Welcome Brandon James

I know some of you might have forgotten the story I am writing on the side of this blog, The Sisters of Pine Haven but I have not. I may not be on top of it as much as I would like thanks to grad-school but I am still writing. And now I would like to introduce you to Brandon James...

Brandon James is suppose to play the much the same role as Colonel Brandon played to Marianne in Sense and Sensibility. I love Alan Rickman in this role and I keep picturing him as I write my character Brandon James.

I do hope you enjoy...

Found at That's Miss Kelly to You

By a fortnight end Nicholas returned to Pine Haven with Miss James and her brother Mr. Brandon James. Within an hour everybody could see that she was exactly how Nicholas, described her genuinely kind, warm hearted and very intelligent. She quickly passed Grandma Danford’s interrogation being from a family with wealth as long as Americans history and showing she had proper breeding and would be fine match for Nicholas. Grandma Danford was pleased that Nicholas had made such a match on his own and he was not being forced into a marriage of such good standing, as she had once thought would be the case. Soon all parties fell easily into conversation. All but Miss James brother Brandon James, he was stand-off-ish and not in a sweet awkward way that Ethan Foster was but in a rude awkward way. Emmy thought the way he stood against the wall hardly saying two words together it was as if he was judging everyone in the room.
          
That was not the case Brandon James was not used to this much talking going on at any given moment and did not know how to interact. Brandon had been from his father’s first marriage but his mother passed away when he was three trying to give birth to his younger sister. As his father could not properly tend to business and take care of the child Brandon was sent to live with his aunt and uncle in England. It wasn’t until he was twelve that his father had re-married a Miss Elliot that he came back to America and fully lived in his father’s house. But his heart still belonged in England which is why he went to Oxford for education and began to work for the British Ambassador. With the new Mrs. James his father had another son Caleb and his daughter Kathryn both much younger than him. Caleb and Brandon never saw eye to eye but Kathryn adored her oldest brother and loved all the stories of England, it was the closest she got to real royalty. What both his siblings didn’t know about Brandon was while he was at Oxford he fell in love but when his father met her, he forbid the marriage. The girl came from no standing her father worked in a factory and Brandon only met her by chance while she was visiting her brother who went to Oxford on scholarship and was studying to become a doctor. It would not do for a James to marry so far beneath him. For awhile Brandon and she wrote but one day the letters stopped he wrote her but got no response. When Brandon was finally able to track her where about down he found her six feet under a head stone; Brandon tried to get in contact with her brother but heard nothing. After that Brandon only found delight in his sister. Kathryn was a great harpist and when ever her brother looked sad she would go over and play a little music on her harp. Kathryn never knew why Brandon got a sad look on his face but knew her music would cheer him up. After their father passed away his father passed away Brandon tried to spend more time at the home of his stepmother but was also very attentive to business. Kathryn always thought her brother lived too quiet of a life and wished he would go out to parties when he was invited but parties were too much for him and he preferred to stay in his own home, minus when work took him to England.  


For more on the James family click here. 

Found at My Jane Austen Book Club