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-SIX

THE BEST-LAID PLANS

E arly on the fateful morning when I heard Martha in the hall carrying away the chamber pots outside our doors, I asked her to come to my room just as soon as she could reasonably do so.

When she arrived with a pitcher of hot water and the look of a hound on the hunt upon her face, I bade her to once again go on pretence to the cottages and to make her way to the Fettermans’ with a specific bit of news for Mr Wickham.