Disclaimer: I don't own any of this, Jane Austen does.
Author's note: I would like to thank the beautiful Patagonian for beta-reading this story and Carlanime and Sandra for the encouragement.
This is the last part of the story. Sorry it took so long. I really have no other excuse than the fact that settling down in a new place is not the easiest thing in the world. Thanks for everybody who has been reading this and/or commented. This is the longest fic I've ever written. I know that a lot of people have done much better, but I'm still kind of proud of myself.

Darcy had no trouble, the next morning, in getting the Gardiners and Mr. Johnson's approval. They were all very happy about it, and Mr. Montgomery was never mentioned again. The wedding was celebrated as soon as propriety permitted, and Mr. and Mrs. Darcy left for Pemberley to be happy.

Lady Alicia never gave Elizabeth precedence, no matter what General Fitzwilliam said. But the family accepted Elizabeth easily enough – it was, after all, Darcy's second marriage, and his relatives were mostly relieved that he had not married his maid.

Mr. Collins was very good at managing his estate, mainly because most of it was done by his wife. Her correspondence with Elizabeth was, in the first year of her being mistress of Longbourn, very frequent. Sometimes, Darcy's judgement was applied to, but he preferred to leave most of it between the two friends. Mr. Collins had a very important role, however, in being courteous to all his neighbours, something he was schooled in very thoroughly by his father-in-law. He could not, however, provide the same kind of advice to the young ladies in Meryton that his cousin had done, and for a while the elegance of Hertfordshire suffered for it. Happily, Netherfield Park was soon occupied by new owners whose elegant daughter properly succeeded to the former mistress of Longbourn.

Georgiana never had any reason to complain about Sally. On the contrary, she was so happy with her that Sally quickly rose to upperclass maid, and the housekeeper was soon thinking about training her as her successor. Sally sent about half her money to her mother, who sent it straight to Wickham. It took Mrs. Younge a long time before she realised that he was not worth her devotion. It took Wickham even longer to realise that sending Darcy begging letters was a waste of his time.

How had Wickham learnt about his son? Straight from Lydia. The poor girl had never gotten over him, and had sent letter after letter to Edwards Street. In the hope of interesting him in her again, she had told him that John would go to London with Elizabeth. The idea of teaching his son to be a thief had been too alluring to his vanity, and that was how the plan to abduct John had started.

Mr. Johnson had to find someone else to suspect of showing his wife too much interest. He did not need to look long: Darcy's engagement soon brought the Bingleys to town, and Mr. Bingley renewed his acquaintance with Jane. Neither of them would of course do anything improper, but Mr. Bingley could not imagine any gallantry to be enough for Mrs. Johnson, and she would always blush becomingly at his attentions. Mrs. Bingley had a very different disposition from Mr. Johnson, and Mrs. Johnson's sweet disposition endeared her so much to her that they soon became fast friends.

It soon became apparent that John was not happy in London. He missed the farm on which he had spent the first six years of his life. It also became obvious to Mr. Gardiner that he was not cut out to work in his firm. A couple of childless tenants of Darcy's were more than happy to take him in as a help, where he did so well and endeared himself so much that they adopted him. He remained close to his uncle and aunt, who often came to visit him. It was much whispered about, but nobody ever dared say anything about it in front of Darcy. He wouldn't have minded too much, though. He was too happy to care much about his reputation.