[Pride and Prejudice] Mary's Pride and Prejudice

After calculating that the time was almost up, they returned to Lily's cell, just in time for Keira to visit the prison, and Keira was very grateful for their troubles for Lily.I don't know what Alfred told Lily. Her state was not as hysterical as Mary had imagined, but her complexion was pale, as if she had been frightened. Her eyes were terrified. La couldn't even leave the cell because Lily's hand was gripping her so tightly that she wouldn't let go, so her husband, the shoemaker who accompanied Kayla, had to see them off first.

The warden seemed to have a good relationship with Alfred, chatted with him and sent the three of them away with a smile.As soon as Mary got into the car, she couldn't wait to ask her fiancé: "What did you tell Lily? Did you tell her everything?"

Alfred nodded: "Yes, Mary, don't blame me for being too cruel to Miss Lily, recalling what happened that day is only good for her, I don't think Miss Keira is so passive and doesn't remind her of those unpleasant things The thing is to help her. If she goes to court directly like this, the prosecutor will only help her recall those unbearable tragedies more cruelly and directly. Moreover, I have persuaded Miss Keira to help me together."

"Can Kayla visit Lily all the time?" Mary asked.

"Yes, it's fine for the time being. I've already greeted the warden. And," Alfred looked at Mary, "I don't think Miss Lily is as fragile as she thinks. I'll take her father's When I told her what she had done, although she was a little surprised, she did not show excessive sadness. Although she lost a piece of memory, I think her state of mind is still in line with her age. If Miss Lily except this lawsuit If anything else can bother her, she must now retrieve her lost memories."

But this is probably more difficult to deal with than this lawsuit.

Things were not going well, and even though Kayla was willing to help, Lily couldn't remember what had happened in recent years.Alfred was unable to do anything about it for the time being, since he returned to London, Mr. West went to see him specially, because Alfred missed his letter on the way, so he took what he had learned as a Recounted it to him.

So far, the evidence available has been against Lily.

The Bennet family's help to her is now very limited. Mary personally wrote a letter to tell Alice what happened here, but before the letter was sent, Alice came to London.

It turns out that Lily's story has been spread in the hometown along with the newspaper reports. Many people don't believe the nonsense in the newspapers, but combined with the fact that Lily and Keira went to London to work a few years ago, everyone is somewhat dubious.

But Alice knew the truth, not only she knew, but also her mother Cora, who fainted when she heard the news.

Although the folks in Meriton were highly skeptical of the matter based on Robert's degree of asshole, everyone still urged Cora to come to London to find out.Cora's incompetence is well known. At this time, she was so shocked and angry that she couldn't get out of bed. Dr. Crews thought that her physical condition was not suitable for traveling, and Alice didn't think that this mother could help her, so she decided to He left his mother and went to London by himself, but in the end her elder brother Albert insisted on going with him. As the eldest son of the family, he said that he must not shirk any difficulties to the women.

At the same time, the reputation of the Bennet family and Fanny's Foods are also undergoing a huge test.

Although the neighbors told Kitty who stayed at home that they all believed that Lily was innocent, Kitty still felt a little strange.

The reason why she stayed in Meriton instead of going to London, the once dream capital, was because there was her sweetheart, Dr. Cruise.She would go to her aunt's house in town almost every day for a whole day, and most of the time she would run into Dr. Crews and have a chat with him.In the past two days, she was especially happy, because when Dr. Crews met her, he cared more about her than a few days ago, and said a lot of soft words to her.At first Kitty was very happy, but soon she couldn't be happy.Her rivals began to taunt her overtly and secretly.

Yes, Dr. Cruise is popular in the town.Despite being penniless, he lives in someone else's house and rents his furniture, but that hasn't stopped the eccentric young doctor from London from gaining a following in this quiet town.Moreover, as long as you do a good job as a doctor, it will always appreciate in value. It doesn't matter if you don't have money now. After two years of hard work, it is no problem to reach a well-off level.

As a result, Dr. William Crews was successfully upgraded to a qualified marriage partner for the young ladies in the small town with little dowries.

Kitty soon realized that things were going against her, that even though the people of Meriton supported the Bennets, there were always worthless people in the world who liked to whisper and demean those who didn't like them. , not to mention that there are quite a few people like Meliton.

Kitty was a little overwhelmed, and she asked Dr. Cruise in a panic: "Do you miss our family that much? The food store is only in name, but in fact our family relies on dirty deals to support our daughters? "

Dr. Crews shook his head resolutely: "I think these are all malicious speculations and rumors. The food at Fanny's Food Store is very delicious. I think these Bennet's alone are enough to feed you beautiful ladies, not to mention ..."

"What's more?"

"What's more, even if Miss O'Denore had strayed into the world, I think Mr. Bennet must have extended a helping hand to that poor lady in the spirit of a gentleman helping others." Dr. Crews watched quietly Kitty's eyes, "Miss Kitty, if I have a new view on you and your family after knowing this, it is definitely not looking down on or ridiculing or contemptuous, on the contrary, I admire your family very much The decisions that were made were deeply moved by what you have done for those poor people."

When Kitty heard these words, she blushed uncontrollably. She thought he knew the reason why Dr. Cruise was so kind and considerate to her these days. He must have heard others slander her, so he came to comfort her!My goodness, Dr. Crews is so sweet!

At this time, Kitty should hit the iron while the iron is hot to further consolidate the foundation of her relationship with her sweetheart, but this girl has become cowardly and cowardly after being overly restrained by Mary, and she even started to stay behind closed doors!

In the eyes of my aunt and Dr. Cruise, they naturally thought that this pure and kind girl had been hurt by vicious rumors, so they felt more and more pitiful for her. Then Dr. Cruise came to the door with Aunt Philip comforted her.And Kitty wrote to Lydia about these things, and Lydia immediately wrote back and scolded her. The enemy bullied her to the door, and she was so shameful that she fought timidly before confronting the enemy!What's more, now is a good time to strengthen our relationship with Dr. Cruise, it's a stupid pig's brain to waste the past like this!

After receiving the letter, Kitty thought about it for a while, and then happily went out of the house to meet her friends. Dr. Cruise and Aunt Philip thought that it was their company and persuasion that comforted the poor man. Miss, the relationship between the two parties (three parties) has taken a step further!

At the same time, however, the loss of the Bennet family's reputation could not be concealed from Mrs. Bennet, and when Lydia told her about Kitty, she immediately suffered from headaches.

"Oh, my husband, my lord, how hard is it to be a good person? How pitiful are the women in our family, because they have unmatched beauty and kindness, they will be envied and slandered by everyone!" She He tore off the veil on his head all of a sudden, and said viciously: "I dare say, Mrs. Cook must have taken the opportunity to spread rumors. She has always been very jealous of me."

Then she started making indiscriminate personal attacks on the ladies and gentlemen of Meriton.

Except for Jane who advised her not to worry too much, everyone was a little absent-minded.Lydia thought for a while and asked Mary: "Does this matter affect us? We are all engaged except Lizzie and Kitty. Dr. Cruise is very attentive to Kitty, but will Lizzie What if the implicated one can't get married?"

Mary was very happy to hear that she was so concerned about the marriages of her sisters. She comforted her and said, "Don't worry, Liqi is the last child in our family who will not be able to get married." Even if everyone can't get married, Elizabeth also has an official match, Mr. Darcy.Originally, even if Lydia got involved in the elopement scandal, Mr. Darcy still had a deep love for Elizabeth. What's more, now that the ladies of the Bennet family are only implicated because of their kindness, he will not be afraid of Elizabeth because of this.

However, the situation of the food store is indeed worse, because at the beginning, the food store in Meliton was handed over to Alice, so except for Albert, most of the employees were women. Later, the London branch hired Miss White Manager, there are even more young girls in the store.Now there are gossips about them hiring sex as shop assistants. The legs of such scandals are longer than any news, and the speed of spreading is also the fastest.

They were invited to Mrs. Fry's banquet yesterday, and Mary heard a lady cover her mouth and say to her sister: "It makes me very uncomfortable to mention the name of that shop now. It's hard to say. I still eat it." Over there. I can't bear to think that it was a dick handed to me to eat, my God... It's a shame that I still know the ladies of that family!"

The person who said this was Miss Bingley. Of course, she avoided Mr. Darcy when she said this. Now she has completely given up the idea of ​​speaking ill of her rival in front of Mr. Darcy, because she finds that this will not only make Darcy Mr. West did her no good by noticing anything other than Elizabeth.The only one who can talk to her is her own sister, but the positions of the two sisters don't need to be overly consolidated.Especially now that Mrs. De Bourgh, Mrs. Darcy's aunt, came to London, and Miss Bingley put all her energy on the idea of ​​finding out her future mother-in-law and aunt.However, this does not mean that she will give up any opportunity to slander Elizabeth.Mary couldn't make any rebuttals when she heard such words, and it would only make the picture worse. She was glad that it was not Lydia who heard these words, otherwise she was afraid that this fiery sister would rush up and beat Miss Bingley.

However, Miss Bingley's words were listened to by more people, not only listened to, but also spread around.This is a very bad signal. Although the Bennet family is a respectable squire family, they are also out-and-out upstarts. Such a family belongs to the middle class in London, and the upper class will not accept it easily. Their.But Mrs. Bennet and the ladies have just established themselves in the upper class. Come to think of it, if people think that their family's industry is hiring prostitutes to do things, then they are really pimps , who wants to associate with them!

The gossip about their family slowly spread among the friends of the Bennet family. Of course, if they didn’t know each other, they wouldn’t be so keen to gossip about them, so Mr. Darcy heard of them occasionally as a matter of course.

As a popular woman, Mr. Darcy, who ranks at the top of the list of women most want to marry, not only will not look down on Elizabeth because of this, but will naturally think about what she thinks and worry about what she is anxious about.

It's a pity that Mr. Darcy can't do anything about it. If someone makes irresponsible remarks to the food store and the Bennet's house in front of him, he will definitely stand up and vouch for his personality and reputation. Knowing this family member and having been in this store, he thinks any speculation and ridicule about this is slanderous and vexatious!

But unfortunately not!Mr. Darcy associates with authentic British gentlemen. Apart from talking about the weather, these gentlemen are only willing to argue about politics and economic news in public, and they will never act like gossip lovers. Demeanor to talk about any nasty popular topic.

This is not to say that there are no such people among them. In fact, there are many such people than imagined, but they will never talk about those things in front of a person like Mr. Darcy so as not to be looked down upon by him. Due to his upright character, he missed the opportunity to avenge his sweetheart face to face. He accumulated a lot of firepower but couldn't fire it. ?

But a gentleman naturally behaves like a gentleman. Mr. Darcy has his own circle of friends, and he also joined several famous clubs.Recently, after practicing with his coaches and classmates in the fencing club, he would uncharacteristically invite his friends to go out to eat and drink.And he also changed the place where he met his friends outside. Occasionally before, he would invite people to relax in cafes or pubs. Of course, those places are much more advanced than food stores, but now Mr. Darcy has become He was so down-to-earth that he invited his friends to Fanny's Food Store.

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I wish you all a happy new year and all the best. The update will resume today, and there will be about five or six chapters until the end. I am so sorry for everyone!