[Comprehensive Book] A Rose for Catherine

It is an exaggeration to say "marry out", but Mrs. Bennet saw the young and promising Dr. Bright invite her precious little daughter Lydia to dance three times in a row. What the doctor wanted to do with her brain was temporarily forgotten by her.

She saw Elizabeth and Collins who were relatively silent again, and resented that Elizabeth, the older sister, was not as good as the youngest sister.But looking away, she saw Catherine and Knightley enjoying their conversation, and she beamed again.

Look, Kitty is at last willing to socialize, and she won't have to worry about her stupidity at last.Young girls should be so lively!

She joyfully walked up to Mr. Bennet to share the news with her, and said with certainty that she would see three daughters soon.

Mr. Bennet dismissed her wearily: "Oh, they'll thank you."

"Of course, they can find such a good marriage, and I can't do without my help." Mrs. Bennet said proudly, completely choosing to forget that she had never helped a few young people in their relationships—except Let Jane get sick last time.

Mrs. Bennet said and showed off her daughters to Mrs. Lucas on the side, thinking that after Jane and Lydia got married, they could introduce decent families to other sisters, and she, a mother, didn't have to work so hard .

Mrs. Lucas listened perfunctorily, absent from Mrs. Bennet's showing off.

Lydia didn't know that she had an extra dance with someone, and it was clearly arranged by her mother.She was so elated and dizzy by Brett's rhetoric that she agreed to his invitation and danced with him several times before she escaped.

Eager to express her joy to Catherine, she ran all the way to Catherine with her skirt in her hand.

"Hey, Kitty! You see, he's asked me to dance. He's going to admit that he had bad eyes."

Catherine smiled: "I saw it, but my mother saw it too. Now she will start to worry about whether you want to associate with Mr. Bright. You just danced three dances with him. No gentleman has this treatment with you yet. ?”

Lydia finally recovered from her joyful mood, and she patted her head in frustration.

"Oh God, I forgot about that!"

Brett is very handsome.When he apologized to Lydia, Lydia instantly discovered this fact that she had neglected for a long time. When she saw Brett's personable and gentle smile, she couldn't help being moved by Brett's handsomeness. Huhu accepted the invitation of three dance music in the other party's soft inquiry.

But she has always been sociable, lively and outgoing, and she doesn't take this matter to heart.

"There's no law in England that says I can't dance with one person three times! If I dance with someone else Mum won't worry about that."

She said and hugged Catherine, and happily stepped onto the dance floor again.This time, she danced with a handsome red uniform.

After she walked away, the smile on Catherine's face faded for a while.From Lydia's expression, she could guess that this guy must not have resisted the temptation of Brett's appearance.Lydia is easy to understand, but why did Dr. Bright invite Lydia to so many dances without knowing it?

She secretly felt a little vigilant in her heart, rolled her eyes, and asked Knightley about this Dr. Bright.Although they don't have any friendship, they have a mutual friend.Catherine thought perhaps Darcy would say something.

But the result made her a little disappointed.

The relationship between Knightley and Darcy can only be regarded as business partners and ordinary friends.This visit to Netherfield was entirely due to Mr. Bingley's presence and his warm invitation.

He knew no more about Dr. Bright than Catherine, and of course he had provided Catherine with some useful information.

This Mr. Richard Bright has a prominent family background and is the youngest son of an earl in London. He has two brothers and a sister. The marriages of the brothers and sisters are all well-matched aristocratic marriages. Only he has no plans to get married so far. .He himself has become independent. Although he did not inherit the title of title, he has a wealth of property and wealth. He is extremely popular in London social occasions. He is a frequent visitor to many literary salons. It is said that many ladies secretly fall in love with him.

Catherine realized that she secretly labeled him as a "vagrant" and "a young girl", and vowed that if he had any bad intentions to "play around" with Lydia, she would definitely pull Lydia away. stay away from him.This sounds like a lot more trouble than Lizzie encountered Wickham.

Thinking of Wickham, Catherine subconsciously remembered the previous conversation with Elizabeth. She was a little curious about the old grievances between Wickham and Darcy, and worried that her sister would be cheated, so she bluntly mentioned this to Knightley.

"Mr. Knightley, I have heard some rumors lately about your friend. If they are true, you should stay away from him. If they are not, your friend should do something, lest his reputation suffer more damage. .”

"Wickham?"

Knightley immediately thought of the key point, and his tone was a little more cautious, "If it is this person, I have heard of it. In my opinion, he is not a person worth dating, especially for ladies who are not deeply involved in the world. It's easy to be fooled by his rhetoric."

Catherine thought about this sentence for a while, and what Knightley meant was to euphemistically say that Wickham is a scumbag who specializes in deceiving little girls who have never seen the world.

When she said what Wickham had said, she withdrew Elizabeth's name, and only said that she was a female companion.

Knightley did not show any surprise, and nodded: "You are right, he is such a person, and he is used to repaying kindness with revenge."

He didn't elaborate on the matter of "revenging kindness and revenge". Catherine guessed that there might be something hidden in it that should not be publicized, so she thoughtfully didn't ask more, and turned to other topics.

Not long after, Dr. Bright, who was still on her mind, came over.

"Miss Kitty."

He looked like he wanted to say something to her, and it happened that Catherine was willing to talk to him too.She cast an apologetic look at Knightley, who shook his head slightly at her to show that he didn't care, and Catherine got up and went to the other corner with Brett.

"Mr. Bright, thank you very much for taking the time to come to Longborn to treat my mother. I hope you don't mind Lydia's rudeness before. She is still a child."

The meaning in Catherine's words is obvious, thank you very much for seeing my mother, but one thing is one thing, Lydia is still a child, so don't have any shady thoughts in the end.

In Catherine's eyes, Lydia is indeed a little girl - she is only 15 years old this year.In the world she lived in before, this age is the age of freshman in high school.

Brett laughed dumbfounded, and then said frankly: "The reason for treating Mrs. Bennet is because I am a doctor and she is my patient, and I have no other intentions."——without intending to return favors.

"As for Lydia, she is so cute. I wasn't angry about what happened before. Instead, I should apologize to her. It was me who made her angry by talking nonsense without knowing the whole situation."

Catherine gave him a cold look: "So your way of apologizing is to invite her to dance three dances at this ball?" "No. I sincerely apologize to her. I invited her to dance because I have a crush on Miss Lydia." .I miscalculated my feelings, and I didn't understand my feelings until this evening."

Brett spoke slowly and sincerely, but this attitude failed to impress Catherine, who remained cold.

"You mean that you fell in love with my sister at first sight, but you didn't realize it until this evening?"

"Yes."

He admitted it freely.

Catherine was annoyed, and she did not forget to lower her voice: "She is only 15 years old! If you were born a few years earlier, you could recognize her as your daughter!"

Lydia was 15 years old, and Dr. Bright was about the same age as Darcy. He was a golden bachelor at the age of 27 or [-], but it was a bit too short for Lydia.Moreover, Catherine's impression of him is still that of a "playboy", and she believes that his love at first sight is actually a matter of seeing sex.

Brett put on an innocent expression, deliberately pretending to be confused: "But fortunately, I was not born a few years earlier. Miss Kitty, you are Lydia's sister—and will be my sister in the future. She is closest to you, That's why I stand here tonight to express my thoughts frankly to avoid any misunderstandings. But whether you agree or not, I will never give up my pursuit of Lydia."

To put it more clearly, he told Catherine that he didn't want her to speak ill of him in Lydia's ears and cause trouble for him, and he didn't care what Catherine thought.

Catherine looked at him without speaking.

Brett slowed down his tone again, and became serious: "Miss Kitty, I don't think I have a bad impression of you. Please believe me, I am not someone who plays with other people's feelings casually, and I will fully respect Lydia's wishes .”

To be honest, Brett fully meets Lydia's aesthetic requirements, and also meets the mother's requirements for a son-in-law, so he can be regarded as the perfect candidate.But when Catherine thought that he wanted to attack her 15-year-old sister, she felt like she didn't know where to start.

But he was right in saying that Lydia's own wishes should be respected, whether it was Brett or her.

Catherine let out a long breath.

"So what do you want to say?"

Brett smiled innocently: "I want to ask, is it true that Lydia has no one she likes yet?"

"What if?"

Catherine asked back.

"Then we can only win love with a knife."