you’ll make an acceptable companion
“I pity the woman you marry. Her life will be ugg boots wholesale utterly miserable without even a hint of peace or happiness in her home. Even if she loves you, you won’t let her love you. The poor wretch will cry herself to sleep praying one day your icy heart will thaw, but it won’t. And then one day your nike heels heart will stop and they’ll put you in the freezing crypt where you’ll be miserable forever.”

“I don’t want anything to do with love. That’s why you’ll make an acceptable companion. I’ll never fall in love with you and you’ll never love me. You’ll do your duty without encumbering nike high heels my bed with emotional hysterics. I loathe emotional hysterics.”

“You certainly weren’t born a romantic.”

“Romance is nothing more than cruel theatrics put on by one’s inner organs.”

The angry vehemence of his words made Priscilla’s eyes fill with compassionate tears as she suddenly saw a younger man made an early nike dunk heels widower. “You loved your wife didn’t you? She died and broke your heart.” The Duke silently turned away and stared intently out the window at his side as if she hadn’t addressed him. “That must have been awful, but didn’t she give you a son? Surely having a nike dunk heels part of her is better than nothing?” His only response was to tighten his arms across his chest. “I may wear the crown of doom, but I don’t revel in it. I want to be happy. I want to marry someone who makes me smile when he steps nike high heels into view. I don’t want to marry a miserable wretch. I’m afraid you’ll have to continue searching for a more suitable miserable Duchess.”

“You’re eminently suitable.” The words crackled like a half frozen mud puddle.