Only One Choice (The Gentleman Mr Darcy #7)

Only One Choice (The Gentleman Mr Darcy #7)

Author: Julie Cooper Listening Length: 8h 48m
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For the sake of a most beloved sister, and for their father’s dying wish, Elizabeth would make herself submit… When her dying father demands one daughter marry the heir to Longbourn and the other wed a wealthy elderly widower, Elizabeth makes the hardest choice of her life. She becomes the wife of sixty-year-old Mr. ...

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After being dismissed from Longbourn’s book-room, Elizabeth and Jane walked together along the path towards the hermitage.

It was not until they were well away from their house that they chose a favourite bench beside the little building and sat.

Elizabeth read the letter from their cousin, a Mr Collins, the heir to their family’s estate, while Jane read what was nothing less than a general offer of marriage to one of the two eldest Bennet daughters from their elderly neighbour, Mr Henry Ashwood, of Stoke; then they traded.

After they had both finished reading, there was a long silence.