Cabriolet (Pearson Scott Foresman)

Pearson Scott Foresman [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons.
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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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 “Cabriolet (Pearson Scott Foresman)”

    1. A cabriolet was a two person carriage, but I bet you could squeeze in a third (small person) if it did not interfere with the driver being able to drive.

  2. That poor guy on the back always worries me. One good pothole and he is in trouble. Hopefully, the lady driving is proficient in handling her horse. I wonder if this is similar to something Miss Anne de Bourgh might drive around Rosings? Poor Wes is about to get a soaking. Bless his heart. Maybe it will wash away some of that attitude. If he gets sick… oh dear… men are terrible patients. He’ll want to go home so his mother can see to him. And, perhaps, garner sympathy from Mary? Then again, maybe not. I look forward to seeing what happens next. What fun.

    1. Not to mention how wet that fellow on the back is going to get when the skies open up. I believe a phaeton had four wheels as compared to the cabriolet’s two wheels, and it was an open carriage, but I am not certain if it also had a canopy which could be put in place or not.

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