Edmund Blair Leighton (British, 1853-1922) The Gallant Suitor.
*gallant – (of a man or his behavior) giving special attention and respect to women; chivalrous.
Love this word!
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by Laura Frantz | Mar 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
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Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your book “The Colonel’s Lady”. It was so refreshing to know there is always something good, in the midst of trouble and/or bad times. This is also true in our daily lives.(I speak for myself here.) Also, I just finished Eden and Silas’ story, oh how lovely and heartwarming. I have to admit, I shed a few tears. You do such a wonderful job writing, doing awesome research, and really bringing the stories to life. I have really enjoyed your books, and look forward to many more. I have yet to read, Courting Morrow Little and Love’s Awakening, but really can’t wait. I’m going now to pick up Love’s Awakening! Something else, I also home school (three daughters),and have done some knitting, but I do LOVE to crochet! Right now I’m working on a (Doctor Who) Tardis Afghan for my husband. =)
Dewanna, Welcome here! So good to meet you and know you’ve met Eden and Silas and Roxie and cast and want to read on :). That’s wonderful. I’m encouraged to write faster! Several readers here say they like Courting Morrow Little best of all my books so I’m glad you still have that one to go. And Ellie’s story, too! It’s great you’re reading that one right after Love’s Reckoning so all those little details and threads aren’t lost in the time between books. Wren will join us shortly :)!
Love that Silas and Eden’s story made you emotional. Me. too. It was quite a roller coaster to write. And I really appreciate your insights into how refreshing it is to find God bringing good amidst trouble/hardship. Well said. Thanks so much for that.
YAY for homeschooling! Three girls sounds heavenly to me since I live with 3 men/boys. Nary a girl in sight but I’m hoping for a grandgirl someday. I even have a colonial doll for her waiting in my office. And you make me want to stop my very elementary knitting and learn to crochet. Your Dr. Who project sounds GREAT! So many DW fans out there. I need to get onboard and watch. Everyone tells me I’m missing out.
Oh, I see both your comments here so I’m doubly blessed! Glad your own real life hero is gallant. My husband is, too, thankfully. I think that’s one of the things I like best about him. Please stay in touch, Lawanna. And happy reading to you! Many thanks for taking time for my books, too.
Oh I’m sorry, I just realized I left my previous reply on The Gallant Suitor. Although the time period is different, this reminds me of my husband, ever the gallant suitor. Our friends always would say we were so old fashioned.=) This is a very lovely picture!
Love the old-fashioned comment – we need more of that :)!
Why can’t men still be gallant today. It seems like the gallant ones are few and far between. With most you meet being between the pages of a novel. Your novels included.
Love “The Gallant Suitor”, Laura!! I fear there are so few of them in today’s world!!
My pastor (when I was a cast member of the Passion Play in Gatlinburg, he was the founder)was such a gallant man!! He treated his wife (my spiritual mentor/BFF, and eventual pastor)like a queen, always holding doors open, etc.. She cared for him through a lengthy illness that took his life – it was such a stressful, emotional, strain on her. I was there to help her when the stress almost completely depleted her, and she in turn – nursed me after cancer surgery. She then cared for her mother for a number of years before the mother passed away, and never planned to remarry as she never thought she would find anyone as wonderful as her deceased husband. Her sister talked her into having dinner with the sister’s neighbor, the attraction was instant – she has been happily remarried for several years now, to a man who adores her and is every bit as gallant as her first husband!! God is SO faithful!!
Sorry for the history lesson – but “The Gallant Suitor” brought back so many wonderful, inspirational, memories!!
Hope your day was full of joy, peace, and blessings, dear Laura!!
Oh, love your story here, Bonnie – a true love story twice over! Which just proves chivalry/gallantry isn’t dead. Your friend sounds like a truly remarkable woman, a Proverbs 31 woman. So faithful and giving. I know it must have delighted the Lord’s heart to give her such a gallant husband both times, especially when she never thought she’d remarry that 2nd time. What a smart sister to have arranged that meeting :).
I had another reader comment on this picture on Facebook and she said she rides the train into Chicago for work and men take the seats while she stands. A sad statement. I like to think gallantry is still alive in the south but am not sure anymore. Somehow we need to get that back! Guess that’s one of the joys of writing novels with gallant heroes.
Hope your day is full of all the blessings you mention above – and more, dear Bonnie!
And now, I will Jennifer that scene….
“Thank you for raising your fancy top-hat, Lord Milk-Toast. How utterly manly and swarthy of you.”
“Why, thank you, Lady Fluffington. I am so glad you noticed.”
“I did, sadly, all too well. I also noticed you have the pasty flesh of a man accustomed to lifting his own finger to point at his servants. I prefer a man, sir, who can lift his fork at a meal and belch out his alphabet.”
“Oh, in that case, I shall happily practice that endeavor when Mummy comes for tea.”
“You do that. And while you are having tea with you Mummy and all your cats, I shall be helping my fiancé, Lord Buffly Sicks-Paque polish his obliques with the palms of my hands.”
“Madam, what is an oblique?”
“That’s for me to know, oh so very well,and you to never, ever find out. Say hello to the kitties.”
LOL! I hope this means you are MUCH better and back on track :). You always enliven it here so much – and everywhere else you go! I am going to cut and paste all these hilarious little snippets of yours and make them into a book – by YOU! With illustrations. How does that grab you as we say in KY?! Thanks for starting my day off with a smile, Jennifer. 🙂
Worse today, actually. But I’m never to sick to have fun with these lovely paintings. Because, hey, no one gets hurt when you mock a fake dweeb in a painting.
Jennifer, So true about those dweeb exemptions ;). You’ll remain in my prayers. Probably the only thing you feel like doing or can do is turn on your computer. This has been such a loooonnnnggg winter. Spring will be celebrated far and wide once it gets here. I imagine your neck of the woods is a sight to see. I’d love to come your way and go to PEI, too. On my bucket list. But I’m thinking I’ll meet up with you here first! Hope so.