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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STUPID MANNERS

Elizabeth had kept a desultory eye on the newcomers, in between attempting conversations with those who would meet her eye and finally cornering an undisciplined youngest sister—whom Mrs Bennet simultaneously spoilt and ignored, seldom providing the supervision or safeguards Lydia needed.

Even though disappointed in the friendliness of the Bingley sisters, Elizabeth still wished to make inroads in reclaiming some sort of place in society.

Her unexpected melancholy at Mr Ashwood’s death, and a mourning period spent alone in the inhabitable portion of the dower house, had allowed Fanny’s vindictiveness to hold sway over the neighbourhood.