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-THREE

THE GHOST IN THE ATTIC

E arly the next morning while I was still in my night gown, Mrs Hill returned to my room, and once again, her face betrayed her extreme misgivings as she pulled the upstairs maid behind her none too gently.

“Tell Miss Elizabeth what you said to me just now,” she commanded ominously. But when Martha would only mumble that she could not say such to one of the ladies of the house, Mrs Hill turned angrily away from her and back to me. With her hands on her hips, she said, “This girl claims there is a stranger in the attic.”