[Comprehensive Book] A Rose for Catherine

Around Christmas, Wickham made frequent trips to Longbourne.Catherine was always wary when she saw him, always feeling that he must have some evil intentions in his idle courtship.

Catherine and Elizabeth warned their family and friends not to be deceived by such a smooth-talking man.The Bennet family is fine, Jane is still sad, Mary can't talk to him, Lydia is all about the design, Mr. Bennet listens to the second daughter's advice, and Mrs. Young people with little wealth lack interest.

Such reminders were passed around in private, and naturally some people did not comment on their words, and instead maliciously speculated from them whether it was one of them who was hurt by Mr. Wickham's rejection and then targeted him like this.Elizabeth felt that people who said such things were simply unreasonable. She was annoyed for a while, and comforted herself and Catherine: "Since they don't want to believe it, we won't be the ones who will suffer losses in the future."

Catherine was writing the last part of the first five chapters of the first draft of the first five chapters that she was going to take to London for Princess Charlotte this time, while chatting casually with Elizabeth: "Lizzie, most of them will have no loss other than heartbreak, after all. Wickham can only pick one person at a time, and when the poor lady appears, others will recognize him for what he really is.... I hope his character will be known before then, lest some The innocent lady is implicated."

"If we wantonly announce his bad news to the outside world, he will definitely bear a grudge against us." Elizabeth frowned slightly, and sighed thinking of the situation.

"Based on his behavior of speaking badly about Mr. Darcy whenever he meets, I have no doubts about your words, Lizzie." Catherine looked up.

Regarding Wickham, on the one hand, Catherine is unwilling to provoke such a vengeful and despicable person, on the other hand, she feels that if she lets it go, innocent people may be hurt in the future. According to the marriage law of this year, once an innocent woman The child is married to Wickham, and her dowry and herself are completely subject to Wickham, and there is no room for resistance against him.

This was the first time Catherine encountered such a thing, and she didn't know what to do. In desperation, she took out the stationery and wrote to her pen pal, hoping to get some advice from him.After all, he has richer social experience than her, a little girl living in an ivory tower, so he may have some unique insights into this.

"Dear Sir:

I am very happy to receive your reply.I know your kindness and generosity, so there is no need for you to apologize to me in your last letter.

For the progress of the new work you are most concerned about, I may need to delay its progress a little.Recently I've been trying to write a new story, quite different from my previous ones, with material from a very special lady - so special that I can't tell you who she is...

You also mentioned in your last letter that you spent half the winter in Hertfordshire this year. God always creates wonderful fate. You must not know that I also live in Hertfordshire.Perhaps we have met or spoken to each other by chance this winter—although that is highly unlikely.As for the lady you mentioned, since you think so highly of her, I believe she must be a pretty person.It's a pity that the possibility of me and her meeting with the higher authorities is probably lower than that of the king personally summoning me.If God is willing, I hope to meet this lady one day.

……

Finally, I am compelled to clarify my real intentions in writing this letter in such a hurry.Recently I encountered something that bothered me quite a bit.

I have recently made the acquaintance of a gentleman whom I presume to be of poor character (I do not venture to speculate that he has done some despicable things) and who is good at deceiving people, but whose conduct does not harm my interests ...Even if I can recognize his true face, I can't convince everyone that he is not a gentleman for the time being, which will lead to the possibility that innocent people will be hurt by him in the future... I venture to speculate that he may Use some means to defraud a marriage.Once marriage is concluded, there is no turning point for women...

Sir, you should understand my complicated mood. When I write this letter to you, I haven't made up my mind on what to do.I implore some mature advice from you.

......"

This is a long letter, Catherine arranged to deliver it as soon as she finished writing it, hoping to get a reply right away.

But England's postal system is nowhere near as fast as Catherine's dreamed.After she finished writing a new short story, the letter was slowly sent to its destination.

This time, Catherine wrote about a handsome young man. When he was young, his family was rich, his parents doted on him, he ate, drank, prostituted, and gambled all kinds of things. To seduce a lady with a rich dowry.

He succeeded.The young lady's parents were also bewitched by him and asked the young lady to marry him with a large dowry.The young man got his wish and continued to squander, but he was fond of gambling, and the lady's dowry was quickly squandered, and he even owed thousands of pounds in gambling debts. ①

Miss has no money, so he decided - to marry another wife.

He killed the young lady by hand, disguised it as an accident, and made an affectionate gesture to the outside world, and soon attracted another young girl.

In just ten years, he married four wives and killed four wives.Still, no one doubted him.

The fifth wife soon became pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy.The dowry brought by this wife was too little, so the young man decided to deal with him according to the previous method.But before he could strike, he was feeling sicker by the day.

He thought he was terminally ill, and was about to confess on his deathbed, telling the truth to his fifth wife.The fifth wife told him with a slight smile that he was actually sick because she poisoned him.

She thought he was rich and married him, only to find out that he was a complete pauper.She didn't get any benefit, so she decided to kill him and let her children inherit the property.

Many years later, the child grew up, and faced with his own manor, he decided to marry a lady from a rich family...

After Catherine finished writing, she sorted out the manuscript and put it in a drawer, ready to take it to London together.

She thought about the stories she wrote, and felt that life was indeed a source of inspiration.

There was Collins in the front and Wickham in the back.

Collins and Charlotte were married in church on Thursday.They didn't invite many people, but the Bennets were invited as relatives anyway.

When Mrs. Bennet saw Collins and Charlotte, she couldn't help feeling sour. She thought of Mary who hadn't settled yet. Collins couldn't marry Elizabeth, but it would be nice to marry Mary.In this way Longborn will remain theirs in the future.

After the wedding, Charlotte and Collins are going to Kent.

Catherine thought that it would be difficult to see her former friend in the future.In the future, she and her sisters will have their own families in different places.

Meetings and partings are inevitable.

Not long after that, the ladies also planned to go to the city with the Gardners on another day.

For Catherine, still absorbed in her writing, every letter she wrote now carried the scent of gold and silver--one of the most pleasing scents in the world.

Lydia has long been dissatisfied with Catherine's behavior of only focusing on writing and ignoring her. She walked into the room and complained loudly to Catherine: "Kitty, can't you accompany me? You didn't even tell me that you took Mary to the salon. I'm not even mad at you! How can you ignore me like this?" Catherine put down her pen—it was a state-of-the-art reservoir pen from a store owned by Mr. Leonard.He has a wide range of businesses, and Leonard can get involved in almost everything that Catherine can see in the London store.Some may not be large in scale, but the scope is really wide.

In other words, no matter which industry Leonard wants to enter in the future, he has the foundation.

Catherine blinked: "Honey, what do you want me to do with you?"

"Let's go outside!" Lydia excitedly said, "There is a gypsy outside, let's go and see him! I heard that gypsies can do divination, so can he figure out how much money I can earn? I really want to Use the money to buy new hats and necklaces!"

Catherine was pulled away, "Didn't it mean that only women among gypsies can do divination?" ②

Lydia uses "He" and "him", which clearly shows that it is a male gypsy.

"It's pretty much the same anyway. They're all gypsies." Lydia simply and rudely classified them all into one category.

When passing by the living room, Mary, who was huddled in the corner, raised her eyes and asked, "What are you doing out there?"

"Look at the gypsy divination." Lydia announced enthusiastically.

Mary put on a stern face and dismissed "divination", "Gods don't even give their believers this ability. Divination is useless to solve things. Only philosophy can allow us to explore the true meaning of things."

Lydia murmured to her unwillingly: "We'll find out if it's useful or not."

"I'm not like you, wasting time on such meaningless things." Mary continued to read.

"That's because you're talking nonsense, you don't know what divination is and just speculate about it!"

Lydia quarreled with her.

Catherine smoothed things over: "Lydia, you can tell Mary the result later. Then we'll discuss divination and philosophy."

"Who wants to discuss it with her! She already knows the philosophy in the book! Why doesn't she create her own philosophy? At least if other people's divination is done by herself?"

Lydia muttered.

Now Mary can't stand it anymore, and she doesn't allow Lydia to slander philosophy so ignorantly: "You don't understand philosophy at all, and neither do the gypsies who know divination! I'll just go out with you to see. Those gypsies , and many of them don’t know how to divination at all!”

The author has something to say: [Phew, it will be updated at midnight tomorrow.I still haven't written about the appearance of Mary CP, so you can guess the identity of the "Gypsy" (●—●)]

①: Gambling was popular in Britain at that time, and it was normal to lose hundreds of pounds at a time.At that time, gentlemen believed that gambling debts were debts of honor, and gentlemen should pay off gambling debts before paying other debts.

②: At that time, Gypsies were considered liars in many cases. "Gypsy" means "liar" in English.Gypsy men can mend pots, play music, and sell animals, while women can do divination and sell medicine.Induction is magic and art.