Ooh! found another drabble!

I don't even remember writing this.  But there it was, lurking away on my backup drive (with an emphasis on the back):


( After years of tyrannical rule by the masters of Pemberley, the manor is destroyed and the land given to strangers - an ambitious foreigner and his proud English wife. )

Smiles in P&P

[reposted from wordpress]

I was reading this review of Amanda Grange’s Mr Darcy’s Diary, when I happened across a rather perplexing assertion:

Also, Darcy smiles far too much. He says, “I smiled at her.” Or “I felt like smiling.” In the first part, at least, it’s a little out of place. Darcy didn’t smile at Elizabeth, that’s why she felt so weird about his staring at her. He could not possibly be happy or enchanted by what he saw!

I’ve always had the impression of Darcy as wry and snarky – which is probably why I’ve never been able to wrap my brain around the the idea of ‘brooding Darcy.’  He’s too – well – snide for that.  However, just to be sure, I went and checked.

There are, unsurprisingly, a lot of smiles in Pride and Prejudice associated with a number of different characters.  So, just for kicks, I tracked down them all, with these results:

 

( Results beneath the cut )

 

I had totally forgotten about this . . .

My very first alternate pairing! Cross-novel alternate pairing, at that. It would probably never happen (especially given his total lack of chemistry with her dark counterpart), but I still have a lingering fondness for it.


( Tom Bertram, post-reformation, finds himself fascinated by a rich young widow. )