Anthony Bridgerton arguably holds the record for the most number of botched-up marriage proposals in
Anthony Bridgerton arguably holds the record for the most number of botched-up marriage proposals in the history of period/regency fiction – FOUR! – making him the 4-time World champion.First, he fails to propose to Edwina because he can’t bring himself to take his eyes off Kate, her sister and the one he truly wants; then he actually manages to go through with it, asking the wrong woman to marry him for all the wrong reasons and breaking his own heart and Kate’s in the process.Later, when Anthony finally realises he can’t live without Kate and rushes to propose to her in the wee hours of the morning completely drenched (because he can’t wait a moment longer to spend a lifetime with her and a carriage would clearly be too slow a means of transport to deliver him to her), only to realise she’s run away in the middle of a storm because she’s been overwhelmed by their lovemaking. He ends up chasing after her on his trusty steed and watching her almost die on him.And when he finally manages to catch her – the right woman, in the right place, at the right time – the right words elude him and Kate rejects him, telling him she would rather move to the other end of the world than to marry him.A lesser man would have given up already after so much failure, heartbreak and an abysmal history of asking women to marry him, accepting he might lack the talent and skills necessary to produce a proposal of marriage to the right woman and one which would be, in fact, accepted by her instead of her running away from him (and from the altar), but not Anthony Bridgerton. He keeps soldiering on like a trooper. With so many failures and mistakes, he becomes a master at learning from them and overcoming them so that the 5th time becomes the charm for him as he finally finds the right words to propose to the woman he loves and she accepts him because he ends up giving one of the best proposals in the history of fiction. That’s what you call a glow-up! -- source link
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