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 FIVE

JUNE AND JULY

M r Darcy had been shocked. Not only had my driving startled him, but he expressed a noticeable degree of amazement that I associated myself with horses in any way.

When he had been in Hertfordshire last year, I had a reputation as a strong walker—a predilection attributed to the fact I did not ride. We had Nellie, and Jane rode her occasionally—most notably in the rain to pay a call on Miss Bingley. Thus, the universal assumption in the neighbourhood, which likely seeped into Mr Darcy’s impression of me by means of simple observation, was that since I had the means to learn to ride but did not, I must be afraid of horses. And this was true.