Swipe Left on Mr. Darcy — It's Complicated, Page 9
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Character card on a plain cool charcoal-and-emerald backdrop. Ms. de Bourgh — 62, silver-grey hair in an immaculate tight chignon, cold pale steel-blue eyes, a severe deep-emerald tailored skirt-suit with a large emerald brooch and matching earrings — sits straight-backed in a large throne-like armchair, one hand resting on the head of a thin cane, imperious and still. The immensely wealthy patron who employs Mr. Collins and rules the estate. Caption: 'MS. DE BOURGH — THRONE AND VERDICT'
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Character card of Ms. de Bourgh seated regally in a throne-like chair with a cane, in a deep-emerald suit, on a cool dark backdrop; caption 'MS. DE BOURGH — THRONE AND VERDICT'.
About this chapter
A bonus cast-guide interlude: a clean character-card lineup of everyone in Lizzie Bennet's tangled orbit as of the Ms. de Bourgh estate visit. One portrait per principal with their name and their essence in a single caption — Lizzie the sharp, unbowed protagonist; Darcy the cold man slowly thawing; Jane and Charles, the right people with the wrong timing; George Wickham, warm smile and cold read; Caroline Bingley, insults gift-wrapped; Charlotte Lucas, who chose a roof over butterflies; Mr. Collins, who treats courtship like a sales pitch; the newly arrived Ms. de Bourgh on her throne; and the whole Bennet household — five daughters and one mission. A quick who's-who for new readers and a midpoint snapshot of the whole board before the story turns.