His Best Hope
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Georgiana had an excellent coming out and two years later she married the son of an earl. They were married at Pemberley in June, almost a year to the day they met. As might be imagined, the wedding was also a grand affair with many attendees, and Elizabeth stood up with her. Georgiana would later have a son and a year later a daughter, and three years later a boy and a girl. She was well pleased that she and her brother both had large families. That had been her wish ever since meeting the Gardiner children.
Marry and Kitty had married friends they met in town and both had started families, Mary with a son and Kitty with a daughter. Lydia and Wickham did not attend the wedding. They did not have any childtren and never visited with their family, something that hurt all her family.
The Bennets were never as happy as when they visited with their children and grandchildren, and Mr. Bennet particularly enjoyed reading to his grandsons, who already were beginning to show a strong interest in reading and listening to his stories.
Mrs. Bennet had also changed and became more serious and her and her husband’s own relationship grew closer.
Colonel Fitzwilliam did meet a young woman after the wedding and they married nearly a year after Darcy and Elizabeth.
DEDICATION
To my daughter Elizabeth, who reminds me of Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennet.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
To Jane Austen for her genius in authoring one of the greatest love stories ever written, Pride and Prejudice. To my husband, my best friend, who puts up with my obsessions about all things Austen. To Word-2-Kindle for help with my formatting and my cover. Finally, to two ladies in my book club, Sara and Connie, who helped with the editing and for keeping me in control when I started to stray along the way, thank you both.