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❝I DO THINK I SHOULD JUST SEND AWAY ANY CALLER I HAVE.❞ Delphia complained in the drawing room as she sat across from her sister Daphne.
"I think that's a splendid idea sister!" The voice of the eldest Bridgerton entered the room with almost too much enthusiasm for how early in the morning it was.
"Anthony!" Delphia cheered seeing her brother, he would simply scare away any man away from her. She was delighted to see her eldest brother even after the scolding she got last night for having a little too much champagne with Benedict and Colin.
"It is terribly early for you, dearest." Violet placed a caring hand on Daphne's shoulder, Anthony being here would certainly cause discomfort from any caller that entered the room.
"I could not sleep for some reason. All the excitement, I presume." Anthony grabbed a biscuit from the table in the middle of the row sister and practically threw himself onto the seat beside Delphia. "Am I the first gentleman to arrive? How wonderful!"
"Please be the one and only." Delphia begged her brother, entertaining simple men in the drawing room of her home sounded like complete torture and the young woman would have rathered been anywhere but there.
"Remember Del, you promised to stay for atleast two hours or no riding with Benedict. I'm sure he'd be disappointed if you couldn't come with him in the end." Violet warned Delphia, it was hard enough letting her leave early but if she wouldn't participate at all what could that mean for their family? It couldn't be allowed.
"I know Mama, but the minute my two hours are up. I'm gone." Delphia grinned at Anthony cheekily, "Seems the two hours have already begun since the first gentleman has arrived."
Daphne scoffed at her sisters comment.
"He can hardly be called a gentleman, look at all the crumbs he's left after a single biscuit."
Anthony gasped at Daphne's comment before slyly wiping the crumbs that were indeed all over his suit jacket. "Sharp tongue on you this morning Daph, afraid?"
"Excited, actually."
"That makes one of us."
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"Benedict don't you think I could just run away and live in a small cottage far, far away from society?"
After two hours of entertaining conversation with men she had no interest in, Delphia quickly ran once her time was up. She still had many callers waiting to see her but they were simply dismissed once she was gone, leaving many men disappointed.
"I do believe you'd be quite bored far away from home, you do enjoy tormenting Anthony quite a lot." Benedict rode along side his sister on his own horse, it wasn't usual for a woman to be riding a horse themselves but Delphia never tended to care about the rules that were bound to her as a woman.
"I do indeed Benny, who else would let him know those sideburns aren't going to get him a wife anytime in the future."
It was no secret that Delphia was dying to get what she called two squirrel tails stuck to his face and shave them off for good. Her brother was handsome, everyone knew it but the sideburns were a questionable choice.
"I believe he'll understand one day sister, we'll be free from witnessing those unruly tails everyday."
Delphia laughed, the two had begun to stop at the side of a hill in the forest they'd been riding through. There was an open green field which the sun shone brightly down on, flowers bloomed throughout the grass.
"I wonder how we ended up at your favourite spot, let me guess your bag has a book in it?" Benedict pretended to guess but he'd already knew the answer, he knew his sister better than anyone.
"Oh Benedict don't play the fool, this may be the only peace we get this season. Let's pretend your own bag doesn't hold a sketchbook perhaps?"
Delphia also knew her brother better than anyone, they both dismounted their horses tying them to the same trees as always. This was a weekly maybe biweekly occurrence for the siblings, mainly when things at home got too hectic for the both. This open field was a little escape for the two and in it held some of their fondest memories.
"We have an hour sister, use your time wisely."
Benedict was referring to the fact every time Delphia had come here to read she almost never did. Instead she found herself distracted by every little thing around her, whether it was a bird flying by or one time a little bunny that had stumbled upon the siblings. She never seemed to finish a single book in her time spent there, for someone who loved reading it was unlike her.
