The Best Part of Love (Happily Ever After with Mr Darcy #3)

The Best Part of Love (Happily Ever After with Mr Darcy #3)

Author: Amy D’Orazio Listening Length: 17h 50m
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Some might consider that time of heady infatuation to be the best part of love. For myself, I take comfort in having gained the latter. Elizabeth Bennet was meant to have a fairy tale. Her whirlwind marriage to the charming Earl of Courtenay brought her wealth, a title, and a love she had never dared imagine—until Hen...

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CHAPTER SEVEN

There is little I dread more than this wretched assembly save my return to London society this winter.

However, as she had months to prepare herself for the latter and only hours to become ready for the former, the former took precedence in Elizabeth’s mind. Already, she could feel her anxiety mounting, and as she sat looking in the glass above her vanity, she gave herself a bracing scold.

“Your son needs a father, and you need a husband. You will not find one by reading in your library or wandering the fields of Hertfordshire! If you cannot do this, then you might as well resign yourself to an arranged match. If you wish to find a husband on your own, you must go out, you must dance, and you must enchant. This assembly will be an ideal place to practise those arts. At least for this night, you will be among friends you have known your entire life—surely, a dance or two is not impossible.”