[Sense and Sensibility] Fascinated by you

Since the arrival of new guests at Barton Manor, Mrs. Jennings has had two new pastimes. The first thing is to tease Colonel Brandon. Who made this serious gentleman only know how to hang around his fiancée all day long? , Even hunting has lost its appeal to him. Now he is almost like a hound that has found its prey, and will not let down its vigilance until it swallows its prey.

The second matter concerned her new guests and new residents. Mrs. Jennings had a keen sense of smell, and was good at discovering the infidelity of children, and she was fond of insinuating that a lady had charmed a gentleman, and made him blush and feel flustered. .With this pair of discerning eyes, not long after she arrived in Barton, she categorically announced that Andrew was in love with Miss Marianne Dashwood, because when they were together the night before, Andrew stared at Marianne and Colonel Brandon and whispered Speaking of something, Mrs. Jennings suspected that this was the case.Afterwards, whenever the young men met, Andrew would step forward and put himself between Marianne and the colonel, so that Mrs. Jennings felt that the matter was certain, she was absolutely sure.

This will be a happy marriage together, the man is rich, the woman is beautiful, and she always spares no effort to find a good husband for every beautiful girl.Of course, she got a lot of fun out of it herself, trumpeting her discovery at Barton Park and teasing Marianne about it at the cottage.For the former, as long as he can achieve his goal of separating Marianne from Colonel Brandon, he doesn't care about any kind of teasing.As for the latter, her jeers were at first inexplicable, but when it was found out at whom it was directed, Marianne did not know whether to accuse the matter of frivolity or its inadequacy.

For Mr. Andrew Butler, Marianne has no prejudice. Although the two of them were indeed very close several times, she could not mistake a gentleman's polite conversation as an intentional approach, even if it was intentional. When you approach her, you will never be arrogant and think that you are fascinated by that gentleman, because he is just like his sister. Although he looks polite and kind, he always looks at her with careful observation and a little bit I can't explain the unclear scrutiny, in short, the eyes are extremely weird, although there is no malice, it is by no means friendly.

After hearing the news, Mrs. Dashwood was very happy with the matter. She also thought that Andrew was a good match. Naturally, she was not like Mrs. Jennings when she saw that the husband was rich and the lady was beautiful. Bring the two together, but it is always comforting to a mother to have a decent gentleman fancy her daughter, and if Marianne really likes each other, she will also sincerely bless them both.

But Marianne could not help being more annoyed when she heard Mrs. Dashwood's opinion. Mrs. Jennings's ridicule alone had caused her pain, and now even her mother believed it. "Mother, don't you Do you really believe Mrs. Jennings? My God, how can you take her seriously!"

Eleanor heard the impoliteness towards Mrs. Jennings in Marianne's words, she frowned and looked at Marianne disapprovingly, "Marianne, I hope you remember that the house we live in belongs to the Middleton family, And their family also treated us warmly, you should keep your manners."

Marianne looked at Eleanor dissatisfied, "So? Because we live in the Middleton's house, I have to endure those ridicules from Mrs. Jennings? You know that what she said is not true at all , What is the problem with the Butler brothers and sisters? They looked at me very strangely, what kind of nobles are they really? Could it be made up by Colonel Brandon? "

"I don't think there should be a lie. Colonel Brandon is a decent gentleman, and it is meaningless to say such a lie." Eleanor said hesitantly.

Marianne rolled her eyes in a very unladylike way, "I can't say for sure, these people are all weird, and Colonel Brandon is 35 years old, and Miss Butler is only 19 years old."

Eleanor said puzzledly, "So what's the matter?"

"What's the matter? Do you think they are compatible? Didn't you hear him say that he has rheumatism? I always feel shoulder pain when it rains. In my opinion, that is the most common aging disease, and such a 35-year-old gentleman unexpectedly I can't even imagine marrying a lady of nineteen. And you can't say that Miss Butler is not attractive enough, can you? Say a lady with tasteful tastes (Marianne to Heather Wei's piano skills are highly respected), and she is also a nobleman, I really can't imagine what forced her to decide to marry him."

"Did you forget that you said that you greatly admire Colonel Brandon's attitude towards feelings?"

"Yes, but admiration does not mean that I will fall in love with a 35-year-old gentleman." Marianne said thoughtfully, "Maybe that Miss Butler's family is an aristocrat who is about to go bankrupt? She doesn't have much money at all." Dowry? Or is there something wrong with her."

Eleanor sighed, "I know, I can't convince you that a 19-year-old lady can fall in love with a 35-year-old man and make him an ideal partner. But I don't agree with you putting Brandon The Colonel and Miss Butler think so badly, maybe they are united because of their interests, but you can't deny Colonel Brandon's sincerity to Miss Butler, right?" After saying this, Eleanor walked out.

Seeing her sister go out, Marianne told Mrs. Dashwood about Edward Ferrars, Eleanor's sweetheart.

Since Hathaway resumed her normal relationship with Colonel Brandon, she has a new hobby, which is to go for a walk when the weather is fine.

For the Colonel, as long as Hathaway stopped throwing temper tantrums, except for those that would endanger her body, he would agree to whatever she said, let alone such a trivial matter.

However, the Colonel would not have thought that Hathaway's proposal was not simply because the scenery in Barton's countryside was beautiful enough, or because she wanted to climb the hills to exercise, but because she remembered that Marianne met her when she was out for a walk. In the heavy rain, he accidentally sprained his foot while running home, so he happened to be rescued by Willoughby passing by.She went out every day hoping to catch up with this scene by chance. Of course, she didn't mean to help Marianne get rid of the fate of being broken in love in the future. She just wanted to watch the scene where the hero saved the beauty, although the hero turned into a scumbag in the end.

She also wanted to test whether the colonel had any other thoughts about Marianne, even though the colonel had said all the good things that week, assuring that he had absolutely no other thoughts about Marianne, it was just because she looked and behaved very much like Ellie Sha only watched it for a while, but Hathaway was still skeptical about his words. If she couldn't see the Colonel's attitude towards Marianne's death, she might not be able to test out his true intentions.She believed that when a man liked a woman he always acted differently when she was unlucky, and that was all she needed to be sure of.

One morning, as soon as the shower stopped, Hathaway couldn't wait to take the colonel out for a walk. The continuous rain for the past two days made her unbearable.

Before going out, Winnes and Andrew also joined the team. At this time, Hathaway had stopped thinking about watching a good show. She had not waited for Mr. Willoughby to appear on stage for more than ten days, which had worn out her patience. She also felt that she had taken it for granted. Without a specific time and place, it would be too stupid to block the two of them just because of a rainy day.

The four of them talked and laughed and walked towards the back of the Barton Manor. The whole countryside was full of winding paths and beautiful scenery, with continuous towering hills in sight.Because Hathaway walked towards Barton's cottage in the past few days, even though she has lost the idea of ​​watching a play now, she still unconsciously walked in the same direction.

The few people were walking as an exciting and strong southwest wind rushed towards them. Hathaway felt that this refreshing wind had blown away her depression for the past few days, and happily laughed with Winnes .

On the contrary, the colonel felt that the weather was not good, but he didn't want to disturb Hathaway's interest, so he endured without reminding her, and they continued to march against the wind for another three or ten minutes.Suddenly, dark clouds covered the head, and heavy rain poured down on the head and face.The four were shocked and annoyed, but there was no shelter here, and they couldn't even find a tree. The nearest shelter from the rain was Barton Cottage, but to be honest, it was not much closer than Barton Manor. Nowhere can escape the doom of being drenched.

The four quickly turned around, the colonel took off his coat and put it on Hathaway's head, leading her to run back. When Andrew saw the colonel's actions, he took off his coat and threw it to Winnes without saying a word, and ran away for a while. After a while, two girls rushed down a rather steep mountain in front of them. One of them fell down halfway through the run, while the other couldn't stop and kept running.

All four of them saw this scene, but they had different thoughts. Hathaway immediately turned to look at the Colonel, Winnis also looked at Andrew, and the two gentlemen frowned at the fallen girl. The bean-sized raindrops hit people's faces in pain, but the four of them stood there quietly without speaking.

Margaret, who was not far from them, just stopped and ran back. She shouted "Marian" and ran up the mountain against the rain.

The torrential rain poured down, but after a while the clothes of several people were soaked. Hathaway raised her face. Even though she was wearing a colonel's coat, the rain still hit her face and flowed into her clothes along her neck. , as soon as the colonel turned his head, he saw that wet little face facing him up. His green eyes were washed by the rain, and there was only his clear reflection in the mirror-like eyes. After making a decision, he shook Hathaway's hand vigorously, turned his head and said to Andrew quickly: "I must send Hathaway back immediately, she is too weak to be exposed to the rain, if you are worried, go and have a look .”

At this time, a man who was hunting on the mountain also found Marianne who had fallen. He was only a few yards away from her. He put away his gun and ran towards Marianne.All four of them saw this scene. The colonel dragged Hathaway and continued to run towards Barton Manor. Andrew looked at Winnes who was still waiting by the side, and at Marianne who fell down on the mountain, and finally decided to go up the mountain to have a look How was Marian injured? He couldn't ignore a wounded woman who was also someone he knew. It would be extremely irresponsible to throw her to a strange man.

Andrew made a few gestures to Winnis, signaling her to follow Brandon first, and he went up the mountain first.

Winnis watched Andrew strenuously running towards Marianne, holding his coat tightly until his knuckles turned white, then turned his head and ran towards the colonel in disappointment.

The author has something to say: part of this chapter comes from the original text.