An Interior with a Curtained Bed Alcove

An Interior with a Curtained Bed Alcove; Unknown Artist; ca 1853; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons
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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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).

4 thoughts on “An Interior with a Curtained Bed Alcove”

  1. W’hat has Wes done now that has given him a headache that has lasted two days? Is he ill? And Lydia’s question about whether Darcy had any friends… how strange. I know… we are seeing this out of context; however, it is funny in a way. This could very easily be Wes’ view from his room. As his childhood room, it would be smaller. If you want the fledgling to leave the next… make it uncomfortable That is a beautiful room. They appear to be making good use of it. Thanks for sharing.

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