Meg Osborne > Quotes

“He might, at last, be allowed to speak to Mary unguarded and learn a little more about her. He did not know why she had lodged herself so firmly in his mind but that she was so unlike the young ladies he usually met. So unlike her sisters! This was perhaps a part of it. He had sensed something in Mary that he knew all too well in himself: the pain of being overlooked by one’s immediate family. It was plain that Mary’s father preferred clever, outgoing Elizabeth and Kitty was her mother’s favourite. Mary was...Mary.
She is an enigma, Richard thought, letting the noise of his cousins’ conversation drop to a low lull at the back of his mind. And I am intrigued by her.”
― Meg Osborne, Christmas in Kent: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“I oughtn’t to have eaten so much,” Richard groaned, laying a hand on his slim midsection. “Not when I am not marching to burn it off.” “You might march, if you wish,” Darcy remarked, from his seat in the corner. “Rise with the rooster and plot a route around the grounds. I shall give Georgiana leave to heckle you, if you are missing regimental life so sorely.” Richard grinned. “Thank you, no. I have been on the receiving end of Georgiana’s heckling before and she is a crueller drill-sergeant than any who wears colours. No, I shall embark on some easier exercise, I think. Perhaps a ride.”
― Meg Osborne, Mr Darcy's Summer Surprise

“Mr. Bennet, who was well used to having but one or two quiet corners in which to secret himself away from the noisy womenfolk who shared his home, was almost overwhelmed with the choices available to him at Pemberley.”
― Meg Osborne, A Trip to Pemberley

“It was easily one of the best sermons she had heard and delivered with a confidence she had not thought her cousin capable of possessing. She turned to Charlotte, saw her friend’s eyes bright with pride and affection and realized, for the first time, that perhaps Charlotte’s marriage to Mr Collins was not merely an agreement of convenience.”
― Meg Osborne, Christmas in Kent: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Richard glanced over his shoulder once more, noting the careful degree of distance between the pair, and let out a sigh he could not quite stifle. Darcy and Elizabeth may be in love, he thought as he and Anne reached the table and found their seats. But I am not entirely sure they know it!”
― Meg Osborne, Mr Darcy's Summer Surprise

“He smiled, and Mary was surprised to see how comfortably the expression rested on his face in contrast to his cousin, who always seemed mildly pained when pressed to wear anything other than a scowl.”
― Meg Osborne, Christmas in Kent: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Indeed, Miss Bennet. Or you would be less inclined to leave your handkerchiefs behind you." He stooped, then, to retrieve something, and Mary was astonished to find that yes, again, she had let slip a cotton square. Mortified, she reached for it, but his hand was quicker, and he held it up for her. "Do you have a certain disdain for these cloths, Miss Bennet, or is it some code?" he straightened, peering over his shoulder. "Perhaps a cry for help?”
― Meg Osborne, A Trip to Pemberley

“Well, Mary!” Her eyes danced with merriment. “I do believe this might be a very exciting Christmas after all! I never did imagine we should meet anybody worth knowing in Kent, but look, our very first evening and we have met Gentlemen!” She capitalized the word as if to give it an even greater degree of importance and Mary frowned, wishing her sister cared for something beyond the meeting of and flirting with gentlemen.”
― Meg Osborne, Christmas in Kent: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“I come from a meeting with Mr Collins. What a tiresome man he is! I much prefer his wife, for she has a bit of spirit to her, although she is well-mannered enough not to outshine him.” She sighed.”
― Meg Osborne, Mr Darcy's Summer Surprise