[Comprehensive classics] Darcy or Brandon

After staying in the kitchen for a while, Anne went out, and when she passed the game room on the way, she was stopped by Edmund, "Cousin Anne, have you seen Mr. Ferrars? I have something to look for him."

"No, cousin, you should go to the ballroom to look for it. Maybe Mr. Ferrars is dancing." Anne said.

"I've already looked for it. He was with Lucy just now, and I thought you would know. Forget it, he may not be used to the noise here, and he may not have gone for a walk in the woods." Emond said, Then he went back to the game room impatiently.

Annie frowned looking at Edmond's back. Edward Ferras was Edmond's classmate. They went to university together in Plymouth, and they had lived in Pratt Manor for the past four years.Edward is very handsome, with a gentle personality and a lot of family property. He is considered a good marriage partner. Lucy likes him very much, and the two have been a little ambiguous for the past two years.

However, Anne felt that Edward's character was too indecisive. He was not very knowledgeable but did not study hard. Against Lucy and his association.

Lucy is an ambitious and scheming girl, but she still listens to her elder sister Anne, so she has been suppressing her feelings for the first two years, but Edward will graduate from college soon, and the two of them will be together in the future. Maybe there will be no chance to meet again, so the relationship between the two inevitably heats up violently for this reason. Even though Annie has been warning Lucy to be reserved these two days, it is still impossible to avoid her and Edward's private meetings from time to time.

Now Annie heard Edmund say that Lucy had been with Edward just now, but now that Edward was gone, Annie thought that she hadn't seen Lucy for a while tonight, and she had a bad feeling in her heart.

There are several reasons for holding this dance today, one of which is to celebrate Edmond and the others successfully graduating from college, so after attending the dance, Edward will go home tomorrow.In other words, tonight may be the last chance for Edward and Lucy to have a private meeting. For the two young people who are in love but have been thwarted, there is no guarantee that they will not do something out of the ordinary.Especially Lucy, Anne knew very well that Lucy always thought Edward was a good marriage partner, and she really loved Edward very much, so in order to achieve her own goals, she was overwhelmed by love and the desire to marry a rich man Lucy is likely to do something wrong.

The more Annie thought about it, the more she felt that things were terrible. She hurried back to the ballroom, searched in the ballroom, but did not see Lucy and Edward, and then she went to the lounges, game room, two She searched every corner where Lucy and Edward might be hiding, but found nothing.

"Where can they go? It's so late, where can they hide." Annie was talking to herself as she walked back and forth anxiously in the garden. These two people were obviously not in the manor, but they were in the middle of the night. Where can they go, the temperature is not high tonight, it is definitely impossible for them to stay in the woods.

"Oh, yes, the cabin in the woods!" Annie slapped herself on the forehead fiercely, then took an oil lamp in the corridor and quietly ran out through the back door.

The large forest outside the Pratt Manor was not owned by Mr. Pratt before. Its original owner lived in a manor more than ten miles away from the Pratt Manor. The forest was taken away a year ago because of bankruptcy. Sold to Mr. Pratt.Before that, the gentleman was worried that the people in Pratt Manor and some nearby residents would hunt or pick fruit in the woods without his consent, which would cause economic losses to him, so he built a building in the woods. A small log cabin, in which a manservant lived to watch the woods for him.After Mr. Pratt bought the woods, the cabin was vacant, but the young people in the manor would often go to the woods to have a picnic or play, so it was packed up as a temporary resting place. There was even a bed, so Annie thought it would be the perfect place if Lucy and Edward wanted to do something.

Annie had never driven a night road in the forest. Tonight's night was not good, and the forest was quite dark. The oil lamp she was carrying could barely illuminate the ground a few steps in front of her, which made her walk on the winding and potholed road. It was extremely difficult to walk on the path.The sudden sounds of animals around her and the cracking sound of the branches she stepped on would startle Annie, but she didn't stop. Instead, she stubbornly held the oil lamp in one hand and pulled the hem of her skirt as far as possible. Quickly rushed to the cabin.

The cabin was built by a small lake in the woods, not very far from the edge of the woods, so Anne didn't take too long to walk there.As expected, the light was on in the wooden house that was supposed to be empty at the moment. When Annie walked tens of meters away from it, she could see two embracing figures projected on the window.

Seeing those two figures kissing so inseparably, Annie's mind went blank for a moment, and then all negative emotions such as anger, shame, disappointment, and disgust flooded her heart.It's only been three years since she transmigrated to Anne's body. At that time, Lucy had developed many bad habits, which made her unable to love Lucy as her real sister, but Lucy was already her anyway. She is the only relative in this world, so she still has high hopes for Lucy, and tries her best to teach her to be a girl that everyone loves.

However, all of this was ruined tonight!

No, Annie couldn't let Lucy ruin this.In this era of low status of women, Annie, as a woman who is not very beautiful, not too smart and has a very meager dowry, cannot be said to be the only one, but the easiest and most effective way to change her life is marriage.If Edward regrets making love with Lucy and finally abandons her, and if others know even a little bit about what happened tonight, then no matter what happens to Lucy, it will definitely be difficult for Anne to find a husband who can provide for her. Difficult.

As long as Annie thought that she might only find an old, ugly man with little money to marry in the future, and would have to worry about money for the rest of her life, she would feel her heart ache from anger.When she saw a wooden stick half as tall as a human being and as thick as a baby's arm on the side of the road, she put down the oil lamp in her hand without hesitation, grabbed the wooden stick and walked towards the cabin.

The gasping conversation between the two became more and more clear as Annie approached. When Annie was about to walk to the door, she heard Lucy ask in a coquettish voice: "...Well, Edward, slow down, Tell me first, do you really love me?"

"Yes, yes, of course." Edward replied eagerly, without a trace of sincerity in his tone.

Lucy asked again: "Then you'll be back for me soon, Edward?"

"Of course, dear, don't be afraid, give me everything about you, and I will be back soon. You are so beautiful, so pure, I love you, baby, how can I let you wait for me." Edward's answer It's full of sweet words, but these words are like promises made by any man in bed, they can't be trusted at all.

But Lucy believed Edward's words, and she didn't ask him any more, as if she wanted to indulge his behavior.

Anne listened to these conversations, and all the original complicated emotions were replaced by anger. She raised the wooden stick and slammed open the wooden door in front of her, "Edward Ferrars, you bastard!"

The half-retired men and women on the bed were startled by Annie's sudden intrusion, and froze there for a moment.Seeing that Lucy was about to be stripped naked, Anne was trembling with anger. She didn't give Edward a chance to react, and rushed over to hit him in the back.

"Oh! Annie, don't do it, don't do it!"

Edward was severely whipped before he could react. He screamed in pain and wanted to escape, but Anne didn't want to simply let him go. She beat Edward's back and arms recklessly, knocking him to the ground.

"I let you seduce my sister, you bastard, I'll kill you, kill you!" Annie shouted viciously, holding a wooden stick.

"Ah, stop, Anne, stop! Ah, ah!" Edward yelled and wanted to resist, but he was not a strong man. When he lost the opportunity, he could only hug the furious Annie. Rolling and blocking on the floor with his head. "Lucy, Lucy, help me, ah!"

Lucy clutched her chest and huddled at the foot of the bed. She was completely frightened, until she heard Edward yelling, she cried and crawled to the bedside, wanting to help Edward.

Annie glared at Lucy fiercely, and hit her calf with a stick. She angrily shouted, "Go away!"

Lucy yelled after being beaten, and then shrank back to the foot of the bed in fright. She didn't dare to jump over to help again, so she could only cry: "Annie, don't beat him anymore, you will kill him! Sister, Sister, don't fight anymore!"

Annie hit Edward on the leg again, and asked, "Do you know what shameful things you are doing? Lucy, you want me to send you to the convent, don't you?"

"No, Anne, Edward will marry me, we're engaged," said Lucy, showing Anne a silver ring with a trembling left hand, "He gave me the engagement ring, and we're engaged , he will marry me, he will."

"Really?" Annie was a little tired from the beating at this time, she put down the wooden stick and took a step back panting, and asked Edward lying on the floor; "You will marry her, so why did I hear They say your mother says you have to marry a woman of the right family or you'll have nothing. Tell me, Edward Ferrars, is this true? Tell me you'd give up your inheritance and marry a dowry of five hundred pounds Tell me, woman, would you give up your career, your life of comfort and pleasure, and marry a woman who will do you no good? Would you, Edward Ferrars!"