[Comprehensive classics] Darcy or Brandon

Colonel Brandon knew that the Dasherwood family would come to Barton Manor for lunch today, so he hurried over this morning after finishing the family affairs. In order to please Miss Marianne, he also specially brought a few newly released music scores as a present.When Colonel Brandon dismounted just now, he heard cheerful music coming from the room, and he thought that Miss Marianne must be in a pretty good mood today, otherwise she would not play her favorite sad tunes uncharacteristically.

But after entering the room, Colonel Brandon found that the lady playing the piano was not the Miss Marianne he thought, but a lady he didn't know.The young lady was sitting by the window, and the faint golden sunlight shrouded her body, making her look like she was wearing a pale yellow gauze, which made her appearance more gorgeous, and also made the corners of her eyes and brows shine through. The aura unique to the young ladies who are wearing clothes is even more obvious.This kind of scene made Colonel Brandon feel very familiar. For more than a month, Miss Marianne had often brought him such a sense of familiarity, and these familiar feelings all came from a woman he loved the most more than ten years ago.

Colonel Brandon was a little dazed. He thought again of that afternoon when his favorite woman sat in front of the piano and played for him alone. Her life was still so young and so fresh at that time. It was beautiful, and she was so happy when she played it, and the music was so beautiful that they both fell into it.

It wasn't until Sir John spoke to Colonel Brandon that Colonel Brandon realized when and where he was. He immediately buried his thoughts in his heart, and then stood up straight and put the hand holding the gift on the back of his hand. After getting behind him, he returned the salute to Lucy in a polite and unfamiliar manner.

"Good afternoon, miss, I'm sorry to disturb your enjoyment of playing the piano."

"No, sir, you didn't disturb me, the song was about to end." Lucy immediately said eagerly and excitedly.

Annie sighed in her heart. This was really embarrassing. Lucy's most appropriate behavior in this situation should be to keep silent. Now it seems that she obviously made the promise she had made with Annie before to talk less and do more. The promise was completely forgotten.

Sure enough, the expression on Colonel Brandon's face became more appropriate. He quickly looked back at Lucy, turned around and walked to the sofa, and saluted everyone, "Good afternoon, everyone."

Lucy stood there a little at a loss, her hands behind her back were stirring, and she looked at Anne with helpless eyes, she didn't know what she did wrong.

Anne shook her hand at Lucy in a corner where no one else could see. Lucy was probably too excited to understand Sir John's words, but Anne could hear them clearly.From Sir John's words, it can be heard that Colonel Brandon should be in love with that Miss Marianne Dasherwood, and he obviously mistook Lucy for that lady just now. Said by Sir John.If the Middleton family knew that Colonel Brandon admired Miss Marianne, then Colonel Brandon would definitely feel a little embarrassed by this sentence, and as a lady who pays attention to reputation, Lucy should also feel Embarrassment or even anger is right, but Lucy never pays attention to these, and this will inevitably make a real gentleman look down on her.

"Christopher, let me introduce these two beautiful ladies to you. This is my younger sister, Miss Lucy Steele, and this one sitting here is my older sister, Miss Anne Steele. She is 22 years old this year." said Sir John, and winked at Colonel Brandon with a "you know what I mean" look.

Although Sir John has been making jokes about Colonel Brandon and Miss Marianne, privately he does not think that the two are compatible. Colonel Brandon is old, and he had a terrible failure and he still can't forget it. He also has an adopted 17-year-old daughter. The wife he needs to find in such a situation should be a good wife and mother who can live a peaceful life, not Marianne, who is full of unrealistic fantasies about love and has an arrogant personality. young lady.

When Sir John saw Anne today, he felt that Anne and Colonel Brandon were more suitable than Marianne. Anne's age and character were more suitable for Colonel Brandon than Marianne.Moreover, Anne is not very beautiful, but also very poor, and she probably has no illusions about love. Such a lady usually only wants to find a gentleman who can let them live a comfortable and decent life, and the others are not too picky.Colonel Brandon needs such a wife. His love has already been given to the woman named Elisa Williams. He can no longer fall in love with other women like that. The only thing he can provide is comfortable live.

Colonel Brandon understood what Sir John meant, and he couldn't help but look at Anne. In fact, he knew in his heart that Marianne might not be suitable for him, but he just couldn't help but want to find Eliza's shadow in Marianne.For more than a month, Colonel Brandon was almost dazed, and she couldn't help lowering her figure to please Marianne, but when she saw Lucy just now, the dazed mood suddenly faded a lot.Lucy, like Marianne, looked like Eliza when she played the piano, but when she stood up, she was completely two people. Colonel Brandon seemed to suddenly understand that Marianne would be like Eliza again. It can't replace Elisa, they were originally two people, and his heart was just blinded by his own obsession.

Perhaps he should take Sir John's advice. His old friend had always had his own thoughts, and he was married and had a child, and he was a man of experience. His opinion must not hurt him, Mr. Brandon thought.So he walked forward and looked at Anne and said, "Miss Steele, I'm very glad to meet you and your sister. I hope you have a good time in Barton Manor."

Annie frowned inwardly, but she stood up and saluted Colonel Brandon with a smile on her face, "It's also nice to meet you, Colonel Brandon."

Colonel Brandon smiled politely, took off his coat, and was about to give it to the maid to put away together with the gift in his hand, when a servant suddenly walked in outside and said to Sir John: "Sir, there is a Dar The Sherwood manservant has come to see you in a hurry."

"Let him in quickly, I wonder what's the matter," said Sir John.

"I think it must be that Margaret is seriously ill and needs our help," said Mrs. Jennings.

The valet of Dasherwood's house quickly ran in, and after a hasty salute to everyone, he said to Sir John: "Sir John, Miss Margaret's fever is getting worse and worse. Madam asked me to come and tell Borrow a carriage so that you can send for a doctor to treat the young lady."

After hearing this, Mrs. Jennings immediately said to everyone: "Look, it is what I said, poor little Margaret, she must not be able to stand the cold weather here, the climate in Sussex is much warmer than here .”

"Then hurry up and find a carriage at the back." Sir John said, and thoughtfully sent one of his own servants and the Dasherwood family's servants to find the doctor. He was worried that the other party didn't know the doctor when he arrived. where do you live.

After the manservant left, Mrs. Middleton, who hadn't spoken much, suddenly said: "Margaret is so poor, she has always been a lively little girl." As a kind mother, Margaret, who was only 13 years old, Gretel always let her have some motherly love flooding her.

"Yes, she must be in great need of everyone's comfort now. Let's visit her and send some food to her family to help her recover. They will not be able to buy it for a while now." Mrs. Jennings was enthusiastic Said.

So Sir John called two carriages, and then we sat together and went to the Barton cottage where the Dasherwood family rented. It was a small two-storey house at the foot of the Barton Valley. Since it has just been built for a few years and has been well repaired, it looks quite beautiful, although it looks a bit too low compared to ordinary houses.

The carriage stopped outside the fence of the Barton cottage yard, and everyone got out of the carriage one after another, walked to the house through the path in the yard.Anne and Lucy were at the end. Lucy observed the small house and whispered to Anne, "It's not as good as our house."

Annie didn't agree with Lucy's words. This house was indeed not as tall and spacious as Steele's house, but the house was much better than theirs.The paint colors on the porch and windows of this house are fresh, and the tiles on the roof are also shiny and tidy. It can be seen that this house should have been repaired not long ago, but their house has not been repaired for several years, because No one lives in it all year round, and it is very dilapidated.

Sir John went up and knocked on the door, and after a maid from the Dasherwood family opened the door, everyone went in one file at a time. When Mrs. Jennings entered the door, she found that Anne and Lucy were walking last, and turned to greet them. He waved and said: "Lucy, Anne, come here, you should get to know the two eldest ladies of the Dasherwood family well, you are about the same age, and they often visit Barton Manor, you will definitely become good friends in the future. "

"Yes, Mrs. Jennings." Anne replied with a smile, and pulled Lucy over, thinking that she and Lucy probably couldn't get along well with the two young ladies of the Dasherwood family.

Anne and Lucy are relatives of Mrs. Jennings. It is only because of Mrs. Jennings' sympathy that they have the honor to live in Barton Manor for a few days. The relatives in the family rented Barton Cottage at a very cheap price through Sir John's kindness, and they were considered as their friendly guests.How can the two sisters balance their hearts when the situation of the two parties is somewhat similar, so at the beginning, I knew the situation of the Dasherwood family from Mrs. Jennings and Sir John, and heard that Jennings After Mrs. Smith kept praising the ladies of the Dasherwood family, they had already developed a dislike for the ladies of this family.