Pemberley (2012)
“Leaving instructions that she should be woken if there were any developments in her sister’s confinement, she went down the corridor and turned to go into her room – then, on an impulse, opened the door of Darcy’s room and went inside.
Since their marriage, Darcy had inhabited his room very sparsely indeed; and it was empty and cold, with the curtains round the four-poster bed tied back to the posts as if in recognition that their proprietor would no longer find any use for them. The curtains a...t the window were also drawn back so that a new moon shone in, with a star at the tip, over the snowy park and trees. Pemberley lay in a deeper hollow now, with the snow all around it; and Elizabeth feared suddenly that its master would not return; that he was hurt, or had fallen, his horse prey to the monstrous accumulation of snow in the lanes between here and Matlock. Elizabeth sighed, and went to stand by the bureau, where pens and quills and paper were laid out, for the use of Darcy’s correspondence, each sheet engraved with the picture of Pemberley House and coat of arms of the Darcys, entwined with those of the great line from whom Lady Catherine and Darcy’s mother, the late Lady Anne, were descended; and she sighed again as she looked out on the moonlit park and wooded hills that were her new demesne.MoreLess
Since their marriage, Darcy had inhabited his room very sparsely indeed; and it was empty and cold, with the curtains round the four-poster bed tied back to the posts as if in recognition that their proprietor would no longer find any use for them. The curtains a...t the window were also drawn back so that a new moon shone in, with a star at the tip, over the snowy park and trees. Pemberley lay in a deeper hollow now, with the snow all around it; and Elizabeth feared suddenly that its master would not return; that he was hurt, or had fallen, his horse prey to the monstrous accumulation of snow in the lanes between here and Matlock. Elizabeth sighed, and went to stand by the bureau, where pens and quills and paper were laid out, for the use of Darcy’s correspondence, each sheet engraved with the picture of Pemberley House and coat of arms of the Darcys, entwined with those of the great line from whom Lady Catherine and Darcy’s mother, the late Lady Anne, were descended; and she sighed again as she looked out on the moonlit park and wooded hills that were her new demesne.MoreLess
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