The Betrothed, Charles-Louis Muller (1815–1892) [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons
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“You look lovely,” Georgiana said upon entering Kitty’s room at Darcy House. “Is this the dress you wore the first day you went driving with Mr. Langley?”
“It is. Do you think it is foolish for me to wish to wear it? I had thought it might be better to begin again in a completely new dress, but he said he remembered this one when he helped me get my ribbon back from Oliver that day.” She straightened a sleeve that did not need straightening. Her stomach was all aflutter, and her heart would not remain calm. Today, she would promise herself to a gentleman whom she loved – if he was still willing to wait for her. She turned to examine her hair in the mirror. “He said he likes green and that it was a becoming colour on me.”
Georgiana grasped Kitty’s shoulders from behind and rested her head on one of them so that she was looking into the mirror with and at Kitty. “It is not foolish,” she said with a small laugh. “I cannot believe that my friend will soon be betrothed.”
Leenie Brown fell in love with Jane Austen's works when she first read Sense and Sensibility followed immediately by Pride and Prejudice in her early teens. As the second of five daughters and an avid reader, she has always loved to see where her imagination takes her and to play with and write about the characters she meets along the way. In 2013, these two loves collided when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. A year later, in 2014, she began writing her own Austen-inspired stories and began publishing them in 2015. Leenie lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two teenage boys and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tillney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).
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4 thoughts on “The Betrothed (Ch. L. Muller)”
Lovely picture and great excerpt. How long will Kitty have to wait to be married.
Thanks. She will not get married until either the end or epilogue of the next book (I think — if everyone in the story co-operates. If not, it could happen sooner. lol)
Love that happy couple. You can certainly see the love in their expressions. Now… your response to jbrand3039 has me a bit nervious. It was the … ‘If not, it could happen sooner.’ Then you laughed. Oh, that was a sneaky sounding LOL!! What are you up to or better yet, what are your characters up to. I may start biting my nails again. I was hoping for a manicure but it looks like that isn’t going to happen. LOL!!
Mwahaha. 😀 Honestly, I won’t know the answer to that question for a while, and it will depend upon what the characters do. I can plan to have them do one thing but then, as the come to life in a story what I was thinking might not fit with who they are. Then, my plans will have to change.
Lovely picture and great excerpt. How long will Kitty have to wait to be married.
Thanks. She will not get married until either the end or epilogue of the next book (I think — if everyone in the story co-operates. If not, it could happen sooner. lol)
Love that happy couple. You can certainly see the love in their expressions. Now… your response to jbrand3039 has me a bit nervious. It was the … ‘If not, it could happen sooner.’ Then you laughed. Oh, that was a sneaky sounding LOL!! What are you up to or better yet, what are your characters up to. I may start biting my nails again. I was hoping for a manicure but it looks like that isn’t going to happen. LOL!!
Mwahaha. 😀 Honestly, I won’t know the answer to that question for a while, and it will depend upon what the characters do. I can plan to have them do one thing but then, as the come to life in a story what I was thinking might not fit with who they are. Then, my plans will have to change.