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 TWELVE

After dinner, the evening began as quietly as the previous one had. Most of the party were engaged in the reading of various books or letters or, in the case of Mrs Hurst, the gossip pages from London.

Mr Darcy was engaged in a book, but not so much so, Elizabeth noted, that he would not take any opportunity to stare at her. It was tiring trying to discern what he was about or what he sought to find in her, and so she disregarded him, her mind pressed by weightier concerns.

Her book could not content her. Instead, she found herself continually drawn to memories of her past and anxieties for her future.