witch mary bennet

On the second day after returning home, Mrs. Bennet took Elizabeth and Mary to visit Lucas's house.The Lucas family was naturally a little surprised to see Mary, and Mrs. Bennet took the opportunity to publicize that her daughter had moved to London, so that it would be much more convenient to return to Hertfordshire to visit her family.

Then the topic turned to that Mr. Bingley. Mary had listened to all kinds of information about this gentleman at home the day before, but there seemed to be some different information at Lucas's house.

"Speaking of Mr. Bingley's family, it's a perfect combination of birth and wealth," Sir Lucas said, standing back in his chair and introducing the ladies as he did in his mayor's speech. "I came to the door that day. After the visit, I looked up the classics at home, and it turned out that the Bingley family is the descendant of Lord So-and-so who lived in the north. I heard from him that it was his father who moved the family to the vicinity of Manchester and earned a big fortune. Mr. Bingley has an inheritance of one hundred thousand pounds, enough to get him out of that gray place, and come to us for some fresh air, and a maiden sister with a dowry of twenty thousand."

Led by Mrs. Lucas and Mrs. Bennet, the ladies kept expressing their astonishment. "It's a great fortune for the local young ladies to have such a rich and powerful gentleman living near us," Sir Lucas concluded in a rather regretful tone. A presentable young gentleman, and it would be a great advantage indeed to the gentlemen if Miss Bingley were to marry her."

Mary was at home and hadn't heard of Miss Bingley, so she asked with a smile, "Isn't this Miss Bingley as beautiful as a flower?"

"She hasn't come to Netherfield," said Mrs. Lucas, "and I hear Mr. Bingley is going to London this time to take her here."

It turned out that even if the local people tried their best to get any information about Mr. Bingley, they couldn't get much.At least as far as the gentleman's relations were concerned, it was not known until the day of the ball that he had a married sister, a plain Mrs. Hurst, and a husband who was not very pleasant to look at.

Miss Bingley was somewhat pretty, but her face was too thin.However, her dress is indeed more fashionable than the local country girls. She is wearing a pure white satin dress and an opal necklace. There are two white feathers pinned between her buns, shining with the movements of her master. Faint silver light.

As for Mr. Bingley himself, in Mary's opinion, he is not so handsome as everyone says, but judging from his performance, he can be regarded as an optimistic and cheerful person, at least more likable than the other four people he brought. Many people like it.After he had greeted Sir Lucas, he immediately accepted his suggestion and invited Charlotte Lucas to the first dance.

Besides his own relatives, Mr. Bingley came with Mr. Darcy, who was a fine-looking and handsome man, but in Mary's eyes he was worse than the Knight brothers. , at least his arrogant behavior is disgusting.

Mr. Darcy's first dance was with Miss Bingley, and it was no surprise that Mary was not invited, few gentlemen present whom she knew, so she walked to the Bennett Beside the wife, listening to her chatting with a group of ladies-the ladies are very capable of inquiring information, and at this moment, they already know that this Mr. Darcy is a very rich man in Derbyshire, and his wealth and status are far superior to his friends. .

Mr. Bingley was in such high spirits that he did every dance, but there were so many local ladies that he never noticed Mary.It was Mr. Hurst who came and invited Mary to a dance, and Mary chatted with him, and he probably heard that Mary didn't live at home, so he asked where she lived in London.

For those who meet for the first time, this kind of question is a bit presumptuous, but Mary still gave an address politely, and then she was very satisfied to see the surprised expression on the face of Mr. Hurst, a single employee of St. Mungo's Hospital The dormitory, from the outside, is a normal Muggle residence, located in an upscale residential area of ​​Mayfair not far from Hyde Park.

Then Mary danced a few more dances with others, and Miss Bennet, who had already won the favor of the masters of Netherfield, danced twice with Mr. Bingley, and with Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley. They also chatted happily. From this point of view, tonight's dance can be regarded as a victory for the family. It seems that they have indeed taken an important step towards Mrs. Bennet's established goal.

But if only there had been more progress, Mary went back to Mrs. Bennet, and sat for a little while, only to see Kitty hurrying up. "How annoying," she cried, " That Mr. Darcy refused to dance with Lisa, he didn't think she was pretty enough, just okay!"

"Oh! how could he say such an insolent thing!" cried Mrs. Bennet. "Kitty, what's the matter?"

"Ask Lisa, I'm still dancing," cried Kitty, running away, so that Mrs. Bennet had to push Mary to ask about it.

"Mom, don't worry." Mary had already seen Elizabeth, she was still smiling, and she was talking to Miss Lucas, so Mary pointed it out to her mother, "It must be nothing serious."

Mrs. Bennet was still nagging, so Mary stood up helplessly and walked over to Elizabeth. Her sister really took the whole thing as a joke, saw Mary coming, and repeated it to her .

Mary curled her lips. "That Mr. Darcy doesn't seem to have danced much at all."

"That's right," said Charlotte, "he just said he only danced with people he knew, and I think he only danced with Mr. Bingley's sisters, and then wandered about the grounds."

As soon as Charlotte finished speaking, she was called away by one of her younger sisters. Mary felt somewhat aggrieved for her older sister. Although Jane was the prettiest lady present today, Elizabeth was also much stronger than the other ladies. .

So Mary touched her right arm, and asked Elizabeth with a smile, "Lisa, do you think we should punish that Mr. Darcy a little?"

"You have a way?" Elizabeth was a little surprised at first, and then showed some worry, "Won't let others find out?"

"Of course not," Mary smiled confidently. "Although Mr. Darcy cannot be made to regret his remarks, it can always make him look a little ugly."

"Be careful," Elizabeth also smiled, "What do I need to do?"

Mary looked and saw that Mr. Darcy had sat down at a table alone, on which happened to be a bottle of wine and some glasses.

"Just now," she said to her sister, "my dear Lisa, you just find a place and wait for the show."

Elizabeth walked away suspiciously, and Mary quickly found a suitable place. She poured herself a glass of water, leaned against the wall, and held the water glass with her left hand, and her right hand seemed to be supporting her left hand. In fact, the wand was aimed at the bottle of wine in front of Mr. Darcy.

Covering her mouth with the glass, Mary murmured, "Shatter!" It was a simple incantation, but it worked so well that the bottle exploded with a bang and knocked over two nearby glasses.

The sound was enough to attract most people's attention, and Darcy himself was obviously taken aback. He stood up abruptly, brought down several chairs beside him, and probably hit his leg, and his expression was embarrassing. Painful, Mary also saw some red wine splashed on his white shirt.

The moment the incident happened, people seemed dumbfounded. Miss Bingley screamed and ran towards Darcy. Her brother even followed her, only to hear Miss Bingley shout, "Darcy, you are not hurt."

Only then did people become confused, some servants rushed over to help clean up, and several organizers of the dance also rushed over to comfort the frightened people. Mary retreated to the corner by taking advantage of the crowd, and saw Miss Bingley pulling Mr. Darcy hard He looked at it as if he wanted to find a wound on his body, but Mr. Darcy was already flushed and was talking to Mr. Bingley.

Mary walked up to Elizabeth, who was smiling at the mess, and said to her, "Mary, if you hadn't told me, I would never have believed you did this."

"So do you feel better now?" Mary also asked with a smile.

"I wasn't angry at all," said Elizabeth, "but the mess is funny, and we're going to describe it all to papa tonight. But I think you've done Mr. Darcy a favor, he looks Finally able to escape from this dance he didn't like."

As it so happened, Mr. Darcy was escorted from the ball by Miss Bingley, but, according to Mr. Bingley, his friend was not injured, and so he stayed on, hoping that the accident would not affect Good mood everyone.

The music started again, and Mr. Bingley quickly recovered his original state, happily dancing with everyone, and when the ball was about to end, he finally came to invite Mary.

It was natural to gossip while dancing, and Mr. Bingley had indeed been introduced by his brother-in-law, who offered to tell Mary the house he rented in Grosvenor Street, London, just a few streets from hers. Street, he said he could call on her when he got back to London.

"Oh, I just moved to London this summer, and I hardly go out much," Mary replied calmly, "but I know Grosvenor Street, which is probably the widest street in Mayfair. gone."

She asked again when Mr. Bingley intended to return to London.

"Who knows," he replied, "I'm a very casual person, and once I have an idea, I will put it into action immediately, but for now I still plan to live here forever, and the people in the surrounding villages, There are a lot of people I don't know."

"Oh, it's a pity that I'm going back to London next Monday," Mary said regretfully, and then she wished him a happy stay here, and he accepted it happily.

Not long after the dance, the ball was over. Mrs. Bennet took her daughters home and told Mr. Bennet all kinds of interesting things at the ball. Elizabeth guessed right, only Mr. Bennet listened with great relish to Mr. Darcy's embarrassment.