It wasn't until Annie returned to Rosings Manor that she truly understood the importance of the male protagonist being able to position the female protagonist.

In the resplendent hall of the manor house sat the awkward Bennet family, pretending to look with gusto over the eight-hundred-pound fireplace.As soon as she stepped through the door, the Duchess, Colonel Fitzwilliam, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet and Jane all looked over in unison.

That is to say, the Duchess immediately discovered that Darcy was missing.

She immediately sent for the Bennet family to be taken from the town club to Rosings Manor, but Elizabeth was missing.

Her parents and sister only knew that she got up early in the morning and went for a walk out of old habits.

The whole family was flattered to be invited suddenly by the honorable Duchess de Bour, but after entering the door, apart from the basic greetings, the Duchess’s expression was always serious, and she didn’t talk much to them, even the usual The bluffing Mrs. Bennet also felt that something was wrong, and if Elizabeth walked back to the club and knew that her whole family was at Rosings Manor, she should have arrived by now.

So what about Elizabethans?

Anne realized that she was very lucky to have a time difference, otherwise she, Darcy and Elizabeth would have been caught by the Duchess at this moment.

"Come with me, Anne." The Duchess signaled the two to go to the side hall next door to talk.

Colonel Fitzwilliam wanted to follow, but was stopped by the Duchess' furious expression.

Seeing that she couldn't ask the colonel for help, Annie had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow her mother to the next door.

The Duchess has never done anything to her daughter, but today she slapped Anne without saying a word, and then said something heart-wrenching: "Annie, you let me down so much."

Anne covered her face. In fact, the duchess didn't do anything serious, but she still felt sad. She also knew that the duchess, as a mother, was as sad as she was.

"Where did they go?!" the Duchess pressed Anne, "Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet!"

Anne stubbornly refused to speak.

The Duchess was so angry that she paced around the small side hall for a while, and finally sat slumped on the couch, her whole body sluggish.

"The promise to get you the title of Duchess came from His Majesty George III, but Anne, not to mention that you are not pregnant yet, even if you are pregnant now, Your Majesty may not be able to wait until you give birth to a boy." The Duchess said in a tone In a hurry, this matter has always been a sharp knife hanging in her heart: "The regent is not a person who keeps his word, he can completely disobey this promise, then the title of the de Bourgh family will be suspended in my hands Come on, how do you want me to face your father after death?!"

Annie's eyes were red, but she was not convinced: "The title of the de Bourgh family cannot be exchanged for the happiness of my cousin's life."

"It's not just about our family's title!" The Duchess yelled disregarding her manners: "And your uncle, Earl Fitzwilliam, the Colonel, as his youngest son and your husband, don't you want him to be sealed too? Is it? For Darcy, this marriage is an inexhaustible benefit. It is not difficult to change from a penniless pauper to a rich man. With money, you can become a gentleman. Look at the Bingleys, but you have to start from Gentlemen go to nobles, some people spend their whole life without success! This is for the whole family, for the continuation of the glory of the whole family, Annie, this is not romantic love in the book, this is reality!"

The Duchess only thinks that she is also stupid for reading, but she can't know that as a classic, the official match is almost an important part of Anne's three views, and betraying this pair of CPs is almost equivalent to cutting her own life.

"Mom, you can send someone to bring them back." Annie stood firm on her principles: "But I will never betray them both."

And Anne wanted to take a gamble, she knew that the duchess put the interests of the family as the top priority, but when the two ends of the balance were Darcy and interests, she bet that the duchess would choose Darcy.

The Duchess stared at her daughter, and the two men stared at each other for a long time, and the mother was finally helpless.

"First settle the stupid Bennet family who can't manage their daughter," the Duchess only felt a headache: "We can't let them mess things up."

When the mother and daughter walked out, Anne's eyes were obviously red. Colonel Fitzwilliam hurried up to comfort him, while the Bennet family was on pins and needles. If you don't care about face, then the matter is really serious.

And until now, Mr. Bennet has not seen Darcy appear, you must know that he is the most beloved nephew of the Duchess.

Darcy and Elizabeth...he had a very bad association.

"I've already sent people to look for it," the Duchess is very smart, and Darcy is not stupid, so there are three possible destinations for him, the Scottish border, the north, and the port, which will greatly weaken the efficiency of the search: "You stay here, where are you going?" Don't go, as long as you don't go out of Rosings Manor, no one will know that they are gone. Ten days... If my people don't find them within ten days, the Collinses will come back at that time, and I will announce that Collins will witness them. People are married with the blessing of their families."

She suddenly remembered something, and told Colonel Fitzwilliam: "Go to Pemberley as soon as possible, and bring Georgiana over so that she doesn't lose her mind. Even if you have to announce the news of the marriage in the end, Georgiana is here, but Reliability will also be greatly increased.”

This was exactly what Anne was going to do, and the Duchess had all her thoughts ahead of her.

Anne was ashamed.

Mr. Bennet didn't know what to say, because all the faults were his. If he had had a little bit of backbone and chose to stay, Elizabeth would have married Darcy in a fair manner, and he didn't have to run away. He had no position at all. I couldn't bear to blame Elizabeth for acting impulsively.

Jane also understood at this time: "Liz... Liz..." She looked at the Duchess worriedly: "If we can't find them, will Mr. Collins agree to help us?"

What a naive girl, the Duchess replied haughtily: "Benefactor and God, he can only choose one."

Collins would only choose the benefactor duchess who had an £[-] fireplace at home.

Jane was flushed with embarrassment.

Only Mrs. Bennet is still not in the situation: "What are you talking about?"

Although Mr. Bennet knew that his wife had always been stupid, he still felt ashamed to be stupid on this occasion, especially if a little carelessness would cause Elizabeth's reputation to be ruined, so he had to pull his wife aside: "You know, I My dear wife, Mr. Darcy has proposed to Liz a long time ago, although my permission was late, but I agreed after all," Mr. Bennet tried his best to choose his words carefully: "So they decided on their own... um... Got married."

"Ah!" Mrs. Bennet's eyes widened: "So we are now a relative of the Duchess?!"

Everyone: "..."

"I'm afraid I'd be embarrassed to just live at Rosings Manor," Mrs. Bennet said with a twinkle in her eyes. "Now I can live in a proper way. The house and garden here are so big and beautiful that we can live forever." Come back to the Liz!"

Who wants to be relatives with a stupid woman like you!But the duchess suffered a dumb loss, Anne won the bet, and the mother finally chose Darcy.

"I'll go and think about how to reply to the Prince Regent." The Duchess didn't want to see the family, so she got up and went to the study.

"I'm going to help Fitzwilliam prepare to go out, and prepare to welcome Georgiana." Anne also flashed quickly.

Mrs. Bennet said to the embarrassing father and daughter: "Let's go and pick a beautiful room! Ahahaha, I'm so happy. Liz is also married, and it's Mr. Darcy. Son-in-law of ten thousand pounds! So what about elopement, even the Duchess just wants to make peace, since the elders of both parties agree, this is not elopement!"

There was never another guest who held her head up like Mrs. Bennet.

She completely forgot that it was possible for the Duchess to bring back the two who eloped.

Let’s talk about Darcy and Elizabeth, after staying away from Rosings Manor in the northwest, they planned to arrive at Maidstone, the county capital of Kent, to rest before dark, and then galloped to the port of Dover in the southeast early the next morning. From this port, crossing the English Channel to Calais in France is the fastest way to go to the mainland. As long as they board the steamer and take a nap, they can reach France.

But if caught, they will be doomed.

Soon after departure, heavy rain fell in the surrounding areas of London, and Kent was no exception. Although this made the search more difficult for the trackers, the escape of Darcy and Elizabeth also became extremely difficult.

Not to mention the bumpy carriage, Elizabeth was only wearing a thin cotton dress with tight tights inside. Many ladies died of cold and cold at this time.

Darcy had no choice but to knock on the partition of the carriage, and signaled the driver to cover the outer tarpaulin tightly so that the rain and moisture would not seep in again.

On the other side, the two also ignored the defenses of men and women, sitting side by side tightly, cuddling each other to keep warm.

Although there was no glamorous thought on the way to escape, there was an unusually intimate sense of pleasure.

"I hope my aunt won't be too angry," Darcy said guiltily. "I also hope that she can simply lose her mind with anger, so that she will be in a mess and can't trace our departure route in time."

Elizabeth was not very worried. Aunt Catherine had a snobbish look on her face, but she knew very well that when things endangered Darcy's reputation, the old lady's first reaction would be to save her aunt and nephew.Therefore, even though the two had had unhappiness, after Elizabeth became Mrs. Darcy, she got along with Aunt Catherine more sincerely.

Because they all love Darcy from the bottom of their hearts. Although they have different starting points and different expressions, they can understand each other, and after understanding, they bring tolerance and reconciliation.

Elizabeth held Darcy's hand to comfort him and said, "The Duchess will definitely be angry, but if she sees you happy, she will be happy again."

Darcy smiled lowly. He was confident in doing this. He knew how much his relatives loved him. Such a willful side made Elizabeth vaguely see the nature of young people in their 20s.

The kind of defenseless side you only see after extreme intimacy.

Thinking of those happy five years, Elizabeth almost burst into tears.

At this time, the carriage suddenly vibrated and became silent. The driver lifted the oilcloth and shouted loudly that the wheels had sunk into the mud, and the carriage must be pushed out of the mud. Only the coachman and Darcy were present. Elizabeth sat still in the car, took off her coat and went down to help the coachman in her shirt.

Elizabeth couldn't help, she was so distressed that she didn't know what to do.

She could only open the window and lift the tarpaulin, and nervously glanced at the situation outside, but the heavy rain was pouring, and Elizabeth could see nothing except two vague figures.

Although she didn't want to be separated from Darcy, she suddenly didn't know whether their elopement was right or wrong.

At this time, a passing carriage stopped suddenly, and Darcy and the coachman were splashed with muddy water very rudely.

The Countess of Jersey leaned against the window and looked at the pair of fateful mandarin ducks and greeted with a low smile: "We meet again."

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