[Pride and Prejudice] Becoming Katherine Bennett

In the next few days, three major events occurred in the Bennett family one after another, which were related to the three daughters in the family.

The first thing is that Mr. Collins proposed to Elizabeth confidently.

This gentleman didn't seem to have thought that Elizabeth would respond other than ecstatically agreeing and thanking him for his generosity and kindness. The next morning after the ball, Mr. Collins used a secret and ambiguous tone that everyone could see. , reservedly announced to the others, hoping they would give him and Elizabeth a separate space.

"I have a few words that I want to say to the beautiful Elizabeth." Collins put on a confident attitude.

Catherine looked at his greasy and conceited face, so sick to her stomach that she almost spit out the breakfast she had just eaten.

Mrs. Bennett was very excited. This lady, whose lifelong goal is to marry a daughter, felt that she had a lot of good things recently. After Jane's marriage was resolved, her second daughter, Elizabeth, who she disliked the most and believed to be the most difficult to marry, would also marry a good family.

She was so happy that she told everyone to get out of the lounge at once.The others went out obediently, only Catherine sat there motionless.

"Kitty, what are you doing, get out," said Mrs. Bennet.

"Mother," said Elizabeth, flushing, "please don't go out, Kitty, and you don't either. Mr. Collins and I have nothing worth talking about alone."2

"Don't talk nonsense about Lizzie, how could there be no such thing!" Mrs. Bennet comforted Elizabeth while watching Catherine continue to remain motionless, very angry, "Kitty, did you hear that, I have never seen a child like you who doesn't know the occasion , get up quickly and get out!"

Catherine still ignored it.

Mrs. Bennet's good humor was spoiled by the daughter who was at present her second favorite.

Seeing that Catherine was going to be blamed loudly by Mrs. Bennett for herself, Elizabeth had no choice but to persuade Catherine to go out with her mother.

"I won't go, I'll just sit here." Catherine was determined to stay here with poor Elizabeth.

It was Elizabeth who whispered to Catherine before Mrs. Bennet was completely angry: "Kitty, I think about it. You are here, and it will not have any influence on Mr. Collins. He will probably say whatever he wants, even some Maybe because of your appreciation, you can speak even more..."

Elizabeth could not go on.She blushed.

Catherine thought for a while and decided to get up and leave.Elizabeth was right, staying here by herself would probably only make Mr. Collins more willing to show his atonement and compensation plan, and for Elizabeth, this would not be stingy with torture.

Catherine withdrew from the drawing room, ignoring Mrs. Bennet's constant nagging, and sat in the foyer waiting for Elizabeth.

Elizabeth came out after a while. When she saw Catherine, her expression was quite touched. She took Catherine's hand and walked quickly to the bedroom.

Mrs. Bennet ignored the two daughters and walked up to Mr. Collins.

"How are you?"

Mrs. Bennett and Catherine asked the same question to the two parties.

Mr Collins felt the done deal.Although Elizabeth repeatedly refused, he knew that this was a way for the ladies to show their modesty.He saw no reason for her refusal.

While Elizabeth and Catherine were sitting in the bedroom, the former watched in horror at the sound of footsteps that might sound outside the house at any time, while the latter was lying on the edge of the bed, with his left hand on the ground, and his right hand holding a long iron bar under the bed, Difficult to reach the contents inside.

Elizabeth was fidgeting at first, and she really didn't want to hear Mrs. Bennet's nagging and screaming, but Catherine's behavior after entering the door made her feel baffled.

She looked at it for a long time and was really curious: "Kitty, what are you doing?"

"Wait for me, here you are, take a look, baby." Catherine's voice was intermittent because of the forceful movements from time to time.

After about half a minute, she finally pulled out a bag-like thing wrapped in layers from under the bed.

Had Mr. Bennet been there he would have recognized what it contained.

"This is?" Elizabeth asked in surprise.

Catherine didn't open it immediately.She first ran to the door and lay down on the door, listening to no one passing by, then stood by the window to see if there was anyone standing downstairs.

After confirming that there were none, she mysteriously opened the rope tied to the top.

Elizabeth was a little nervous by her grand attitude. She watched Catherine open the dusty cloth bag layer by layer without taking her eyes off her. When she opened the last layer, Elizabeth's eyes widened.

It's full of shiny gold inside.

Elizabeth: "..."

Catherine opened the seal of the pocket a little more, silently motioned Elizabeth with her eyes to take a closer look, Elizabeth leaned over and found that there was more gold in the pocket than she thought.

She was so surprised that she couldn't find her own voice: "This..."

Just as Catherine was about to explain, suddenly, her ears moved, and she keenly heard someone coming up the stairs quickly.The man's footsteps were heavy, he sounded anxious, and he stepped on the steps making a thumping sound.Elizabeth heard it too, and she was about to exclaim, "It's mother, Kitty, hide the gold quickly."

However, before she could make a sound, she saw Catherine fasten the bag very quickly and nimbly at a speed that is difficult for ordinary people to reach. Then, holding the top part of the bag, she half-kneeled on the ground and reached out to the bottom of the bed. After throwing it, he jumped up neatly, patted the dust on his skirt, and calmly walked to the chair and sat down.

Elizabeth: "..."

She felt that Catherine had brought her too many surprises.

"Lizzie, you must come with me to your father's study now, he will teach you a stubborn child!" Mrs. Bennet angrily pushed open the door, because Elizabeth refused Collins' proposal, her tone could not help but Panic.

Catherine also wanted to go along, but thinking of Mr. Bennet's ability to speak as if he was born to overwhelm his wife, and his preference for Elizabeth, she simply sat in the room and waited for news.

Sure enough, Mr. Bennett did not disappoint Catherine. He did not follow Mrs. Bennett's idea at all, saying that if Elizabeth married Collins, he would never meet her. 3

Mrs. Bennet was hit by the two in a row, but she still didn't give up, and kept following Elizabeth, nagging in her ear, hoping that she would change her mind.

Of course she didn't get the answer she wanted.

Mrs. Bennet announced that her nerves were aching again, and getting worse.

When Catherine first wore it, she wondered if Mrs. Bennett might have a migraine or something like that, but she soon discovered that her mother's illness would only be mentioned when she was extremely unlucky. no problem.

She had advised her to go to a doctor in London, but Mrs. Bennet scolded, saying that she was in very good health, and as long as they did not annoy her there was nothing wrong.

The farce of Mr Collins' proposal came to a happy end.Soon the second accident followed.

The protagonist of this matter is Catherine, who was still eating melons and watching dramas yesterday.

On the day after Collins proposed, when the daughters of the Bennet family wanted to go to the town together to find Mr. Wickham, while avoiding the constant whining mother, the butler walked into the house and said hello to the Bennet family who were having breakfast. : "Sir, a gentleman has just arrived at the door, saying that he knows you and wants to visit you."

The Bennett family didn't pay much attention to this sentence, thinking it was a friend of Mr. Bennett.

Mr. Bennett said, "Who is it?"

The butler said, "It's a young gentleman. He said his name was Willard Gordon."

As soon as his words fell, Catherine almost choked to death on the panna cotta she was about to swallow, and coughed earth-shatteringly.

"Oh, this." Mr. Bennett was also very surprised. He couldn't help looking at Catherine with a hint of questioning in his eyes.

Catherine made too much noise, and Mr. Bennett looked at her again, so that the eyes of all the rest of the family followed, including Mr. Collins.

Catherine finally breathed freely under Jane's gentle pat. She picked up a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her mouth. Regardless of how others looked at her, she put the handkerchief on the table and hurried out of the restaurant.

She ran to the door and pushed open the slightly heavy wooden door.She saw Mr. Gordon standing among the roses outside the door, reaching out to pluck the most beautiful one.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, he turned around and looked at her. The flowers that had excited him before lost their attraction in an instant, and his blue jewel-like eyes shone with anticipation.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

His voice is low and his tone is light.

He took off his hat and saluted her.

"Miss Bennett."