of Bridgerton rewrites a scene from The Viscount who Loved Me. It is Anthony Bridgerton who rescues Penelope, not Colin. I can see why the writers modified this scene though. "Polin" is canon, and it just fit better that Colin would save Penelope, rather than Anthony. Although it was even more heroic when book!Anthony saved Penelope, because he wasn't friends with her. He just saw Pen being bullied by Cressida, and stepped in because it was the honourable thing to do. Book!Kate reevaluates her earlier judgments of book!Anthony after this moment. (She thought him to be a shallow, womanizing rake, which was only partly true😉
).
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A few minutes later, she found herself in the library. It wasn't large by ton standards, but the walls were covered floor to ceiling with bookcases.
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And then there was Kate...
The bane of his existence.
And the object of his desires.
All at once
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[Anthony] was fairly certain no one else was up. And there certainly wasn't a sound coming from the library. Someone must have gone in for a book and left a candle burning.
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He was a great man. A great father. I loved him very much. We all loved him. He was the finest father a boy could ever want
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"Sometimes it's just something we feel in our bones, something we know to be true, but would sound foolish to anyone else."
-Anthony Bridgerton
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Kate looked down and gasped...She'd completely forgotten that she wasn't properly dressed.
I want to say that Kate is very scantily dressed here. With a thin white nightdress and a shawl. In the book she was wearing a thick robe, and was completely covered up. But I understand that the Netflix show wanted to make this scene soft and pretty and romantic.
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“He might have been a rake and a rogue-he might still be a rake and a rogue-but clearly his behavior to those ends did not define the man. And the only objection Kate had to his marrying Edwina was…
She swallowed painfully. There was a lump the size of a cannonball in her throat.
Because deep in her heart, she wanted him for herself.”
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"My lord," [Kate] blurted out.
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Her brown eyes, wise and warm and undeniably perceptive, focused on his.
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...Edwina would make the perfect wife.
Kate would not.
Edwina fit all the criteria he'd laid out when he'd finally decided it was time to wed.
Kate did not.
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“Don’t move,” he whispered, his voice harsh with fear.
Kate‟s eyes narrowed, and of course she moved, trying to twist about. “What are you talking about? What is wrong?”
“Just don’t move,” he repeated.
Her eyes slid to the left, then her chin followed by a quarter of an inch or so. “Oh, it’s just a bee!” Her face broke out in a relieved grin, and she lifted her hand to swat it away. “For goodness’ sake, Anthony, don’t do that again. You had me scared for a moment.”
Anthony’s hand shot out and grasped her wrist with painful force. “I said don’t move,” he hissed.
“Anthony,” she said, laughing, “it’s a bee.”
He held her immobile, his grasp hard and painful, his eyes never leaving the loathsome creature, watching as it buzzed purposefully around her head. He was paralyzed by fear, and fury, and something else he couldn’t quite put his finger on.
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“And then, before she had a chance to utter a word, before she even had a chance to draw breath, his mouth swooped down and captured hers in a hungry, searing kiss. His lips were voracious, taking everything she had to give and then demanding even more (…) She was melting. Dear God, she was melting, and she wanted so much more.”