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-FOUR

AN EXASPERATING BAGGAGE

A few hasty preparations were made for my return home in order for the small parsonage to accommodate Lady Lucas, her maid, and her many trunks. She was, after all, a product of the same generation that produced my mother, and I had a strong feeling she would bring with her an entire storehouse of possessions to have at hand. My uncle Gardiner in London sent his coach for me with one of my aunt’s maids for company, and in a sober state, I went to Rosings Park to sit with Lady Catherine one last time.

Instead of exuberant and proud, Mr Collins walked alongside me towards the great house as a forlorn and anxious version of himself. It struck me then he was not quite as absurd a person as I had once thought. If I was not mistaken, he greatly missed Charlotte’s steady support while facing Lady Catherine. Had he actually grown attached to her? I thought perhaps he might have .