π’πππππΎπΆππΆ ππΆππΈπ (georgiadarcy) wrote in sanditon, @ 2021-01-20 11:11:00 |
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Entry tags: | character: caroline bingley, character: georgiana darcy, player: jules, player: mira, status: complete |
Who: Georgiana and Caroline Bingley
What: An expected arrival in Sanditon met with an unexpected delay.
The curricle from Pemberley, now bound for the coast, trundled along at a good pace, making excellent time. While its destination remained out of view, there was plenty in their surroundings to take pleasure in, and plenty of speculation to occupy the active minds of the young ladies conveyed within.
The youngest was clearly at pains to contain her excitement, and made an admirable job of it for the most partβbut her excited feelings soon won out over propriety, and the absence of a much-admired older brother made this ultimate defeat all but assured. Georgiana Darcy thus pulled her curtain fully aside and presented a jubilant face to the country rushing by outside her window. "How beautiful it is!" she remarked, overawed by the meeting of sea and sky, and the golden expanse of waving grasses like an ocean unto itself. "Miss Caroline, you must come and have a look outside my window. I wonder what my brother will think of it?"
It was hardly a mystery to either young lady what Caroline's own brother would think of his new surroundings: Charles Bingley would be declaiming its merits from the half-constructed rooftops in short order. Georgiana harbored no doubts the eldest Bingley would find every reason to be pleased; for her own brother, she was less certain. Fitzwilliam had been as attentive to her as ever upon his return from Rosings, yet appeared distinctly agitated for reasons the youngest Darcy had not yet penetrated. Caroline, too, seemed somehow altered, but Georgiana could not say how in either case.
One way or another she was determined to get to the bottom of it all. Certainly the letters she had received from both during their time away must bear closer examining. At least this time she would not be left out of any significant new acquaintance or misadventure; on this point she was determined.