Mr Darcy's Quizzing Glass: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Jan Ashton. ★★★★☆
Fitzwilliam Darcy is overwhelmed to inherit the vast Pemberley estate in his early twenties.
Discerning who to trust and who wants to take advantage is a significant challenge.
When struggling to decypher ledgers, he searches his study for a magnifying glass.
What he finds is his father's quizzing glass, a bejeweled trinket used by several generations of Darcys.
He is shocked to find that the glass has mysterious properties. When he realises that it shows a person's true character, it becomes an essential tool.
Over the years, he relies heavily on the glass but in doing so, does nothing to develop his own ability to judge wisely.
Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy cross paths at the Meryton Assembly. She is unimpressed with him. He is captivated by her.
The quizzing glass becomes a bone of contention, a subject of envy and even provokes accusations of witchcraft!
A good variation, with a novel twist.
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