Mr Darcy's Legacy by Y M Whitehead

Author:Y M Whitehead [Whitehead, Y M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-05-04T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

27 March ~ 8 April 1812

Friday, the 27th March, 1812

Good Friday. I saw her today at church for the first time since the visit, but forbade myself to look her way after the first brief glance. In the interim, Colonel Fitzwilliam had several times called at the parsonage and had pressed me to accompany him, which invitation, however, I had declined each time. If he had thought my unwillingness a little odd, he had not given any indication. He seemed to take enormous pleasure in Miss Elizabeth’s company, but I have not yet seen any sign denoting any serious inclination.

A letter arrived from Bingley yesterday. He appears to be enjoying his sojourn in Bath as much as it is possible for anyone to enjoy a stay in that once fashionable spa resort at this season.

Dear Darcy,

Thank you for your letter. You will have been in Kent for a few days, I presume, by the time you receive this letter. Your letter diverted me tremendously and made me roll on the floor laughing, especially the bit about the happenings in the theatre. Fancy Lindass remembering me saying that I would happily wager that you would not bat an eyelid should the moon suddenly turn green in the night sky! But I have to scold him about how dismally bad his memory is when next time I see him, because I certainly did not say ‘green’, Darcy, nothing of the sort, but I said ‘purple’! Well, but it was typical of you, Darcy, that you did not blink an eye at the sight of beautiful young ladies. Was it any wonder that they doubted your having a heart like the other ordinary mortals’ circulating warm blood inside your body?

By the by, the life here is not nearly as bad as I dreaded. There are quite a few young bucks who, like me, have been obliged to come to satisfy their old men’s whims, and they join my cousins and me in going out on exhilarating rides over the hills, which we endeavour to indulge ourselves in as often as we can, instead of vegetating, lying torpid in the King’s Bath or the Cross Bath! And Darcy, I cannot quite believe I am saying this, but even the sauntering in the Great Pump Room in the mornings is not as horrid as I first pictured. You do meet with great many interesting people there. I was literally awestruck when I met none other than the great Thomas Lawrence about a week ago, who I understood was at the moment the honoured guest at the Marquis of Westdale’s in Royal Crescent. He was indeed a very impressive man, a kind of man who, even if you had not known who he was, would have caught your eye immediately because of some aura which he possessed aplenty - his charisma, so to speak.

I found as soon as I arrived here that my uncle had taken this house in Rivers Street for six months. I

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