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unusual time for him to rise for there was always something to be done about the few acres of land he inhabited sometimes he would offer his assistance to a neighboring tenant if there was a need for extra hands for the building of a fence or repairs to a roof once he had spent an entire day on a neighbor s farm helping to build a new barn though he often let his beard grow out to disguise himself since he saw no one of his old circle of acquaintances his neighbors knew who he was they knew what had happened to his father his fortune his dignity none of this was ever mentioned the tenants were grateful to him for ensuring they would not lose their own homes in the wake of the disaster that had befallen his family and they respected him more than ever for being willing to humble himself and live at their level it was well known that he could have joined his sister at the home of his lofty relatives the earl and countess of disley the earl now having management over pemberley park but had chosen to remain close to the home that had been his from the day of his birth he had not abandoned the people who had for so long made a piece of the park their homes after completing his morning ablutions he dressed in one of the suits that reynolds had packed for him a pair of black breeches and a brown waistcoat and jacket he was supposed to go riding with his sister but had no riding breeches or boots with him so what he had would have to do he was just tying his cravat when there was a knock at his door half expecting his uncle he opened it to find not the earl but his valet on the other side does lord disley have need of me he asked perkins shook his head and lifted his hand darcy took note of a towel folded over his arm with a mug in his hand that held a brush a razor and a pair of scissors no sir said the valet lord disley thought that perhaps you might like a shave and a haircut it s more likely his lordship desired his nephew not go about the grounds looking like a wolf in sheep s clothing darcy muttered though he stepped aside and allowed the man to enter wondering how his uncle could possibly have known he would be awake at this hour he wordlessly took himself to the chair at the dressing table and sat in it as perkins arrayed the few instruments he d brought on the table s top he then moved to the wash stand and poured a draught of water into the mug which darcy knew would have a chunk of soap at the bottom on his return perkins unfolded the towel and put it about his chest and shoulders the long serving valet made quick work of trimming his hair to a more respectable shorter length before he went to work on clearing the beard from his chin afterward darcy was forced to admit that he both looked and felt better more like his old self though he knew it would not last long thanking perkins for his time and the excellence of his work he then quit his room to go in search of his uncle surely the earl was up if his valet was already at work he found the older man not unsurprisingly in his study the clock on the mantle over the fireplace read seven and he still wore a flannel banyan ah fitzwilliam i see that perkins has done his duty richard fitzwilliam remarked on bidding him entrance indeed you need not be embarrassed to be seen with me now darcy remarked lord disley frowned fitzwilliam there s no need to be unpleasant i know you haven t a man of your own right now i have reynolds darcy rejoined he does well enough in lieu of a proper valet though given my living situation i see no need to waste time having him shave me every morning or trim my hair every month those are at present luxuries i can do without you chose to stay behind and live as your tenants do his uncle reminded him needlessly on the contrary uncle there was no choice said darcy not for me perhaps you would understand how i feel if our situations were reversed perhaps i would but that is a moot point one which we have argued countless times over the last five years said the earl with a sigh i did not ask you here to debate the merits of your choice i sent perkins to you because i thought i might do you a kindness while you were here not because i was ashamed of your appearance you didn t ask me here uncle you said you expected me by supper which i believe qualifies as a summons darcy pointed out lord disley frowned again and sat back in his chair might i ask why you are behaving so churlishly darcy scoffed need you really ask you demanded i come and then made me wait for an explanation as to why then you had your man tend me this morning as though you could not stand the sight of me you reminded me that i chose the life i now live as though i am not reminded of it every single day and though we have argued the necessity of that choice countless times you still fail to understand why i made it pemberley is all that i have left and i don t even really have that you do he emitted a groan born of exasperation and annoyance i just don t understand how you cannot see what it means to me both to remain at the park and to live with the knowledge that pemberley is yours and not mine an expression he could not decipher had fallen over his uncle s face and when at last darcy had finished speaking the earl sighed heavily i suppose you are right he said at last i cannot truly understand because i have never been put in the position to have to make the choice you did but i can imagine fitzwilliam i can imagine the humiliation the loss of pride and dignity you suffer i can imagine how much it hurt you to lose your father in the manner he left us to place your only sibling into the custody of others to care for he sat forward then his hands clasped together on the desktop and his gaze now earnest i hope that one day you will know how very very proud i am of the man you have chosen to be i don t know that i could be such a man i m too used to this life too old and set in my ways to so easily give it up for a cottage in a distant corner of my own estate disley then gestured to the chair that sat before his desk drawing a breath darcy moved at last to take it expelling the breath in a whoosh as he fell back into it please believe me when i say that it pains me more than you will ever know to have to sit by and do almost nothing for you his uncle continued i have honestly done all that i can these last five years feeling suddenly ashamed of his behavior darcy nodded i know you have uncle forgive me for being such an ungracious oaf sometimes the weight of well everything just crashes down upon me and i lash out when i should instead be silent his uncle nodded given all you have endured and how you have always tended toward keeping your emotions under strict regulation it is only natural that you should explode once in a while when you have no one with whom you feel comfortable confiding in to vent upon said he shall we say no more about it you are very good uncle darcy replied now you said in your note that you wished to discuss pemberley but thought it best to do so in person yes i suppose it is best we have done with it so that your mood is calmer when your sister rises said lord disley she has been looking forward to having you here since i told her you were coming i am sorry to have stayed away so long i simply thought it for the best i understand that and she will as well in time his uncle then shifted some papers on his desk about seemingly looking for one or more in particular when at last he found what he was looking for he held the sheets out to darcy that he said as darcy took the two pages of parchment in hand is a plan for returning at least some of your fortune to you it will take some time before the estate can be solvent again but it s doable darcy frowned as the full meaning of what he was reading registered it was a business plan for leasing pemberley you want to let pemberley pemberley in the hands of other people he said not bothering to keep the incredulity he felt from his voice fitzwilliam you forget perhaps that not only was much of the darcy fortune lost to those wretched wickhams but also that your father spent what they didn t take trying to find them not to mention his desperate attempts to recoup his losses through gambling and bad investments lord disley pointed out it is a miracle that your sister s dowry was saved the rent from pemberley s tenants has not been enough to pay off all the debt accrued and it s been almost five years we ought to have done this from the start but we were both of us so hopeful that those bounders and the money they took might yet be found we were as you are full aware unfortunately wrong and i can no longer justify taking no action at all regarding the estate something must be done as i know you ll never agree to my selling it you re damn right i won t darcy growled you may legally own pemberley at present uncle but that house that land and their history belong to georgiana and me precisely my point disley retorted nor would i wish to take it away from you as you said it s all you have left and i do want to be able to place ownership of the estate back into the hands in which it belongs i d have done before now but with the state of your father s affairs i did not wish to chance his debtors trying to claim it piecemeal and for that uncle i do thank you despite the collateral damage done by my father giving up the estate i am content in the knowledge that it will one day be mine again darcy replied you have saved it for me and i am grateful i haven t the ability to manage disley as well as pemberley on my income i m rich fitzwilliam but sadly not that rich his uncle continued with a yearly lease in place asking as much as can legally be asked and perhaps a little more we can put that much more of the tenants rents toward the debt a trifling amount in comparison but still something you ll at least get your ten thousand a year back which is a vast deal better than what i ve been able to give you a vast deal better indeed ten thousand a year would be a far cry from the five hundred he now lived under and having pemberley as his own once again though up to half his income would be spent on maintaining the house and grounds and seeing to the needs of the tenants would be eminently preferable to what he made do with at present he could pay reynolds and his wife a salary again he could get them help for carrying out their daily tasks they could delegate to maids and footmen as they had done before and he just might go back to shaving more than once a week darcy lifted the papers in his hands as he asked what pray is your projection for solvency his uncle sat back again unless by some miracle the money stolen by your father s steward and his son is found three to five years stunned was the only word to describe what the earl s declaration made darcy feel no he felt cold at having to face another three to five years living barely within view of his family s ancestral home whilst another lived inside it it was one thing to endure the cottage knowing the estate house was empty but to be forced to watch some other man come and go from it as he pleased what what am i to do he stuttered how how can i possibly remain when my home is given into the hands of another lord disley s expression was not unsympathetic the way i see it fitzwilliam you have three options one you might finally take me up on the offer to come and live at disley court two you remain as you are on your four acres in a secluded corner of the park and continue to hide away from the world or or what we could set you up as pemberley s steward his uncle replied then raised his hand as darcy opened his mouth to object hear me out fitzwilliam no one knows pemberley park better than you i daresay not even that scoundrel albert wickham or his worthless offspring could best you in knowledge of the grounds or the tenantry especially given you ve spent the last five years living amongst them you could stay in the cottage you have now or we could move you to a farm closer to pemberley it would be your choice so long as we are careful in our selection of the tenant darcy scowled pray tell me you do not intend to advertise lord disley scoffed certainly not i would not blaze your degradation to the world any more than has already been done i do however intend to make some discreet inquiries will have to if we re even to find anyone to let the place to i know you abhor disguise of any sort especially in light of how your poor father was duped but you may have to use an alias if you choose the third option it may be wise to remove your most recent portraits from the gallery so that you re not recognized as belonging to the darcy family that owns the house looking over the papers in his hand again darcy had to admit albeit reluctantly that his uncle s plan was sound thank goodness he d had a first class education to help him understand the minute details as well as the layman s terms his uncle had just laid out and aside from locating the stolen money there is no other way to pay father s remaining debts he was compelled to ask the earl shook his head i m afraid not fitzwilliam not unless you re willing to deprive georgiana of her dowry and you know how bloody difficult it was to get your father to part with the thirty thousand and pemberley s deed before he lost those as well as himself no uncle you know i could not bear to strip my sister of the last shred of dignity our father has left her even if you practically had to wrestle it from him darcy said indeed so nephew what will you do darcy drew a breath and blew it out i do not know i must have some time to think on it his uncle inclined his head i expected as much i would suggest attempting to put it from your mind as i know georgiana intends to go riding with you this morning she spoke of missing your rides together while we awaited your arrival last evening but i also know it will be difficult to do i ve given you a great deal to ponder and deciding on how little or how much you wish to be involved with pemberley s tenant will be a weighty decision indeed in that much at least we are in agreement sir darcy quipped before sighing and handing the papers back to his uncle then he stood and took his leave giveaway i feel like darcy was channeling persuasion s sir walter elliot for a moment there tell me what you think in the comments below to enter for a chance to win an ebook copy of the reintroduction of fitzwilliam darcy but wait there s more because today is release day there s a bonus prize available continental us commenters on today s blog must comment by 11 59 p m are not only entered to win the ebook but also a signed paperback copy in a second drawing international readers i m sorry i cannot offer you a signed paperback at this time if a non us resident is drawn for the paperback i will send you an ebook contest open until august 14 2021 good luck christine like many a jaff author before her is a 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