[Pride and Prejudice] Mary's Pride and Prejudice

It was surprising to meet acquaintances here, but apart from a complicated smile on Elizabeth's face, she was not at all happy inside.

Originally, she followed Lydia and Colonel Edwards closely, quietly observing whether her sister had fallen into the love of a playboy, but after observing for a long time, Elizabeth still could not come to a conclusion. Lydia liked Colonel Edwards very much. , but Elizabeth believed that this liking was like liking any man who was as handsome and as handsome as he was, and the younger sister was childish and unintelligent, so that her admiration came and went as capriciously as the weather in London. ,

The extent to which she likes the colonel is uncertain. Elizabeth decided to find an opportunity to talk to Lydia. Compared with the secret worries and painstaking efforts of Mary's Chinese-style parents, Elizabeth believes that a frank exchange may be possible. can also achieve the goal.

Elizabeth and Colonel Edwards will inevitably have the opportunity to talk. She found that if the Colonel is simply regarded as a friend, then this gentleman is not useless. He is frank, humorous, and likes to ridicule people. Some are the same.They were both a bit cynical, but Elizabeth was still hopeful, and the colonel was completely disillusioned.

The colonel explained the gun in his hand to the ladies. At this moment, the hounds in front suddenly barked, and then these sensitive hunters rushed over like meteors falling to the ground. Mr. Alfred was very happy to see this situation said: "It seems that they found something good."

He turned to Miss Edwards and said, "You stay here to accompany our guest. I'll go and have a look. It may be a big guy. Ladies, please wait patiently here. Your knights will present you with a full load of prey." .”

After speaking, he told a servant to stay with the ladies, and then took the other two servants to chase the hounds away.

Lydia waited anxiously on the spot, sometimes listening attentively, sometimes looking up, she found that she heard nothing but some dazzling noises, so she turned her target to Elizabeth, and she asked, "Guess what it is? Could it be?" Is it a bear?"

Elizabeth was amused by her sister: "There are no bears here, Lydia. Most of them stay in the remote mountains. I have never seen any news about bears near London in the newspapers."

"What would that be? A fox? A deer? A boar?"

"Maybe it's just a few beautiful golden pheasants. Maybe we should ask Miss Edwards, she must have more experience than us." Elizabeth asked Miss Edwards: "Olivia, what animal is the most in this forest?"

Olivia really wanted to go and see. She has always been favored by her brothers, and she also went hunting with them. If she hadn’t needed her to stay with the guests this time, she would have followed her. She stared at Colonel Edwards The direction of departure—even though there are only some wild grass and shrubs there—said absent-mindedly: “Generally, it’s rabbits and pheasants. In winter, there are also many foxes and various birds. There are quite a few people living there, and there are no ferocious beasts." She paused and continued: "I used to hunt wild boars here when I was a child, and they destroyed farmland and crops, but they have hardly been seen these years."

But obviously their luck was very good. After many years, Miss Wild Boar finally came to visit the gentlemen here. Unfortunately, the rude gentlemen didn't know how to treat guests, so Miss Wild Boar had to flee in a hurry and finally came to the noble in front of the ladies.

Lydia yelled in horror: "My God, what is that?"

"It's a wild boar!" cried Miss Edwards, very excited. "I haven't seen a wild boar for many years."

This wild boar got here by mistake, perhaps because it got lost, and was chased by people. It was small in size, but it had a lot of momentum. It didn't care about the pursuit of more than a dozen hounds and several gentlemen behind it, and fought bravely towards the ladies. Coming aggressively.

Lydia asked Miss Edwards in a high-pitched voice, "Can we kill it with a gun?"

Elizabeth hurriedly stopped her: "Come on, you just touched your toe for the first time today, I don't want to go back and explain to my mother how you shot your toe with the gun in your hand."

Kitty nodded again and again: "In case of injury we will not be able to attend any balls in London."

The wild boar ran straight towards the ladies. Elizabeth and Kitty were unavoidably nervous, but Miss Edwards was excited and eager to try, but she always had to take the safety of the guests into consideration, so she had to take the girls to a safe place. Accidents always happened in a flash, and Elizabeth's horse was startled for some reason.

The black docile filly didn't know what stimulated her, and suddenly stood upright and neighed endlessly, and then began to run wildly.

Elizabeth was so frightened that she crouched down on the horse and didn't dare to move. She knew that she had to relax herself as much as possible at this time, but her hands didn't listen to her order, and she tightly grasped the rein and hugged the horse's neck, because she knew that once she let go, she would die. Fall, and then it's Lydia's turn to explain to their mother how she broke her leg, or was trampled to death by a horse.

With the wind whistling in her ears, and the weeds and branches slapping her, Elizabeth yelled to the horse, "Stop—stop—"

After about a few minutes, maybe longer or shorter, Elizabeth felt as if a lifetime had passed - although she knew that the time was not that long, the speed of the horse's running did not slow down, but Elizabeth felt that she was going to start sliding to the left , Her saddle is a side saddle, and she can support her body only by holding a stirrup with her left foot. She was so frightened that she felt that she hugged the horse's neck tightly, and her left foot pressed hard on the stirrup, but she still felt that she was about to fall.

At this time, a horse sprang up from the side, and immediately a tall gentleman approached her and shouted to her: "Relax, don't grab its mane, and take your feet out of the stirrups."

take it out?Won't it fall like that?

"Take it out, or if you fall it will drag you—" the man was still yelling at her, "Take your foot out, let go, and I'll catch you—"

At this time, Elizabeth already felt that she was going to be unable to hold on any longer. She was falling continuously. If she continued like this, she would definitely fall and be dragged to death by the horse. She gritted her teeth, took her foot out of the stirrup, and stared His eyes widened and he leaped forward.At this moment, she felt herself falling down, and she uttered a cry of fear in panic.

"Ah—" it stopped abruptly, and she was hugged around the waist, and she was lifted up and put on the horse like a duck.Elizabeth watched her frightened little black horse gallop away, feeling that her heart was pounding and about to jump out of her throat, she rubbed her chest in shock, trying to calm herself down as soon as possible, she is sitting here now She leaned against the warrior who rescued her on the horse of the gentleman, and her gratitude was beyond words, and her voice was trembling: "Thank you, sir, I am so grateful to you."

The gentleman's breath was very unstable, he panted, and said angrily in a low voice: "Your riding skills are really terrible, Miss Elizabeth, please try to walk or take a carriage in the future, otherwise..."

Before he finished speaking, Elizabeth retched on the horse's back, and his voice immediately became flustered: "How are you? Are you okay?... Please forgive me, I shouldn't say that about you, you still okay?"

Elizabeth probably drank a lot of wind, and there was a desire to vomit in her stomach. When this feeling calmed down a little, she realized that the voice was familiar. She turned her head and looked at the person who was stroking her back. Sir, surprised: "Mr. Darcy?—"

If Elizabeth had to choose between being rescued by Darcy or falling to her death, she would of course choose the former, but this feeling is not much better than falling to her death. Being helped by the person she hates the most is still a big favor like saving her life , Elizabeth knew that she would lose the qualification to laugh at this gentleman from now on. This was probably the worst thing she encountered today.

She tried her best to soften her stiff face, and said with a forced smile: "Mr. Darcy, it's really... very nice to see you here."

Mr. Darcy is not so angry now, but he still has a stiff face: "I am also very glad to meet you, Miss Elizabeth. If it were not for this situation, I would be even happier."

Elizabeth was sitting on Mr. Darcy's horse now, and now she felt that her posture was extremely awkward. She said softly to Mr. Darcy: "Would you please let me off the horse?"

Mr. Darcy seemed to have just discovered the awkward posture of the two of them now, his face became more serious. After stopping the horse, Mr. Darcy jumped off the horse first, and then gently helped Elizabeth down. She felt weak, as if she was about to fall to the ground the next moment, but she managed to stand still.

Mr. Darcy supported her very considerately, and the two of them walked slowly to a small road, and the two of them were silent for a while.Mr. Darcy really did not expect to meet Elizabeth here. He has been separated from this lady for more than two months, but he has never forgotten her. Today he came to hunt in the forest with his friends, but unexpectedly ran into Elizabeth’s startled horse. He rushed over without thinking.Now that the blood in his brain has passed, his rationality began to return, he began to regret his impulsiveness on the one hand and rejoice that he could save his sweetheart, he was still a little scared when he thought of the situation just now.He looked at her intently for a while, worried that she was hurt?When he found out that he had already imprinted her image so vividly in his mind, he immediately hated himself for admiring her so much, and hastily turned his eyes elsewhere.

"When did you come to London?" He asked dryly.

"I've been in London for three days."

"Come here to ride horses? Or hunt? I never knew you had that hobby?"

"Women's tastes are always fickle - but I'm not much better at riding than the horse I'm on, so I just hang around with my friends."

The two talked about unnutritive topics, each absent-mindedly exchanged pleasantries, and finally hoped that the relatives and friends of both sides would catch up, and the two of them both breathed a sigh of relief.

"Liqi—Liqi—" Lydia shouted when she saw Elizabeth from a distance, and she jumped off the horse and ran towards Elizabeth.

"Lydia——" Elizabeth finally showed her first sincere smile after seeing Mr. Darcy, and went up to embrace Lydia, but Mr. Darcy put down the arm that supported her, feeling a little lost.

Lydia was accompanied by Colonel Edwards and two other people. Several people rode their horses and hurried up to them before getting off their horses.Elizabeth saw clearly this time that there was an acquaintance among these people.

"Mr. Bingley?"

Mr. Bingley's face was red as he ran, and he had just seen the scene of Elizabeth's frightened horse. Although he knew that Mr. Darcy was a good rider, he was still very worried. He came to Elizabeth and greeted her until he was sure that Darcy had After she was rescued safely and she was unharmed, he let out a long sigh of relief.

"It really scared me just now, Miss Elizabeth, it's great that you are safe and sound."

Elizabeth couldn't help comforting her friends again. Later, after being introduced by Mr. Darcy, she found out that the other stranger was Mr. Darcy's cousin, Colonel Fitzwilliam. He was an old acquaintance with Colonel Edwards, and Mr. Darcy I have also met Colonel Edwards before, and several of their families have some businesses nearby, so they can be regarded as acquaintances on several occasions.Seeing this situation, Elizabeth couldn't help but sigh in her heart that the world is really small and there are too many acquaintances.

Lydia was quickly relieved when she saw that Elizabeth was unharmed. She couldn't help but blame Elizabeth for disturbing everyone's hunting interest. She also said: "Next time, you might as well wait for us outside the forest, or don't go out at all." Here you go, sit in the room and read your book. I've been terrified this time, and Colonel Edwards will be very guilty if you break your leg or twist your neck."