By the time she and Matthew have married, Mary is expecting. Lavinia reels at the news; Matthew spends the morning unrelentingly broody. Lavinia had never paused to imagine Mary as a mother, and has no idea at all what to make of the fact. When she joins Mary for tea at Haxby, just the two of them, she finds that her eyes keep wandering to Mary's abdomen, as if expecting some hello from the unborn -- and, at this point, thoroughly undetectable -- child.
"I'm sorry," Lavinia says, when Mary catches her and punishes her with one of those wry, you dear fool smiles. "It's just -- I'm still a bit shocked, is all
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Oh god, Lavinia and her goodness with that temptation that Mary presents, oh so perfect. I like in the first half with the idea of Lavinia already having grown out of Matthew, and the second part reeks of sexual tension, seriously I will now fall asleep with the idea of drawing room sex because of that. Like maybe Richard dies early and Lavinia goes on extended vacations to Haxby to keep Mary "company."
I especially loved the line "Orphean journey out of death" as it seems such an expression of your brilliance in terms of using classical culture (god knows you can use pop culture, you really are a fantastic writer). I do honestly feel like the whole second comment I want to draw hearts around, the first one might hurt me slightly too much, but the second one has such this bitter cavity inducing sweet quality that is beautiful and half fulfilled and thus so tempting to follow in the paths of the mind.
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By the time she and Matthew have married, Mary is expecting. Lavinia reels at the news; Matthew spends the morning unrelentingly broody. Lavinia had never paused to imagine Mary as a mother, and has no idea at all what to make of the fact. When she joins Mary for tea at Haxby, just the two of them, she finds that her eyes keep wandering to Mary's abdomen, as if expecting some hello from the unborn -- and, at this point, thoroughly undetectable -- child.
"I'm sorry," Lavinia says, when Mary catches her and punishes her with one of those wry, you dear fool smiles. "It's just -- I'm still a bit shocked, is all ( ... )
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Oh god, Lavinia and her goodness with that temptation that Mary presents, oh so perfect. I like in the first half with the idea of Lavinia already having grown out of Matthew, and the second part reeks of sexual tension, seriously I will now fall asleep with the idea of drawing room sex because of that. Like maybe Richard dies early and Lavinia goes on extended vacations to Haxby to keep Mary "company."
I especially loved the line "Orphean journey out of death" as it seems such an expression of your brilliance in terms of using classical culture (god knows you can use pop culture, you really are a fantastic writer). I do honestly feel like the whole second comment I want to draw hearts around, the first one might hurt me slightly too much, but the second one has such this bitter cavity inducing sweet quality that is beautiful and half fulfilled and thus so tempting to follow in the paths of the mind.
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