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Lydia brushed tears from her cheeks with the palm of her right hand while her left clutched the letter. Gently, Elizabeth took the letter from her and handed her a handkerchief.
“I will read this part to you.”
Lydia nodded.
I cannot blame him for his troubled thinking, but I will not allow him to hide from his heart.
Elizabeth put an arm around Lydia’s shoulders and squeezed her close. “You are the colonel’s heart,” she whispered before continuing to read.
[from Loving Lydia, book 3 in the Marrying Elizabeth Series]
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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2 thoughts on “Le confidenze (Fabio Fabbi)”
Oh, I love that portrait. It could even be used for a younger Jane and Lizzy. Even though I think the hair colors are flipped, it is so appropriate. They would have gone into the garden for privacy so they could read Darcy’s letter. Poor Lydia. She is so young and so vulnerable. However, I think her resolve will rise to the occasion along with her determination. Nothing will stop her from getting what she wants. She just has to determine just what that is. Can she let go of her fascination with a ‘redcoat’ and go for the man? I guess we shall see. I love a good Lydia story.
The ladies in this picture are just so sweetly arranged. It really is a lovely painting to just look at and imagine things for long periods of time. 😉 I think it is perfectly acceptable to imagine the Bennet girls with whatever colour hair we want as Jane Austen never specified if they were blonde, brunette, or a ginger. 🙂
Oh, I love that portrait. It could even be used for a younger Jane and Lizzy. Even though I think the hair colors are flipped, it is so appropriate. They would have gone into the garden for privacy so they could read Darcy’s letter. Poor Lydia. She is so young and so vulnerable. However, I think her resolve will rise to the occasion along with her determination. Nothing will stop her from getting what she wants. She just has to determine just what that is. Can she let go of her fascination with a ‘redcoat’ and go for the man? I guess we shall see. I love a good Lydia story.
The ladies in this picture are just so sweetly arranged. It really is a lovely painting to just look at and imagine things for long periods of time. 😉 I think it is perfectly acceptable to imagine the Bennet girls with whatever colour hair we want as Jane Austen never specified if they were blonde, brunette, or a ginger. 🙂