Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice continued by Elliott Anna

Author:Elliott, Anna [Elliott, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Pemberley, Georgiana Darcy, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780982956038
Publisher: Anna Elliott
Published: 2011-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

Monday 16 May 1814

There was a letter this morning for my brother from Edward; I saw it lying beside Fitzwilliam's plate on the breakfast table when I came down. But I have scarcely had time to think of it or even wonder about what he said.

I am sure Aunt de Bourgh would hardly be pleased at my regarding what has happened in terms of my own inconvenience. Though--something else I would not have expected--I really am very sorry for her.

I would be even more sorry for her if she had not upset the servants so much. Joan, one of the chamber maids, just came into my room to draw the curtains and rake out the fire in the grate, and she was still sniffling and red-eyed. Though at least the house is quiet, now that the physician has been and given Aunt de Bourgh something to make her sleep. I would not have believed it possible in a place as spacious as Pemberley, but all the morning, the entire place seemed to echo with my aunt's screams.

But I've just re-read what I've written so far, and I seem to be making no sense at all. I suppose the morning's events have left everyone off balance.

I had just come down to breakfast--and recognised Edward's hand on the topmost letter in my brother's pile of morning messages--when a high, keening scream sounded from one of the bedrooms upstairs.

I was sure someone must have been hurt, though I could not tell who. I couldn't recognise the voice, and even when I'd run upstairs and found that the screams were coming from my Aunt de Bourgh's room, I couldn't believe it was she who was making such an outcry, for I'd never heard my aunt sound like that before.

The door was half open, so I went inside, and found my brother and Elizabeth there before me, one on either side of Aunt de Bourgh. She was still screaming. Though now that I was inside the room, I could make out a few words. "Theft! Robbery! My pearls!"

Elizabeth put an arm around her. For all Aunt de Bourgh has always been so horrible to her, Elizabeth was as kind as could be. She asked me to run down and fetch a glass of brandy, and once I had brought it back, she put it to my aunt's lips and coaxed her to drink.

"That's right," Elizabeth murmured, when Aunt de Bourgh had taken a few swallows from the glass and her ragged breathing had slowed. "Now, please try to tell us what's the matter."

My aunt had recovered herself at least a little by that time, for she shrugged off Elizabeth's touch and spoke to my brother.

"You must search the servants' quarters at once!" Her voice was quivering, though with anger, not tears. "I demand it. And see that they are questioned, too. I have never liked the look of that chamber maid--the girl who comes in the mornings to start the fire. She has a sly, insolent look in her eyes.

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