[Pride and Prejudice] Mary's Pride and Prejudice

Received the Chapter 38 patent certificate

After Dr. Jones put on the bandages, Mary asked Jane to continue to take care of Elizabeth. She sent Dr. Jones out of the room, and people outside the room were waiting anxiously.Mrs. Bennet and Kitty and Aunt Philip had arrived, and Alice followed.When they saw Dr. Jones, they immediately huffed and surrounded him.

Fortunately, Dr. Jones has watched too many big scenes, so he said calmly, "Miss Elizabeth is fine, but she has a concussion and a broken calf. It will be fine after two or three months of rest."

"After so long, what will happen to her next month's dance?" Mrs. Bennet's eyes were wide open, very anxious.

"I think," Dr. Jones took off the glasses on the bridge of her nose and wiped them, "in order for her broken bones to grow healthily and quickly, it's better not to participate in sports like dancing for the time being."

"How could this happen!" Mrs. Bennet was very disappointed, "I have been preparing for a long time, even the flowers, decorations and invitations for the ball..."

"Dear madam, we should be doctors," Alice advised Mrs. Bennet. "Vincent in our village fell down the steps, and he didn't rest well, and became a cripple! After breaking a bone, he must rest." , this is not a joke!"

Mr. Bennet said impatiently: "If you want to have a crippled daughter, just hold a dance and introduce some handsome boys to her!"

It seemed that Mr. Bennet was so worried about Elizabeth that he was no longer in the mood to tease his wife. He was rarely so impatient with Mrs. Bennet.

In fact, Mrs. Bennet was just complaining. She didn't want a crippled daughter just yet, so she had to stop.But she can always catch the opportunity to vomit her bitterness in her daily life and let everyone see how her great efforts have been let down.Her long-awaited dance was completely ruined by Mr. Bennet and Elizabeth. It was all Mr. Bennet's fault. If he hadn't insisted on teaching his daughters how to ride a horse, how could such a thing have happened? I fell once, so I must be more careful this time, I didn't expect her to be so clumsy, so big that she can't even ride a horse...

The whole Bennet family has suffered!

Mr. Bennet hid in the study, and Elizabeth could lie in the bedroom and not come out. She took care of her briefly and stayed with her most of the time. The remaining Mary and her two younger sisters became the biggest victims of the magic sound. .

Mary couldn't bear it anymore, and finally thought of bringing Alice back for two days, and let her enlighten her nervous mother.

This method worked quickly. Alice had true love for Mrs. Bennet. She never felt that Bennet was nagging. After Mrs. Bennet had a channel to vent her emotions, Mary's ears were much cleaner.

Lovely Alice can't stay in Longbourne all the time, now her work is mainly in Meriton, and now she always comes to Longbourn to visit Elizabeth once a day, Jane thinks it is very hard, and advises her not to come so often, Elizabeth also said I feel better.But Alice said that she did not miss the work of the food store at all, and she was very worried about the sad Mrs. Bennet, and she always had to come to comfort her.Every time Mrs. Bennet complained about how careless Elizabeth was, how inconsiderate she was, and how disappointed her guests were by not being able to hold her ball as scheduled, Alice could always comfort her in a timely manner, and would bring that Vincent The story of Mrs. Bennet, told and told, made Mrs. Bennet think of the risk of her daughter being crippled, and that was hardly worth the ball.

Mary felt that she had heard the story of Vincent becoming crippled somewhere, but she still thanked Alice from the bottom of her heart. Mrs. Bennet's nervousness was probably only dealt with by fans like her who always listened silently and could speak out. up.

Fortunately, the next week later, good news came from London, their patent certificate has been obtained!

Mary caressed the patent certificate in her hand. This certificate was very delicately made. It was made of parchment paper about two feet wide, and the edges were carved with copper plates. In order to show the supreme dignity of the law, there were also national troops and kings on it. , the portrait of the queen, and the impression of the national seal hanging from the bottom with a colored rope.The opening sentence is "To all who have given us this gift", ① and Mary needs to pay £18 to get it.

The certificate was circulated among the Bennet sisters, and finally passed to Elizabeth who was lying on the bed. Elizabeth stroked her name on it, showing a joyful smile.

This was really not easy. They wrote a lot of materials and even drew drawings. Sometimes they had to follow Mr. Smith to the relevant departments to ask those in charge.

Although Mary was the first to put forward the idea, the sisters also put in a lot of sweat for this idea, carefully selecting qualified fruits, and cleaning the baskets.Make it yourself without the hands of others, take off the hot glass bottle and seal it in the kitchen full of steam, these ladies who don't touch the spring water have never thought that they can do this before.

During the trial production process, Jane and Elizabeth recorded a large amount of data. When applying for a patent, because they are the oldest, they also appeared the most.The various tedious procedures in the application process made them suffer, but now all the hard work has paid off.

"How much travel we have gone through!" Elizabeth sighed.

"But in the end we succeeded." Jane said happily.

"It's so beautiful, why is there only one copy," Kitty said regretfully, "everyone should have one!"

"Haha," Lydia laughed, "yes, then I can carry it with me all day, and I'll show it off every time I meet someone, it's fun to think about it!"

"Lydia, honor should be cherished, not used to show off!" Jane taught her sister.

Lydia doesn't think so: "If the honor is not shown off, it will be buried in dust. If you look at the manors and castles of those nobles, I heard that they all have special showrooms to display their honor. That's true. A real show off, and a luxurious show off!"

"Believe me," Elizabeth looked at Lydia, "that kind of showing off is different from your showing off. Poor people are not qualified to be luxurious, let alone show off casually, otherwise they will be ridiculed. But if you have the opportunity in the future, you can also establish Your own room of honor, then you can show off luxuriously to your heart's content, but now, keep a low profile!"

So the patent certificate was kept by Mr. Bennet in his study in a low-key manner, and it was placed neatly on the bookshelf that he could see as soon as he entered the door.

Jane thinks that they must thank Attorney Smith. If it weren’t for him, the Bennet sisters would never have obtained the patent certificate so easily. All kinds of joints, even though they paid him high agency fees and legal fees, the Bennet sisters still expressed their heartfelt thanks to this professional lawyer.

So they solemnly wrote a letter of thanks to Lawyer Smith, and asked Uncle Gardiner to pass it on.

No matter what Lydia thinks about the patent certificate, the matter is finally settled. Based on the various twists and turns of this matter, Elizabeth wrote a novel and submitted it to the "Times" and it was published. It was replaced by Mr. Sean, a skilled worker who had worked all his life. He exhausted his life savings, invented a very progressive invention, and then came to London to apply for a patent. He lived in a hotel for two months and spent 105 pounds, up and down, from the Minister of the Interior, to the file manager, to the sealant assistant, and even the janitor. In the end, the patent application was successful, but it was only used within England. If it wanted to reach Wales and Scotland, it had to pay £300......②

This novel is written in a humorous and satirical way. When you read it, you can't help laughing, but after you close the book, you can think deeply and sigh for a long time.

Elizabeth said: "The patent system has indeed greatly promoted the progress of British science and technology, but at the same time, it has also contributed to the obstacles to technological progress. For the backbone of technological reforms - skilled workers, what they have They may not even be educated to figure out how to spell our cumbersome government titles, and they may not be able to save such a sum of money in their lives to go to London to apply for patents..."

A newspaper review of the novel read: "What a poignant satire! How the inefficiency and corruption of our government torture us poor people... We must admit, The UK patent system must change..."

The author has something to say:

① This sentence is "Toalltowhomthesepresentsmaycome", netizen "A" translated it for us as "Salute to all those who gave us this gift (patent achievement)", thank you netizen "A"!

②Dickens's short story "Patent Rights of the Poor" is to the effect that it satirizes the patent system during the Chartist period, which is three or forty years later than Elizabeth's novel, but because the patent system has not been too important during this period changes, so the basic procedures are similar.