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 THIRTY

A PALACE WITH MANY WINDOWS

M r Bingley returned to Netherfield Park for a third time, arriving within days of my secret lover and I kissing our way through our agonised parting.

This time he came without the Hursts or Miss Bingley, and upon paying a call at Longbourn and being asked after his relations, he glibly replied he had left them in London. We eventually learnt that he had bought Miss Bingley her own townhouse, and because she was yet unmarried, he had prevailed upon Mr and Mrs Hurst to stay with her. This was apparently agreeable to that couple, who did not seem inclined to inhabit Mr Hurst’s house—wherever it was. They were, to put it succinctly, pleased to sup someone else’s cream with little inconvenience or expense of their own, and Mr Bingley, perhaps having summoned up a dram of courage, had politely shown them all the door.