Chapter 11
From: E. Bennet, Child likely Lady Jersey had chosen Bennet with this in mind, though his understanding of estate accounts was by far the more important consideration.
With such a quick turnaround in letters between Thomastown and Pemberley, there would likely be no want of news from either side of the Irish Sea.
Georgiana was certainly in good spirits, and she was blessed indeed to have such an easy relationship with Mrs. Bennet.
The lady’s presence was likely to make up for any deficiency in Mrs. Younge’s companionship, though the latter’s references had been glowing—did they not state she was accomplished in all the modern languages?
Still, of little consequence. Hah! Aqua Tofana, indeed!
He was in dire need of that substance, or similar; already several landowners were refusing to sell their land along the line of the canal—notwithstanding the Act of Parliament enforcing the sale for a fair price—and some rabble-rousers were still creating trouble, even though the navvies had been paid their wages in arrears.
He could hear their raucous laughter echoing from the public bar, their pennies and shillings disappearing with alacrity into the tankards of bene bowse—good beer.
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