Signing the Register (Edmund Blair Leighton)

Signing the Register, Edmund Leighton [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons
Mary doesn't do things flippantly. She considers consequences and motivations. She ponders things deeply, filtering them through her beliefs. And that is not going to change on her wedding day. Putting her name in that church register and saying her vows will all be done with the respect she feels is their due.

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“I, Mary Amelia Bennet,” she repeated, “take thee, Reginald Arthur Fitzwilliam to my wedded husband.” Mary glanced at the minister who prompted her with the next words. Her hand was trembling slightly in his. Wes squeezed her hand and was rewarded with a smile before she said the next words.

“To have and to hold, from this day forward.” She paused to take a breath. “For better or worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health.”

She once again paused to breath. She was nervous, but it was not because she was marrying him. Nor was it the size of the church and the crowd within it which had her trembling. She had confessed her trepidation over the service to him just yesterday, and he knew that she was not only repeating words and pledging herself to him, but she was also speaking to God.

[from Persuading Miss Mary, Marrying Elizabeth book 4]

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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 “Signing the Register (Edmund Blair Leighton)”

  1. Oh, how touching. Mary loves and loves deeply. I hope Wes appreciates her and what she will bring to him and the House of Matlock. This has seemed like a long fight or battle to get to this point, when really, it wasn’t . I love seeing Mary have a HEA. This story was amazing. I love the picture you chose to show us. I’ve seen it used several times as covers. It is very popular… and for good reason. It demonstrates the joy, reverence and solemnity, of the occasion. Well done.

  2. I read the chapter, and Wes was surprised by Mr. Bennet ‘s scolding him about his past. Mr. Bennet might be indolent, but he has never cheated on Mrs. Bennet.

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