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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AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR

The upshot of Mr Collins’s persistent preaching was that Mrs Bennet became very careful in how she spoke to Elizabeth, transferring all of her disappointment in the loss of the great house at Stoke to the accountability of Fanny and John Ashwood.

Mrs Long was the first to hear her mother’s revised opinions, a mere few days after Elizabeth returned to Longbourn. “I tell you, Matilda, poor Lizzy has been abused by that family, and I do not hesitate to say it. I would not allow a dog to live in that pathetic excuse for a dower house.”

‘Poor Lizzy’? Elizabeth turned to look at her mother, hardly able to believe her words.