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-SEVEN

THE TEMPLE OF APOLLO

M y repose was premature. Mr Wickham remained lurking nearby, and he now believed I had tricked him with malicious intent. Mr Hill slept in the stable with the horses, and Mrs Hill slept in the kitchen, both gravely concerned that he would have his revenge by putting a torch to the house or the hay in the stable or both to force us—most particularly his wife—outside in the middle of the night like rats.

I was acutely aware of this new threat, and I sympathised with their anxieties. However, because even if Wickham committed such evil, he would not get his hands on Mary King, I could not feel anything other than safe and satisfied. This abiding sense of ease was moreover a testament to just how thoroughly I trusted Mr Darcy.