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Don’t these “ladies” look as if they are ready for a picnic or afternoon of strolling and having tea in the garden?

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“You look perfectly content.” Alfred sat down beside her under the tree.

“I am. It was a lovely picnic.”

Chairs and tables were being loaded onto a waiting cart, while blankets which were not being used, were being folded and placed in a trunk that would be transported back to Ravincot in one of the Langley’s carriages when they all had had their fill of wandering the meadow and reclining under trees as they conversed.

“Are you planning to sit here and read until we leave?” Alfred asked.

“That was indeed my plan unless some other activity of greater interest caught my attention.”

“Would you like to walk with me?”

[from Protecting Miss Darcy, Marrying Elizabeth book 6]

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Alfred’s aunt, Meredith Langley, loves gardens and is always having improvements made to hers. I wonder which of these garden elements she might have in the garden at Ravencot?

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“The garden is best enjoyed from outside.”

“I was just out there,” Alfred replied. “What brings you to this room, Aunt?”

Meredith Langley crossed to stand next to her nephew. “You.”

“Me?”

His aunt nodded. “We have not yet had a good discussion about my son and his future bride.” Mrs. Langley sat down on the window seat so that she could also look out the window. “There is a pleasant breeze today, is there not?”

[from Protecting Miss Darcy, Marrying Elizabeth book 6]

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“That is a very good likeness,” Alfred said as he took the seat next to her which Kitty had vacated.

“Thank you. Flowers are my specialty.” She smiled at him sheepishly. “To be honest, they are the only thing I can draw that comes close to looking as it should.”

“I find that hard to believe.”

[from Protecting Miss Darcy, Marrying Elizabeth book 6]

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“…I do not wish to speak to you about courting her.”

Darcy leaned against the table with his cue resting against his chest and his arms folded around it. “You do not?”

“No, quite the opposite.”

“I am not sure I understand.”

Not since he had been taken to task by his father over the moving of his brother’s clothing which had led to Edmund’s forced betrothal, had Alfred witnessed such an intimidating look as the furrowed brow and scowl Darcy was currently wearing. Alfred had made it a goal to not be put in such a position again if it could at all be helped, and until this moment, he had succeeded.

[from Protecting Miss Darcy, Marrying Elizabeth book 6]

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Georgiana looked first to her right and then her left. They could take one of the diverging paths, continue on as they had been, or return to the house. She dropped Mr. Langley’s arm and turned to look behind her. Retreating would be the most comfortable course for she was familiar with it. It did not hold any uncertainty, but it was surrounded by the ghosts of the past. Those secrets begged her to return to their embrace.

“I can trust you, can I not?” she asked after stooping to pick a flower and turning back toward him.

[from Protecting Miss Darcy, Marrying Elizabeth book 6]

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