The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney #1)

by Claudia Gray

Frivolous pursuits are nearly the only ones we are allowed,

“I shall never be grateful for ignorance,”

require protection. You are my husband. If something has…has caused a husband harm, or troubled his spirit, then it is a wife’s privilege to hear him as no other person in this world can do. To bear his pain alongside him, and in so doing leaven his suffering. Would you deny me this?”

The fiction of enjoyment must be maintained.

something in their talk often…curdled.

Although Juliet thought such behavior ridiculous when the other girl started it, she found it very difficult not to respond in kind.

Not only had the weather been foul and his uncle murdered, but Jonathan had also no chance to play the piano for an entire week.

It was not that Emma had not surmised that these things would be true. But she had not felt them.