Category: Wordless Wednesday

I really doubt that Wes's room was either this small or this full of furniture, but the bed is close enough to the door for Wes to listen to a conversation just outside that door -- a conversation that starts like this:

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“Oh, Mr. Darcy!”

Wes opened one eye and peeked at the door to his room which was partially open. Was that Darcy at the door?

“Good day, Miss Lydia. How might I be of service?”

Apparently, Darcy was at the door. Wes groaned and rubbed his aching head. Two days in bed and the blasted thing still hurt – despite his mother’s best attempts to do him in with potions from the apothecary.

“I was wondering if you had any friends.”

Wes chuckled at Miss Lydia’s inquiry. He’d give anything to see Darcy attempt to not look offended at such a comment.

[from Persuading Miss Mary, book 4 in the Marrying Elizabeth Series]

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Confounding Caroline  ~  Delighting Mrs. Bennet ~ Loving Lydia

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The relationship between sisters sure does go through changes as they grow up. Mary and Lydia's relationship is shifting in this story -- especially in Chapter 7 from where the excerpt below is taken. It's a bit of a role reversal as the little sister is stepping up to care for the big sister.

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Lydia threw her arms around Mary and pulled her into a tight hug. “Oh, Mary! Being alone in the middle must be dreadful! How you must suffer for it. I will not allow it to be any longer,” she said, and then, she did something she had not done since they were both very young. She kissed Mary’s cheek.

[from Persuading Miss Mary, book 4 in the Marrying Elizabeth Series]

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Confounding Caroline  ~  Delighting Mrs. Bennet ~ Loving Lydia

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Isn't this a smart looking carriage? I am certain there must be vehicles equal to this one in the park when Wes goes out for a ride and meets Darcy in chapter 6, from which the excerpt below is taken.

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“I had not thought to see you out driving,” Wes said to Darcy.

“Ah, but I have sisters and a wife who must see and be seen.”

“It is not a very good day for it,” Wes commented, looking at the darkening clouds.

“But the canopy can be put into place quickly,” Darcy assured him. “You, on the other hand, will be fortunate to arrive home without being thoroughly soaked.”

“I think I can manage a bit of a drenching.”

[from Persuading Miss Mary, book 4 in the Marrying Elizabeth Series]

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[I think she could be reading to an elderly employer or just enjoying herself as she waited to be summoned to do something for her employer. Don't you?]

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He took his wife’s hand again. “I actually had to travel all the way to Scotland just to find her.”

“Scotland?” Lydia cried. “But you do not sound Scottish.”

Lady Matlock laughed. “I am not. My father had died, you see. His estate passed to my uncle, and my uncle thought that it was far better that I take a position as a companion than attend school. As he saw it, I could learn all I needed to about how to behave as a proper lady while earning my keep and costing him not a cent.”

“Fortunately, years earlier, my great aunt had married a Scottish landowner,” Lord Matlock added. “And when he died, she had the great good sense to employ the prettiest companion I have ever seen.”

[from Persuading Miss Mary, book 4 in the Marrying Elizabeth Series]

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What had his mother done to Miss Mary? Her hair was piled loosely on her head with a few curls arranged in a becoming fashion to frame her face, and her dress was neither somber in color nor fit. Had he ever seen a lady with a complexion so well-suited to that shade of pink?

Lady Matlock coughed softly, and Wes darted a guilty look at her. However, it was not he who was the subject of his mother’s displeasure.

“The lace.” Lady Matlock extended her hand in Mary’s direction.

Surely, she was not going to make Mary discard that lace, was she? The neckline of Miss Mary’s dress was tantalizing enough with the lace where it was.

Mary drew and released a breath in a heavy sigh as she did what Wes feared she would and removed the lace she had tucked into her dress to cover herself.

The effect was pleasing, but…

[from Persuading Miss Mary, book 4 in the Marrying Elizabeth Series]

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Confounding Caroline  ~  Delighting Mrs. Bennet ~ Loving Lydia

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