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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GIFTED AND TALENTED

Fanny Ashwood was a woman of perhaps his own age, expensively dressed, with dark hair and green eyes. Her appearance was greatly in her favour; she had all the best part of beauty—a fine countenance, a good figure, and very pleasing address. She greeted Mrs Ashwood with the utmost civility.

“Dear Eliza,” she said, her tone sympathetic.

“When I heard you had travelled all the way to Netherfield on foot, I was simply aghast! You know you are always welcome to use our carriage, and most especially at such a time as this! You are family! Your little stubborn streak of independence wounds us so deeply, my dear. But how can I criticise you, when I realise how worried you must have been! I can tell by the sallowness of your skin, the dark circles beneath your eyes, that you have slept very little. How does dearest Jane do? Oh, I have been beside myself with worry, and was desperately hoping you would send word.”