[Pride and Prejudice] Mary's Pride and Prejudice

Outside the carriage, Alfred and Mr. Bingley were riding together. Mr. Bingley was reluctant to part with Jane even for a second. They decided to go back today to report the good news to Mrs. Bennet and set off tomorrow for Longbourn, Ben. Mr. Nut would be very pleased if he could hear the happy news of his daughter in person.

Of course, Mrs. Bennet took advantage of her position to enjoy this sweet pleasure in the presence of her husband.

When Jane told her the good news, she was almost stunned, but she was able to barely restrain her ecstasy, and kept a lady's demeanor without shouting, which made her several The daughter was very surprised.Although she said a lot of ignorant and stupid things to Mr. Bingley and Mr. Alfred sitting next to her at dinner, and imagined a lot of prospects for a happy marriage in the future, Mr. Bingley, who was immersed in happiness, of course He would not think any compliments about his future happy marriage to be exaggerated, and Mr. Alfred's wonderful endurance would keep his countenance unchanged at any appalling compliment.

As soon as the men left, Mrs. Bennet yelled at her siblings: "My God, my God, I've come to my senses now! Why isn't Edward at home? He can't know the good news immediately What a pity. Oh, brother and sister, did you send a servant to inform him? I was only happy just now, and we should send him a note so that he can feel the joy even if he is out for a feast."

Mrs. Gardiner nodded and said she would tell Mr. Gardiner the good news as soon as he got home.

Satisfied, Mrs. Bennet turned and hugged Jane again and said, "My God! My God! It's great, it's great! Mr. Bingley proposed to you! One of my daughters is engaged, and she's going to be Mrs. Bingley soon! My God , God, Mr. Bingley! Of course, he must have come here the day before yesterday to propose to Jane, otherwise, what else could he be doing?" She stopped and said to Jane: "Congratulations, Jane, what a good young man like Mr. Bingley is! It's so rare, so handsome, so easy-going, and so considerate, the key is that you are still so rich, of course you are also rich now, oh my god, the only thing you have to worry about after you get married is how to spend money..."

Jane was a little puzzled: "Mom, Mr. Bingley came the day before yesterday?"

"Oh, yes, he came here at noon meeting time, stayed for a while and then left. He was very sorry to hear that you were not here, but he knew you went to Richmond and left in a hurry."

Jane was stunned. Mr. Bingley didn't tell anyone about his visit here, and she even had a lot of new ideas from it. Every time she thought about it, she felt that she loved him more. He must have come Looking for her here, maybe he even planned to propose to him at that time, but it was mostly because of his modesty in nature, so he didn't express it directly.

Elizabeth was also very surprised to hear these words. She did not expect that Mr. Bingley would come to London to visit the Gardiner's house. She could not imagine any other reason for Mr. Bingley except to come here to see Jane.

Mrs. Bennet didn’t care about that. She said to her two young daughters: “In the future, we can visit Nethornfield Manor anytime without being invited by the host, and we no longer have to be limited by the visiting time. Feel free to visit there anytime and be greeted warmly."

"We could have Mr. Bingley have a ball there, he'd love to, and he likes to dance," said Kitty.

"There's also a garden party, and you can invite a lot of people in the neighborhood," said Mrs. Bennet. "We can entertain them as hosts, and we may stay there often for a while, especially after your father is dead. I can't be alone. I live alone in a rented hut, and of course I will live in a big house with my daughter and son-in-law..."

Elizabeth couldn't take it anymore, she interrupted her mother's baseless nonsense: "Mum, we have property in London, have you forgotten? Of course you will not be reduced to living in a rented thatched cottage."

Only then did Mrs. Bennet remember that their parents owned real estate in Regent Street, but the house hadn't been built yet, but that didn't mean she wasn't going to disturb her daughter and son-in-law.

Seeing this, Mary had no choice but to wink at Elizabeth, telling her not to worry about it. It was obvious that Mrs. Bennet was still in the ecstasy of her daughter's engagement.

That night, Jane shared her sweet feelings with her two younger sisters in the bedroom as a matter of course. Her admiration for Mr. Bingley had long since returned to passionate love, and she said: "He loved me very much when he left Nathanfield. , it was only later that he thought that I didn't love him, so he was disheartened, but let me say that his mistake was only because he was too modest to underestimate himself, we should forgive him, shouldn't we?"

Elizabeth said that even though she once blamed Mr. Bingley for this, but now she doesn't hate him at all. Seeing Jane is so happy, how can she blame the person who brought her happiness?

Naturally, Mary wouldn't mind even more. Jane and Bentley are official spouses. She believes that Austin will never let her approved CP marriage be unhappy. It must be a good decision to choose Bentley as her husband. With Austin's guarantee of quality, she can absolutely trust it!

The next day, Jane and Bingley took the carriage together to Longbourne. Yesterday, Jane only had time to write a hasty letter to her father, stating that she was engaged to Mr. Bingley. But she believed her father must be happy for her.

Before leaving, Jane suddenly remembered something. She told Elizabeth and Mary that she had been invited by Mrs. Frye to visit Newgate Prison, but obviously she couldn't go now, and hoped that her sisters could replace her.She hastily wrote a letter and sent it to Mrs. Frye's mansion.

She specifically mentioned a child named Philip in the prison. She said that this child was very smart, and she specially brought two books for this child and asked Elizabeth to pass them on to him.

After they left, Mrs. Bennet remembered that she hadn't written to Meridon's relatives and friends to inform her of the matter. She hurried to the desk and sat down to find that it was really difficult for her to complete this task by herself. Called out loudly: "Licky--Licky--come and write for me, I forgot to write to your aunt yesterday to tell her the good news, how happy she will be when she knows, and Lucas Ma'am, I must let her know what a fine lad my daughter is marrying! My son-in-law is a hundred times better than that Collins! Oh, and Alice, Mrs. Lawrence, Mrs. Long... God, I have There are so many letters to write, how can one person finish them?"

Elizabeth smiled and said: "I believe you don't have to write so much, Mom, as long as you write a letter to any of the above people, it is enough to achieve your purpose, and all the rest will be within two hours after she receives the letter." Knowing everything on the letter, I dare say the best postmen can't move as quickly as they do."

But in the end Mrs. Bennet wrote a lot of letters, telling her to keep such a good thing to herself and not to show off how cruel it was to her!But fortunately, Elizabeth wrote it on her behalf, so she managed to keep this kind of complacency low-key. Although Mrs. Bennet was not satisfied when she read it, she asked her to revise it again and again, but because the number was too large, she had to obey in the end. Daughter's approach.

So far, Mrs. Bennet was very satisfied. For the next two days, she did almost nothing, and kept praising her daughter's marriage.Elizabeth was even mentioned occasionally. Apparently, among the three eldest daughters, one was successfully engaged and the other was in sight of victory. Only Elizabeth had no news. This made Mrs. Bennet a little impatient. She had to warn the second daughter: "If you don't understand Take the chance, maybe Mary will be ahead of you. When she marries her suitor, she will be Mrs. Edwards. From now on, she will walk ahead of you when you are introduced. She, you are going to be introduced to others after your sister, how embarrassing it is."

Elizabeth smiled indifferently and said, "If that's the case, you should be happy. It's better than your daughters needing introductions from others."

"Mom, don't talk about Liqi, even if you give her ten Mr. Bingleys, she won't fall in love as quickly as Jane." Mary advised Mrs. Bennet.

"That's right," Elizabeth nodded and laughed. "Ten Mr. Bingleys can't give me one Jane's happiness."

Kitty reprimanded them very angrily: "It's really greedy! I'm satisfied as long as one Mr. Bingley can propose to me, no, half of it will do."

For her daughter's lack of ambition, Mrs. Bennet admired her very much: "Yes, young people should not be too ambitious. If you ask me, as long as he is a handsome young man, as long as he is willing to propose to you, you must agree to him." , with your dowry, whoever you marry can live a very rich life, there is nothing to consider."

Elizabeth said helplessly: "As long as they are willing to propose to your daughters, they are still handsome in your eyes even if they are potbellied. But I must warn you Kitty that marriage is sacred and must be carefully considered. If you can agree to it to your heart's content, why not consider it more carefully, there is nothing to lose anyway."

Kitty glared at her: "Do you think I'm a fool? Lizzie, I'll say yes to anyone who proposes? Come on, I'm not like that! What mother said is so stupid, since my dowry can live Well done, of course I have to choose someone who is handsome, rich and loves me! I have such capital!"

Her words made her sisters laugh out loud, and Mary felt relieved when she heard such words. It was hard for her to accept Mrs. Bennet's indifference towards her son-in-law.However, looking upstairs, Mary sighed, and there was another Lydia who was really helpless.She asked Elizabeth: "Has Lydia been out of the room all day?"

Mrs. Bennet replied first: "Oh, yes, she was heartbroken, so she had to stay in the bedroom and paint in a daze. Her street scenes are quite good, and she might become an excellent painter. However, Let me say, dear Mary, you shouldn't treat a young girl like this, she finally came to London, but you ruthlessly deprived her of social opportunities!"

"Mother—" Elizabeth called to her, "have you forgotten what we said yesterday? Lydia's words and actions will not help her find a good husband."

Mary simply wanted to praise her sister's thinking. Finding husbands for her daughters is Mrs. Bennet's weakness.

Yesterday, Elizabeth had a special talk with Mrs. Bennet about Lydia’s matter. This mother has been persuaded by her not to interfere with their punishment of Lydia, and will regulate her words and deeds. In fact, Elizabeth and Mary’s promise to mother There was no hope at all that she would bring it up again the next minute she promised, but all they hoped was that Mrs. Bennet's old thing would die down soon after it was brought up.Elizabeth had given up trying to reason with her mother, and decided to hit the nail on the head. This move was obviously successful, and Bennet immediately shut up when he heard her words.

Seeing this, Mary decided to add fire to Elizabeth. She said to Mrs. Bennet: "And obviously she will hurt us like this, mom, those famous families in London are very picky about their wives, even sisters. If your words and deeds are a little out of line, you will be criticized by them. Between not being able to marry five daughters and not being able to marry one daughter, you have to make a difficult choice!"

Mrs. Bennet made a difficult choice for a long time, and finally shut up.

Mary also remembered one thing, and said to her mother quickly: "We should rent a house nearby, mother, it's best on Tian'en Temple Street. We can't always disturb uncle and aunt like now."

Mrs. Bennet was very surprised by her daughter's thoughts: "Mary, this is my brother, your uncle's house. It is only natural for us to stay here temporarily. How could you have such an idea? Forget about it."

Both Mrs. Bennet and Kitty were a little fussed about Mary's proposal. Both of them felt very comfortable living here, and there was no need to move at all.

But Elizabeth didn't think so. She advised her mother: "Maybe we should listen to Mary."

Mary naturally had her reasons: "We will often come to live in London in the future. Mom, we have too many people. Although my uncle's house has doubled in size, we still have to consider our population growth."

"Our population growth?"

"Jane is married and will have children in the future. Mr. Bingley has no real estate in London. After he gets married, he can't always take his wife to live with his brother-in-law, so he will definitely buy a property. It doesn't matter whether we rent or live in it, but we always We can't let them visit their mother-in-law and sister-in-law at their uncle's house. It is said that the house in Regent Street will be built for several years, which we didn't expect at the beginning. Therefore, it is necessary for us to rent a house. The house should be bigger and bring at least Seven or eight bedrooms, if we can, we try to find such a house near Tian'en Temple Street, because we are used to this place, of course it doesn't matter if it's not here."

Elizabeth agrees very much with Mary's words. They will indeed come to London often in the future. It is really disturbing enough for the whole family to live in the uncle's house every time. Although the uncle has expanded the new house, it is not necessarily cramped, but if they have a house It will indeed be more convenient, they can hold dances or entertain guests there, which is inevitable for them.It would be too much work for the hostess to hold these events at the uncle's house, and now Aunt Gardiner is busy enough.

Although Mrs. Bennet never intended to disturb her younger brother's family, it was easy to persuade her to rent another house and move away. After all, having a property in London to settle down was something she could boast about.

Although Uncle Gardiner and Aunt Gardiner tried to persuade them to move away, they agreed to help.It is indeed a lot more convenient for both parties to have another place for the Bennet family to settle down.Once this matter is decided, they don't need to worry about the specific details, the butler of the Gardiner Mansion will take care of it for them.

The next day they received a letter from Jane, saying that she and Mr. Bingley would stay in Meryton for a few days, but Jane promised again and again that she would rush back to London before Lily got married, because she would also attend the wedding of Lily and the shoemaker.

Mr. Bingley had a very pleasant stay in Meriton, because he hadn't returned to the manor he rented for a long time, so the neighbors all visited him after he came back, and he would return one by one.Especially when the neighbors knew that such a wealthy son-in-law had been taken away by the Bennet family, they immediately became a sensation.Although many ladies and ladies feel very sorry, but considering that Mr. Bingley will often invite his friends who also like dancing and hunting to Meriton for vacation, the loss caused by this can also be ignored by them-of course , the premise is to invite some likeable friends. This time when people found that Mr. Bingley did not follow the annoying friend from last time, everyone guessed that that person would not come to Meridon again, based on the fact that he and Meridon Want to see two hate each other, this is really a gratifying thing!

Mary went to the food research and development department the next day. She was going to invite Miss White to have a light meal, but she didn't expect to meet Lily here. She thought Lily would resign and go home to get married.This lovely girl is not shy like a newlywed at all, and she is still working hard in the R&D department.She said to Mary: "We poor people don't have so much time to pay attention to weddings, Miss Mary, although Charlie and I earn a lot, but he and I have to send part of our wages home. Bought some furniture, which cost a lot of money, so we had to work hard!"

Mary looked at the bright-eyed and ruddy girl in front of her, and felt really relieved for her, and hoped that her older sister could have the same luck as her!