[Pride and Prejudice] Sky Bookstore

The sky outside was gloomy, and the tumbling dark clouds were like stains on rotten fruit, thick enough to drip down.

In the middle of the night, someone anxiously knocked on the door of Holt's house, and the sound of 'bang bang bang' echoed on the street, causing the neighbors around to poke their heads out in dissatisfaction.

Skye got a letter.

The messenger waited impatiently at the door.Although he was shivering from the cold, he still insisted on seeing Skye himself before he was willing to deliver the letter.

"This is a very important and urgent letter. I have to wait until Miss Skye arrives before handing it over." The sender rubbed his hands. Of course, this behavior is also waiting for a tip from the recipient.

Skye glanced at the signature on the letter, checked that it was sealed, and handed the sender three pounds as a reward.

The late-night letter is accompanied by memories of the past. Although Skye has not opened it yet, he already has a bad feeling.

There was rumbling thunder from the sky. For the rainy city of London, it was difficult to connect a heavy rain with the real experience. It rained twice in three days here, and the black umbrella could almost be used as a walking stick.A thunderstorm is symbolic in nothing significant.

The night servant lit the living room for Skye. The room was damp, and the fire in the fireplace was almost extinguished.Skye put a blanket over her knees, picked up a ox-bone letter opener, and carefully opened the envelope.

The old housekeeper is a very strict person.Although he is no longer the housekeeper, he has taken care of Skaido over the years.His wife had died a few years ago, and the housekeeper wasn't looking for any women, and he didn't even have a caretaker, living alone in the backstage of the bar, with a young apprentice.

Skye remembered that he always had his shirts ironed and straightened.Although the three-piece suit is a ready-made garment, it can still be worn with style.This is actually an attitude and has nothing to do with money.

Skye also appreciates the old butler's resilience.It was this wise old man who helped her cover up her tracks under Darcy's letter and inquiries, so that she could finally retreat calmly and live a normal life with her brother.

However, the letter itself was very scribbled. Before I could see what was written in the content, I saw paragraphs of black strokes and revisions, which reflected the complicated emotions of the writer.

The content of the letter is as follows -

Dear Miss Skye:

I'm sorry I made such a serious mistake, I think it's time to correct it.Recommending you to confess in the church of Father Dennis is the biggest mistake I have ever done. I never thought that he would be such a despicable person, using the confession of believers, and extorting...

Skye saw a large section in the middle blacked out, and she couldn't imagine what was written on it.

Looking down, there are more trembling and deformed fonts. Through the yellow and wrinkled paper, Skye seems to be able to feel some painful struggles from the old housekeeper.

I watched you grow up and know you are a very good girl.I want to do something for you when my time is running out, so as to make up for the regrets of the early years.

By the time you read your letter, I've cleared all obstacles for you.Now you can think carefully about whether there are any missing files.

When it is all over, I will still be by your side, and I wish you and Master Elsie peace and happiness.

God bless you.

Sincerely, Caves Little.

Now, the ominous premonition has come true.

Skye put down the letter, cold even under the thick blanket.

Elsie rubbed his eyes and walked down the stairs. He felt Skye's displeasure, and softly said to Skye in an extremely sleepy tone: "What happened, Skye?"

Skye stood motionless by the campfire.When Elsie was blown awake by the wind, she realized that her sister was pale, sitting there upright, like a sculpture.

"Skye?...Skye...s..."

"Ah!" Skye responded to Elsie as if waking up from a dream.

She turned her head and tried to smile, but it didn't work.Her smile is like an apple that lacks nutrients, it is completely shriveled before it fully blooms.

Skye stood up, went to Elsie's side, touched his head, and said to him, "It's not a big deal. I'll take care of it. It's late...I'm going to bed, you go too."

"Skye..."

Elsie watched Skye go up the stairs.He is no longer a child.Of course, he could see Skye's hidden thoughts. He stared at Skye's back for a while. She said very considerately: "If you really encounter something, just say it."

Skye's hand holding the letter tightened, and she only felt a burning pain in her chest.It was self-blame and anger.

In fact, Elsie was wrong, and it was wrong to say things.

She shouldn't have confessed anything, it would screw everything up!

The next few days of Darcy's arrival at Netherfield were spent in his study.

Since he had a guess in his mind, Darcy dug out the box that Skye had left behind.The rare copies inside are very precious, many of which are of great research value, and the combined value can set up a factory in London.

Of course, all of this assumes that these books fall into the hands of people who understand their value.

In the previous seven years, Darcy would regularly maintain these books himself.But he always regards this as someone else's property. He has never obtained a transfer document with real legal significance, so he should regard them as his personal property.

But now, after jumping out of the strange circle called 'sky (sky)'.When Darcy visited his friends this year, he also brought these books and prepared to study them.

When he opened the bottom book with gloves on, something suddenly fell from the interlayer of the book cover.

Darcy was taken aback. His first reaction was that he had made a big mistake in the care of the books, or that his hands were too strong, which caused the pages of the books to fall off.

These tomes are older than the names of the Darcys.Time never forgives anything easily. Although knowledge is expensive, those carriers are hard to escape the baptism of various climates.Therefore, most of these papers are as fragile as biscuits in a porcelain plate, and if they are neglected, they will crumble into slag.

Darcy bent down nervously and picked up the thing from the ground.

——This is not something that is aged. It should be related to Skye. He has been neglecting this document in the previous maintenance, and it is also because Skye sandwiched it in the envelope.

Darcy held this obviously legal document, hesitated for a moment, and opened it to read it.

——The transfer document of the Sky Bookstore, the last page has the signature of the notary.

Darcy looked at the document carefully several times, and finally put it under the box again.

The matter was quickly forgotten by him.When Darcy was visiting friends, he still had many decisions to make every day.

In addition, through his observations in the past few days, he had some concerns about the relationship between Bingley and Miss Bennet.

On this day, when Darcy was a guest at Bentley, it was the first rainy day after arriving in Netherfield.

He was sitting in the drawing room with the Miss Bingleys, or more accurately described as reading a book on the sofa, and then listening to other people playing cards and chatting.

The torrential rain in the countryside was fierce, and the sky was still gloomy just now, but it turned into a torrential rain.The space between the sky and the ground was completely covered by the rain curtain, and the fine and dense rain was connected in a line, and the bean-sized raindrops hit people's faces painfully.

Therefore, when the butler announced that there were two ladies visiting outside, the people sitting in the reception room couldn't sit still.

For a moment, there was only one sentence echoing in everyone's mind—Miss Bennet came at an inopportune time!

But no one said that.So much so that when the two ladies arrived at the reception room under the leadership of the housekeeper, the gentlemen and ladies showed inexplicable expressions.

——The two ladies who came thought they were wearing long white dresses, but they could be seen to have been carefully dressed.If the clothes were not wet from the rain, the basic etiquette should not be lost, but since the rainstorm, Miss Jane Bennet was melted by the fish.Her beautiful hair was completely attached to her face, and it was dripping from both the hair and the skirt.

"My God! How did you make yourself like this!" Several Miss Bingley covered their mouths in surprise.Unexpectedly, they had different thoughts in their minds—about Jane’s bad intentions for coming here in the rain, but the ladies still asked the servants to find towels and happy clothes for Jane.

Poor Miss Bennet completely wet herself.She thought that before she came out, her mother knew that it would rain, but she still let her be a guest at Bingley's house.They don't know what to think of her anymore.

Jane's arrival brings a little confusion.It's just that Darcy's attention has been lingering on the other lady present.

This young lady obviously came prepared. Unlike Jane's embarrassment, she didn't get wet all over her body, so it was impossible for her to come on the same road as Jane.