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 FOURTEEN

THE CALLING CARD

T he following morning was predictably hectic. Mary, Kitty, and I rushed around in a frenzy to help Jane pack for another stay in London. Doors slammed, children cried, and the servants bit back their grumbles as they laboured over the flatiron and ran up and down the stairs under the competing and sometimes contradictory demands of my mother, my aunt, and my sisters.

At last the house fell silent. The dust of three carriages bumping down the drive had been swept away by a cool breeze that hinted of the deeper autumn to come, and those of us remaining behind fell into our chairs in relief.