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 FIFTEEN

MISDEMEANOURS AND IMMODESTY

N etherfield Park closed again, and just as it had happened last year, there was a price. But this time, it was mine to pay. It was silly, but I fell into a kind of mourning.

Bah! I had enjoyed Mr Darcy’s presence far too much, far more than I ought to have. I knew better. We had been playing a game, and I was merely being childish when it came to a natural—and dare I say—fortuitous end. I thought if I had seen the gentleman one more time, if he had spoken to me in that aching way again, my feelings would have been irrevocably engaged. But no. He would quickly come to his senses, and I would just as quickly come about.