#aviscount

        “will you ask me to dance again at yours and kate’s   first ball?  you are the host, after all.  you can do as you please.”  it wasn’t customary to bring a child to the dance floor even if they were a sibling, but hyacinth was already giddy at the thought of it.  “perhaps we can finally do the quadrille!”

“go on, then.  chastise me.”  ♡   @aviscount​​​

        “yes — the uh, the carriage broke a while back,   unfortunately.  one of the wheels, i mean.”  though what she fails to say is that the wheel had likely collapsed due to the rough road it had to endure going out of bloomsbury for the fourth time that week.  her coachman had advised her to stay inside while he repaired it, of course, but eloise still felt much too spirited from the last meeting to just sit around and wait.  if there weren’t so many people around  ( or if her shoes were more suited for them ), she probably would have sprinted to their house.  eloise is quick to catch herself and not seem too excited, however.  she couldn’t have anyone there asking questions, especially not anthony.  

“it wasn’t too far, don’t worry, and i was with my...”  she trails off when she turns around and notices that her maid was nowhere in sight.  huh.  maybe she didn’t sprint, but she certainly walked briskly enough for her maid to fall behind.  “i was with my lady’s maid, who will probably appear shortly.”  then eloise smiles, and she hopes he wouldn’t press any further.  at least she wasn’t completely fibbing.

        lo and behold, miss eloise bridgerton and her first   rejected proposal!  the first of many, as colin had muttered under his breath after godwin fenwick strode out of the drawing room in humiliation.  her own thoughts exactly, but god forbid that she be faced with enough proposals for ‘many’ in that remark to actually be many.  eloise would turn down the next proposal and the next and the next as she saw fit, although part of her didn’t want to be known as somebody who rejected, say, twenty proposals in her lifetime.  she supposed a number below ten would make her feel a little less bad about anyone else to follow mister fenwick’s exit. 

turning down ten or twenty proposals was no more ideal than turning down one from a perfectly suitable match in the eyes of the ton, however.  but who was she to agree with the conventions of polite society about marriage?  “am i?  you weren’t the one who had to sit through weeks of afternoon teas with him.  i think i know his character more than you do, anthony.”  no doubt her brother has asked around.  in truth, godwin was far from being the worst suitor in mayfair.  she just didn’t think that was enough reason to have to marry him.

𝗂𝗍    𝗂𝗌    𝗇𝗈𝗍    𝗈𝖿𝗍𝖾𝗇    𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍    𝗒𝗈𝗎    𝖼𝗈𝗆𝖾    𝗍𝗈    𝗁𝗂𝗆    𝖿𝗈𝗋    𝗁𝖾𝗅𝗉.    after    all,    after    you    had    grown    older    you    had    tried    pulling    away.    as    more    of    your    siblings    got    married,    especially    after    benedict    and    fran,    you    had...    pulled    back,    as    if    trying    to    get    yourself    ready    for    the    moment    where...    you    would    be    the    one    to    leave.    understanding    that    you    could    not    depend    on    him,    on    your    family    name,    on    everything    that    the    bridgerton    were.    therefore,    you    had    fallen    into    the    company    of    people...    that    nobody    in    your    family    would    approve.    you    were    not    entirely    certain    when    you    had    been    discovered,    when    someone    had    figured    out    your    identity,    and    realized    they    could    use.    eloise    bridgerton    in    parties    that    she    had    no    right    to    go    to    as    gentle    born.    it    would    be    the    ruin    of    your    family.    it    would    be    the    ruin    of    everything    you    had    built,    everything    you    knew    of    yourself.    you    had    already    tempted    scandal    once,    during    your    first    season.    you    could    not    do    that    all    over    again.    you    would    not    do    that    to    your    siblings    and    mother    again.    it    is    time    to    find    help    then,    ❝    brother....    could    i    speak    to    you?    it    is    rather    important.    ❞