(Almost) Wordless Wednesday: Im Trauerhause (Fragment), Walter Firle

Walter Firle [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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A short picture-related excerpt from Mr. Darcy’s Comfort

After having eaten, Darcy made his way to Anne’s small sitting room.  He paused outside the door for a moment, blew out a breath, drew another, and though his heart would not remain beating at the pace he wished it would but instead insisted on increasing its rhythm, he stepped into the room.  Anne lay peacefully at one end.  She looked no less fragile in death than she had in life.

“Aunt Catherine,” he said softly. He knew that though Anne looked as if she were sleeping, she was not, but still, he kept his voice low as speaking any louder seemed wrong.

His aunt looked up from her work of tying black ribbons around small packages. “I have one for you, Darcy.” She searched her basket and pulled out a larger item.  It was wrapped in lavender cloth and tied with the same black ribbon she was using on her current project.  “I selected a few items for you that I know she cherished.”  She held the gift out to him. “She is still beautiful, is she not?”

Darcy turned his head to look once again at Anne. “Yes,” he answered. Anne’s was not a classical beauty but one of delicacy like a fine piece of china.

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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).

3 thoughts on “(Almost) Wordless Wednesday: Im Trauerhause (Fragment), Walter Firle”

  1. Wow… that picture is so appropriate. OMG!! It is surprisingly beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

    1. It gave me chills when I stumbled upon it — it’s really quite perfect. That could be Lady C sitting there! (I do kind of want to know who is peeking in the window though)

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