Pride Before a Fall Quotes

“I was just thinking about Mr Wickham…and Mrs Forster. What might have happened had we not married when we did? Lydia might have been allowed to go off to Brighton, and we all could have been ruined by proxy. It was a near miss, I think.” Elizabeth shuddered again as she always did whenever her thoughts turned towards the subject.”
― Mary Smythe, Pride Before a Fall: A Variation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

“and the sounds of an orchestra warming up.”
― Mary Smythe, Pride Before a Fall: A Variation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice