Dancing With Mr. Darcy: Stories Inspired By Jane Austen And Chawton House Library - Plot & Excerpts
Darcy MARIANNE AND ELLIE Beth Cordingly Ellie sat, book in hand, trousers around her ankles, momentarily winded by the familiar words: A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind;A lover’s ears will hear the lowest sound, They came like bad news in an unexpected phone call, disarming her. Flicking to the front page of the book she saw her father’s shambolic scrawl and felt a pang of envy that it was in her sister Marianne’s possession. Simultaneously she heard his voice in her head reciting the lines like a mantra. It was he who had underlined the section and placed the red leather bookmark within those pages: he who had taught his daughters to be open to love and to ‘never settle,’ quoting from Shakespeare to illustrate his point. And Marianne, despite breaking off her engagement and fleeing to a rented bedsit, had dutifully placed The Hundred Greatest Love Poems Ever somewhere it would be seen daily – as reading material in her new bathroom. To stay open to love, Ellie supposed.
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