Confidences, Frédéric Soulacroix [Public domain] via Wikimedia
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Georgiana turned toward her friend. A little flutter of anxiety flitted through her breast. “I overheard him talking to Wes.” She crossed to sit next to her friend. “That is what I wished to speak to you about because something I heard troubled me.”
“What did you hear?” Kitty’s eyes were large with concern. “He did not lie to me about loving me, did he?”
Georgiana grasped Kitty’s hands. “No, I am certain he loves you since he has offered for you–“
“You know about that?” Kitty asked in surprise.
“It was part of what I overheard. It seems he is most anxious for you to accept him. Your hesitance to do so is where the troublesome bit lies.”
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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6 thoughts on “Confidences (Frederic Soulacroix)”
I love this picture! The ladies look so elegant.Fortunately, Georgina was able to make Kitty see reason.
I love the way this painter makes the material shine and crinkle just as I would imagine such a lovely fabric would. Yes, it’s good their discussion was so productive. 🙂
That is a perfect picture choice. That poor girl on the left looks miserable and the other is trying to comfort her. Now it is about to hit the fan. Georgiana knows why Kitty refused her cousin. She knows Kitty is a loyal froend and did it to protect her promise to Georgiana. Well, the girls should settle it now. I can’t wait to see how that happens. Hurry tomorrow… hurry.
They should settle it now…should… 🙂
What a gorgeous painting. Perfect for Kitty and Georgiana. I too loved the way the artist depicted the fabrics, and their shoes and background. I could stare at that for a very long time appreciating the play of light and the draping. Very skilled. But the artist could do eyes and facial features, and skin tone beautifully as well, I think.
I just love the fold marks and flaws so realistically depicted in the silk (?) wall covering behind the sofa. That little bit just makes my heart flutter for some reason. Less staged, although it is. I can’t think someone would commission a pose like that as a portrait of his own daughters. They might purchase it for decor in a private parlor, it quite intimate really. Well Leenie, another dive down the rabbit hole for me….gotta go look this guy up and see if there’s a note on that painting. I can’t face these posts on some days knowing I’m not going to be satisfied with just looking at the painting. These are such a monkey on my back. (are you gleefully rubbing your hands and thinking bwahahaha yet?)
No hand rubbing but I am chuckling because while these Wednesday posts look simple and short, they can take me longer than almost any other post to create (Monday posts are also time takers.) I can get so caught up in looking at pictures and finding just the right one. And yes, I, too, could sit and look at some of them for far longer than I should 😉 This guy’s paintings are at the top of the “will make me stop and look for too long” list. His work is phenomenal. The way the fabrics drape and the small details that express the emotions of the subjects just make them wonderful to look at and wonder about the story behind the picture. I think that’s what makes me like paintings like this better than portraits. This is more like a candid snapshot of life in action.
I love this picture! The ladies look so elegant.Fortunately, Georgina was able to make Kitty see reason.
I love the way this painter makes the material shine and crinkle just as I would imagine such a lovely fabric would. Yes, it’s good their discussion was so productive. 🙂
That is a perfect picture choice. That poor girl on the left looks miserable and the other is trying to comfort her. Now it is about to hit the fan. Georgiana knows why Kitty refused her cousin. She knows Kitty is a loyal froend and did it to protect her promise to Georgiana. Well, the girls should settle it now. I can’t wait to see how that happens. Hurry tomorrow… hurry.
They should settle it now…should… 🙂
What a gorgeous painting. Perfect for Kitty and Georgiana. I too loved the way the artist depicted the fabrics, and their shoes and background. I could stare at that for a very long time appreciating the play of light and the draping. Very skilled. But the artist could do eyes and facial features, and skin tone beautifully as well, I think.
I just love the fold marks and flaws so realistically depicted in the silk (?) wall covering behind the sofa. That little bit just makes my heart flutter for some reason. Less staged, although it is. I can’t think someone would commission a pose like that as a portrait of his own daughters. They might purchase it for decor in a private parlor, it quite intimate really. Well Leenie, another dive down the rabbit hole for me….gotta go look this guy up and see if there’s a note on that painting. I can’t face these posts on some days knowing I’m not going to be satisfied with just looking at the painting. These are such a monkey on my back. (are you gleefully rubbing your hands and thinking bwahahaha yet?)
No hand rubbing but I am chuckling because while these Wednesday posts look simple and short, they can take me longer than almost any other post to create (Monday posts are also time takers.) I can get so caught up in looking at pictures and finding just the right one. And yes, I, too, could sit and look at some of them for far longer than I should 😉 This guy’s paintings are at the top of the “will make me stop and look for too long” list. His work is phenomenal. The way the fabrics drape and the small details that express the emotions of the subjects just make them wonderful to look at and wonder about the story behind the picture. I think that’s what makes me like paintings like this better than portraits. This is more like a candid snapshot of life in action.