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 TEN

BARE TOES IN THE RIVER LEA

O ur reunion with Lydia was both anxious and affecting. She came in the door and was instantly enveloped by sisters who had held her in their prayers for months.

Perhaps she had expected to be chastised or even rejected, I do not know. In any case, she had not expected to be subjected to so much affection and had dissolved into buckets of tears. We took her upstairs to dote upon her and to reassure her of her place within our family. This was a delicate procedure, for none of us had the required temerity to mention the reason such assurances were required, and there hung a heavy cloud over our heads containing all that we could not say aloud.