[Pride and Prejudice] Mary's Pride and Prejudice

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Mary and Elizabeth went to the drawing room, and Mary sat in front of the piano and said to Elizabeth: "I think my mother is right, Lizzie, and Charlotte's marriage is really not easy. Gentlemen usually first admire those who are beautiful and cute." Charlotte is a good girl, but she lacks the prerequisite for being noticed-a pretty face."

"You are so mean," Elizabeth said angrily.

Mary shrugged: "It's not just her being mean, I don't have a pretty face either."

After talking, Mary began to look through the music scores. After breakfast, their sister's piano teacher, Miss Brown, would come to guide them to learn the piano.There is an old piano in the Bennet family in the living room, which is where the ladies learn the piano.

The Bennets did not employ a governess, not that they could not afford it.When the Bennets had their first little angel—Jane, the young couple were ecstatic. Mr. Bennet taught Jane the language himself, and then joined Elizabeth, until the third daughter Mary also After joining this study class, Mr. Bennet felt powerless.He once considered hiring a tutor for his daughters, but Mr. Bennet gave up the idea after seeing some candidates recommended by his friends. Although a tutor would give the children a step-by-step study, according to With the annual salary that the Bennet family can pay, no lady who can meet Mr. Bennet's requirements of versatility and exquisite skills is willing to condescend.So Mr. Bennet hired a language teacher as necessary to encourage the children to read a lot and develop various elegant hobbies, and if any one in particular wanted to learn a certain skill, he should ask one of them. A teacher with outstanding talents in this area, Mr. Bennet will always try to satisfy her.

Elizabeth has a wide range of interests. In addition to reading, she also loves music, so she specifically proposed to Mr. Bennet the idea of ​​hiring a piano teacher.Mr. Bennet was always happy to satisfy his daughters' various lovely requests, and music study was of course granted at once, and Elizabeth was praised.

The biggest beneficiary of Elizabeth's request turned out to be Mary. After Mr. Bennet paid some extra tuition, Mary was able to learn piano with Elizabeth.Mary originally wanted to learn painting, but because learning oil painting is really a long process, Mary, who just wanted to take an extra-curricular interest class, decided to concentrate on learning piano.

In the previous life, something as grand as a piano was only seen on TV, but here it has become the most common household instrument. This old piano in the Bennet family has a classic shape, soft sound quality, and durability. The special family has been passed down for several generations.

Elizabeth is a good student, she is skilled in fingering, and she is full of fiery emotion and vitality when she plays. Miss Brown always praises her playing, saying that she is fluent, free and easy, and free and easy.

But Mary lacked some talent, but because she practiced more diligently than Elizabeth, she was proficient in technique, rigorous in layout, extremely extensive in repertoire, and played delicately and poetically, which was also praised by Miss Brown.

Miss Browne said to Mrs. Bennet: "Your two daughters will be famous if they go to London."

Mr. Bennet scoffed at this, but Mrs. Bennet thought that Miss Brown's words were pertinent, so she often boasted with others at parties and asked her two daughters to perform in public.

For this reason, Elizabeth is very bored. Although she likes to play the piano and sing, she is also happy to perform to the guests at parties to make them happy, but this does not mean that she has to perform in public every party.Therefore, after a few times, Elizabeth tried to avoid it as much as possible. If she couldn't escape, she would only play one or two songs and then abdicate.

But Mary suffered a lot because of this. Of course, Mrs. Bennet would prefer to let the younger Mary become a talented woman praised by everyone, and people called her the little pianist Mary.In order to make this title not too untrue, Mary had to practice more diligently. Compared with the relaxed and leisurely Elizabeth, Mary thought she was really unfortunate.So in order to get rid of this unfortunate life, Mary resolutely pushed her two younger sisters, Kitty and Lydia, into the fire pit—she strongly suggested that Mrs. Bennet also let her two younger sisters learn the piano. After the technique, she had little interest and was too assertive, so Mary gave up thinking about Jane.

Of course, Mrs. Bennet would not object to her daughters becoming multi-talented people, so she readily agreed, even if Kitty and Lydia objected, if they were naughty and did not study hard, they would be punished by the class Mrs. Nutt's severe reprimand and lesson.Because of the "hard work" of the two younger sisters, the burden of performing for the guests was transferred from Mary to Kitty and Lydia after one year. Mrs. Nutt received many compliments, and Kitty and Lydia were less averse to learning the piano because they were praised.

At ten o'clock, Miss Brown came to Bennet's house on time. Elizabeth had seldom studied with her. Miss Brown's main students now were Mary, Kitty and Lydia. She asked Mary to play for her. For a while, then stop and let Kitty and Lydia join in the discussion while instructing Mary fingering, which will deepen their impression and help them learn to understand.Time passed, Miss Brown left after afternoon tea, and the next time she came back would be three days later.

Kitty and Lydia returned to fingering at the piano, and they intended to play a new piece of music when they were going to perform in public next time they visited Aunt Philip's.

And Mary came to the lounge on the second floor, where Elizabeth and Jane were talking. Mary had been busy with the food store. Since the two sisters came back, she hadn't had a good chat with the two of them. This is a good opportunity to exchange feelings.

Jane and Elizabeth told Mary about their trip to London in detail. What they saw and heard there was eye-opening. Elizabeth also laughed at the noble men wearing lipstick they saw in the theater. Very surprised.

Later, the topic shifted to Mr. Hall unknowingly. For short, Mr. Zan Hall is a mild-tempered, modest and prudent gentleman. He really fell in love with Jane at first sight, but after careful consideration, he thought that Jane was too young. It is not suitable to take on the heavy responsibility of a housewife. Moreover, the age difference between the two parties is more than ten years. I am afraid that it will be difficult to coordinate their temperaments in the future. If love is wiped out due to life conflicts in marriage, it will be a tragedy for everyone in the future.To sum up, Mr. Hall left Tianen Temple Street after expressing to Jane that he could not propose to her.

Jane sincerely praised Mr. Hall's prudence to her two younger sisters, saying that although she was a little depressed, most of the ladies in this world have to experience lovelorn and the cautious thinking brought about by lovelorn before they can truly mature, so Jane now Already thought about it.She said to her two sisters: "I want to thank Mr. Hall, he gave me a lot of encouragement." She said to Elizabeth: "I have been worried about Miss Lucas since she postponed her senior prom again and again. , how short a girl’s youth is, but at such a short and beautiful age, she meets a good gentleman, and a pure and noble relationship develops between the two, which leads to lifelong happiness, what a wonderful thing.” She paused, then said: "Miss Lucas is a good girl, but it would be a sad story if she was disqualified from happiness because she had no money, and I was always afraid of being like Miss Lucas. But Mr. Hall gave me a lot of confidence, and made me feel that not having too much dowry is not a big deal, and there will be people who like me and love me." She said with a slightly red face: "Mr. Hall is frank and sincere. To be blunt with me, part of what he said he couldn't propose to me was that my dowry wouldn't be too much—of course he said it very gently—but more because he thought I was too young. I think he said That's right, when I grow up, there will be good men who will love me."

Elizabeth hugged Jane and said: "Although I have some bad opinions about Mr. Hall, I think he is not worthy of what you praise, but if he makes you realize your own value, then I have to admit that he is not worthy." Not for nothing."

Mary put in: "Jane is the prettiest girl around, and even with a small dowry there will still be good men who will marry you. If you're ashamed of not having a dowry, the ladies who don't have a dowry and are not pretty will Died of shame."

"A love and marriage achieved because of a beautiful appearance is not a perfect marriage." Elizabeth retorted.

"Yes, but a beautiful appearance will make love and marriage easier to perfect. You can't deny that." Mary shrugged at Elizabeth.

"If it's only based on beauty, then love will surely dissipate with the aging of the face." Elizabeth firmly pointed out.

"But I believe that a sincere love that is not based on beauty will disappear one day." Mary said disdainfully, "So the disappearance of love is not necessarily due to the loss of beauty."

"Your words are too pessimistic." Jane said, "Dear Mary, you have been mature and stable since you were a child, and you often express amazing opinions. I have always believed in you, but you are still too young. With your extensive reading, you can increase some knowledge and experience, but many things cannot be understood by relying on reading.”

"For example, love." Elizabeth blinked, "Mary, you are too young to know what love is. Maybe there are books everywhere, but it is a book, and a book is a book. It is not our life. If you rely on reading To understand life, that would betray the very purpose of our reading."

"Let me begin by stating that," Mary held up her hands, "Jane is the only one of us who has ever experienced love, if that can be called love—I think it's just admiration."

Elizabeth was helpless: "Okay, but I am older than you, and I believe age is also an experience."

Mary complained in her heart: If you calculate this way, I am still more experienced than you, and my soul is three times your age, okay, but she must say to Elizabeth now: "Do you think older people must be experienced? And wisdom? This kind of statement is too arbitrary. I can cite many examples to refute you, but I believe that with your intelligence, I definitely don't need to say it."

Jane thought that as a sister, she had to end the controversy caused by her, so she said: "I think age can increase people's wisdom and experience, but people's wisdom and experience may not increase with age. But , Mary, it is undeniable that Elizabeth and I have more life experience than you."

Mary secretly rolled her eyes, and decided not to discuss the topic of age and experience with them.Although she thinks she has a lot of experience, she does feel a little estranged from this world. Although she grew up here like Jane and Elizabeth and has lived in this world for more than ten years, she can't understand many things like Jane and Elizabeth. Elizabeth accepted it from the bottom of her heart.

She just put her arms around Jane's neck and said: "Our food store is profitable, and it will bring you a dowry."

Elizabeth also smiled and said: "So I will become a beautiful and wealthy lady. The issue we just argued about does not exist at all."

"I'm not pretty," Mary complained.

"You look pretty good. I haven't seen many people who are prettier than you in London. Believe me, it's not that you are not beautiful, but that the most beautiful people in the UK have gathered in our house, so you are called It’s a bit ordinary to set off.” Elizabeth squinted her eyes, pretending to be arrogant and said: “When we are all married, you will become the most beautiful unmarried girl, so you don’t have to be prematurely pessimistic, and sincerely pray that we get married as soon as possible. It’s the best policy.”

Before Elizabeth finished speaking, the three of them had already laughed together.