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 FORTY-THREE

A TOUCHING VISIT

S everal weeks after Colonel Fitzwilliam’s brief visit, I stepped out to the drive where stood my little Swift at the ready with a liveried boy, freshly scrubbed and neatly dressed, holding back my restive ponies.

“Good morning,” I said to my young groom. He tipped his hat and stood aside as I went to greet April and May, approaching them with the stately serenity Georgiana had taught me, yet also bribing them with nibbles of an apple I had cut up at breakfast for the purpose.