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 ELEVEN

PLATO IN THE SHADE

T he following day was once again sweltering. I could not entice anyone to ride out with me, and though I should have been happy to sit at home, I felt the restless call to escape.

The house was newly busy, and much as I valued the restoration of my family, the presence of children, and the renewal of happier times for us, I missed the solemn serenity of the prior months. Mary and Kitty had often been at Lucas Lodge with Maria, my mother and father had been greatly subdued by both our circumstances and the wet weather, and I had been profoundly content to learn to drive the Zephyr and to shift for myself on most days.