Swipe Left on Mr. Darcy — A Single Man With Serious Money, Page 7
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Panel 1: Close on Mrs. Bennet, wounded, ignoring the compliment entirely, a hand pressed to her temple. Mrs. Bennet: "You've no consideration for my nerves." Panel 2: Close on Mr. Bennet, warm mock-protest, the real affection underneath showing. Mr. Bennet: "They've been my companions these twenty years." Panel 3: A wide beat — the two settling back into separate orbits, her straightening a cushion she doesn't need to straighten, him reaching for the tablet. A rhythm worn smooth by decades. Caption: "This was the household." Panel 4: Mrs. Bennet, reanimated, crosses to the hallway doorway and calls brightly off toward the rest of the house, phone up. Mrs. Bennet: "Girls! You'll never guess who's moving into Netherfield—" Panel 5: A large group reveal of the five Bennet daughters in a doorway and stairs tableau, each distinct: Jane serene with honey-blonde hair and a pink cardigan, looking up from a book; Lizzie in an olive jacket mid-eye-roll but amused; Lydia and Kitty crammed over a phone; Mary with glasses and headphones, oblivious. Panel 6: A final wide exterior at night — the warm Bennet house glowing amber with family silhouettes in the window, and far off on its hill the cool-toned glass mansion with one light now on. Caption: "And just like that, the whole house had a project."
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Mrs. Bennet complains about her nerves and Mr. Bennet answers with fond mock-protest. The couple settle back into their long-married rhythm before she hurries off to tell the girls — revealing all five Bennet sisters — and the chapter closes on the warm house at night with Netherfield lit on its hill.
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Netherfield, the cool glass mansion on the hill, has finally been rented — and Mrs. Bennet has already decided one of her five daughters will marry whoever moved in. She corners her unbothered husband to demand he go make friends with the new arrival: a young, single, very rich man named Bingley. Mr. Bennet needles her with dry affection, offers to put in a good word for Lizzie, and gives his verdict that Lizzie has a bit more going on than her sisters. The chapter ends by revealing the household the whole scheme is about — the five Bennet daughters — as Mrs. Bennet announces the house has a new project.