[Pride and Prejudice] Mary's Pride and Prejudice

"It was a brothel. The man was said to have been here for a short time. People called him Calvin."

Calvin?Alice's father didn't have that name.Mary frowned, did she recognize the wrong person?

Seeing that Alfred was still looking at her, she temporarily let go of her thoughts and explained to him, "I told you that I attended a wedding some time ago."

Alfred nodded: "Yes, the elder sister who used to be a maid in your house, her two younger sisters are now staying in London, and one of them is married to a shoemaker."

"It's them. The person I just saw seems to be their father. He has been missing for several years, but I'm not familiar with him, so I can't be sure it's him. Moreover, Calvin is not his name."

"It's very common to change names in this kind of place."

So is he Alice's father, that scumbag Robert?

Mary hesitated, and Alfred understood her worry, so he said to her, "I can find a way to check this person."

Mary opened her eyes wide: "How to check?"

This is a well-known busy city in London, where the people are extremely mixed. There are poets and playwrights who are not proud of themselves, as well as fugitives, thieves and criminals. It is not easy to find a person, but for Alfred Not too difficult.

They are lawyers who have to deal with all walks of life, especially lawyers like Alfred. He never holds his own identity like other defense lawyers. Not to a solicitor, but hands-on, dealing with clients and witnesses, and often gathering evidence himself.It is impossible for his personal strength to cover everything, so he always has to deal with one kind of person——to catch thieves.There are many younger brothers under this kind of people, including gangsters, thieves and liars. They often accept commissions, or find lost things for people, or inquire about information for people, and often catch thieves and thieves to receive rewards. Opportunists who walk on the edge of the law occasionally get involved in underworld cross-border operations.Alfred knew such a thief catcher as Mr. West, and he thought that entrusting this matter to him would surely dig up all ten generations of Calvin's ancestors.

Catch the thief?When Mary heard the black lines all over her head, it turned out that she was ignorant. This is clearly a bounty hunter. She didn't even know that there were such people in the era she lived in. She always thought it was a character in a novel?

"Bounty hunters?" Alfred raised his eyebrows, "You can call them that, but their main income does not depend solely on bounties. Mr. West has a long-term private room in the old Charlie's Cheese Tavern. When you get home, you will go to him and ask him to check on Calvin. I’ll just come forward about this matter, and you just need to wait for the news at home.” After he finished speaking, he looked at Mary’s expression and explained: "It's better not to meet people like West. Although he is not as evil as other thieves catchers, he is not much better."

Mary immediately expressed her understanding. Although the culprit is not a gangster, she is almost gray and dark. She is a little girl and it is better not to provoke her. Who knows when the other party will have bad intentions.Alfred had to deal with them because of his work, but also because of this, his situation was still safe, and it would be hard for a country squire like her to come from another place.

When Mary returned home, she didn't tell anyone about the incident. She hadn't figured out what to do next. If Calvin wasn't Robert; that scumbag of O'Deno was okay. If so, what should I do?Do you want to tell his family?How should I speak?Or just pretend not to know?Mary sighed, and suddenly felt that it might not be a good idea to investigate Calvin, and there might be a dilemma.

Although this matter has discounted her recent cheerful mood, she soon ignored it, because Jane came to her with a letter and said to her incredulously that Mr. Darcy Proposed to Liqi, but Liqi turned him down!God!

When Mary heard such words, although she was surprised on her face, she was actually thinking in her heart, oh, has it finally developed to this point?Finally, a historic turning point came, and she took the letter and read it carefully.

"Dear Jane and Mary, what I'm going to say next may surprise you, but please don't be too surprised. I was also very surprised when it happened, but this surprise was quickly replaced by anger, so in the end I My astonishment was over. Now, I tell you, Mr. Darcy proposed to me yesterday! Good heavens! It's unbelievable, I never thought he'd be in love with me!"

Jane pointed to it and said, "Li Qi used so many exclamation marks, one can imagine how difficult it was for her to calm down at that time."

Mary agreed, and went on to read the letter.

"I tell you this, not to show off to you, but to feel very incredible. But the point is the following, this arrogant gentleman did not change his true colors even when he proposed marriage, and even praised my relatives Belittling, pouring out his downgraded mood, besides the tenderness and sweetness that love gave him made him excited, he shamelessly admitted that he was demeaning himself, saying how he felt sorry for my humble relatives, How vulgar and indecisive my family was, and how he, if he suffered through this struggle, then mustered up the courage to break free from these constraints! I will not recount these words, lest Jane's friendship with her fiancé I had a grudge, and I didn’t even sleep well all night because of it. I was so full of surprise and anger that I didn’t know how to vent it, so I had to write it on paper and tell my sister. When he just said the proposal to me At times, no matter how annoying Mr. Darcy was to me, I felt flattered to be admired by him alone, and I even troubled how to phrase it to make him less miserable, because even though he was young, handsome, decent, and very rich— —I hadn't noticed so many good things about him before—but I was still unmoved, I could never love him, and I would certainly not marry him. But Mr. Darcy's following words finally helped me, and made me With less embarrassment, I can put aside those euphemistic words and reject him unceremoniously. Of course he was very surprised. Although he said how disturbed he was, he had already determined that I would agree to his marriage proposal, and I did not Not laughing at him, I would never laugh at a gentleman who proposed to me, but his look of winning is just too stupid! Do I need to say why he asked me why I turned him down? But of course, he I really need to guide him! Although he obviously slandered me, insulted me, and was so rude to me and my family, he still didn’t understand why I was rude to him. So I began to analyze to him one by one, Tell him that he deserves my disrespect according to his temperament and conduct. First of all, of course, he once broke up Jane and Bingley. He played a disgraceful and improper role in this matter. I have every reason to despise He. Although now that Jane and Bingley have successfully engaged, my dislike and displeasure with him have subsided a lot, but at that time I picked up those resentments that I had long since left behind. Why should he get this kind of happiness? His expression was very surprised at that time, and he did not deny that he had ruined the marriage between Jane and Mr. Bingley. I even mentioned how he was unkind to Mr. Wickham, although Mr. Judging from his later performance, he may not be as innocent as he confessed, but in terms of Mr. Darcy's personality, the two people are at most comparable. Later, Mr. Darcy did not make too much judgment on this, which shows my The guess is right, otherwise with his personality, he would never allow others to slander him. Now I am really sure that Miss Darcy is an outlier in the family, if she is really as kind as you say Mr. Darcy considered himself so frank that he even confided to me his contempt for my relatives, in the delusion that I should be grateful for it.I have to admit that some of my relatives are really inappropriate, but that doesn't stop me from loving them!Mr. Darcy should have walked round Rosings House when he said these words, and I think he has as many unseemly relatives as I do!Moreover, my relatives are at best shallow and ignorant, while his relatives are domineering and uneducated!He has no right to laugh at me! "

At this point, the letter finally started a new line. It seems that Elizabeth finally took a breather, and then wrote below: "I drank some water, and now I finally calmed down. I was angry, angry and funny at the time, and now the anger is gone. It's just funny. Yes, look how ridiculous Mr. Darcy is, my dear Jane, Mary, I don't think I'll ever see anyone in my life who makes me laugh more if he says Mr. Collins has opened my eyes, so Mr. Darcy has surpassed him now. I have never met such a person who is so arrogant, and absolutely self-interested, never thinking of others, in my dictionary Modify the word arrogance, I will write it in the notes, please refer to Mr. Darcy, when we talk about how arrogant someone is, we just need to say look at how Mr. Darcy he is! I come to Hunsford really It is very rewarding. This place not only has excellent scenery but also is rich in various characters. It has greatly broadened my horizons and enriched my experience. I think I am really too young, so it is so rare and strange. I decided that I must Walking around, I hope you don't meet people like this in the future. Finally, I think you can keep this secret even if I don't tell you, but I still want to beg you not to tell anyone about it. It's not good news for anyone."

After reading the letter, Mary was speechless for a long time, thinking that Mr. Darcy really had a good way to die. Now that he has reached the pinnacle of his life, he thought he was full of ambition, but he encountered Waterloo at Elizabeth's place and suffered the biggest blow in his life.This is definitely the low point of his life. After being slapped in the face by Elizabeth, I believe that Mr. Darcy will really examine his former self, completely get rid of his bad habits, and become polite and kind to others, at least not so idiot In front of the girl he loves, he mercilessly belittled her relatives.Arrogance is not such a great shortcoming, but Mr. Darcy is so arrogant that he does not consider the feelings of others at all, thinking that the world revolves around him, which is more than what can be summed up by arrogance.Only after Elizabeth has tempered Dan Darcy can he really get rid of the chaff and save the chaff, and become steel after hundreds of refinements. Darcy, who is willing to bow his head for his sweetheart and is willing to consider others, is the Mr. Darcy who makes thousands of women fascinated!