P&P The Untold Stories: Wickham’s Scheme of Elopement by Diana Birchall

Mr. Wickham makes the town too hot to hold him…

July 29, 1812

About a month after Lydia’s removal to Brighton, Mr. Wickham sauntered into a handsome suite attached to the Prince Regent’s palatial quarters in Marine Parade. It was not where a young officer of a common militia regiment might expect to be admitted, but when he asked for Mrs. Younge, the servant girl dimpled at his handsome face, and admitted him.

The lady, an elegant slender creature between thirty and forty attired in fashionable...

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