Pride and Prejudice: The Wild and Wanton Edition by Jane Austen; Michelle Pillow

Author:Jane Austen; Michelle Pillow
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: England, Social classes, Romance, General, Adult, Sisters, Young women, Erotica, Fiction
ISBN: 9781440506604
Publisher: Adams Media
Published: 2011-01-14T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY

ELIZABETH'S MIND WAS FILLED with thoughts of Jane, Bingley, and, worst of all, Mr. Darcy. She refused to leave her room. The agitation and tears which the subject occasioned brought on a headache. It grew so much worse towards the evening that, added to her unwillingness to see Mr. Darcy, it determined her not to attend her cousins to Rosings where they were engaged to drink tea. Mrs. Collins, seeing she was really unwell, did not press her to go and as much as possible prevented her husband from pressing her. However, Mr. Collins could not conceal his apprehension of Lady Catherine's being rather displeased by her staying at home.

Elizabeth could not care about Lady Catherine or any disappointment she might feel. At the moment she wanted nothing more than to be far away from Rosings. Had there been a carriage at her disposal, she would have been off before her hosts were back from their engagement. However, there was not such means of escape and she instead found refuge beneath the covers, hidden away from the world as she tried to find a solution to end her sister's suffering and reunite her with Mr. Bingley. Nothing came to mind.

When they were gone not quite the full of a half-an-hour, Elizabeth, intending to exasperate herself as much as possible against Mr. Darcy, examined all of the letters which Jane had written to her since arriving in Kent. They contained no actual complaint, nor was there any revival of past occurrences, or any communication of present suffering. But in all, and in almost every line of each, there was a want of that cheerfulness which had been used to characterize her style, and which, proceeding from the serenity of a mind at ease with itself and kindly disposed towards everyone, had been scarcely clouded. Elizabeth noticed every sentence conveyed the idea of uneasiness, with an attention which it had hardly received on the first perusal. Mr. Darcy's shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict, gave her a keener sense of her sister's sufferings. It was some consolation to think that his visit to Rosings was to end on the day after the next — and, a still greater, that in less than a fortnight she herself would be with Jane again to contribute to the recovery of her spirits, by all that affection could do.

She could not think of Darcy's leaving Kent without remembering that his cousin was to go with him. Colonel Fitzwilliam had made it clear that he had no intentions at all, and agreeable as he was, she did not mean to be unhappy about him. Elizabeth would not pretend to love where she did not, nor because the option before her seemed a reasonable prospect. Though, had Colonel Fitzwilliam been inclined towards her, she might have begun to feel differently. But, he did not and she did not.

While settling this point, she was suddenly roused by the sound of the doorbell. Her

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