A BRIDGERTON'S DEVOTION
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Dear gentle readers,
May this season unfold with as much delightful scandal and joyous entanglement as the last. May suitors take the delicate hands of fair ladies and twirl with grace upon the marbled dance floors, all to the dulcet tones of love's sweet symphony. It is with great anticipation that we welcome the commencement of this most awaited ball-an affair promising not only peace and passion, but, most uniquely, the grand debut of a young member of the esteemed House of Loxley. Whispers flutter throught drawing rooms and parlours alike: a union may soon be upon us, one involving none other than Her majesty Queen Charlotte's own daughter and the elder Viscount of Loxley.
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