AUSTEN Jane - Works+1
by Sunfreckle
To have either her understanding or her fortitude questioned was very painful indeed, she had experienced too much of it, but it was impossible to be offended by Georgiana. Not now Kitty had come to understand her character. “I understand you,” she said, hesitantly. “It gives you pain to hear of Mr Wickham because he has used your family ill, and you think I will be grieved to hear of it on my sister’s account. But I had much rather know.” She fretfully rose to her feet. “Do believe me, Georgiana, I would not bring you pain for the world. And if— We need not speak of either of them, if you had rather not.”
Teen 1.2k words 1 ch Complete 38 kudos
Canon Compliant · Friendship · Post-Canon · except not really /post/ canon because of the whole overvieuw of the near future austen gives at the end of P&P