The Zephyr

The Zephyr

Author: Grace Gibson Listening Length: 8h 17m
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You are looking at the last man on earth who should ever find himself making love to a lady behind an old hay wain and offering her a clandestine promise upon some nameless day. And yet here I am. WHEN MR FITZWILLIAM DARCY RETURNS to Hertfordshire a year after last seeing Elizabeth Bennet, he is surprised to find that ...

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CHAPTER FOUR

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S o much had happened last winter. Not all of it had been terrible, however. It had been at Christmas when I learnt I had won the lottery for the Zephyr.

Pure mischief had led me to submit my name, for John Lucas had come panting into the parlour at Longbourn waving the notice he had clipped out of The Sporting Gentleman ’ s Quarterly. He was certain he would win, and feeling generous, he unbent enough to say, “And if you would leash your tongue behind your teeth for once, Lizzy, I might even take you out for a drive.”