[Pride and Prejudice] My husband loves me again
Chapter 55 Proposing a Duel
Duel or something, for Anne from the big foodie empire, it is simply unimaginable.
After being stunned for a while, she decided to change "unbelievable" to "crazy".
Even if her history is not very good, she also knows that Puskin and Galois died because of women's duels. These people ran to fight with others as soon as their brains became hot, but the poetry collections and mathematical manuscripts left behind will make future generations think about it. After hundreds of years of research, can't you do the code word calculation well?
Although Darcy is a fictional character, his popularity is not inferior to any real historical celebrity.If Mifensi knew that she was the biggest reason for Darcy to go to the duel, her fan fiction would definitely be maxed out for negative points.
But if she dared to speak up to object, she would definitely get a round of negative points from the two cousins first.
Although the essence of tearing force is tearing force, if you dare to break the duel, it is tearing force, then everyone can only be friends.
The expressions of Darcy and Colonel Fitzwilliam clearly stated that we are such a passionate man, and our ancestors were also the same passionate man, no one can stop us!
Anne said she may have to watch Darcy become a monument in the Dueling Hall of Fame.
But maybe Wickham is so greedy for life and afraid of death that he would not accept the challenge. Even if he accepted the challenge, he would not dare to kill him. Not much, because if you get hit, there is no room for recovery.
Sometimes tearing is really just tearing, and it can't rise to the height of a duel.
It is said that Bismarck once wanted to duel with a doctor, but the weapon the doctor chose for the duel was two sausages, one of which was injected with Vibrio cholerae, and Bismarck gave up after hearing about it.
Maybe Wickham will pull out a sausage too, maybe...
Darcy was satisfied to see that Anne's expression of disapproval was obvious, but she did not say what she disapproved of.
Very good, as expected of a cousin with the same glorious bloodline as myself.
Darcy expressed satisfaction. Sure enough, Anne would not make mistakes on matters of principle. She must have been confused for a while, and would risk her reputation and tease Wickham without careful consideration. He nodded at Colonel Fitzwilliam: "Since It is agreed that I shall go and see Mr Wickham."
Wickham puffed out smoke rings, and watched the previously closed door being opened with cold eyes.
Although he is afraid of Darcy, it is better to say that he is afraid of Darcy's social status. Because of this, his talent and intelligence are not inferior to Darcy's, but he can only be a middle and lower class in society all his life. Too high, no matter how hard you try, there is no way to surpass Darcy who is already leading at the starting line.The old Mr. Darcy's generosity to him is just a silly trick of a rich and idle man, and it even makes Wickham understand that even under the same educational conditions, he still cannot surpass Darcy.
All because of different origins.
But people have too many scruples.So Wickham is unscrupulous, and he is sure that Darcy can only settle it with money. He has succeeded many times.
Without saying a word, Darcy walked towards him with big strides, taking off the gloves that he hadn't taken off after the ball while walking, Wickham didn't even try to stand up and look at him, but sarcastically said: "What's the matter?" , Darcy, have you been so absorbed in the wine and beauties of the ball that you have not even taken off your gloves?"
He never thought of the possibility that the master of Pemberley would ignore everything he already had and dare to bet his life with him.
Therefore, when Darcy's glove was thrown in the face, Wickham was completely defenseless.
There are only two paths in front of Wickham, either to accept the challenge or to accept the insult.
He finally realized that what Darcy had done was not as good as he thought, and now he was in trouble.Either fight Darcy with his life, or walk out of Netherfield in despair, and become the joke of the whole Derbyshire tomorrow.Wickham loves face very much. If he doesn't love face, he won't make up so many lies to seduce women everywhere. He has no other choice.
He stood up with a sullen face, stepped on the gloves that fell on the ground, raised his head and asked Darcy in a hoarse voice: "Time? Where?"
"Three days later, in the woods on the outskirts of Meryton." Darcy saw through Wickham's plan to be strong and strong: "Don't try to tell Mrs. de Bourgh the news. Although the elders will disturb me if they know it, they will never make me give up. I'm only a gentleman of some fortune, and Madame de Bourgh is a duchess, and she must know the meaning of the word 'honor' better than I do."
This road was blocked by Darcy. Wickham looked at Colonel Fitzwilliam standing by the door, and couldn't even sneer: "Cousins go to battle together? No wonder you called him to Derbyshire."
He thought Darcy was doing it for the Bennet family. After all, he knew how much Darcy loved Elizabeth, but if he had called Colonel Fitzwilliam as his deputy in order to fight him early in the morning, it would have nothing to do with the Bennet family. It doesn't matter in the slightest.After Wickham thought about it, it is only possible that Darcy found out that he wanted to abduct Miss Anne to elope, and he blamed that damned woman!
He had no doubt that Darcy would duel him after he had failed to abduct Georgiana earlier.But they were far away in the seaside town at that time, and there was no condition for a duel, and after being discovered by Darcy, Wickham slipped back to the army very quickly.So after meeting again in Derbyshire, there was no time and place for a duel, and after a few months, Darcy feared that Wickham had revealed the matter, so he just pretended not to know him.
But now it was different, Darcy was in a fit of anger, and quietly made all the preparations, just to prevent Wickham from having a chance to escape.
He didn't want to worry his relatives, friends and elders, nor did he want to provoke criticism from the public. After all, everyone from intellectuals to civilians felt that dueling was barbaric, and everyone was calling for the abolition of this bad habit.Nowadays, only gentlemen are reserved the right of honor, and only gentlemen have the right to duel. If a gentleman is offended by someone lower than him, he can whip the other party without dueling.
Wickham even thanked Darcy for his mercy.
He still wanted to poke Darcy's sore spot: "Could it be because of Miss Lydia, I thought you were looking for another..."
"I can't say that it has nothing to do with the Bennet family, it just made me more determined." Darcy tried his best to protect Elizabeth's reputation: "But I wrote to Fitzwilliam half a month ago, I agree with you The dispute is entirely due to other things. Wickham, you know in your heart that this matter cannot be told to outsiders anyway, because no one knows, so you and I will decide whether to win or lose in a duel. If this matter It has been revealed, and you can have no doubt that the result will be intentional murder."
Wickham was completely overwhelmed by Darcy's momentum, he asked hastily, "Who is the referee?"
"Bingley, I haven't told him yet, but I don't think he will reject me, and you won't doubt his friendly and fair character, even if he is my friend." Then Darcy told me with a little contempt Wickham: "In addition, Dr. Brown will accompany us so that our injuries can be treated in time. Now that we are talking about injuries, I have to invite Mr. Collins. As a pastor, he is qualified to accept other people's dying confessions."
Darcy's words unmistakably imply that Wickham is the only one who needs to repent for all his bad deeds.
Before the duel started, Wickham's face was stripped clean just by this conversation.
If it weren't for being the instigator, Anne, who eavesdropped behind the door, would have applauded Darcy.
Colonel Fitzwilliam gave her a silent look.
Wickham accepted this candidate arrangement, obviously there was no room for him to comment, he forcefully responded: "That's right, Bingley is a fool, too stupid to favor his friends, I don't make sense, Fitz Mr William Darcy."
"Then, Mr. William Wickham," said Darcy, "you must hurry to your deputy."
Wickham didn't have any particularly good friends in the army. Although these young officers usually huddled shoulder to shoulder and were colleagues with each other, there was also a hidden relationship of competition with each other. more intense.After Miss Anne exposed Wickham's debts, many people even distanced themselves from Wickham.
To be honest, even if Wickham and Lydia don't elope this time, he won't be able to stay in the army for long.
But if you want to find a fool, there will always be one. Wickham is not worried, he is not inferior at all: "Also, Mr. Darcy, as the recipient of the duel, I choose to use the sword. Look at us together For the sake of growing up, maybe we both can survive."
"May God bless us, Mr. Wickham," Darcy said, but in a cold tone.
Wickham was startled, turned around and left.
In the middle of the night, Lydia woke up.
Under Elizabeth's strong request, Kitty went to sleep in her sister's bedroom tonight, and Elizabeth was resting next to Lydia. Whenever she moved, Elizabeth got out of bed to see her.
Lydia murmured for water.
"You fainted because of Mr. Wickham," Elizabeth said with some uneasiness in her heart, "Do you remember what happened before you fainted?"
Lydia obviously couldn't turn her head around: "Liz, I remember he did a very rude and ungentlemanly behavior to me. Although I don't know him very well, he is so handsome and cute, how could he do such a thing?" What kind of thing?!" Lydia couldn't figure it out: "I need to stay away from him, his behavior really doesn't match his appearance."
Elizabeth was greatly relieved.
As long as Lydia can hold her own, Mr. Bennet may consider marrying her to someone else, and there are few people who are worse than Wickham.
Lydia woke up after taking a few sips of water. She propped her arms and rested her chin, lying on the bed thinking about something.
After all, she was only 15 years old, and she was beautiful and plump. Such a delicate appearance made Elizabeth feel affectionate.
"I've thought about it and it's because of the gypsy's curse." Lydia seemed to have figured it out, and slammed the bed board down.
This saves Elizabeth from trying to induce her, but Elizabeth is also very curious about how Lydia came up with this matter: "What do you think is wrong, Lydia, tell me."
Lydia said impatiently: "How could I like Mr. Darcy? It's impossible. Mom hates him very much. He's very arrogant, and..."
"And what..." Elizabeth asked.
Lydia smiled at her mysteriously: "And the way Mr. Darcy looks at Liz, it's like the stars all over the sky are falling into his eyes."
After being stunned for a while, she decided to change "unbelievable" to "crazy".
Even if her history is not very good, she also knows that Puskin and Galois died because of women's duels. These people ran to fight with others as soon as their brains became hot, but the poetry collections and mathematical manuscripts left behind will make future generations think about it. After hundreds of years of research, can't you do the code word calculation well?
Although Darcy is a fictional character, his popularity is not inferior to any real historical celebrity.If Mifensi knew that she was the biggest reason for Darcy to go to the duel, her fan fiction would definitely be maxed out for negative points.
But if she dared to speak up to object, she would definitely get a round of negative points from the two cousins first.
Although the essence of tearing force is tearing force, if you dare to break the duel, it is tearing force, then everyone can only be friends.
The expressions of Darcy and Colonel Fitzwilliam clearly stated that we are such a passionate man, and our ancestors were also the same passionate man, no one can stop us!
Anne said she may have to watch Darcy become a monument in the Dueling Hall of Fame.
But maybe Wickham is so greedy for life and afraid of death that he would not accept the challenge. Even if he accepted the challenge, he would not dare to kill him. Not much, because if you get hit, there is no room for recovery.
Sometimes tearing is really just tearing, and it can't rise to the height of a duel.
It is said that Bismarck once wanted to duel with a doctor, but the weapon the doctor chose for the duel was two sausages, one of which was injected with Vibrio cholerae, and Bismarck gave up after hearing about it.
Maybe Wickham will pull out a sausage too, maybe...
Darcy was satisfied to see that Anne's expression of disapproval was obvious, but she did not say what she disapproved of.
Very good, as expected of a cousin with the same glorious bloodline as myself.
Darcy expressed satisfaction. Sure enough, Anne would not make mistakes on matters of principle. She must have been confused for a while, and would risk her reputation and tease Wickham without careful consideration. He nodded at Colonel Fitzwilliam: "Since It is agreed that I shall go and see Mr Wickham."
Wickham puffed out smoke rings, and watched the previously closed door being opened with cold eyes.
Although he is afraid of Darcy, it is better to say that he is afraid of Darcy's social status. Because of this, his talent and intelligence are not inferior to Darcy's, but he can only be a middle and lower class in society all his life. Too high, no matter how hard you try, there is no way to surpass Darcy who is already leading at the starting line.The old Mr. Darcy's generosity to him is just a silly trick of a rich and idle man, and it even makes Wickham understand that even under the same educational conditions, he still cannot surpass Darcy.
All because of different origins.
But people have too many scruples.So Wickham is unscrupulous, and he is sure that Darcy can only settle it with money. He has succeeded many times.
Without saying a word, Darcy walked towards him with big strides, taking off the gloves that he hadn't taken off after the ball while walking, Wickham didn't even try to stand up and look at him, but sarcastically said: "What's the matter?" , Darcy, have you been so absorbed in the wine and beauties of the ball that you have not even taken off your gloves?"
He never thought of the possibility that the master of Pemberley would ignore everything he already had and dare to bet his life with him.
Therefore, when Darcy's glove was thrown in the face, Wickham was completely defenseless.
There are only two paths in front of Wickham, either to accept the challenge or to accept the insult.
He finally realized that what Darcy had done was not as good as he thought, and now he was in trouble.Either fight Darcy with his life, or walk out of Netherfield in despair, and become the joke of the whole Derbyshire tomorrow.Wickham loves face very much. If he doesn't love face, he won't make up so many lies to seduce women everywhere. He has no other choice.
He stood up with a sullen face, stepped on the gloves that fell on the ground, raised his head and asked Darcy in a hoarse voice: "Time? Where?"
"Three days later, in the woods on the outskirts of Meryton." Darcy saw through Wickham's plan to be strong and strong: "Don't try to tell Mrs. de Bourgh the news. Although the elders will disturb me if they know it, they will never make me give up. I'm only a gentleman of some fortune, and Madame de Bourgh is a duchess, and she must know the meaning of the word 'honor' better than I do."
This road was blocked by Darcy. Wickham looked at Colonel Fitzwilliam standing by the door, and couldn't even sneer: "Cousins go to battle together? No wonder you called him to Derbyshire."
He thought Darcy was doing it for the Bennet family. After all, he knew how much Darcy loved Elizabeth, but if he had called Colonel Fitzwilliam as his deputy in order to fight him early in the morning, it would have nothing to do with the Bennet family. It doesn't matter in the slightest.After Wickham thought about it, it is only possible that Darcy found out that he wanted to abduct Miss Anne to elope, and he blamed that damned woman!
He had no doubt that Darcy would duel him after he had failed to abduct Georgiana earlier.But they were far away in the seaside town at that time, and there was no condition for a duel, and after being discovered by Darcy, Wickham slipped back to the army very quickly.So after meeting again in Derbyshire, there was no time and place for a duel, and after a few months, Darcy feared that Wickham had revealed the matter, so he just pretended not to know him.
But now it was different, Darcy was in a fit of anger, and quietly made all the preparations, just to prevent Wickham from having a chance to escape.
He didn't want to worry his relatives, friends and elders, nor did he want to provoke criticism from the public. After all, everyone from intellectuals to civilians felt that dueling was barbaric, and everyone was calling for the abolition of this bad habit.Nowadays, only gentlemen are reserved the right of honor, and only gentlemen have the right to duel. If a gentleman is offended by someone lower than him, he can whip the other party without dueling.
Wickham even thanked Darcy for his mercy.
He still wanted to poke Darcy's sore spot: "Could it be because of Miss Lydia, I thought you were looking for another..."
"I can't say that it has nothing to do with the Bennet family, it just made me more determined." Darcy tried his best to protect Elizabeth's reputation: "But I wrote to Fitzwilliam half a month ago, I agree with you The dispute is entirely due to other things. Wickham, you know in your heart that this matter cannot be told to outsiders anyway, because no one knows, so you and I will decide whether to win or lose in a duel. If this matter It has been revealed, and you can have no doubt that the result will be intentional murder."
Wickham was completely overwhelmed by Darcy's momentum, he asked hastily, "Who is the referee?"
"Bingley, I haven't told him yet, but I don't think he will reject me, and you won't doubt his friendly and fair character, even if he is my friend." Then Darcy told me with a little contempt Wickham: "In addition, Dr. Brown will accompany us so that our injuries can be treated in time. Now that we are talking about injuries, I have to invite Mr. Collins. As a pastor, he is qualified to accept other people's dying confessions."
Darcy's words unmistakably imply that Wickham is the only one who needs to repent for all his bad deeds.
Before the duel started, Wickham's face was stripped clean just by this conversation.
If it weren't for being the instigator, Anne, who eavesdropped behind the door, would have applauded Darcy.
Colonel Fitzwilliam gave her a silent look.
Wickham accepted this candidate arrangement, obviously there was no room for him to comment, he forcefully responded: "That's right, Bingley is a fool, too stupid to favor his friends, I don't make sense, Fitz Mr William Darcy."
"Then, Mr. William Wickham," said Darcy, "you must hurry to your deputy."
Wickham didn't have any particularly good friends in the army. Although these young officers usually huddled shoulder to shoulder and were colleagues with each other, there was also a hidden relationship of competition with each other. more intense.After Miss Anne exposed Wickham's debts, many people even distanced themselves from Wickham.
To be honest, even if Wickham and Lydia don't elope this time, he won't be able to stay in the army for long.
But if you want to find a fool, there will always be one. Wickham is not worried, he is not inferior at all: "Also, Mr. Darcy, as the recipient of the duel, I choose to use the sword. Look at us together For the sake of growing up, maybe we both can survive."
"May God bless us, Mr. Wickham," Darcy said, but in a cold tone.
Wickham was startled, turned around and left.
In the middle of the night, Lydia woke up.
Under Elizabeth's strong request, Kitty went to sleep in her sister's bedroom tonight, and Elizabeth was resting next to Lydia. Whenever she moved, Elizabeth got out of bed to see her.
Lydia murmured for water.
"You fainted because of Mr. Wickham," Elizabeth said with some uneasiness in her heart, "Do you remember what happened before you fainted?"
Lydia obviously couldn't turn her head around: "Liz, I remember he did a very rude and ungentlemanly behavior to me. Although I don't know him very well, he is so handsome and cute, how could he do such a thing?" What kind of thing?!" Lydia couldn't figure it out: "I need to stay away from him, his behavior really doesn't match his appearance."
Elizabeth was greatly relieved.
As long as Lydia can hold her own, Mr. Bennet may consider marrying her to someone else, and there are few people who are worse than Wickham.
Lydia woke up after taking a few sips of water. She propped her arms and rested her chin, lying on the bed thinking about something.
After all, she was only 15 years old, and she was beautiful and plump. Such a delicate appearance made Elizabeth feel affectionate.
"I've thought about it and it's because of the gypsy's curse." Lydia seemed to have figured it out, and slammed the bed board down.
This saves Elizabeth from trying to induce her, but Elizabeth is also very curious about how Lydia came up with this matter: "What do you think is wrong, Lydia, tell me."
Lydia said impatiently: "How could I like Mr. Darcy? It's impossible. Mom hates him very much. He's very arrogant, and..."
"And what..." Elizabeth asked.
Lydia smiled at her mysteriously: "And the way Mr. Darcy looks at Liz, it's like the stars all over the sky are falling into his eyes."
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