[Pride and Prejudice] Second Marriage

In fact, the scene of concerted efforts and unanimous condemnation that Lady Catherine expected did not happen.The gentlemen, knowingly unwilling to humiliate a lady in such a way, went to the pool room together.

However, Juliet, Mrs. Griffey and Mrs. Amber are not in favor of bringing the matter up again with great fanfare.So the scope of the matter was only compressed to Elizabeth, Lady Catherine and Jane.

No one knew what was said between them.The rest of the people sat in the living room on the second floor and waited for a while. Because Andrew was clamoring for his mother to accompany him, Mrs. Griffey had to go back to her room first.

In about an hour, Lady Catherine rushed into the drawing room, shaking her fan vigorously. She felt that she had been offended by the conversation just now--she felt this way every time she saw Elizabeth, but no one else did. I can understand why she always enjoys it. "I can't bear it, I can't bear it at all! They can escape the sanction - and live happily in another place! Now this world has too loose moral requirements! What is even more annoying is that Fitzwilliam married another Bennett! How many women have the last name Bennett in the world? I seriously doubt his cool head...Where is Darcy? Where is he? I want to see him, immediately! He can allow this to happen !" She was trembling with anger, she didn't wait for anyone's reply, and didn't need anyone to reply, and immediately walked out of the living room in a hurry.

After a while, Jane also came into the living room to tell everyone their decision.Regardless of whether Elizabeth returned to England for money or affection, she would live in Bridgeley, Nottingham, under the name of Mrs. Will, a distant relative of Mrs. Bingley.They will leave early tomorrow morning.

Although Caroline expressed dissatisfaction with this result, Jane Bingley's words can already be the master of Bridge and her brother.

"Juliet," Caroline leaned on the back of the sofa, turned her head and said in front of Jane, "You will probably kindly ask me to stay as a guest!"

Juliet, who was amused by the books Julian sent on how to be a good mother, replied without looking up, "Stay as long as you want."

Jane was inevitably embarrassed by the attitudes of these two people. She stood there for a minute or two, feeling that she couldn't find anything to make her feel comfortable in the living room, so she turned back to Elizabeth's room.

Elizabeth was sitting on the bed in a daze.During this year, she lost a lot of weight, and her complexion was not as rosy and shiny as when she was a girl.Jane sat down beside her, took her hand on her lap, and comforted her silently.

Elizabeth raised her head and looked at her. At this time, she no longer had the spirit of arguing with Lady Catherine just now. The curly hair on both sides covered her cheekbones in a mess, and her black eyes were full of tears. helpless.

Jane felt very sorry for her.

"Poor Lizzie," she said softly, "you've always been so strong. Why can't you keep calm when Lady Catherine is talking? Instead of shouting, draining your energy, and talking about everything." Come out, she didn't know anything at first - if you don't say it, you don't have to listen to her accusations later."

"I don't want people—especially her to pity me. I can't stand it." Elizabeth curled her legs up on the bed, as if cold, and hugged them tightly with her hands.

Jane looked at her, sighed, and said gently, "She won't pity you, and you haven't done anything to make her pity. You don't need to say a word, as long as she vents..."

Elizabeth interrupted, "But why should I sit here and listen to her harsh and rude words?"

Jane was a little taken aback, she felt something was wrong, but she still said, "Not to mention that you took four thousand pounds in alimony, just if you don't want to cause trouble for Kate - she didn't even know that the colonel married Kate."

Elizabeth raised her eyes, "Dear Jane, you are still the same as before, swallow your breath, tolerate everything, and endure everything. If I were me, I would definitely not be able to do it. She imagines herself as a dictator, but in fact she can't control others at all. In fact, she is just a stupid, arrogant and annoying old lady, let her say whatever she wants! If the colonel despises Catherine because of an old tyrant, then she will understand that her original choice was wrong sooner or later!"

Jane finally knew what was wrong. It was Elizabeth's attitude. She said seriously, "Liqi, I can't understand you. Kate is your sister. How can you curse your own sister to live a miserable life?"

Elizabeth's pale face immediately flushed, and she defended, "This word is too serious! I'm not cursing her, how could I curse her? But you can't understand what I felt at that time—it was betrayal Jane, it's a betrayal! She betrayed her sister's feelings and defected to a man who ruined my happy life and made me miserable."

Jane Holder stood up, and she looked at her with lowered eyelids, "Honestly, I don't think the Colonel is the root cause of your unhappiness. I'm afraid you are making their lives unlucky and us. Mary and Kate have nothing If you make a mistake, your original engagement will be terminated by others, and you will be forced to set foot on a foreign land with you. You don’t know how painful my parents and I are. I worry about you every night, for our fragmented The family is heartbroken! If I could say one irresponsible and sad word, Lizzie, the death of little Charles is all due to you. If I was not sad for you, how could I have ignored him?"

Hearing this, Elizabeth looked at her with trembling lips.

Jane stood silent for a while, then continued with a deadpan expression, "When everything is in the past, complaining won't help, Lizzie. After the death of little Charles, I figured this out. People can't just Thinking of myself and only my own interests. I used to complain about Mr. Darcy when I first started, but then I realized that he was the kindest of them all—he gave you money, gave He didn't say a single word against you in front of everyone! Otherwise, everyone's spittle would drown you. If your reputation is completely ruined, why do you think I'm still alive? Can you have the confidence to be Mrs. Bingley? This society treats women far more harshly than men, and even the present Mrs. Darcy is secretly ridiculed as a fool for choosing Mr. Darcy, a second-rate aristocrat, as her husband because of her noble birth. , but about Mr. Darcy, people say a few sour things about his luck. You can't see a thing with old eyes, old eyes—or, in other words, your own. I Knowing that you can understand and figure out the truth, because you are such a smart girl, but sadness, anger and bewilderment cover up your original bright wisdom."

Elizabeth hesitated for a while before saying, "No, Jane, I think I am still clear-headed, even clearer than before. You are also very aware of the injustice that society treats women, but you can tolerate this disadvantage."

"You're too extreme, Lizzie." Jane disapproved, "It's not a matter of being intolerant or not, nor is it about swallowing your anger—I've changed, Lizzie, everyone changes, and so do you. But if you I still want to be a pleasing Elizabeth. You should think carefully about whether your changes are good or bad! Use your wisdom, your heart, and your morality, not your hurt feelings. Make things more wrong, and you will become more obsessed with yourself."

After finishing speaking, she stopped looking at Elizabeth, who seemed to be arguing, and walked out of the room.

It was already late at night, and Juliet suddenly woke up from her sleep. Little Darcy was writhing in her stomach, and her bones hurt from kicking with her little feet.She stretched out her hand and stroked her belly slowly twice, and sat up from the bed with some difficulty.With the faint light of the fireplace, she glanced at Darcy who was sleeping deeply next to her, and carefully groped out of bed, picked up a dressing gown and wrapped it around her body, and took a candle from the side of the bed , lit by the fire in the fireplace.

She felt that her stomach was falling down a bit. She didn't know if it was due to being too tired during the day, and her legs were also a little weak. She held the candle tray with one hand, and slowly supported the wall with the other hand to go to the toilet.

In the silent night, any movement can be magnified. When opening the door, Juliet clearly heard the sound of light footsteps coming from the opposite room—the room that originally belonged to Mrs. Darcy.

She paused, and finally knocked lightly on the half-open door.

Elizabeth was standing in the familiar room, reminiscing about the past, when she heard the knock on the door, she was startled, turned her head, and saw a delicate face appearing at the door surrounded by warm yellow flickering candlelight, Blonde shawl, like a beauty in a painting.

"Juliet Stoke," she murmured, "I've seen you."

Juliet's face was very calm, she nodded, looked around the dark room, and asked very politely, "Do you need a lamp?"

Elizabeth turned around, and she quickly wiped the corners of her eyes with her hand before asking, "Are you out of sincerity, or out of sarcasm?"

"It depends on how you understand it. Different understandings will lead to different opinions."

Elizabeth's expression was a little dazed, "Have you always been so vague, allowing yourself to advance and retreat, and never giving people a clear view?"

"Us?" Juliet repeated with some confusion.

"You well-bred ladies with exemplary etiquette but no opinions are best at throwing back questions asked by others. This is your communication skill. I will give you a whole day to talk from beginning to end. , all are meaningless nonsense, few words are useful, and even after chatting endlessly for the first half year, no one has come to a conclusion and knows what kind of person the other is." Elizabeth remembered that she was in this kind of young lady and The numerous setbacks Madam suffered, inevitably she was a little angry.

"Everyone's personality is different," Juliet said lightly, somewhat disappointed by her words in her heart, and she didn't intend to continue chatting with her in the cold spring night, she tightened her coat tightly, "You're too emotional." She said, leaving the candle in her hand on the side table, and wanted to turn around and go back to the room to get another one.

Elizabeth lay in bed all night and couldn't sleep. She tried hard to find a strong justification for her behavior over the past year to refute what Jane said to her——she was sure that her thoughts were correct, so Positive, so beautiful, but Jane's words seem to be reasonable, they have been lingering in her ears, leaving her nowhere to hide, making her exhausted.She simply got up and walked out of the guest room that was very strange to her, and walked up the third floor slowly and uncontrollably, to the room she was familiar with, her original bedroom——she hesitated for a long time before gently pushing After opening the door of its room, it has changed beyond recognition, and all the furniture has changed.

It left her mind blank with nothing but deep sadness.

She never got an answer about how the love between her and Darcy dissolved.But when she saw Darcy looking at Juliet during the day, she knew that only she cared about that answer.

Looking at Juliet's back now, she said uncontrollably, "I know that the question I want to ask must be very presumptuous, but please forgive me for being unable to restrain myself. You must have good eyes and ears. I don't believe that you will I don't know at all. You have been ridiculed secretly, have you always been so indifferent? You clearly have such favorable conditions that are worthy of the envy of others, but you don't think that women should have the same freedom as men—why did you marry him? It's because of the world interest, or love?"

"Mrs. Will," she paused, "maybe I am vulgar and thoughtless in your eyes, but you are now an outsider in my marriage. You have no right to judge right from wrong like anyone else, and you don't have to search I gain or lose something in it." Juliet didn't turn around, her stomach started to hurt a little, she frowned, trying not to sound so anxious, "I'm sorry, I think you must know the way back .”

Elizabeth was dissatisfied with her answer, and also noticed Juliet's impatience. She was about to say something, but Juliet's sudden groan in pain startled her.She watched helplessly as the somewhat clumsy figure suddenly slid against the door frame and sat on the ground.Before she could react, the door to the opposite room opened, revealing Darcy's panicked face.

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