Chances Come by Ney Mitch

Author:Ney Mitch [Mitch, Ney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781953735607
Publisher: Melange Books, LLC

Chapter 10

The Other Sister

The next day, Jane and I rose to have a breakfast with both Mr. Darcy and Colonel Fitzwilliam.

The surprise of seeing the Colonel was on two different levels between Jane and me. With Jane, her surprise was innocent, and it soon gave way to enthusiasm on her part.

Yet, with me, my surprise leaned more towards alarm. He had come even before visiting hours. Of course, it was his cousin’s home, but I got the feeling, quite quickly, that he did not come because of all the comfort he felt in imposing his company on his cousin. But rather, I felt it was because he just wished to spend more time with Jane to the point where he was ignoring proper social traditions, habits, and decorum.

This was made very evident when he looked toward the seat next to him, expecting Jane to take that seat immediately. What was even more surprising was that she did sit next to him, without any fear of how it made her appear.

Darcy and I gave each other a look, sat down as well, and let the two of them speak with each other and thoroughly ignore us. While I had been initially apprehensive about this coupling, I soon stopped caring. For truly, I was seated next to Mr. Darcy, and very quickly, all my attention gave way to him.

That is the strange and vexing tendency of falling in love with someone; you begin to have a hard time caring about the presence of others and you feel a definitive draw towards that one person. You cannot attend to much else without it feeling like it is a great nuisance, for it forces you to speak to something else than the object of your affections.

How easily it was to impose oneself on the public and fall into the habit of impropriety and being indiscrete. This was why Charlotte Lucas advised me to encourage Jane to be more forthright in her affections toward Mr. Bingley.

Charlotte!

Now that I had thought of her, it occurred to me that I had not written to her ever since I came to London!

That had been for quite some time. For all my attention had been seized by my constant overturning of emotions to Mr. Darcy. After saving me from Mr. Wickham, Mr. Darcy was all I could think of, nothing else.

Yet, in the next minute, I recalled that she had not written to me either and my heart rested. Both she and I clearly had other things on our minds, and we had temporarily forgotten each other. I would write to her in time, but for the moment, there was nothing to be apprehensive about. So, once more, I turned my attention to Mr. Darcy. And I found peace.

In speaking with him while eating, I felt as if he and I were encased in a large shell and the rest of the world was on the outside. Truly, in that moment, it felt as if he and I were the only two people in the world and all the rest did not exist.

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