Aunt Felicity: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Shana Granderson A Lady

Author:Shana Granderson A Lady [Lady, Shana Granderson A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-02-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

It was the end of the first set when all of the attendees of the assembly went quiet, and the musicians ended the music a few bars before the end of the piece.

Elizabeth, who had been dancing the first with Franklin Lucas, the eldest Lucas son, was amused at the deference paid to the five people who had entered. Her partner led her over to his sister, who was being furiously summoned by their mother.

“My mother is under the illusion that if Mr Bingley sees me before he meets Jane, I will catch his notice,” Charlotte shared. She sighed and made for her mother’s side.

Franklin then led Eliza over towards Mrs Bennet. The latter stopped as Sir William was introducing the newcomers to her mother. She had just taken note of a tall, dark-haired man, whose hair was wavy like her own, dressed in an immaculate form fitting jacket and breeches. He was by far the most handsome man she had ever seen. His handsomeness was spoiled by the look, which said he did not want to be among those so far beneath him.

She was near enough to hear Sir William make the introductions to the two men; the others in the party had moved on already before she could hear their names or see them properly. The Adonis was a Mr Darcy of Pemberley in Derbyshire. She saw the instant that the shorter man with strawberry blond hair, Mr Bingley, caught sight of Jane. His eyebrows disappeared into his hairline, and as soon as he regained the power of speech, he solicited Jane for the next open set.

Thankfully it was not one of the two sets that all young ladies, save Lydia, sat out thanks to the dearth of men due to the little tyrant’s war of aggression. Elizabeth watched the impending carriage wreck as her mother pushed Lydia forward and asked Mr Darcy if he danced. ‘No Mama, no!’ Elizabeth screamed in her head.

“Certainly not with a child, and not if I can help it,” William replied frostily.

While he had been forced to meet the vulgar matron and then to have a child who should not be out of the schoolroom pushed at him (one who should never have been allowed out of her house dressed like a lightskirt), Miss Bingley was angling to grab his arm. He turned and gave her a look of warning and strode away.

“Well, I never! What a rude, disagreeable man. To call my Lydia a child and refuse to stand up with her!” Fanny bemoaned loudly.

Although Elizabeth could not disagree with Mr Darcy’s assessment of her mother and Lydia, there had been no need to be so rude when he was the visitor in the area. She joined Jane, who was chatting affably with Mr Bingley; her sister made the introduction. He solicited her for the set after Miss Bennet. As it was the one before the first dance she would sit out, she accepted and thanked him.

Just then a lady

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