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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ELIZABETH DARCY

Mrs Reynolds came tiptoeing into my room in the late afternoon. She seemed visibly shaken upon hearing Wilson’s whispered description of what had been done to Mrs Darcy.

“But why did you not insist Mr Johnson turn back after the first hour, ma’am?” she asked, struggling to both pardon her colleague and defend me—her mistress—at the same time.

“I should have, Mrs Reynolds. Only I wanted to make a good impression on everyone, and I suppose I did not wish to grovel for mercy to Mr Darcy’s steward. I can only blame my stupid pride,” I said with a rueful chuckle.