The Winter of Our Discontent (Pride and Prejudice Variations #1)

The Winter of Our Discontent (Pride and Prejudice Variations #1)

Author: Grace Gibson Listening Length: 7h 17m
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I signed my maiden name first before memorialising my new name. Elizabeth Madeline Darcy. Elizabeth Bennet lay dead on the altar of matrimony. HAVING SIGNED THE REGISTER as Elizabeth Darcy, the former Miss Elizabeth Bennet must somehow survive a crushing scandal as a stranger to herself. Her unwilling husband is so out...

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My husband’s reply took half a day to appear. Miss Darcy looked tenderly upon me when Harrison handed me a silver tray with what appeared to be a billet-doux . After excusing myself, I took this ‘love note’ into a sunlit alcove to read.

…artifice and disguise…must constitute the crown jewels of your talents…

I swallowed several times as I strove to overcome the wave of despair that threatened to send me to my room after reading this reply.

In an attempt to rally my courage, I asked for Mrs Reynolds. The housekeeper was still quite distant, but the ill will she initially harboured seemed to have been considerably blunted by both my overtures and my willingness to work.