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Lady Bridgerton was silent for a moment, and then, as if she could read his mind, she smiled and said, “But you do not wish to dwell on this now We shall speak of so else”

Gareth looked at Hyacinth She was holding herself still, but he could see her chest rise and fall in a long, impatient breath She had worked on the translation, of that he had no doubt, and she surely wished to tell him what she’d learned

Gareth carefully suppressed a sned death if that would sootten them an interview alone

“Lady Danbury speaks very highly of you,” Lady Bridgerton said

Gareth turned back to her “I arandson”

“I have always liked your grand at her tea “I know she scares half of London—”

“Oh, enially

Lady Bridgerton chuckled “So she would hope”

“Indeed”

“I, however, have always found her to be quite charerton said “A breath of fresh air, really And, of course, a very shrewd and sound judge of character”

“I shall pass along your regards”

“She speaks very highly of you,” Lady Bridgerton said

She’d repeated herself Gareth wasn’t sure if it was accidental or deliberate, but either way, she couldn’t have been more clear if she had taken hihter

Of course, she did not know that his father was not actually Lord St Clair, or that he did not in fact knoho his father was As lovely and generous as Hyacinth’sso hard to bring him up to scratch if she knew that he most probably carried the blood of a footman

“My grandhly of you as well,” Gareth said to Lady Bridgerton “Which is quite a cohly of anyone”