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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It was with a sense of unreality that Elizabeth sat watching the gathering of her neighbours; it had been so long since she had joined any such events—much longer than her requisite year of mourning for her dead husband.

The assembly, a subscription event, was exceptionally well-attended in this little corner of Hertfordshire, especially by the unmarried female portion of the populace.

A Mr Charles Bingley, having recently let the large nearby property of Netherfield Park, was expected to attend tonight—and Mary had said she heard from Mrs Long who had it from Lady Lucas that he would be bringing several eligible male friends along with him.

Not that Elizabeth cared much for eligible bachelors; she was done with that part of her life, and could henceforth disregard the worries and woes of the unattached maidens of the countryside.