The Darcy Connection (2008)
The Darcy Connection
“Whole villages, elegant houses, tidy thatched cottages, rolling acres of farmland and timber; all these, she said in tones of high satisfaction, belonged to the marquis’s family.At least the tenants’ cottages seemed to be kept in good order, although Eliza knew that there might, off the highway, be villages where squalor prevailed. She could not say whether Montblaine was a man of appearance rather than of substance. Lady Grandpoint insisted that he was an excellent landlord. “And the churches,... all these parishes, are livings within his gift,” she said, nodding at Charlotte. “He is a man with strong influence in the Church, I assure you.”Charlotte looked back at her great-aunt with her usual clear, unreadable expression, as she murmured, “I am sure he is good to his tenants and to the deserving poor, as he ought to be,” before lapsing back into silence.Sometimes Eliza longed to shake her sister, to shake her until her teeth rattled, to demand to know what was going on in her mind.MoreLess
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