Darcy's Winter of Discontent

Darcy's Winter of Discontent

Author: Helena Crowe Listening Length: 7h 17m
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Once the register names her Elizabeth Darcy, the former Miss Elizabeth Bennet must face a crushing scandal while scarcely recognizing herself. Her unwilling husband, who believes her no better than a fortune hunter, forbids any talk of the circumstances behind their union and can hardly endure the sound of her voice. A...

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ELIZABETH DARCY

For the first time in months, the predawn light caused the blood to rise in my body. What joy! Slipping out of bed, dressing as silently as possible so as not to wake my husband, whose ears were perpetually on the prick even as he slept in the adjacent room, I made my escape.

Freedom! The air was brisk still, and I was not yet so very vigorous, but I ambled down the sloped lawn and went down the spinney road, past the meadow where the peewits would soon wake and call to me.

Life had come whole again, no longer split in two.