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 SEVEN

FIELDS AND FARRIERS

T he cacophony of self-chastisement which followed that strange encounter with Mr Darcy lasted two full days.

What a fool I must appear to him! I could not execute a simple turn on a country lane. I could not command my cheeks to cease glowing like red lanterns in his presence. I could not even entice him to agree to my terms of a truce. Worse than all that was that he inspired me to such heights of irony, of an unseemly wittiness at his expense as to feel, in hindsight, I had come quite close to sounding spiteful.