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-THREE

A SCRAP OF DIGNITY

C olonel Fitzwilliam offered me his arm, and we walked away from Mr Darcy. I was temporarily mute with shame to have been caught in such a compromising circumstance by a man I barely knew, not that I would have been unembarrassed to have been seen by someone with whom I was well acquainted!

Sensing I was unequal to initiating a benign conversation, my escort cleared his throat and began to speak of the weather.