Story Inspiration – Page 9

English Garden in the Csáky Castle at Hotkóc (János Rombauer)

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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Flower Sketches

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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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Billiard Room at Lupton House, Devonshire

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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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The Terrace, Brockenhurst House (George Samuel Elgood)

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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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The Betrothed (Ch. L. Muller)

The Betrothed, Charles-Louis Muller (1815–1892) [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons

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“You look lovely,” Georgiana said upon entering Kitty’s room at Darcy House. “Is this the dress you wore the first day you went driving with Mr. Langley?”

“It is. Do you think it is foolish for me to wish to wear it? I had thought it might be better to begin again in a completely new dress, but he said he remembered this one when he helped me get my ribbon back from Oliver that day.” She straightened a sleeve that did not need straightening. Her stomach was all aflutter, and her heart would not remain calm. Today, she would promise herself to a gentleman whom she loved – if he was still willing to wait for her. She turned to examine her hair in the mirror. “He said he likes green and that it was a becoming colour on me.”

Georgiana grasped Kitty’s shoulders from behind and rested her head on one of them so that she was looking into the mirror with and at Kitty. “It is not foolish,” she said with a small laugh. “I cannot believe that my friend will soon be betrothed.”

[from Marrying Elizabeth book 5]

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