[Comprehensive Book] A Rose for Catherine

There is a yellowish layer on the walls of the small hotel, and old newspapers are pasted on the mottled and peeling parts of the walls. There are no candles in the corridors, and it is dark even in the daytime.Catherine cautiously went to the third floor and found the first room on the left that Mary mentioned.

In fact, finding the target is easy, because there are only three rooms on the entire third floor.

Catherine knocked on the door.

After a while, with a "click", the door was pulled open from the inside, revealing a delicate face.

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Mary Bennett.

The third lady of the Bennet family has cut her hair short, and she is thinner than before leaving home. Wearing trousers that are popular in London recently, she still looks mediocre, her temperament is the same as before But something is different.

"Kitty."

Catherine closed the door behind her back, hung her hat on the shelf at the door, and carefully looked at Mary, whom she hadn't seen for half a year, before she couldn't wait to say, "Tell me what's going on! Mary, I won't believe you The timing of identity exposure is so coincidental!"

Her worry couldn't help showing.

Mary put it lightly: "Oh, nothing. Kitty, I just thought you might need a little support. Besides, I'm leaving England soon to take a boat to the Continent, so it won't be too much trouble for me. They won't check Reveal my true identity."

She puts the son of a big landowner into college, and the guy is a fun-seeking bastard, and happily cuts a deal with Mary, and she helps him get an excellent grade to get more money from his father, and She got the chance to go to college.It wasn't a deal to brag about, and Mary wasn't going to tell Catherine.

When Catherine was on the cusp, Mary didn't think about breaking the contract until the bastard hired a group of gangsters to attack her. If she hadn't noticed it, she might have died outside.

Mary had a silent personality, but she never had a good temper to swallow her anger. She immediately took the opportunity to create a public opinion for Catherine, and took revenge on that bastard by the way.Of course, it is not easy to get out of trouble after getting into trouble.

She asked the Mr. Holmes she knew to analyze it, and learned that the landowner was seriously ill, and the son needed to go back to inherit the family business immediately, and his studies had to be postponed a little.And the dude is absolutely unwilling to continue learning, he just wants to get that property as soon as possible.At the same time, in order not to let his life have any stains, he decided to get rid of his substitute.After learning about it, Mary immediately wrote a letter to his father, explaining clearly to prevent him from being unaware of what happened at the school, and deliberately making things big so that the school could not whitewash the peace.

After dealing with all this, she asked Catherine to meet.

Mary never mentioned these things in her letters, and Catherine was completely unaware of them.So at this time, she only felt sorry for Mary, and expressed surprise at her proposal to study in the European continent.

This is by no means a random decision.

Catherine frowned: "Are you going to tell mom and dad? It is impossible to hide your decision from them for the rest of your life. Especially mom, she will definitely go crazy! And the other side of the strait is too far away, you are only one person, let's be honest , the farthest we have ever traveled is only a few nearby counties. How will you live there? When will you be able to come back?"

The questions she raised were very practical, as if Mary had to go to the European continent to study without asking why, isn't British philosophy not enough for her to study?Just like Mary wouldn't have asked why she wanted to start a girls' school.

Mary had been prepared for a long time, and she replied calmly: "I have planned a long time ago. When I was studying at Cambridge, I met a professor who was French—and he was willing to accept me as a student. He has already returned to France. My status is The news won't reach him so quickly, but it won't last long, so I will confess to him. I think I can convince him. Even if this road doesn't work, I have another way. As for my mother Over there, I came to London this time just to go back with you and tell her about it. I will not change my mind because of anyone. Don’t think that I did such an unwise thing for you this time. Choose, I just want to get out for myself."

Catherine looked at her and sighed: "I have no position to persuade you. On the contrary, I probably want you to succeed more than most people. There is only one thing, don't forget that you once promised me to give my school be a teacher."

She smiled slightly, "I might not go home right away. I also plan to give speeches in several counties around London. This is really a good time. My parents don't know what I do. If they know, I'm afraid You'll think I'm worse than you."

"Should I tell them in advance?" Mary said quickly. "I'd be glad to have less scolding from them."

"Tell Dad first." Catherine made a decision without much thought, "I'm really afraid of my mother's noise."

Mary nodded, "I've booked a boat ticket in 20 days."

"So urgent?" Catherine was surprised.

"Well." Mary replied softly, this time she did not explain further, "I heard that you and Mr. Knightley are engaged, Kitty, bless you. There is one more thing I need to tell you, of course it may be to you now It's not important anymore."

Catherine looked puzzled.

"Do you remember that Mr. Mycroft Holmes who once appeared at Longbourne?" Mary thought about a suitable wording, "In a sense, he was the man of the Lord Regent. That time He came to Longborn to investigate you."

Catherine didn't know about this. Although she was a little puzzled at first, she thought it was a coincidence when nothing happened again.

"In short, you have to be more careful with the royal family and nobles. They may look kind or arrogant and stupid, but there will never be a naive king in this world." Mary finished briefly.

She had doubts about the identity of that "detective" from the very beginning, and thanked her for reading an article written by an unknown gentleman, saying that a lot of information can be judged from the details of a person's life. I learned a little bit from it and fully applied what I learned.She even used it to try to threaten the other party to teach her something-although the threat didn't work.But she was really sure because Mycroft hadn't deliberately concealed it, otherwise she wouldn't be able to judge.Holmes is an unimaginably clever man.

"I see." Catherine took a deep look at Mary and accepted her kindness.

"The matter is over, you can go back now. I have another guest later." Mary chased away the guest mercilessly.

Catherine: "..."

She sat in the carriage again, only to be belatedly reminded that even if she didn't tell her parents what she had done, Mary's deeds could not be separated from the shadow of her push.

Scolding does not delay or diminish one bit.

Catherine covered her eyes, and hooked the corners of her mouth helplessly.

The recruitment of teachers was personally reviewed by Catherine, which was not as smooth as expected.Because this job is not a very honorable job, girls from decent families don't bother to lower their status to do this job, and the level of female teachers who are willing to apply for it is uneven.As for the men who are willing to apply for the job, the inspection of their character is even stricter. After all, the students they will face in the future are all young girls. If someone with bad character has bad intentions, it will become a disaster. ①

Fortunately, the rumors were loud enough and enough people came, allowing Catherine to choose the most suitable group.

The remarks of the opponents did not silence with Catherine's silence, but they became more arrogant.After learning of Mary's impressive row, they did go silent for a while, but soon they found a new perspective.

Women may be good at philosophy, but they cannot be good at subjects like medicine and mathematics.

But their remarks are no longer within the scope of Catherine's concern.Her goal has been achieved, and she has no energy to deal with these guys jumping up and down.While the opponents were still aggressively expressing their opinions in the newspapers, Catherine left London in a low-key carriage.

She is alone.

When the carriage walked outside the city of London, a horse was quietly sitting under a tree. The young man was leading the horse and standing not far away, looking in the direction of the city of London, as if waiting for someone.

Catherine was flipping through a booklet boredly. At this time, her new work was about to be printed. Catherine had no doubt that her new work would make those opponents jump their feet again.She was already looking forward to that scene.She frowned, covered her mouth and smiled twice.

To her surprise, the "adventurer" who photographed her manuscript quickly disappeared. She thought that the other party would release part of the contents of the manuscript to spark conversation—this is a perfectly normal practice.

The letter from home has not arrived yet, Mary should have returned to Longbourn, and my mother should yell at her to behave like her...

She was thinking about what had happened recently, and she lowered her head, not paying attention to the movement around her.

The young man could only helplessly call out to her.

"Kitty!"

The voice is clear and familiar.

Catherine stared blankly at the place where the figure appeared.

That was indeed someone she knew all too well.

Her friend, her guide, her companion.

Her... lover.

The author has something to say: ①: The British teacher system in the 89th and [-]th centuries was relatively complicated. In primary education, from the guidance system to private teachers and then to trainee teachers, it was also affected by religious and other reasons.Simplified in the text.