[Pride and Prejudice] Mary's Pride and Prejudice

After Jane returned home, she mentioned to Elizabeth that she had met Mr. Alfred. Elizabeth smiled and said, "The last time I met him, I realized that he was extraordinarily noble and elegant. Is he a young nobleman?"

"That's not true," Jane denied: "Miss White said that he is not the heir of the Edwards family. The heir was originally Mr. Andrew Edwards, but he was kicked out of the house, and the inheritance rights were inherited by the second son of the Edwards family. Mr. Alfred is in the third place, and there is a younger sister below. Their family is indeed aristocratic, but their father died young and their mother remarried. They all grew up with their grandfather, who was a duke .”

"We didn't know anything about high society, and Miss White didn't seem to want to talk about it, so we left quickly."

Mary leaned on the sofa and said to her two sisters: "Anyway, this matter is finally settled. I don't want our grocery store to be involved in any scandal."

The two sisters agreed.

The next day, lawyer Smith brought good news. The king signed their proposal. The patent procedure has passed the biggest obstacle. The next step is to go through the procedure. Next, Mr. Smith can be represented by full authority. The sisters don't have to show up in person.

Seeing that Christmas is approaching, the sisters can finally go home and reunite with their father before Christmas.Mrs. Bennet didn't want to leave, she hadn't visited London enough, but Uncle Gardiner would go back to Meriton to spend Christmas with them every year, and she really had no reason to stay here, so she had to follow her daughters Return bitterly.

The peaceful and comfortable life in the country is a relief to the sisters who are tired and busy in London.Only Kitty and Lydia couldn't get enough of it. They hadn't visited all the famous shops there. There are the best and most tailoring shops, with first-class tailors who specialize in clothing for kings and royalty.

But these were confiscated by Mary, and the two of them could only dare to be angry and dare not speak out. It seems that Mary is really not just talking about it. Except for a few limited visits to the Ministry of the Interior, they all wear their previous clothes, even if they Thinking that these clothes are out of fashion, Mary also agrees to make new ones for them.She gave all those beautiful clothes to Jane and Elizabeth.But because Kitty performed better than Lydia, Mary left two dollars for Kitty.

Lydia wanted to cry but had no tears.

Mary comforted her hypocritically: "You can study slowly, Lydia, you are two years younger than Kitty, and you can wear her new clothes in two years. You can ask her to take care of her clothes when she wears them." A little, lest it will be dilapidated when it's your turn."

Lydia's heart was cold and cold, so she had to start studying desperately, and the work of their tutor, Mrs. Atkinson, became easier. (Miss White is married and will now be called Mrs. Atkinson.)

Winter in the UK is not considered cold. It doesn’t snow often in Hartfordshire, and even if it snows, it will melt away quickly, but sometimes it will rain. Mary will stay in the house most of the time, and occasionally Go for a walk with your sisters, or visit Meriton.

Now Meridon's regiment has been stationed here, and there are always many officers in red uniforms walking around on the street.They also occasionally visited the squires here, and Mr. Bennet, as an indispensable figure, had the honor of entertaining them.However, the Bennet sisters did not meet the officers very often in their own home. Instead, they often held such parties at Aunt Philip's house to entertain those beautiful red uniforms.

Kitty and Lydia have been very well-behaved recently, and Mary occasionally allows them to come out and walk around, to talk to the guests at such parties and show off their talents. Mrs. Bennet felt radiant.

Time passed quickly, and spring came in a blink of an eye. The green and fluffy grass sprouted from the ground with cute little tips, which made people want to roll on the ground. There were many children playing on the grass, white goats and Black goats began to appear in groups on hills far and near like white and dark clouds.

At this time, the Bennet family also ushered in a major event-Elizabeth is coming of age.

This made Mrs. Bennet both happy and sad. The joy is that another beautiful daughter is going to enter the society. Elizabeth's excellence is obvious to all. I don't know how many handsome young men will come to the Bennet's house under various guises. Woolen cloth.

But it was her eldest daughter, Jane, who troubled her for two years without getting engaged to a certain youth.

In fact, Jane has also had some suitors in the past two years, but there are always such and such unsatisfactory places. On two occasions, everyone has clearly felt that she and a certain guy have a crush on each other, but this feeling disappears in the blink of an eye. Jane was already a little discouraged, and she gradually restrained her emotions and became more stable and dignified. She thought that she should not show her affection for someone too much in terms of emotion, otherwise she would be easily laughed at by others.

Mrs. Bennet was both happy for Elizabeth and sad for Jane, and the two contradictory feelings tormented her so much that her nerves always ached.

Many old-fashioned gentlemen's families would wait for the eldest daughter to marry before allowing the younger daughters to socialize, but now that the atmosphere is open, many families also allow daughters of similar ages to socialize at the same time.

So in the end, Mrs. Bennet decided to be happy for Elizabeth, because she will hold a grand ball for her daughter soon, and many young people will come to the ball. Mrs. Bennet thought: As long as there is a ball, why not Worry about the lack of opportunities to inspire love between young men and women?

Mr. Bennet is an enlightened gentleman. He said to his children: "If the next daughter has to wait until the first daughter gets married before the next daughter can socialize, I'm afraid that the kind Jane will just go to the street to find a man to propose to her." .”

Jane laughed: "Dad, I'm not that rash."

"I'm glad to hear that from you. Remember, if there are too many suitors for a girl, she will definitely choose the worst one! So I hope you can wait until you have fewer suitors before thinking about it." about marriage."

"I'm afraid it will have to wait until Jane becomes an old lady." Mary joked.

Anyway, the Bennet family started preparing for Elizabeth's coming-of-age ball, and they started buying Elizabeth's clothes and jewelry when she went to London this time, and Mary confiscated many of Kitty and Lydia's boutiques, enough Elizabeth used it.

Based on the success of Jane's prom that year, the Bennet family decided to continue renting the public ballroom in Meriton. Mrs. Bennet and Aunt Philip were both in high spirits, and the preparations for the prom did not require the sisters to worry about it.

At this time, Mr. Bennet suddenly asked Mary: "You will be 16 soon, do you want to learn to ride a horse?"

This is really great news!Mary was jumping for joy!

The Bennet family has its own horse farm. Jane and Elizabeth have learned to ride horses since they were young. But when Elizabeth was nine years old, she fell off the horse and almost broke her neck. Therefore, Mr. Bennet stipulated that girls should not start learning until they were 16 years old. horse riding.This discouraged Mary, who was looking forward to learning how to ride a horse.

Now Elizabeth is on the horse, and Mr. Bennet remembers that she can't ride a horse yet, so he decides to teach Mary together, anyway, she is almost 16 years old.