I, too, hoped quietly for romance and also for marriage as much as any of my sisters did,” she insists. The sections with Mr Collins I DID think worthy, as I often felt they would have made a good match and wondered why this was not advanced. It is understandable that people’s personalities change as they age and mature, or from circumstances, however readers will be hard-pressed to accept Elizabeth as a neurotic, cold fish to her loving husband propelling him into the arms of another and that his cousin, the amiable Colonel Fitzwilliam, is even more of a womanizing cad than George Wickham could ever aspire to be. She vanished with all hands; she may have hit a mine, been torpedoed by a U-boat or bombed by the RAF who were enforcing the blockade of Germany, as was the MV Kerlogue on this same route. really bad Pride and Prejudice fanfiction, written by someone who clearly has a bone to pick with Lizzy.

As the story continues, those who have read Pride and Prejudice will recognize the plot as it picks up at the beginning of Austen’s famous tale. There, she starts writing a novel, and finds herself becoming an object of interest both to Colonel Fitzwilliam and Darcy himself.But as soon as the story moves to Mary’s observations of her sister’s household where she resides at the time, the story becomes vain and disengaging. Darcy’s storied estate, Pemberley, becomes a gilded cage for Elizabeth; Mary’s impetuous sister Lydia, who eloped to London, learns what little support society has for a woman without money or education. My hackles were raised with a mention of "Lizzy's bad teeth" however, and every subsequent character who appears - from Darcy's sister to Colonel Fitzwilliam, acts so out of character with what we know of them from Austen that it became so disconnected with her original that I just gave up feeling outraged and was able to enjoy it as a separate piece.

The Naval Intelligence Department stated that none of Mitchell's encounters resulted in the destruction of any U-boat.

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