Miss Mary in Pride and Prejudice

Mary knocked on Georgiana's door, but there was no movement inside. After a while, she asked gently: "Georgiana, it's me, can I come in?" After a while, there was a muffled voice in the room: " The door wasn't locked."

Mary gently opened the door, and the room was a bit messy, with a lot of letters scattered on the floor and on the dressing table. Georgiana was lying on the bed, her eyes were red and swollen like a rabbit, looking pitiful and ridiculous.Seeing Mary, she stretched out her hand, but tears also flowed down: "Oh, Mary, why am I so unlucky, I have already shed all the tears in my life before I was 20 years old."

Mary couldn't help laughing and said: "If this is really the case, it might not be a kind of luck."

Although people's sorrows and troubles are often inhumane, if there is a suitable person to pour out, they are still willing to share their sorrows and troubles with others.Mary came at just the right time, and Georgiana just at the right time.

After getting up, washing her face and combing her hair again, Georgiana also sorted out her mood. She was still a little depressed, but she was obviously not so troubled. She could calmly talk about the bad luck that happened to her. thing.

"Mary, I used to think that marriage was a matter of two people, and that as long as there was love, everything would be possible—I was so naive. Marriage was never just a matter of two people."

Marie thought to herself: Of course, even without love is all right.Of course she didn't say that, her task today was mainly to listen.

Georgiana said slowly: "When he proposed to me half a year ago, I was so happy, thinking that I had finally found happiness. He is so knowledgeable, so honest, and so infatuated with me. I feel that after Wickham After the matter of Mr., this kind of sincere gentleman is the most suitable husband for me." Georgiana said that the circles of her eyes were red again, and Mary quickly asked: "Then why did it change again?"

A wry smile appeared on Georgiana's lips: "You know, Mr. Austin Jr. has nothing, but I have an inheritance of [-] pounds, and my brother loves me so much, he will definitely subsidize me some more. Dowry, so that we have no financial difficulties and troubles after we get married. I am not a vain person, and I will not feel wronged because my clothes and carriages are inferior to yours or Elizabeth's-but he It's very sensitive about that, and that's probably our first disagreement."

The little Mr. Austin that Mary knew was indeed such a sensitive and fragile person, but she subconsciously defended him: "This just shows that he loves you very much."

"Yes," Georgiana rubbed her hair distressedly, "I thought so too at first, so whenever he showed such emotions, I tried my best to comfort him. However, his thoughts did not It didn't fade over time, on the contrary, his awkwardness intensified before and after your marriage to the Earl, because he knew that I had a brief crush on the Earl. Especially after attending your luxurious wedding, he became The slightest thing may remind me of my old love for the earl, which makes me worry."

Georgiana blushed, but she never kept the matter from Mary, so Mary knew it from the beginning, and she shook Georgiana's hand sympathetically, and said, "If little Mr. Austen always It would be disrespectful to dwell on it.”

"That's not all," Georgiana yelled angrily, "he turned my love for him into a bargaining chip that could hurt me at any time. How many times we quarreled about it during that time, I can't remember it." It was painful. Luckily, he quickly realized that it was not doing our relationship any favors, so one day he finally apologized to me and we got back together and had a brief happy time."

Georgiana wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and now she was able to narrate what happened later in a relatively calm manner: "What I said is only part of the differences. The real irreconcilable conflicts occurred when the marriage contract was signed. My In order to protect my interests, my brother requested that my [-] pounds be recorded in my name. Mr. Austin can share the interest of this property with me, but he cannot control the principal, which can only be inherited by our children .”

Mary doesn't think there is any problem with this arrangement, because most women with dowry arrange their property in this way when they get married, such as Mary's mother, Mrs. Bennet, if the old couple did not appraise such a marriage contract back then I am afraid that when Mr. Bennet passes away, Mrs. Bennet's situation will be even more miserable. Now she can at least control her own part of the property and leave that property to her daughters.

Georgiana talked about the most difficult part: "However, little Austin expressed dissatisfaction with this. Although he did not explicitly reject his brother's suggestion-he had no position to refuse-but he told me that he hoped to give him Thousands of pounds for his widowed mother and sister, and a place for them at all times in my home. Oh, Mary, I'm definitely not looking down on his family, his mother has nothing but his sister Adele... She is really a terrible woman. I don't like her very much. She is so nosy, so critical, and so vulgar... After only a few contacts, I have already concluded that I can't get along with her. I put my own I told him the idea, can't I decide who to invite as a guest in my own home? Why do I have to ask his sister to be our housekeeper?"

Mary groaned, and she also thought that Mr. Austen was too unwise in handling this matter. Georgiana sobbed for a while, and then said: "Last night, we finally had a quarrel, and I told him that I couldn't stand it." Living under the same roof with a person I don't like, I can give his sister a fixed living allowance, but hope she doesn't come to participate in our life. He got angry and said that I look down on his family , and looked down on him at all, saying that he was blindfolded by love, so he got into an inappropriate marriage and humiliated his family..."

Speaking of this, Georgiana burst into tears of grievance, and Mary had no choice but to sigh and comfort her, but now, she has basically given up on the plan to make Georgiana and Mr. Austin reunite, and there is no other person with such a personality What is even more unsuitable is that it is not about property, but more closely related to personality and ideas.

When Georgiana calmed down again, Mary asked her about her future plans. Georgiana said: "We have completely turned against each other, and it is impossible to get back together again. I know that he actually regretted proposing to me a long time ago. This kind of love is really weak. My brother still wants to save me. He has written to little Austin and asked him to have a good talk, but I know his character, it must be useless, and I don’t want him anymore... ...he has resigned his vicarage at Pemberley, which means that he will no longer accept any favors from our family, so be it, luckily it never really started, luckily I was the only one hurt..."

Downstairs, the earl was also discussing this matter with the Darcy couple. Mr. Darcy read to them the reply letter written by Mr. Austin Jr. Elizabeth said angrily: "I always thought he was a man of extraordinary knowledge. I didn’t expect him to be so small-minded, not bright enough, and really not worthy of attention! Now I’m glad that Georgiana didn’t marry him, otherwise, wouldn’t it be a lifetime of suffering! The man can say that he saw the wrong person when he proposed, and then left In short, women will have to bear all the consequences."

Mr. Darcy was pacing back and forth in the room. At this time, he sincerely said to Earl Leicester: "Count, now I admit that your knowledge and understanding of people are much higher than mine. At the beginning, you abandoned Mr. Austin and chose Collins. When my husband was the pastor of the church, I still had a few words, but now it seems that you have already recognized the shortcomings of Mr. Austin's character."

To tell the truth, this kind of praise is too much to beautify the earl, because he didn't give Mr. Austen the post of parish priest out of pure jealousy. Of course, he would not explain it to anyone, but just smiled slightly, Then the topic was diverted.

The only thing left now is to write letters to inform all the relatives and friends who received the wedding invitation that the wedding has been cancelled, and there is no need to come; and those relatives and friends who have already departed or arrived need to explain one by one, which is not a pleasant job , but because everyone has deep sympathy and love for Georgiana, so it doesn't feel too much pain when doing it. Most of the relatives and friends are very reasonable. They also thought that there were too many inappropriate things in this marriage. And reluctantly, now that the wedding is cancelled, it's just a verification of their private predictions and adding new gossip material to the gossip.

Only Mrs. de Bourgh was not easy to prevaricate. After hearing the news, the old lady came to Pemberley without stopping. Today's humiliation; she was even more angry with Mr. Austin Jr.'s treachery, claiming to write a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and to use all her contacts to disqualify Mr. Austin Jr. as a priest and discredit him.

Mr. Darcy and Anne finally persuaded her old man, and Mrs. de Bourgh lived in Pemberley for three days angrily. These three days were really Georgiana's disaster. Only when Elizabeth's daughter Alice When the old lady is in front of her, she will divert the old lady's attention for a short time, because she likes children so much, and at this time she will use endless parenting lessons to poison the ears of the housekeeper and the nanny.When the old lady finally returned home, everyone felt so relieved that even the pain of the annulment had become insignificant.

When all the dust had settled and only time had passed to dilute all sorrows, it was time for Mary and the count to say goodbye, because they still had to go to London and enter the palace to see the king.As a lord, the Earl of Leicester needs to introduce his wife to the king after marriage. This is not only the honor of the nobility, but also the duty and obligation of the nobility.

Mary originally wanted to invite Miss Darcy to accompany her, thinking that a change of environment would be beneficial to Georgiana's mood, but when Mr. Darcy learned that they were going to enter the palace for an audience, he refused the invitation for his sister without hesitation.He simply explained to Mary that the court was not suitable for Georgiana, and he even suggested that Mary should not have too much contact with those royal family members.But the Earl of Leicester retorted with a smile: "You have to see it for yourself, so that Mary will know who is the noble man she has always respected!" Mr. Darcy shrugged his shoulders disapprovingly, and said no more.

Mary was a little surprised: Isn't the palace full of the most noble and elegant people in all England, but full of savages and shameless people?