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-FOUR

THE QUAGMIRE

W ith Mary and Kitty engaged to distract my mother and upon her discovery of my absence to claim ignorance as to where I was, I ordered June and July hitched to the Zephyr. Mr Hill pursed his lips in disapproval, but before he could speak outright against my going out in such poor weather, I anticipated him.

“I am aware, Hill, but needs must.” Unconsciously, he threw a dour glance up towards the attic dormer and called Charlie from the kitchen to help him with the horses.