Pride and Prejudice Becoming Jane Bennet

When Jane was better, she joined the Netherfields in some entertainment.Several gentlemen and ladies were resting in the living room after dinner that day. The Bingley brothers and sisters played a game of cards with Mr. and Mrs. Hurst. Mr. Darcy was sitting at the desk writing letters, and Jane saw The exquisitely carved ivory chess on the side was a little itchy, so he dragged Elizabeth to accompany her to play a game.

After playing a few decks of cards, Miss Bingley felt bored—because Mr. Hurst always wins alone, so she said to Jane during the card games: "Miss Bennet, you like playing chess very much." ?"

"Not bad," Jane said, "but I'm not a chess player."

"Oh? Is it suitable to play chess?" Mrs. Hurst shouted from the side.

"Indeed," Jane put down the chess pieces and raised her head, "I'm too lazy to make progress. Playing chess can only be entertainment for me. It's hard to figure out something from it."

She turned her head and smiled at Elizabeth: "It seems that I lost this battle with you again. I didn't expect that your move was to eat my car."

Elizabeth smiled and said, "It's not that you didn't expect it, it's that you didn't want to think about it."

"I was really careless, and I lost everything." Jane smiled and shook her head.

"You think chess is a battle, Miss Bennet?" asked Mr. Darcy, turning now.

Jane was a little surprised that he didn't write her own letter well, but she was a little surprised by their conversation, but she still replied: "Yes, they all need to be deployed, don't they?"

Mr. Darcy looked at her in silence.

Jane ignored him, took the book aside and read it.Mr. Bingley at once graciously produced several volumes for the Miss Bennets to choose from.

Miss Bingley, dissatisfied with Mr. Darcy's attention to Jane, exclaimed, "What are you going on in secret, sir?"

Mr. Darcy, realizing that she was speaking to himself, replied: "There is no secret. I am writing to my sister."

"Oh! dear Georgiana! how I long to see her!" said Miss Bingley. "Has she grown much taller since the spring? Is she as tall as I am?"

"She is about as tall as Miss Jane Bennet now," said Mr. Darcy, writing.

Jane gave him a surprised look when he compared herself to herself.

Miss Bingley was not very satisfied with his answer, and added: "She is so versatile! She plays the piano very beautifully!"

She turned to Jane and said, "Do you play the piano, Miss Bennet?"

"Some," replied Jane, "but not as well as Mary, who you must have heard at the Lujiazhuang ball."

"Miss Mary plays really well," said Mrs. Hurst. "She must like the piano very much, and she must have practiced hard."

Jane glanced at her and said, "She does like the piano very much, and often plays it for us at home."

"Do you play the piano, Miss Elizabeth?" asked Miss Bingley again.

"Well, but very badly," replied Elizabeth, with a smile.

"All the young ladies are so accomplished!" said Mr. Bingley, taking up Elizabeth's words cheerfully. "They sing, they paint, they dance, they speak French and German, they embroider, and I don't know why!"

"Versatility is such an overused word," said Mr. Darcy grimly, "that I know no more than half a dozen people who can be called versatile."

At this time, Elizabeth's attention had already been attracted by the conversation of several people, and she said, "Then you must know a lot about this!"

"Of course!" exclaimed Miss Bingley, Mr. Darcy's loyal supporter, "if a lady has no inner temperament, no certain cultivation in walk, tone of voice, dress and speech skills, she will Can’t be called versatile.”

"And after that she has to add some real talent," Mr. Darcy added, "that is, to improve her mind by reading a lot."

"No wonder you know no more than half a dozen accomplished ladies," said Elizabeth; "I doubt even that there is such a one."

Jane looked up from the book and smiled at her sister's quip.

"Your judgment of the same sex is too harsh, Miss Elizabeth," said Miss Bingley. "What do you think, Miss Bennet?"

Jane was very helpless when she was shot innocently. She closed the book and put it on her knees, thought for a while, and said, "If I really met such a lady, I would dare to make a comment." When she said this, she remembered Mrs. Weston, now Mrs. Weston, but Miss Bingley and Mrs. Hurst have begun to claim that they know many such people, and they are all of noble birth and versatile, saying that the two Banners When Miss Te had such a prejudice because she was "not deeply in the world", she decided that it would be better not to say anything about it.

Miss Bingley and Mrs. Hurst continued to argue until Mr. Hurst told them to play their cards well and not to be careless, so that the argument was over.Not long after, Elizabeth accompanied Jane upstairs to rest.

"Now that I'm well, it's time to say goodbye to Mr. Bingley, Liz," said Jane to Elizabeth. "We've been here too long."

Elizabeth also felt that she had stayed in Netherfield for a long time.

"But you still have some cough, Jane." Elizabeth said worriedly, "Would you like to go home at this time?"

"I want to recuperate in my own home and I will get better sooner." Jane said with a smile.

"Well, if you insist." Elizabeth compromised.

So Jane wrote to Mrs. Bennet early the next morning, asking her to send a car to fetch them that very day.But Mrs. Bennet was very reluctant, arguing that there would be no horses in the house to draw the carriage until next Tuesday.Jane has no choice but to bid farewell to Mr. Bingley and borrow a carriage by the way.

When Mr. Bingley heard that Jian Jian had gone back, he naturally did everything possible to persuade him to stay.

"Miss Bennet, you are not fully recovered yet! Please stay in Netherfield and recover from your illness before leaving," he said.

But Jane's attitude was very firm, so Mr. Bingley could only compromise and said: "Then there is no need to leave in such a hurry. I will ask Mr. Jones to come over and have a look. If Mr. Jones agrees, then I will arrange the carriage the day after tomorrow." , to send you back to Longborn?"

"It couldn't be better," replied Jane.

As the two Miss Bennets are about to leave, their friendship with the two Miss Bingleys also heats up.Although Miss Bingley minds Mr. Darcy's wonderful attitude towards Jane, she has to admit that Jane is a very good person to get along with.

Jane sent a letter to Bennet's house, expressing that she was well and could go home the day after tomorrow, which naturally aroused the excitement of Miss Bennet who missed her sister, and Mr. Bennet was also very happy. He has a young daughter, but he always feels that something is missing when the two eldest daughters are not at home.The only one who was not very happy was Mrs. Bennet. On the one hand, she felt relieved that Jane was fine, but on the other hand, she felt that it was really ignorant for Jane to want to go home when she was not fully recovered from her illness. Can justifiably stay longer in Netherfield Gardens.