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 TWENTY

AN IMPERFECT PLAN

T hat night, with our hearts pounding, Mary, Kitty, and I crept out of our rooms in our stockinged feet, pushed open the door to the stair I had left unlatched, and in the light of a single candle, we floated ghostlike up to the little room in the attic where Mary King sat huddled on her mattress on the floor.

We sat close so that we could be heard as we spoke nearly in whispers.