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- Herausgeber: Heart Candies Publishing
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
The debut novella from Nora Kipling!What if Elizabeth Bennet had turned down Mister Darcy's second proposal?What would have happened if Wickham’s devious nature had been exposed before Lydia had run off with him? Set shortly after Jane’s wedding to Mr. Bingley, Christmas at Netherfield answers these questions and more, such as what might cause dear Mr. Darcy to propose to Elizabeth a third and final time? Would she say yes? A Christmas-time ball, the Bennet family, and lots of ribbons await you in Christmas at Netherfield.This is a sweet, clean romance suitable for all lovers of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016
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Christmas at Netherfield
A Pride & Prejudice Variation
Nora Kipling
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright © 2016 by Nora Kipling
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
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Cover design by Elias Fox
Book design by Heart Candies Publishing
First Edition: December 2016
ISBN: 978-0-9958050-7-1
For Miss Nora Lee, for whom I was named.
Thank you for the gift of your time and friendship.
I treasure it, and all the wisdom you shared to this very day.
Chapter 1
Summer had melted into an unseasonably warm fall, and the harvest was longer than usual. That meant that Mister Bennet was occupied with the goings-on of the estate more than he preferred to be, and his remaining daughters in the house were left to run wild under Mrs. Bennet’s loving if blind eye to their bad behavior. Jane had married at the end of summer, a beautiful August bride with her sister Elizabeth standing up for her at the wedding, and since had been on a month-long wedding trip across the country.
Elizabeth herself was sat in the drawing room, fanning herself idly as she read. Around her Mary practiced on the pianoforte and Lydia and Kitty stood at the window, giggling and breathing on the panes only to make shapes in the condensation.
“Really, is there nothing else you two can do other than to giggle like mad women while engaged in the acts of children?” Elizabeth said, feeling put out and irritable from the lasting summer heat that had bled into late October, coupled with the slightly high-pitched laughter of her younger sisters. Mary glanced over at her and smiled for a brief moment before going back to her practicing. The pianoforte was tolerable, and even enjoyable as Mary was an accomplished player, but when it was combined with Kitty and Lydia . . .
Lydia spun, her dresses flaring out, a scowl on her face,
“Don’t be sour just because you’re fading into an old maid right in front of us, and you’ve had no offers other than poor Mister Collins who you denied,” she said, before turning back to blow another hot breath on the glass. Kitty stifled a giggle behind her hand. Elizabeth was grateful she had not told them about Mister Darcy’s first proposal, nor about his second which she had also refused. Too much insult had passed between them for her to ever recover, she thought, and to have a fully good opinion of the man. His one redeeming quality was that he had relayed to her the truth of Mister Wickham’s nature.
