A Beneficial Coincidence – Charlotte Wellard

She was of such a nervous nature that instead of the laughter that often accompanied her—for she genuinely was, by temperament, a happy person—she fell into a melancholy. During this time, the thought must have occurred to her that the estate could be secured if one of her daughters were to marry Mr. Collins.

But something had changed in her nature. Before, she had not been at all concerned with marrying us off. Yet, naturally, she wished us well in finding good husbands.” “Surely, that would have been a provident solution. That Mr. Collins should marry into the family—even to reclaim the Bennet name,” said Darcy. “One would have thought so. But Collins was a strange creature. He had written to my father that he wished to visit and to heal the breach between the families.

Whatever breach he was referring to, for we had never heard of him before. He sought reconciliation, and by all accounts, he had heard Mr. Bennet’s daughters handsome and amiable. His idea of atonement for inheriting our home was to choose one of us as his wife. “Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and his deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society.

The greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father: Jeremiah Collins, who had inherited none of his grandfather, John Bennet’s good sense—the sailing master is, after all, second only to the captain on a sailing ship. He had attended one of the universities, but merely kept the necessary terms, without forming at it any useful acquaintance, and was subsequently ordained. A fortunate chance had recommended him to a vacant living in Kent, and the respect which he felt for his patroness and her high rank, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his rights as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.

“None of us daughters could abide his company.

Longbourn was once alive with laughter, but everything changes when the estate is revealed to be entailed away to a distant cousin. Refusing to marry the new heir, Elizabeth Bennet leaves her childhood home and seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle Gardiner in bustling Gracechurch Street. At the same time, Fitzwilliam Darcy’s world is upended. A forgotten claim robs him and his sister Georgiana of Pemberley, stripping away both their fortune and their place in society.

When Elizabeth and Darcy meet in London, both are determined to reclaim what was lost. Their search leads them to newspaper archives and long-buried secrets, united by a single hope: can they restore Darcy’s inheritance and challenge the entail on Longbourn? A Beneficial Coincidence is a Pride and Prejudice novella about fresh starts.

In this gentle, low-angst tale, Elizabeth’s resolve and Darcy’s tenacity intertwine as they fight for justice—and find unexpected romance— amid the intrigue of Regency England. 1kitap1.com/en Prologue London, 1736 “John, are you leaving us?” “Aye, Captain. I’ll let you wrangle with customs—they’ve no fondness for ships out of Flanders, but there’s nothing aboard worth their trouble. Potatoes and Flemish cloth won’t tempt them. They’ll know we left the Cantonese tea and silks behind in Ostend to be smuggled ashore—more’s the pity for them.”

He glanced up at the tangled rigging. “The Judith was a stout ship in her day, but the sails are rotted and the hull’s crawling with worms. Are they breaking her up?” “You guessed it. Once we’re unloaded, she’s headed to Woolwich Yard to be surveyed. But before that, I owe you my thanks. You’ve been a fine master—I’d be proud to sail with you again.” “Perhaps, Captain. I’ve a fair profit coming to me from that Ostend cargo once it’s landed in England.

I’ll wait and see how things stand ashore.” “Have you enough coin to get home? The shipping office is closed, you’ll have to wait for your pay.” “I’ve enough for the walk to Charing—where a warm hearth and Maria are waiting, God bless her. All the best to you, Captain.” The sailing master of the Judith swung onto the Billingsgate wharf. On the short journey up the Thames from the estuary, he had grown accustomed to the foul river smell—no different from that of any European town or those of the Orient.

No, it was the commotion and bustle of the market that unsettled him, so unlike standing watch on the quarterdeck. Peddlers hawked their wares—fish, eels, oysters, sacks of corn and coal, salt, wine, and pottery—all crying for attention. He jostled through the crowds, stepping around offal thrown to scrawny dogs, pushing past a woman selling pies, and barely avoiding an overturned barrow.

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