title: The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
author:  Simon Winchester 
description: <br>"Winchester's book is a wonderfully thorough account of the mechanics of dictionary compilation, the tribulations of a project of this scale, and the array of brilliant and often eccentric characters who brought it to completion."--<em>The Dallas Morning News</em>
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  # _She could not be that naive_ …
  
  
  “I fear you have sadly overestimated my noble virtues, Miss Faringdon,” Simon
  said bluntly. “I did not come down here to Hampshire to foster a shadowy
  metaphysical connection with you.”
  
  
  The glow went out of her eyes in an instant. “I beg your pardon, My Lord?”
  
  
  Simon gritted his teeth and retrieved her hand. “I came down here with a far
  more mundane goal, Miss Faringdon.”
  
  
  “What would that be, sir?”
  
  
  “I am here to ask your father for your hand in marriage.”
  
  
  The reaction was not at all what he had expected from a spinster with a
  clouded past who should have been thrilled to hear an earl was going to speak
  to her father on the subject of marriage.
  
  
  “Bloody hell,” Emily squeaked.
  
  
  Simon lost his patience with the strange female sitting beside him. 