[Pride and Prejudice] Mary's Pride and Prejudice

The next morning, Miss Bingley and Mr. Bingley rushed back to Pemberley. Their trip did not go well. The seller temporarily repented and refused to sell his property, so the gentlemen returned without success. Miss Bingley wanted to go back slowly. In order to increase the relationship with Mr. Darcy, but Mr. Darcy was worried about his sister, so he rushed back early, just in time to meet Elizabeth who was about to say goodbye.

As soon as Miss Bingley came back, she was informed that Mr. Darcy had gone to Lambton. Before she could inquire carefully, Mrs. Hurst couldn't wait to tell her about Elizabeth's visit, and Mr. Darcy went early this morning. The town visited the few people he met yesterday, and Miss Darcy and the Bennet sisters went with him.

Miss Bingley and her brother showed opposite expressions when they heard the news, and Mr. Bingley immediately said happily that he had not seen Elizabeth for a long time, and since his fiancée had gone to town, he should be there too.

So he asked Miss Bingley if she would like to go with him to Lambton to visit Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, after all, she knew them too.

Miss Bingley was going, of course, and though she had no wish to see Elizabeth, she had to go there, out of a duty of friend, to do her best to prevent Mr. Darcy from falling into a rash love.Miss Bingley, who was sitting in the carriage, was furious. She felt that Elizabeth was too presumptuous, too much, and too scheming, and she used such a method to seduce the respectable Mr. Darcy!

In fact, why does Elizabeth want to see Mr. Darcy?She sat in the carriage back to Lambton yesterday. Aunt Gardiner repeatedly lamented Mr. Darcy's politeness. His sister is so kind and elegant, and she respects him so much, so how could Mr. Darcy really be like the rumors? How arrogant and rude?

But Elizabeth couldn't listen to these words at all, her mind was in a mess, and she just felt that the heat on her face hadn't gone down at all.

In fact, since she wrote to Miss Darcy that she would come to Pemberley to visit, she was ready to see Mr. Darcy, but when she arrived, she found that Mr. Darcy had just gone out, and she was very relieved.

She happily played with her pen pal, Miss Darcy, and thought about the cuteness of this legendary beautiful manor. She should have left with satisfaction, but suddenly met the person who embarrassed her. people.Elizabeth felt that it would be better for her to meet him in the first place. What should he think of her?Taking advantage of the owner's absence, he sneaked into the beautiful manor, trying to get his beautiful fluorite, my God!

But Elizabeth clearly felt that Mr. Darcy had indeed changed a lot, and, obviously, he was equally disturbed when he saw her.This made Elizabeth feel a little strange.

After waking up the next day, Aunt Gardiner and her uncle went out to visit friends. Elizabeth planned to go out too, but after thinking about it, she stayed in the hotel. She thought maybe Jane and Mary would come today. There is no chance to talk in detail, maybe the two of them will come to her.

Sure enough, after a while, the lovely guests came to the door. Of course Jane and Mary came, but Mr. Darcy also brought his sister, which surprised Elizabeth very much. But Mr. Darcy treated her so politely, she also agreed. Yes, be very kind to him.

In a few moments Uncle Gardiner and Aunt Gardiner returned, and Mr. Darcy became evidently more agreeable to those whom he had so despised.He also asked Mr. Gardiner how long he could stay in Lambton, and expressed his desire to invite him to Pemberley again for a light meal. He was obviously very eager to please Uncle Gardiner.

But Uncle Gardiner's self-cultivation and refined taste made Mr. Darcy soon realize how natural it is to be close to Mr. Gardiner.At first he deliberately lowered his figure to please him and compliment him-to please his niece-but soon he really felt from the bottom of his heart that although Mr. Gardiner was a businessman, he was decent. His manners, his views, and his knowledge were as good as any gentleman in society, if not better than many.

Mr. Darcy was surprised and very satisfied, and felt a lot of shame when he thought about it carefully. He thought to himself: How stupid I was at the beginning. Could it be that the character and demeanor of this Mr. Gardiner are just because of his status as a businessman? Can it be denied?

Of course Elizabeth didn't know the change in his heart, but she was already very surprised by Mr. Darcy's change. She thought to herself: Mr. Darcy's change is not necessarily for me, just like my change is because of him, but it is because of him. Not for him.

But she thought about it again: he treated my uncle so accommodating, polite, and very polite, didn't he look at it for my sake at first?Otherwise, he might not want to get acquainted with them, and maybe he would have to shy away from us to avoid such a humiliating friend?God, I think so highly of myself for thinking this way, I must be falling into my old self-righteous habit again!Even though Jane told Mary that he had changed a lot, I still couldn't believe that just because I gave him a bad name at Hunsford could make him change, if he still loved me under the circumstances, That is too unimaginable!How could he forgive me for my partiality and bitterness, for my merciless and unjust condemnation when I rejected him, and continue to love me?

But Elizabeth's sisters and friends obviously don't think so, especially Uncle Gardiner and Aunt Gardiner. They saw the difference between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth yesterday. After returning, Elizabeth finally confessed to them about Darcy before. Misunderstandings by Mr.And today, when Mr. Darcy came to visit, the perceptive Uncle Gardiner felt almost at once the young man's affection for his niece.

What could be a happier ending than if their favorite niece were to marry such a distinguished man as Mr. Darcy?

The girlfriends sat in the room and talked for a while, and after a while Mr. Bingley arrived with his younger sister. Among the wives and sisters, his favorites were Elizabeth and Lydia, so he couldn't wait for the hotel servant to report After finishing, he stepped on the stairs and walked up.His boots made a "thud, thud, thud" sound on the wooden boards. The footsteps were cheerful and hurried, and they stopped in front of the door very quickly.

"Oh, Miss Elizabeth, it's been a long time since we saw each other," said Mr. Bingley, smiling to Elizabeth, taking off his hat, and then he greeted Uncle Gardiner, whom he had probably not seen for a long time.

Miss Bingley's expression was completely opposite to his. She had a serious face, and as soon as she entered the door, she glanced back and forth between Darcy and Elizabeth. Her gaze was sharper than an eagle's.

But Miss Bingley was not very polite to Elizabeth, so Elizabeth did not take her seriously, but greeted her brother kindly and friendlyly.

The guests did not stay long, and Mr. Darcy made an appointment with Mr. Gardiner to go fishing at Pemberley tomorrow afternoon, and to have a light meal there in the evening.Miss Darcy also said that she would take Elizabeth to the garden of Pemberley. Although they visited the natural scenery of the manor last time, she just swallowed the beautiful garden and glanced at it. In fact, it is very interesting and has many wonderful places. Miss Darcy wanted to point them out.

After the guests left, Elizabeth felt that all these developments seemed to deviate from her original plan and assumptions. She felt very incredible, but when she sat down and thought about it carefully, she had to think that she could control Mr. Darcy's behavior to a certain extent. Happy and uneasy.

She thought she should be grateful for Mr. Darcy's attention, after all, Mr. Darcy is truly a noble gentleman now.What's more, she has heard many good words about him in Lambton and Pemberley in the past two days. Although some of these words come from his sister, more of them come from his servants, tenants, and even villagers in the town. The harshest comments about him were that he was a little difficult to get close to, but no one said that he was mean, mean and ungentlemanly.Then, being wooed by such a person does not seem to be an unacceptable thing. On the contrary, if a gentleman has a noble character and is willing to change his shortcomings for her, then this kind of firm emotion cannot but make her gratitude.

The next day, Elizabeth followed her uncle and aunt to Pemberley full of energy. The men met to go fishing, while the women sat in the house and drank coffee.Although there was only one more person today than yesterday, the scene today was several times more heated than yesterday.

Miss Bingley was very rude to Elizabeth because of jealousy. Even before, she could maintain a superficial politeness with Jane, but it was obvious that it was easy to make people lose their minds in a fit of anger. Miss Bingley had obviously begun to treat Elizabeth without hesitation. All people surnamed Bennet launched an indiscriminate attack, so that even her sister, Mrs. Hurst, couldn't see it and stopped her from talking nonsense.

Of course, Mrs. Hurst is definitely not doing this out of etiquette, but she thinks that it is not worthwhile to offend the future Mrs. Bingley, if they want to retain the right to be guests in their natal family in the future.

Fortunately, there were Mary and Jane at the scene. After a while, they happily discussed her trip to the Lake District with Elizabeth. Elizabeth said a lot of interesting things that she didn't write in the letter and didn't have time to mention yesterday. Miss Darcy was fascinated.

They also strolled around the beautiful back garden together. Elizabeth was full of praise for the bright daffodils. Later, Miss Bingley invited her to sit in a delicate four-wheeled carriage and took her to visit the places that she hadn't visited yesterday. During that beautiful grove, they passed by the creek, and Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley were accompanying Mr. Gardiner to fish. Miss Bingley just got out of the car and went there when she was tired of shopping, and talked to several gentlemen.Elizabeth looked there, just as Mr. Darcy turned his head, the two looked at each other and smiled, Elizabeth continued to follow Miss Darcy for a stroll, the beautiful and moving scenery interested her more than those annoying questions.

In the evening, Mr. Darcy's hospitality to Elizabeth became more obvious. At this time, everyone knew that the reason why Uncle Gardiner mentioned the end of the trip was because Daphne's girls' school mentioned the start of school, and they wanted to rush back to accompany their daughter.

This was originally a trivial matter, even if they didn't go back, Mr. Bennet would definitely take care of Daphne, and with Mrs. Bennet's temperament, she preferred to do something for the children.

But this time things were so unusual that Uncle Gardiner hoped to go with his wife himself.It turned out that Locke School and Hobbit School were going to hold the first rowing competition. The venue of the competition was set in the small town of Windsor on the outskirts of London. Tickets for this competition were sold publicly, and the proceeds would be donated to a charity organization in London.

This matter has something to do with Mrs. Fry. Anyway, Mary found that this lady is very active in the charity world, and every charity organization has more or less relationship with her. This lady is a well-known lady in London. A well-deserved charity star.

And Daphne's girls' school organized older classes to help, because the parents of these girls are not short of money, so the principal sent a letter to the children, if the children are willing, they can arrive at the school early, and the school will organize them to go to the school. One-day trip to Windsor town, if parents are willing, they can accompany them and participate in charity activities after the game.

It can be said that this is really a clever headmaster. Most of these girls' schools are bridal schools. Girls learn social etiquette and other knowledge here just to get married. What else can compare to Locke and Hobbit? Could the little boys from the big aristocratic public schools be more attractive to these girls and their parents?Most of the children at this stage are fifteen or sixteen years old. In this kind of playground and acquaintance, no one can say that everyone's acquaintance does not abide by social etiquette.

But Daphne is still young, and Uncle Gardiner didn't want to help his daughter look at his son-in-law, but wanted to expand his network.After all, this can be regarded as a grand charity event. At that time, there will be a lot of stars, and the visitors will be either rich or expensive. Knowing more people will be extremely beneficial to improve the social status of Uncle Gardiner's family, let alone this time. Mrs. Fry had sent an invitation to Uncle Gardiner, and they were all the more likely to go.

"Invitation?" Mary was a little puzzled, "Since Mrs. Fry sent you an invitation, shouldn't we be left behind?" Uncle Gardiner's family knew Mrs. Fry through them, even though Gardiner Uncle has a lot of money and wealth and has contributed a lot to charity, but the sum of their sisters is not a small amount.

"Oh, yes," said Aunt Gardiner, "Mrs. Fry wrote that she had sent you an invitation too, but I thought maybe she sent the letter to Longbourne, and your mother didn't mention it to you. But this time Li Qi also decided to go with us, after all, it is the first rowing competition, and I haven't been to Locke School before, who wouldn't want to see it?"

When Mr. Darcy learned of the situation, he asked Miss Darcy: "Georgiana, I remember that you also received such an invitation?"

Miss Darcy nodded, but she was sixteen years old, about the same age as the senior public school students, but she had never liked sports, so she didn't want to join in the fun, and her brother knew that.

But obviously Mr. Brother changed his mind: "Do you want to go? I can accompany you."

Miss Darcy blinked her big confused eyes. Even if Mrs. Anisley didn't wink at her, she knew that she wanted to go now... right?

So she hesitated and said, "Maybe, yes, I want to...go..."

The author has something to say:

Double update, I apologize to everyone and pay off the debt, if you remember that I stopped updating for a week and owed you three updates.

In other words, I updated the day before yesterday, so I didn’t update yesterday as a matter of course, but I just remembered this morning, today is Saturday, so I should update yesterday!

Next Monday, if I finish writing a chapter, I will update it, and if I can't finish it, I will update it on Tuesday.