[Pride and Prejudice] Dear Lydia

Lydia found that Mrs. Burns was a very talented person. Her talent did not lie in music, dance, or artistic painting, but in her winking, ability to handle affairs, and her ability to do things that please people without a trace, and she is very beautiful.

In Miss Mallard's words: This is also a rare talent, no, it's not something anyone can have if he wants to!

After telling Lydia that she could do her brother-in-law Mr. Bingley a favor by taking advantage of Mr. Hurst's lawsuit and suppress Miss Bingley's arrogance by the way, Mrs. Burns came to Lambert with Mrs. Lucas When Eun visited, he seemed to inadvertently let Mr. Bingley know that Attorney Palmer had a deep relationship with the Pete family, and he would definitely sell their face.

He also mentioned Mrs. Bingley's sister-in-law Mrs. Wickham's current friendship with Netherfield, and asked them to help him to say hello to Mr. Palmer, and it would be no problem for him to accept Mr. Hurst's commission.

This immediately saved Lydia a lot of things, and she no longer had to worry about how to get Miss Bingley to ask herself.

Bingley was being overwhelmed by the troubles of the two sisters, and would have almost paid for Mr. Hurst's lawyers himself, had Mr. Darcy not watched him.

Mr. Darcy is smart and has his own views on people and things. He thinks that the Hursts have been cheating on their younger brother for a long time, and they live in Mr. Bingley's house for more than half of the year. It is also fully arranged by the brother Bentley, which will only make them more dependent, so this time they should try their best to solve it by their own ability, and pay the money when it really doesn't work.

Bingley has always respected the shrewdness and insight of his good friend Darcy, so he agreed to wait until later, but he couldn't help feeling uncomfortable when faced with the worried faces of his sisters.

At this time, when he heard that it could be solved through Lydia's relationship, he was immediately very happy. Apart from anything else, he took a tough stance for the first time in his life and dragged his younger sister, Miss Bingley, to apologize to Lydia.

Lydia hesitated, and said to Miss Bingley, "I often go to Netherfield mainly because Miss Mallard is my good friend, but I dare not boast how good friendship I have with His Excellency the Earl and Mr. Pitt, in case they If you don't want to take care of this matter, I can't return your apology to you."

Mr. Bingley quickly reassured Lydia that his sister apologized sincerely, and even if Lydia hadn't persuaded His Excellency the Earl to help, she wouldn't be dissatisfied and wanted to take back the apology she had already made.

Miss Bingley swallowed her anger and said that, indeed, as Bingley said, she had long since regretted her disrespect to Lydia a few days ago, and now she is sincerely apologizing, never thinking of asking for anything else at the price once, as long as Mrs. Wickham is willing The sisters would be grateful for this favor.

Lydia was satisfied with Miss Bingley's low profile, and agreed to help them talk about it.

As expected, Lawyer Palmer agreed to accept Mr. Hearst's entrustment after receiving another letter from Mr. Pete. However, because he couldn't bear the heavy loss of the sisters' property, Mr. Bingley finally lent a sum of money to Mr. Hearst to let him Temporarily used for attorney's fees.

From then on, when Miss Bingley came to Longbourne, she put away her snobbery completely, and became polite to everyone.

Lydia has never been interested in her, and just asks this person not to think he is superior, and to come to relatives' houses and pretend to look down on one or the other, so she is very satisfied with the result.

Time passed quickly, and it was time to set off for Somerset with Mrs. Burns in a blink of an eye.

Mrs. Bennet's attitude towards such matters has always been clear, and she happily asked her daughter to have fun in time, and wished Lydia a good time.

And Mr. Bennett said to her, "Lydia, your Uncle Gardner sent me a letter to discuss Mr. Eshton's gold investment in Cape Town. He marveled at your kindness." Luck! Lydia, your uncle says it's a promising deal, Mr. Eshton is expected to make a fortune in the next few years, and you, as one of the initial investors, will make a fortune too. A lot of money! He asked me to congratulate you, and reminded not to transfer the equity to anyone easily. And I want to congratulate Mr. Wickham, he finally got what he wanted and made a fortune on his wife. What do you think Well, should I mention it in my next correspondence with him?"

After hearing her father's strange words, Lydia quickly stopped her, "Thank you uncle for your concern, and I will thank them myself when I communicate with my aunt next time. As for congratulations to Mr. Wickham, I don't think it's necessary. It's not what I want to say." My husband is not good, but he is always lavish. We spend money to enjoy ourselves when we have no money. Now that we hear that we may make a fortune, he will definitely become more intemperate. I don’t want him to go to the navy. After serving for several years, they came back empty-handed or owed foreign debts."

Mr. Bennett nodded, "You're right, and I don't want to speak ill of my son-in-law, but I think that after he gets the news, he will probably start to abuse it with confidence and boldness, and then come back with foreign debts. Don't tell him yet."

"Oh, you mustn't tell him!" cried Mrs. Bennet, "though he's a pleasant, handsome fellow, he's been too mean to dear Lydia until he's paid off his warship service." All the money that came here will be handed over to Lydia for household use, and then the bad habits of the past will be completely corrected, otherwise I will never tell him!"

Mrs. Bennet's good wishes did not come true.

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One day more than three months later, the Laconia ship sent someone to send news that Lieutenant Wickham was ambushed by a local aborigine during an island landing operation in West India, and Mr. Wickham was taken away. It has since been proven that he died unfortunately.

When Longbourne received the news, Lydia was still a guest at Mrs. Burns's house in Somerset. Mr. Bennet was shocked and could only hold his chest and mourn, "Oh, poor child, I Poor Lydia..." Mrs. Bennet finally decided to take her daughter home first, and then tell her the bad news, lest she be too sad and fall ill outside.

At this time Lydia in Somerset was living comfortably.

The parsonage of the Burns couple was just beside the estate of the Earl of Chatham, and it was more convenient for her to meet Miss Mallard than to live in Longbourn.

Mr. Burns is a very rigid person, who is extremely enthusiastic and serious about his priesthood. He spends most of his day doing business in his parish, and the stormy weather can't stop him from visiting remote places in the parish. sick villagers.

Lydia admired his professionalism, and was glad that he didn't have to spend a lot of energy dealing with Mr. Pastor, and just greeted him politely every morning and evening.

After getting acquainted with Mrs. Burns and visiting several families around her, Lydia began to live a regular life.

Every morning I go to accompany His Excellency Earl to draw pictures, take a walk, chat with my friend Miss Mallard in the afternoon, drink afternoon tea, do something that both of us are interested in, stay for dinner occasionally, and taste the superb skills of the Earl’s chef ; Every now and then, I have to go to various gatherings of local friends with Mrs. Burns.

Live the day to the full without being hectic.

The Earl of Chatham's attitude is still the same, proud and elegant. Compared with other people around him, he has a clear preference for Lydia, but his preference is very frank, so frank that he doesn't seem to have any feelings for a lady. What emotions look like outside of friendship.

After a while, the faint worry in Lydia's heart almost disappeared.

I secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Your Excellency the Earl is indeed very charming and full of charm. He is the most attractive opposite sex Lydia has ever met so far. It is estimated that if she seriously pursues someone, no woman can easily refuse him. .

However, there is too much difference in age and status between the Earl and her. From a rational point of view, it is better not to let this kind of troublesome thing happen from the beginning.

Mr. Pitt probably felt that staying in Netherfield alone was too boring, so he came to Somerset County within a few days, lived with his father, and seemed to forget that he had purchased another property and had a separate residence Similarly, staying in the Earl of Chatham's manor safely, it seems that he has no plans to leave in the short term.

After a period of careful observation, Lydia found that the Earl of Chatham's reaction to his son's move was very strange, with an attitude between happiness and annoyance.

This baffled her, so she had to ask her friend, Miss Mallard, for advice, and Miss Mallard's answer was also subtle.

She said, "Lydia, it just shows that George is a lucky man by God, with a father who loves him very much and is willing to make concessions for him."

Of course, this veiled answer caused Lydia to express her disapproval by giving Miss Mallard a sideways look in which you were spoofing.

Mr. Bennett sent a letter to urge Lydia to go back as soon as possible on the grounds that there was an urgent matter at home.

Holding this letter, Lydia couldn't help complaining about her father's rare "considerateness" this time, he might as well explain the reason directly.

Although I have guessed [-]% that it was because of the "unfortunate" news about Mr. Wickham from the Laconia, that's why Mr. Bennett was in a hurry to let her go back, but he was afraid that if it was not this reason but the family Something really happened.

Lydia therefore hastily bid farewell to Mrs. Burns.

Mrs. Burns was a little embarrassed. She invited Lydia home because of Earl Chatham's request. Now that His Excellency the Earl has not expressed anything else, she will let her go. What if Earl Chatham is not happy.

So she quickly went to the earl's mansion to see if she could borrow two horses, on the grounds that her family had only a small carriage and no horses, so she could not send a carriage to take Lydia back to Hertfordshire. By the way, before Lydia came to say goodbye, I mentioned this matter to His Excellency the Earl and asked for an idea.