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-TWO

A PIG IN THE GARDEN

I may have drifted off for as much as half an hour with my head thrown back against June’s stall, entertaining a series of half-waking, half-sleeping, and entirely delirious dreams. Mary King rode away from Longbourn in a golden carriage, and I, dressed in a costume reminiscent of a medieval noviciate, danced every set at a masked ball with a mysterious man known only as the ‘Derbyshire Swift’.

“May I tell you of the roses in my mother’s garden?” he murmured in my ear, filling the air with the scent of roses with his breath.