Pride and Prejudice accident

The torrential rain lasted intermittently for four or five days, with lightning and thunder from time to time. The guests who were unable to leave Clark Manor began to complain about the damn weather. They were originally distant relatives and lived far away. The second time I came here was purely with good intentions, but being stranded here, everyone was in a very bad mood.

Mrs. Pattinson, who had intended to introduce her nephew to Andrea, was the most irritable one here. In Andrea's view, she seemed to have delayed menopause until old age, and there were few things that pleased her. , due to the bad weather, this lady has a bad temper, and she scolds this or teaches that all day long.

Mrs. Pattinson looked very unhappy at the row of wet footprints on the corridor in front of the door. She pointed at a poor maid with her hands on her hips and scolded sharply: "Oh, you stupid girl, you didn't see the steps in front of my door. Shoe marks on the floor, you are a maid from Clark Manor, you are here to work, not to be a lady, why can't you wipe these shoe marks with your rag!"

Andrea and Maria lay on the crack of the door and watched Mrs. Pattinson blushing as if she had been slapped with chicken blood, screaming and cursing. Her voice was sharp and piercing, with a loud decibel. Andrea guessed that the whole The manor could hear her voice.

"Oh, Anne, she is really endless. In this rainy weather, not only are there wet footprints on the corridor in front of her room, do you want the maid to guard her door and take away the footprints as soon as anyone passes by?" Wipe it clean? To be honest, this Mrs. Pattinson really doesn't consider herself a guest at all." Maria closed the door and said depressedly, this kind of weather makes people feel bad, but they still have to be Forcing to listen to the noise made by Mrs. Pattinson, it is a pity that every guest room in the Clark Manor is full of people, otherwise she and Andrea will definitely move to another room.

"Because her generation is the biggest here now, and everyone has to respect her." Andrea walked to Edward who was sitting on her bed reading a book, took the book from his hand and threw it on the side cabinet .

"Second Sister, return the book to me." Edward sat on the edge of the bed with his legs crossed and straightened up, looking at Andrea, and shouted with an unhappy face.

"It's very dark in the room now, and we can't light candles. For the sake of your eyes, you'd better not read." Andrea pointed to only a small half of the candles left on the bedside table. You can't just light candles as you like in your own home, especially if they have a stingy cousin, a candle must be fussy.

"But I'm really bored, and my cousin is not allowed to go to the study to get a book to read, so I only have this one book to amuse myself." Edward pouted very dissatisfied.

"Rainy weather is the best time to sleep. Go back to sleep. When you wake up, it's time for dinner. After dinner, you can go back to bed. Naturally, you won't feel bored." Andrea spread her hands , absolutely disagree with Edward reading in this dim light.

"It's not that you don't know who I'm sharing a room with now. Tom will never let me sleep peacefully. He's like a little mad cow. He never stops." Edward said dejectedly, he He also wanted to sleep, but due to the lack of rooms, he was forced to sleep with his little cousin. Although the other was a few years older than Edward, he was a real naughty ghost who always disturbed others. An Sheng, otherwise Edward would not have taken refuge in the room of his two sisters.

"Then you can sleep with us, you sleep on my bed." Andrea stood up and made her own bed, pulled the quilt and patted the pillow and said.

"Oh." Rainy afternoons always make people sleepy, and Edward is indeed a little sleepy. After all, he is still young, and he has nothing to shy away from in front of his two sisters. He took off his coat, got into the bed, and soon fell asleep. up.

Andrea tucked the blanket for Edward, then carried a chess set to Maria's bed in a low voice, and the two of them sat on the bed and played chess boringly.

In Rosings Manor, everyone was extremely bored. Miss de Bourgo went back to her room to rest early due to physical reasons, and Mrs. de Bourgh listened to Georgiana play a few tunes, and forced Elizabeth to play one too. First, I went back to the room.So now there were only four people left in the living room.

Mr. Darcy was sitting by the window with a book, but his eyes were staring at the rain outside, staring in the direction of Clark Manor in a daze.Mr. Darcy kept thinking about the way Andrea hid alone and cried a few days ago. Her eyes and nose were all red, and her face was full of tears. It was not a pretty look, but it made Mr. Darcy think that Andrea Leah is a little pitiful and a little cute, which also makes Mr. Darcy a little curious. He wants to see what kind of lady Andrea is.Andrea looks very gentle and reserved, but she is passionate from time to time. She always follows the rules, but she is usually informal. She is different from Georgiana and Elizabeth. She is different from all the ladies he has ever seen. Her uniqueness has achieved a strange balance in her body, and Mr. Darcy wondered maliciously whether he could break that balance so that she could not maintain all her current peaceful appearance.

Mr. Darcy was in a daze for more than an hour. During this period, Colonel Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth looked at him several times, trying to arouse some ideas, but Mr. Darcy did not notice it once.Mr. Darcy maintained an elegant posture like this, stroking the book in his hand with his fingers from time to time, frowning slightly with a thoughtful expression on his face, as if entering his own world.

When Colonel Fitzwilliam saw Elizabeth looking at Mr. Darcy again, he quietly rolled his eyes. Perhaps he was the only one present who knew that Mr. Darcy was not thinking at all, but was actually in a daze. The good-looking posture is completely the habit of Mr. Darcy. He has been a demonstration object of etiquette for the juniors in the family since he was a child.

Elizabeth was in a bad mood at the moment. When she was in Longbourn, as long as Elizabeth was around, Mr. Darcy would look at her from time to time, although Elizabeth felt that it was a bit awkward to be looked at by someone she didn't like. It's annoying, but it doesn't prevent her from being proud of being able to attract the attention of a gentleman of Mr. Darcy's status.But since she came to Rosings Manor, Elizabeth found that Mr. Darcy saw her less and less often. Could it be that she was really inferior to that sick young Miss De Bourgh?

Elizabeth was unhappy, so she couldn't read the book in her hand. She looked around the room. Mr. Darcy was thinking. It would be impolite for her to interrupt. Colonel Fitzwilliam seemed to be reading with relish. , she shouldn't bother, then only Georgiana who is playing the piano can talk to her.

Thinking about it, Elizabeth walked into the inner piano room. Georgiana was playing the piano casually. Elizabeth stood by the piano, picked up a sheet music in her hand, and asked in a low voice after looking at it for a while. : "Miss Darcy, did you learn to play the piano from a very young age?"

"Yes, Miss Bennet."

"Then you must have a governess. Mrs. De Bourne has always said that girls from good families have governesses, and only those who are educated by a governess are qualified." Elizabeth's tone was somewhat disdainful. This young lady has hired a tutor at home, everyone is not good, and their family did not hire a tutor, she is smarter than those who hired a tutor, how many of those ladies are willing to be as serious as her I really read books.

"Yes, there used to be."

"Then Mr. Darcy was also taught by a tutor when he was a child?" Elizabeth wondered what kind of tutor could teach Mr. Darcy to be as arrogant and rude as he is now.

"When I was very young, I had a tutor, and when I grew up, I went to school."

"Then he must have no playmates." Elizabeth said with certainty.

Georgiana shook her head. "Yes, George stayed with my brother until college."

"George, who is it?" Elizabeth asked. In fact, she knew who Georgiana was talking about. After all, Wickham had told her in detail about his childhood. He was Mr. Darcy's only one. Playmates, it's a pity that childhood friendship turned into betrayal when the two grew up.

Georgiana paused as she played the piano, and then realized that she had mentioned Wickham, and immediately said with a grim expression, "It's just a friend of my brother's before."

friend?After hearing this, Elizabeth sneered in her heart. If it was really a friend, Mr. Darcy would not have given the pastorship to Mr. Wickham after his father died. I really don’t know how this Miss Darcy said that she was a friend. words.Elizabeth glanced at Georgiana's face, and she interpreted her pale face as guilt, and thought that she must expose Georgiana's hypocrisy.

"Yes, I thought Mr. Darcy's friend was Mr. Bingley! Speaking of which, I went to several balls at Mr. Bingley's when I was at Longbourne, which was very nice! Oh yes, Darcy." Miss, do you know an officer called Wickham? He told me he knew you and Mr. Darcy.

Of course, he was not an officer before, but I heard that he was framed by his childhood friend. He could have inherited an inheritance from an elder and a pastor in his family, but the son of that elder was his My friend, who did not want to give him that inheritance and that priesthood, hid his will and disclaimed Mr. Wickham's inheritance.As a result, Mr. Wickham had no money to continue his studies at Oxford University, so he had to drop out of school, and later became an officer through his own efforts. "Elizabeth said, she carefully observed Georgiana's expression as she spoke, as long as Georgiana's face changed, she could confirm Wickham's words, and thus deduce the disgusting characters of Mr. Darcy and Georgiana up.

Georgiana was taken aback when she heard that, her face was pale and frightening, and her hands on the piano were trembling, she asked with some fear, "Miss Bennet, do you know who that friend is?"

Elizabeth had already obtained a satisfactory result. She felt that she had exposed Georgiana's hypocritical mask, so she kindly let Georgiana go. "No, he didn't say anything. I don't want to know about such a person."

After Elizabeth had finished speaking, she left in a hurry, leaving Georgiana alone with fear and sadness. Wickham was her nightmare, a nightmare that she wanted to hide all her life but was destined to never forget.Georgiana glanced at Mr. Darcy who was sitting in another room, thought of how angry her brother was at the time, and thought that she almost became a disgrace to the Darcy family. She could no longer stay in the room, bowed her head and ran away out, and ran all the way out of Rosings Manor.

It wasn't until lunch that Mr. Darcy found out that Georgiana was missing. The servants searched the whole manor and the large garden outside the manor, but there was no sign of Georgiana.Mr. Darcy and Colonel Fitzwilliam began to look around anxiously. They also searched the grove outside Rosings Manor, but they still couldn't find Georgiana.

The rain that finally stopped before noon started to rain again. Mr. Darcy wanted to run out to find someone, but was dragged into a small pavilion by Colonel Fitzwilliam, "It is possible that Georgiana went to find Miss Ferguson, we I was so anxious just now, I didn’t even think about it.”

"Georgianna will tell me if she wants to go out in this weather. She was still playing the piano before, why she disappeared suddenly." Mr. Darcy kept walking around in the pavilion anxiously. Usually, she would never go out. She loves to be clean, and is always afraid that the mud on the ground in rainy days will stain her shoes and skirts. Now that she is gone, something must have happened.

Colonel Fitzwilliam is much calmer than Mr. Darcy. Georgiana is no longer a child. He believes that Georgiana will be fine, but she will go out, and it will definitely not be a whim.Colonel Fitzwilliam thought about it and saw Elizabeth running towards this side holding an umbrella. If he remembered correctly, it seemed that Elizabeth and Georgiana had said something just now, and Georgiana disappeared later.

"Georgiana talked to Miss Bennet before she went out, maybe Miss Bennet will know where Georgiana went."

Following the eyes of Colonel Fitzwilliam, Mr. Xi saw Elizabeth running over in a panic. He hurried over and grabbed Elizabeth's arm, and asked, "What did you talk about before Georgiana went out? Did she tell you?" Where did you go?"

Elizabeth was also a little scared. She didn't expect that she just satirized Georgiana secretly. She didn't expect that the young lady ran out in such a shock. Now the rain outside is getting heavier and thundering. , if it rains outside for a while, you will definitely get sick.

"I just asked her if she knew Mr. Wickham, and I didn't say anything else?"

Mr. Darcy's eyes widened angrily, his face turned red because of anger, he held Elizabeth's arm tightly, and he didn't shake off Elizabeth until he started to struggle in pain, rushing forward regardless of anything. Into the rain.