[Pride and Prejudice] Dear Lydia

Mrs. Burns is 37 and eight years old. She is tall and has a bright personality. She has both the loud voice of Mrs. Bennett and the carefulness of Mrs. Gardner. In addition, she is very talkative and knowledgeable. She has a lot of anecdotes in her belly. He can talk and laugh happily at any party, and is loved by the ladies and ladies.

Therefore, soon after she arrived in Hertfordshire, she became a guest of various families, as long as there is any dinner party, she must be invited.

Mrs. Burns's visit as a distant relative of Sir Lucas's came quite unexpectedly, but the Lucas family greatly admired her social skills, so she was a precious guest of Mrs. Lucas.

When it was discovered that Mrs. Burns was acquainted with the distinguished hosts of Netherfield, Mrs. Lucas's affection for this guest was almost turned into a love.

It turned out that Mrs. Burns’s husband was a priest, and the estate of the Earl of Chatham was in the parish under his jurisdiction—it’s no need to say more here, and everyone understood tacitly that in that parish, Who has the right to determine the priesthood but the Earl of Chatham?

As Mrs. de Boer was to the Collinses, Mr. Pitt's father must have been a generous recipient of the position, and it is no wonder that Mrs. Burns knew them well.

"Although I haven't dealt with His Excellency the Earl, I can conclude that he is countless times better than Mrs. de Boer." That night, Mr. Bennett had nothing to do and made a high-level speech at home.

"Oh, how do you know that?" Mr. Bingley is now used to his father-in-law's eccentric and humorous tone, and he finds it quite interesting, and he often wants to compliment him.

"Comparing Mrs. Burns and Mr. Collins, it is easy to draw such a conclusion. Mrs. Burns was generous and decent at the party this afternoon, and she was astute in speaking. My nephew, Mr. Collins, is not ten times as good as hers. One's cleverness."

Mr. Bingley smiled, "Sir, I deeply admire your spirit of not taking sides with your relatives and being willing to evaluate everything objectively, but you are negligent. Mrs. Burns is only the wife of Mr. Burns. You should take Mr. Collins and Mr. Burns together." Mr. himself is a good comparison. Mrs. Collins is a wise woman, too, if only wives are to be compared!"

"Bentley, they're in a different situation."

"How is it different?"

At this point, Mr. Bennet was too lazy to talk, "Oh, there are many reasons," he turned his head and asked Lydia who was sitting on the other side of the room loudly, "Lydia, only you and the Earl of Chatham have fought here. Let's make friends, let's make a fair judgment! Is he much better than Mrs. de Boer?"

Lydia was discussing with Mary an essay she read in the morning, and upon hearing this, she raised her head and replied, "Yes, I can assure you, Your Excellency the Earl is countless times better than that arrogant lady!"

Mrs. Bennett interrupted their conversation cautiously this time, "Well, Mrs. de Boer is Darcy's aunt, dear Mr. Darcy and dear Lizzie will be back soon, Mr. Bennett , while they are at Longbourn, I implore you to be considerate of your daughter's feelings before you speak."

After listening to his wife's advice, Mr. Bennet smiled, and really didn't say anything more.

Elizabeth is Mr. Bennett's most beloved daughter. Lydia is not surprised by her father's reaction. After she moved back home, her father's attitude towards her has gradually changed. He has paid more attention to her than before, and occasionally shows Some care and love, Lydia is very satisfied with this, and does not plan to ask for more.After all, after all, although she is not Mr. Bennett's favorite daughter, Mr. Bennett spent the most money on her. Although a lot of money was spent out of desperation, at least it proved that his father Diligently travels his duty.

"Mom, when are Lizzie and the others coming back?" Mary asked.

"Next Wednesday," Mrs. Bennett remarked, counting the days, "just in time for the Netherfield ball! That's very nice, and I'm sure they'll all want to go back to the old place."

Mr. Bingley immediately agreed, "Darcy and Lizzie will definitely want to go, they haven't been since I quit the rent there, and Louisa and Caroline, they just talked to me the other day I want to go to Netherfield, but I don’t want to bother Mr. Pitt at the door, next week’s dance is a good opportunity.”

Mr. Pitt had originally planned to hold a ball at Netherfield this week, but the time was too short for several London guests, so it had to be postponed until next week.

In this way, Mrs. Burns completed the task ahead of schedule. She had been introduced by Mrs. Lucas to get acquainted with the Bennetts. She had visited twice and had dinner together. The two sides had formed a very familiar relationship. friend.

On Wednesday, the Darcys arrived in Longbourn as scheduled, and the big guys met freely and had a cordial and lively meeting.Even Sister Bingley, who hadn't shown up for many days, also came, but when she saw Lydia, her expression was rather stiff.

For the sake of her sister's sake, Lydia didn't want to be as knowledgeable as them, so she took an unreasonable attitude.After they had talked about their divorces with each other, they said that they had promised to go to Miss Mallard to help prepare Saturday's ball, and they would go to Netherfield.

When I left the living room, I heard my mother happily say to everyone from behind, "Lydia is very popular with those in Netherfield recently, and some people have seen her, the Earl of Chatham and his son, and Miss Mallard together in the manor. Walking nearby, oh, what a face-saving thing! Everyone is very envious when they talk about it." Then he lowered his tone, "But poor Lydia has also encountered some unsatisfactory things recently, fortunately there will be a The dance party can be fun..."

It's easy to say, but Lydia didn't find out that Mr. Pete's holding this ball really took a lot of energy and effort until she really helped Miss Mallard get ready.

The main reason is that it is not easy to invite a group of qualified guests within a week. Half of the invitations were sent out because the time was too tight and they felt that it was not easy to arrange, so they declined the letter. Mr. Pete went to London for two days for this purpose. Come and invite yourself.

Lydia is really grateful now, not to mention that he is the culprit and should take responsibility.

"George is like this. He is very pragmatic, and he always does more than he says. But, my dear, you are a bit sensual this time, and you have praised George countless times. How can you never think of thanking me, " Miss Mallard found fault with her. "I'm busy with this too!"

"Ah, I've praised it countless times, do I have it?" Lydia was taken aback, wondering whether she had become verbose recently.

"Of course there is," said Miss Mallard quite positively.

The ball was coming soon, except for Jane, who was about to have a baby and had withdrawn from all social activities, the Bennet family, sisters Bingley and Mr. Darcy were all invited to attend.

When I got there, I found that Netherfield was extremely lively today, as if it was going to be a big festival. All the famous people nearby were invited, and there were a few friends who came from London. , Mrs. Walter is impressively among them.

Mrs. Bennet was almost on edge. "My God, Lady Macedonia! Lady Temple! I've heard of all these people when I was in London."

"Mom, take it easy, now you not only hear about them, but also get to know them, wouldn't that be better." Elizabeth advised her by her side.

After seeing Mrs. Walter in a crowd of people, Lydia hurried over and thanked her for making the trip for herself.

Mrs. Walter and Lydia had a different relationship, and knew the whole story of the matter, so she smiled gently, telling her not to worry about it, as she could just take this opportunity to go out and play for two days.

Mrs. de Boer only nodded indifferently, and said, "I'll come back later when someone talks to you." Then she walked towards her nephew, Mr. Darcy.

Lydia understood her depression, smiled and nodded, "Okay."

Just as she was about to look for Miss Mallard, a steady voice sounded behind her, "Mrs. Wickham, I wonder if you have time now, please allow me to take you around and introduce some friends to you." Dia turned around, looked at Mr. Pete who was standing upright, and showed a very dazzling happy smile that he didn't realize, "Of course, sir, I have plenty of time.