Jane Austen Mysteries 08 Jane And His Lordship's Legacy - Plot & Excerpts
Munro adjourning the proceeding, and placing matters in abeyance until Mr. Prowting should inform him otherwise." "It is a curious business." Henry drained his dish of tea and pushed back from the breakfast table. He had appeared at the cottage early this morning agog with the news of yesterday's in-quest, which had spread rapidly throughout the town and was subject to every kind of exaggeration. Henry had been unable to attend the proceeding himself, detained by that bank busi-ness which had occasioned his descent on Hampshire; but knowing Jane far better than Mr. Prowting, he was confident I should acquaint him with the particulars. 86 ~ Stephanie Barron "Drowning and murder might arise in a country village from any number of causes," he mused, "--jealousy, petty ha-treds, a dispute of long-standing between two parties. A woman might come into it--or several women, if you like. But why not leave the body with a great stone tied to its neck, sunken in the pond, to be discovered a twelvemonth hence?
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