The Exile- The Countess Visits Longbourn by Don Jacobson

Author:Don Jacobson [Jacobson, Don]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 198433932X
Published: 2018-01-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter XXIV

Miss Jenkinson had trained herself to tune out the bulk of Lydia’s torrent of words that passed for her contribution to the conversation. She was not ignoring that which Lydia said, rather scanning the sentences and paragraphs for their essential meaning, and then cataloging items of interest. She had learned this method from her father who wished to process parishioner’s petitions revealed in the confidence of his study. A periodic nod gave permission for the other party to continue.

The two were still finishing the cold collation backed up with a luscious squash soup that Cook had presented to fortify them against the meeting to come. As Lydia chattered on about some of her newest gowns that had just been delivered, Laura cast her mind back over the past fortnight.

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