title: Jane and His Lordship's Legacy (Jane Austen Mysteries)
author:  Stephanie Barron 
description: "Readers who hope to recapture, if only briefly, the pleasure of reading Jane Austen for the first time will welcome Barrons eighth Jane Austen mystery.... Barron has masterfully imitated Austens voice."<i>Publishers Weekly</i>
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  # **Chapter 21**
  
  Jaime rode the perimeter of Anfeald Hold on a young mare too green for courier
  work, ostensibly getting in saddle time. In truth, she was preparing herself
  for the day when she could no longer think of these lands as even faintly hers
  by association.
  
  Mostly, she'd been too busy to consider it. Mostly still holding out hope for
  Arlen, unable to accept the inevitable without the neat packaging of
  absolutes. She'd been like that about her mother's death, too. Her mother,
  young and pretty and with Mark's eyeshers, too, Mark saidand killed in a
  tractor accident when Jaime was four and Mark not even old enough to have
  clear memories of her. The adults had whisked young Jaime away, of course . .
  . _protecting_ her. They protected her all through the days that followed, not
  even considering her presence at the viewing and the funeral.
  
  Until well into her teens, Jaime hadn't shaken th