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A Different Olive Branch
Fortune is often so whimsical that it is far beyond the ability of mere mortals to foretell the manner in which a small, trivial event may change the destiny of individuals and even whole families. The event in this case was a rather inconsequential disagreement between Miss Elizabeth Bennet and her mother one evening in the autumn.
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First published May 20, 2010
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C.P. Odom
11 books76 followersBy training, I’m a retired engineer, born in Texas, raised in Oklahoma, and graduated from the University of Oklahoma. Sandwiched in there was a stint in the Marines, and I’ve lived in Arizona since 1977, working first for Motorola and then General Dynamics. I raised two sons with my first wife, Margaret, before her untimely death from cancer, and my second wife, Jeanine, and I adopted two girls from China. The older of my daughters recently graduated with an engineering degree and is working in Phoenix, and the younger girl is heading toward a nursing degree. I’ve always been a voracious reader and collector of books, and my favorite genres are science fiction, historical fiction, histories, and, in recent years, reading (and later writing) Jane Austen romantic fiction. This late-developing interest was indirectly stimulated when I read my late wife's beloved Jane Austen books after her passing. One thing led to another, and I now have three novels published: A Most Civil Proposal (2013), Consequences (2014), and Pride, Prejudice, and Secrets (2015). My fourth novel, Perilous Siege, was just published. I retired from engineering in 2011, but I still live in Arizona with my family, a pair of dogs (one of which is stubbornly untrainable), and a pair of rather strange cats. My hobbies are reading, woodworking, and watching college football and LPGA golf (the girls are much nicer than the guys, as well as being fiendishly good putters). Lately I’ve reverted back to my younger years and have taken up building plastic model aircraft and ships (when I can find the time).
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March 2, 2025
It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them. ~ Robert Brault
Sometimes paths cross and diverge. That is what happens with Mr. Collins and Elizabeth Bennet. The good Reverend is rather easily diverted by another.
Fitzwilliam Darcy notices an attraction between his good friend and a young woman in Meryton but he feels no need to interfere. He is influenced by childhood admonitions from both his parents. He knows he must marry for connections. His own choice is against a marriage with that young woman’s sister. He returns to his sister at Pemberley for the Christmas season.
After the Collins’ wedding, the couple lives at Hunsford but Elizabeth is not invited for an Easter visit so one of the coincidences in Canon P&P is avoided.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ~ Jean de La Fontaine
A chance meeting in Derbyshire brings Elizabeth back into Darcy’s path. How many encounters will it take before the couple realizes they are fated to be a couple?
This is a re-working of canon P&P except for the absence of a DHP. The story is well-written, mostly error-free and from one of my favorite JAFF authors. It is unpublished and available at A Happy Assembly:
http://meryton.com/aha/index.php?show...
Amor Fati – "Love Your Fate," which is in fact your life. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes paths cross and diverge. That is what happens with Mr. Collins and Elizabeth Bennet. The good Reverend is rather easily diverted by another.
Fitzwilliam Darcy notices an attraction between his good friend and a young woman in Meryton but he feels no need to interfere. He is influenced by childhood admonitions from both his parents. He knows he must marry for connections. His own choice is against a marriage with that young woman’s sister. He returns to his sister at Pemberley for the Christmas season.
After the Collins’ wedding, the couple lives at Hunsford but Elizabeth is not invited for an Easter visit so one of the coincidences in Canon P&P is avoided.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ~ Jean de La Fontaine
A chance meeting in Derbyshire brings Elizabeth back into Darcy’s path. How many encounters will it take before the couple realizes they are fated to be a couple?
This is a re-working of canon P&P except for the absence of a DHP. The story is well-written, mostly error-free and from one of my favorite JAFF authors. It is unpublished and available at A Happy Assembly:
http://meryton.com/aha/index.php?show...
Amor Fati – "Love Your Fate," which is in fact your life. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
July 4, 2022
3.75*
June 24, 2023
Mind you, this is almost the same story as A Chance Eavesdropping.
It was a well written, pleasant what-if. Collins set his mind on Mary so he did not ask Elizabeth for the first dance and Darcy did instead. Darcy saw some indications of special joy on Jane Bennet's face so he left Bingley to his own devices and there soon were two weddings at Longbourn.
Mary did not invite Elizabeth to stay at Hunsford and there was never a Hunsford proposal. When Elizabeth travels to Pemberley she is somewhat wiser about Wickham but still pretty clueless about Darcy but he asks the Gardiner party to stay and she can change her mind somewhat. Then Wickham and Lydia do their thing.
I liked almost everything but the sex scenes. The acts are described rather briefly but ODC anticipated their vows in a way that seemed a little unlikely under the circumstances. Lydia had just been recovered unmarried and her fate was uncertain, and Lizzy was hopping mad at her and Wickham. Would Elizabeth really have taken the initiative to be the second Bennet daughter to have unmarried sex and take the risk of pregnancy and disgrace just then? I don't think so.
I feel like if they're so upset about other couples having unmarried sex it makes them a bit hypocritical when they do the same.
Mostly well edited for an unpublished story, a handful of minor typos.
I read this at http://austenunderground.com/forum/in...
It was a well written, pleasant what-if. Collins set his mind on Mary so he did not ask Elizabeth for the first dance and Darcy did instead. Darcy saw some indications of special joy on Jane Bennet's face so he left Bingley to his own devices and there soon were two weddings at Longbourn.
Mary did not invite Elizabeth to stay at Hunsford and there was never a Hunsford proposal. When Elizabeth travels to Pemberley she is somewhat wiser about Wickham but still pretty clueless about Darcy but he asks the Gardiner party to stay and she can change her mind somewhat. Then Wickham and Lydia do their thing.
I liked almost everything but the sex scenes. The acts are described rather briefly but ODC anticipated their vows in a way that seemed a little unlikely under the circumstances. Lydia had just been recovered unmarried and her fate was uncertain, and Lizzy was hopping mad at her and Wickham. Would Elizabeth really have taken the initiative to be the second Bennet daughter to have unmarried sex and take the risk of pregnancy and disgrace just then? I don't think so.
I feel like if they're so upset about other couples having unmarried sex it makes them a bit hypocritical when they do the same.
Mostly well edited for an unpublished story, a handful of minor typos.
I read this at http://austenunderground.com/forum/in...
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