Part II of Charlie/Kathleen for girlyswot

[stmargarets]

Ah! Finally! I'm back on lj with girlyswot's story. It turned out a bit more lemony than what I've been writing lately, so please forgive any awkwardness. I really need to work harder on my smut credentials!

The story I mentioned in Part I, Brother In My Arms, is a tribute to girlyswot's Meeting the Weasleys found here at Phoenix Song: Read more... )

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[mickawber]

Elizabeth's spirits soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. "How could you begin?" said she. "I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place?"

"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."

"My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners -- my behaviour to you was at least always bordering on the uncivil, and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not. Now, be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"

"For the liveliness of your mind, I did."

Not as close as I'd remembered it, but close enough (with a romance novelist as part of the equation) to get me thinking of it! XD

Going back and looking at it, I was remembering also the exchange at the end of Much Ado About Nothing:

Benedick: And, I pray thee now, tell me for which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

Beatrice: For them all together; which maintained so politic a state of evil that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them. But for which of my good parts did you first suffer love for me?

Benedick: Suffer love! a good epithet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

Also not very close. But there you go. Memory is a funny thing. ;-)

[stmargarets]

I was thinking it had to do with the post-declaration wrap up! I'm so glad my little story made you remember such wonderful scenes, but it's a little deflating to read such wonderful lines from Austen and Shakespeare so close to my efforts. LOL - what fun Much Ado is - and P&P - you just can't get tired of those characters.

[mickawber]

Well, it's good to remember that Austen and Shakespeare probably lifted those lines from others. After all, good writers borrow. Great ones steal. ;-)

[rosathome]

Ah. Too subtle for me, I'm afraid!!