A/N: We are not going to meet Lady M this week. The residents of Netherfield and Longbourn are just preparing for her arrival, and this image made me think of her.
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“It is good to see you in the drawing room,” Darcy looked up from the book he was reading as Richard entered the room with his brother standing watchfully at his side.
“I hear Mother is to arrive. I thought it best to look as fit as possible so that she would not send for every doctor in London.”
“And a few from other locales,” Westonbury quipped.
Lady Matlock had never been one to just allow her children to recuperate as the good Lord deemed, as her husband said it. As certain as her husband was about the fact that medication and doctors were not needed for every ailment, she was equally as certain that if doctors and medication were not needed then the good Lord would not have allowed them to exist. Therefore, if her children did not regain their health and vigour within a specified window of time – more or less mutually agreed upon between Lord and Lady Matlock – a physician would be sought.
[from Loving Lydia, book 3 in the Marrying Elizabeth Series]
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Confounding Caroline, book 1 ~ Delighting Mrs. Bennet, book 2
Sounds like she is a force to be reckoned with. I can’t wait to meet here. I can see why you chose the above picture. I like it and I can see either Richard or Westonbury as the boy… hoping the doctor isn’t going to give him something horrid to drink or worse.
Oh, she’s most definitely a force 🙂 I think you’ll enjoy her.