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-NINE

WELL-APPLIED TORMENTS

I tripped out of the back door and across the yard towards the stable. No one questioned this, as it had become a longstanding habit that I would pay a call on June and July shortly after we stood up from the breakfast table.

Both my girls nickered their greetings, to which I sternly replied, “Do not think yourselves so clever, my darlings. I know well enough you welcome me so affectingly only for what I carry in my pockets.”