The Last House in Lambton: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Grace Gibson

Author:Grace Gibson [Gibson, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Meryton Press
Published: 2022-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Seven

My letters always arrived in a bundle since my father only sent Mr. Hill to the post office when it suited him—in other words, rarely. Thus, under the sweet supervision of Miss Darcy, who, not knowing my family, looked terribly pleased for me to get what must certainly be happy news of loved ones, I read that things at home were much as they always were.

We put great stock in correspondence, but having relied entirely upon it for news of my family for more than two months, I had come to the realization that it was a highly overvalued form of communication. Only by piecing together what bits one or the other of my relations felt inspired to share, could I get any sort of a picture of reality—and that merely an uncertain sketch.

Papa had been out in the fields, ostensibly out of interest in the state of the soil, but most likely wishing only to escape the noise and to look deeply into his own mind without being harassed. Whatever the case, he had turned an ankle on one of the furrows. He was a grump, according to Kitty, a beast, according to Lydia, and a poor, dear man who did not once complain, according to Jane. To Mary, he was much to be pitied because he could not go to church, and to my mother, who deigned to write to me, he was likely to sink into a decline on account of weak bones.

Jane, who had gone home for Charlotte’s wedding, had not been allowed to return to London, and I pitied her extremely. But it was on account of Mr. Collins’s wedding that my mother forgot to have disowned me, writing…

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