The Albion Courier, Features Desk 

[Elizabeth Bennet, Member of the House of Resources for Longbourn Mining Company, agreed to speak with the Courier via video conference. The resulting article has been lightly edited for length.] 

There are Members of the House of Resources who treat their Parliamentary seat as a burden, a necessary inconvenience attached to their family business. Elizabeth Bennet is not one of them. 

She is younger than you expect, dark-haired with lively brown eyes. She gives you her full attention without ever giving you the impression that she has forgotten you are a journalist. She answers questions directly and completely, and somehow by the end of the interview you find yourself with a thorough understanding of Longbourn Mining Company’s public position on every matter of policy and very little idea what Elizabeth Bennet thinks about any of it personally. It is, in its way, an impressive performance. She would almost certainly object to that word. 

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