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 TWELVE

AN UNREASONABLE PRESENCE

A t the road, Mr Darcy stepped off my curricle and came around to my side where he took my hand.

The ending of our private meeting—coming out of the darkened forest and into the light of a public road—made it glaringly obvious we should never have been alone in the first place. To lessen my acute feelings of embarrassment, I lightly asked, “What is the end of Plato’s verse?”