[Pride and Prejudice] Liz's Little Vest

Was meeting Elizabeth an unexpected difficulty?

"It's a little bit." Da Xiwu smiled.There is relaxation, memory, joy and admiration in this smile.Seeing Elizabeth was slightly dazed, but she quickly tightened her mind.

Darcy asked: "Remember when I said, 'There are very few country people who can be used as research objects. In the country, people around you are very unenlightened and very monotonous.' What was your answer?"

Elizabeth said: "I don't remember the details. But I should have refuted you, to the effect that 'people in the city have troubles in the city, and people in the country have troubles in the country.'"

"That's right." He said, "You said that London doesn't have the clean air in the countryside. At that time, I was noncommittal. But after a few days of traveling north and south in London, I found that it was indeed what you said."

Darcy went on: "This is just an example. Miss Elizabeth, you made me aware of my arrogance and selfishness. Without you, I probably don't know what humility is. Everyone because of property and status Bear with my pride, so your sincerity and frankness are dear to me."

"To be honest, I don't believe that everyone flatters you. What about Mr. Bingley, Mr. Bingley should have persuaded you many times, right?"

"You're right. But most of the time, I believe in myself more than others. My natural arrogance makes it difficult for me to listen to other people's advice. But only you, Miss Elizabeth, only you."

At this point, Elizabeth could no longer interrupt Darcy, so she could only bite the bullet and listen to him continue.

"I never thought about the reason." Darcy kept pacing in the room, his complex emotions were hard to express, "but in the past few days traveling back and forth in the north and south of London, I suddenly realized."

"Miss Elizabeth," he said, coming up to her with agitated air, "I can't bear it any longer. It's not going to work. I can't suppress my feelings. Allow me to tell you how much I am Admire you, love you so much[1]."

"I hope to be able to love you like this forever."

"I love you," he said, "with the greatest love."

Compared with the previous life, this kind of marriage proposal is not known how much more sincere.

Elizabeth is not an emotionless machine, she stares blankly at Darcy, her eyes are full of passionate admiration.She tried to take a deep breath, and she didn't know how much effort it took to keep her sensibility from gaining the upper hand.

In fact, if Darcy further expresses his feelings at this time, her reason will soon be blown away.

But Darcy is not a repeating machine for love words, especially in such tense moments, it is even more difficult for him to guess the complicated heart of a lady.

"Miss Elizabeth, please, please—" He was so nervous that he stuttered, he could only calm down a little, and then said the last sentence, "Please give me the honor and accept my hand."

Having said this, Darcy felt relieved.

But in an instant, he felt his heartstrings being tightened again. He looked at Miss Elizabeth's slowly flushed face and listened to his "thumping" heartbeat, and felt that the world suddenly became quiet, and only they were left staring at each other.

He was eager to know how she would respond.But he was also a little scared. If the answer was negative, then he hoped that the next second would never come.

Elizabeth was silent for 1 minute, and Darcy's heart also gradually cooled down during this 1 minute.

"Mr. Darcy," she finally said, "you must know that I like you."

"but?"

Although there was still a little hope, this hope was like a faint flame, which was extinguished little by little in Elizabeth's silence again.

Looking at the rain outside the window, Darcy felt that it was a very gloomy day.

"But?" Suppressing the extreme sadness in his heart, Darcy pretended to be calm and asked again.

"But—" Elizabeth took a deep breath, and she felt tears welling up in her eyes.

Why do you have to be completely independent before you can accept this love?Sometimes Elizabeth asked herself.

The answer is nothing more than the word "safety".

If she had no memories of her previous life, had no experience of family disasters, did not understand the fragility of marriage and love, and did not understand that independence is a woman's strongest backing, she would surely weep with joy and agree to Darcy's marriage proposal.

But now is different.

She is grateful for Darcy's love, but she also has her own persistence.

But this is Darcy's marriage proposal, the one she loves, asking her to accept his hand and let him have the power to give her happiness.

How firm determination and will it takes to refuse such a request.

"But—" Elizabeth was already incoherent, her voice revealing crying, this was the first time she lost control of her emotions since she was reborn.

"I love you, Darcy. I really love you very much..."

In one sentence, the hope in Darcy's eyes was instantly lit up: "Miss Elizabeth, I love you, and you love me too. Isn't that great?"

"You don't understand—"

"I don't understand the difficulty. Family? I admit I used to have a strong sense of class. But you've changed me, Elizabeth. I love you for who you are. It has nothing to do with your family."

"It's nothing to do with the family - technically it has a little bit to do with it, you don't understand."

"I don't understand what is it that I can't understand. Am I doing something wrong?"

"It's not your fault, Mr. Darcy." Elizabeth lowered her head and sighed silently: "But you won't understand..."

Nothing can hurt a woman more than to say "You don't understand me" to a man who admires her.

It was as if she had built a heart wall to exclude the other party far away.

Maybe the speaker has only one layer of simple meaning, but for the listener, thousands of words can be comprehended.

These thousands of extended meanings converge into a simple and helpless word, that is "rejection".

Refuse.

This is very different from Darcy's decision to turn the carriage around in a hurry, but unfortunately the carriage got stuck in the snowdrift that was not cleared. After careful consideration, he decided to come to propose marriage on foot alone, which is quite different from the expected outcome.

"Miss Elizabeth, I can't understand your mood at all. But please forgive me for taking so much time, and please allow me to wish you health and happiness with the utmost sincerity[1]."

After saying these few words, he hurriedly left the room.After a while, Elizabeth heard him open the door and go away[1].

She leaned against the window and watched Darcy go away in the light rain.He didn't open an umbrella, and let the raindrops hit his body, with a kind of determination to isolate himself from the whole world.

She watched, her heart was incomparably chaotic and weak.

Not knowing how to support herself, she sat there crying for the better part of an hour[1].

The author has something to say:

If only Darcy could go beyond the times and say: Be my girlfriend!Instead of directly proposing, Liz will definitely say yes TT

I feel sorry for Darcy, and I feel sorry for Liz.But I don't think anyone can be blamed for this, only the limitations of the times on marriage and love.And——this is all for the big sweetness later~

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