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“I think he wishes to help,” Richard said with a chuckle as Dash took his eyes off the horse to once again growl at the approaching footman before barking and running forward and then returning to stare down Richard’s mount once again.
[from Delighting Mrs. Bennet]
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“Did Miss Lydia tell you what she was going to do?” Darcy asked gently.
“She was supposed to meet Mr. Wickham and tell him that she did not wish to marry him.”
“They were going to Scotland,” Georgiana added in a whisper.
[from Delighting Mrs. Bennet]
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“How ‘bout you?” His hand remained on Elizabeth’s shoulder as he leaned toward Lydia.
“A shilling for one cheek and a half crown for both,” Lydia replied.
“A shilling for a peck on the cheek?” he exclaimed.
“Or a half crown for two,” Lydia repeated.
“And if I do not wish for you to kiss my cheeks?”
“Then you must do without.”
[from Delighting Mrs. Bennet]
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She turned into the sitting room, and Elizabeth sighed in relief. Lydia must have left something in there.
“Lydia, you frightened…” Elizabeth did not finish the sentence as she took in the aspect of an empty sitting room with an open window.
“Lydia?” Elizabeth called through the window before exiting the house herself in hopes of finding her sister…
[from Delighting Mrs. Bennet]
Hmmm…is it what it appears to be from this excerpt or is there more to the story? 😉
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“I cannot consider such things until I am no longer married to my commission, and things are so uncertain…” his voice trailed off as if he were thinking about some lady and how such uncertainty would affect her.
“She is young.”
Richard’s head snapped up from his contemplation of the glass in his hand.
“Miss Lydia.” Darcy waited for Richard to say something, but he did not, which spoke far more loudly than any protest would have about where Richard’s thoughts and heart lay.
[from Delighting Mrs. Bennet]
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