[Comprehensive Book] A Rose for Catherine

In this long letter, Elizabeth described what happened to Catherine in detail.

Not long after they arrived at Leonard's home, Darcy and his cousin, Colonel Fitzwilliam, came to visit. It turned out that Colonel Fitzwilliam and Mr. Leonard had been students in the same school, and they had maintained a good relationship since they were teenagers. Relationship.Elizabeth expected the two gentlemen to leave at once, but did not expect them to stay here--it seemed that they would stay until March before setting off to visit Mme de Boer.

During Darcy's stay there they had casually conversed on many subjects, among them Wickham's character.Elizabeth informed Darcy about Wickham's arrest. She had no prejudice against Darcy in this matter, and she even rejoiced that she had seen Wickham's true face earlier.The only thing that displeased Elizabeth was that Darcy still thought he had taken great pleasure in interfering with Bingley's ideas, which had caused him to separate from Jane.But Elizabeth excused him again - they also contributed to Jane and Bingley's breakup.

Elizabeth wrote two pages of her daily life intermittently. She said that everything was fine with Jane and got along well with Mr. Leonard. Lydia designed several new clothes, and Mr. Bright visited once during the period. Met Mr. Knightley once.

"...Mr. Knightley, unchanged from last year, greeted us and entrusted us to say hello to you, and by the way do you remember the promised visit to his strawberry field last winter? Kee Tee, you never mentioned it..."

After writing these trivial matters, Elizabeth wrote at the end of the letter: "Kitty, I must share with you something that shocked me and I don't know what to do. Your original joke turned out to be true-yesterday morning Mr. Darcy and I were out for a walk when a sudden proposal of marriage was made. To tell the truth, I hadn't seen the slightest sign of it before, and I was taken aback... but I had turned him down because I didn't know him well and I couldn't Be sure of your feelings, he may not be a bad character, but there is no doubt we don't get along. He can't accept my family and proposes to me reluctantly... I think of Charlotte asking me to go to Huntford in March At that time, I am afraid that I will meet him again, which will embarrass me greatly..."

After reading it, Catherine immediately wrote a short reply letter to Elizabeth.

"Dear Lizzie, I never doubt the decisions you make, and this time is the same. I don't know what happened to you, but if he doesn't make you change your old impression of him, or deal with his Concern, then your refusal is perfectly justified. As for Huntford, you have done nothing wrong, and you will not have to feel sorry for anyone or anything at that time.  … Also, please give Jane and Lydia my and Mary’s regards .”

After asking the servant to deliver the letter, Catherine went back to her room and changed into the dress Lydia had prepared for her.Mary also has a pair made of the same fabric, but because Lydia didn't have enough time, Mary's pair was simpler, which complemented her simple and elegant demeanor.

When Sophia saw them, she said, "Honey, I really envy you for having a good sister."

At two o'clock, the maids brought exquisite refreshments and black tea. The guests entered the venue one by one. Most of them were young ladies, but there were also a few older ladies. Some of them were noble ladies, some were relatives of government officials, one A noble status.

Catherine had never heard of the female writers who came here, and it was before this salon that she spent a lot of time reading through the works of these writers before she could barely remember them.

Catherine and Mary followed Sophia, and Sophia waved a white feather satin fan and whispered to them the guests who came to say hello.

"...This is Maria Boleyn. I don't know the lady next to her." Sophia frowned slightly as she spoke. Every guest on this kind of occasion is personally determined by her, and there shouldn't be any one. A guest she doesn't know at all.

When she was puzzled, Maria came over with the young lady beside her.

"Good day, Sophia. We haven't seen each other for a long time." Maria said with a smile on her face. "This is Miss Anne de Boer, one of my cousins. Anne is not in good health and rarely participates in these activities." , so you may not know her. I originally wanted to ask you for another invitation letter, but unfortunately I was delayed by some business in the country and only returned to London yesterday, so I had to bring Annie here privately today."

When Catherine heard the name "Anne de Boer", she blinked subconsciously, and she was very surprised.Mrs. de Boer's only daughter was named by this name, and the possibility of a coincidence of the same name is too low.Collins boasted countless words about this lady's demeanor. When she saw Miss Anne today, Catherine realized that her face was pale and her health was as bad as rumored.

Sophia smiled slightly: "Since this is the case, then I will order the maid to prepare an extra tea set for Miss Anne. Maria, this is your fault, you should send a servant to say something earlier, otherwise I will neglect the guests what to do?"

Maria replied with a smile: "I forgot, I will remember next time."

Catherine's expression was calm, she only looked at Anne curiously, and was noncommittal to Maria's words.Mary is not sociable, her eyes are half downcast, and she occasionally glances at the people coming and going in the banquet hall.

Annie noticed Catherine's gaze and looked back, Catherine bent her lips.

Sophia was introducing the identities of Mary and Catherine: "This is Miss Ryan Upton and Miss Upton's sister."

Sophia never mentioned their real names.

Maria frowned and thought for a while, making sure that she had never heard of the surname "Upton", so she didn't take it to heart, and smiled politely and perfunctorily.

Sophia turned back to Catherine and Mary and said, "Honey, everyone is pretty much the same except Her Royal Highness Charlotte, you can sit down and rest for a while."

Maria took the opportunity to say: "Annie, you can go too. I will chat with Sofia for a while. Take it easy, you will like Sofia's salon."

Annie nodded slightly, and walked into the crowd with Catherine.

Mary immediately went to a secluded corner, and separated from Catherine and the others after a while.

Catherine and Anne exchanged softly: "I have heard your name, Miss Anne."

Anne's eyes widened in surprise.

Her identity was not the most conspicuous among these visitors.It never occurred to her that Catherine would ever hear her.

In fact, she was more familiar with "Ryan Upton", a writer whose works Georgiana loved and had shared with her.Anne could not help thinking that Georgiana might not know that the author she liked was such a young and pretty lady, about their age!

Catherine smiled at her, and when she was about to say something, the venue suddenly fell silent.

The maid appeared at the door, bowed her knees and performed a solemn ceremony.

"Her Highness Charlotte arrives at—"

A young and noble woman slowly appeared in everyone's sight wearing a long lavender dress and a gauze shawl.

The author has something to say: [QAQ sorry, I did a math problem for the second grade of junior high school today, and I didn’t finish it after two hours, so I was delayed. I may be a disgrace to our department (cover my face)]

[After the exam tomorrow, the schedule will be a little easier, so there will be no delay in updating.Sorry for not updating on time these two days. 】