[Pride and Prejudice] Mary's Pride and Prejudice

Chapter 48 Mr. Darcy is arrogant

On the same day, Mrs. Bennet sent someone to Nissanfield Manor to send an invitation, inviting Mr. Bingley to have a light meal at Bennet's house the next day. Unfortunately, Mr. Bingley wrote back saying that he was going to London and could not come. The ladies and ladies all speculated one after another, and everyone judged that he probably wanted to invite friends to come here to participate in the ball, but they immediately started guessing about the number of male and female guests. Dancing still can only sit on the bench.

The dance party is coming soon, and the women of the Bennet family have been looking forward to this day for a long time. They all dressed up and sat in the carriage. Mr. Bennet didn't want to join in the fun, so he decided to stay at home happily and enjoy the rare quiet time.

The carriage drove towards Meridon in the dark, and Lydia kept guessing how many guests Mr. Bingley would bring. Mrs. Bennet comforted her by touching her lovely face: "No matter how many people he brings, As long as he sees you, he will definitely ask you to dance."

The carriage stopped at the entrance of the public dance hall, where several carriages had already parked, the drivers gathered together to talk, and people who lit torches and held lanterns gathered here.

The waiter graciously guided them in. When they passed by the small changing rooms on both sides, there were some people changing their dancing shoes there, but the Bennet sisters had already changed at home, so they went directly into the hall.

Mr. Bingley hadn't arrived yet. Without this influential figure, the ladies seemed a little listless. However, the process was very short, and soon Mr. Bingley brought his friends. The female guests were not 12 as people had guessed. There were only two of them, Mr. Bingley's sister, and two male guests, one was Mr. Hurst, Mr. Bingley's brother-in-law, and the other was Mr. Darcy, his close friend. We all breathed a sigh of relief.

Mr. Hurst looked like an ordinary gentleman, and he was married, so everyone didn't pay much attention to him.

It was that Mr. Darcy, who was tall, with fine features and gentle demeanor. Within five minutes after he entered the dance hall, everyone was saying that he was a rich man with an annual income of ten thousand pounds.The men said he was handsome, and the women thought he was more handsome than Mr. Bingley.

Elizabeth smiled and said to Mary: "If he is not so rich, then his charm will definitely be greatly reduced."

But then they found that to make Mr. Darcy less charming, he didn't need to go bankrupt, just let him stay at the ball for half an evening. The people of Dayton fully demonstrated how arrogant and conceited he is.

Mr. Bingley quickly became acquainted with the main characters at the ball. He has a lively and unrestrained personality, and he especially loves dancing. He also said that he would hold a ball at Nissanfield Manor, which made everyone feel good about him.He was quickly introduced to the Bennet family. Although Mr. Bennet did not come, they were not complete strangers to each other.After patiently greeting Mr. Bennet at home, Mr. Bingley finally got his wish and invited Jane to dance with her.

This young lady's dancing steps are very beautiful and skillful, exuding a completely different temperament from when we first met. The heroic and charming lightness on horseback has completely disappeared. She is both dignified and gentle, such a stunner Mr. Bingley, whom he had never seen before, was almost immediately captivated by Jane's presence.

In contrast, Mr. Darcy has been offending people all the time. Although he is very educated, at the same time he is extremely arrogant and rude, and has no gentlemanly demeanor.

In the ball, there are always more ladies who want to dance than gentlemen, so in order to better let the girls have fun, the men in the ball usually take on the important task of inviting the girls to dance.This is also a way to protect the face of the ladies. If a lady sits dryly for the whole ball and no man invites her to dance, she will lose face.

On the contrary, if there is a lady in the dance hall who is not interested, and a gentleman who neither dances with others on the dance floor nor invites this lady makes her feel neglected, then it is obviously nothing. Ungentlemanly behaviour, Mr. Darcy was like that.

He danced only once with each of Mr. Bingley's sisters, and then walked up and down the ballroom all evening, and was by no means as enthusiastic as his friends were when anyone tried to strike up a conversation with him. He offered a dance partner, and he refused all of them.

There are very few men today, so there were two dances between Elizabeth and Mary, and no one invited Mary. When Mary saw Elizabeth sitting there, she wanted to go over to join her, but when Mary walked halfway, she saw Elizabeth suddenly. Standing up, she came towards Mary. When passing by Mr. Darcy on the way, Elizabeth glanced at Mr. Darcy with a half-smile, and then walked to Mary's side as if nothing had happened.

She seized Mary's hand to play with the sideband, where Charlotte was beckoning to them, "Lizzie?"

"Tell you a funny thing."

"Funny thing?"

Neither Mary nor Charlotte knew what was going on.

"That Mr. Darcy," Elizabeth glanced at Mr. Darcy, who was looking here at this time, with a playful look on her lips, "I'm sitting there, and Mr. Darcy is standing on my side. Not far away, at this time Mr. Bingley came up to Mr. Darcy and said that he was not allowed to stand stupidly, and suggested him to dance. Guess what he said?"

"What did he say?" asked Charlotte.

Elizabeth imitated Mr. Darcy vividly and vividly: "Your sisters all have partners, and it is a pain to let me dance with others."

Then she imitated Mr. Bingley: "The lady behind you is Jane's younger sister. She is also very beautiful. Let me introduce you."

"Oh, she's tolerable, but she's not pretty enough to impress me, and I'm not interested in flattering ladies who are snubbed by other men."

Her voice was long and nasal, and she imitated Mr. Darcy's arrogance perfectly. Mary was amused by her and laughed: "Did he really say that? He thought that no one here was worthy to dance with him? These The lines are very good, much better than we hear in the London theater, and his arrogance is revealed in a few words."

Charlotte was also very sorry: "He seems to be a very noble person, and I didn't expect to look down on others so much."

Mary glanced at Mr. Darcy: "You can write down these words, Lizzie, if you want to write a character with such a character in the future, these words will be very good material."

The self-righteous appearance of Mr. Darcy was obviously very ridiculous, so Elizabeth and the others laughed at him as a matter of course.

This is the first time for Elizabeth to encounter such a situation. She has never been disgusted by someone in such a tone. Although she is a little angry at being neglected by this gentleman, she finds it funny even though Meridon is a closed but it is close to London, and she also thinks she has seen a little of the world, but she has never met such an arrogant gentleman. The vulgarity and boringness of the young ladies here are regarded as ignorant and stupid, as if it is unbearable for him to stay with these people for a while, which really makes Elizabeth laugh.

People can be arrogant, but they must not be so obvious!

Mr. Darcy soon acquired the dislike of the people of Meryton as they had never known against a man, and not even his great estate in Derbyshire could counteract this opinion of him, in a way. Mr. Darcy had achieved his purpose by saying that he had no intention of becoming intimate with the people here.

He didn't see a single person here that satisfied him. They were neither outstanding in appearance nor extraordinary in manners, and they were either too courteous to him, or they didn't come to please him at all.Miss Bennet is remarkably beautiful, but she smiles too much, which makes her lose her reserve.He regretted very much that he had promised Mr. Bingley to come to the party, and it really made him feel like he was on pins and needles.

It is not a disgraceful thing to be mean behind someone's back. He believes that every British person has done it, and there will be no less than him. But being heard by a lady himself commenting on her behind her back, publishing something will never be considered Seen as a compliment, this is indeed not something to be proud of.That Miss Elizabeth Bennet was well-bred, and she didn't turn against him or cry angrily on the spot, which made Darcy feel embarrassed and at the same time grateful.

Miss Elizabeth could go on chatting and joking with her friends, and now and then she was thrown at her like a joke, so he couldn't help White that she was talking about herself to others.He was a little ashamed, but he also knew that he was wrong. A real gentleman should not be like this, but he always believed that people should be honest and honest. Sorry for that.

Rumors spread at the ball at the speed of light. Just as people could find out Mr. Darcy's net worth within a few minutes, his harshness to Elizabeth was quickly chewed up in people's mouths. After all, Bentley Mr. and Mr. Darcy were accompanied by several persons.

When Mrs. Bennet heard about this, all kinds of appreciation and compliments to Mr. Darcy were immediately replaced by disgust.Although she had just published her conjecture about the grandeur of Mr. Darcy's manor in Derbyshire, and thought Mr. Darcy himself was so noble, once she knew how her daughter was picked on, she immediately thought that she was honored by this life. Great humiliation.

She observed Mr. Darcy carefully, and thought that he was not a gentleman, and he could neither marry her daughters nor bring them happiness, so she felt safe and bold to hate him.