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 NINE

NEWS FROM brIGHTON

W ith a sober determination to stem the flow of speculation, I did not drive for several days lest I encounter Mr Darcy. Thankfully, I was able to sink back into anonymity, since the neighbourhood was consumed with news from London. Cholera had spread farther into the city and had, in one reported instance, even decimated the ranks of Lord and Lady Martindale’s servants. The disease had not yet become catastrophic, but the reports were increasingly dire.

The week also brought news from Aunt Gardiner in the form of a hasty letter announcing their plans to avoid all risk by leaving Brighton, where an increasing number of people from London had fled. They planned to spend a few weeks at Longbourn.