Pride and Prejudice of Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre's refusal was obvious, and the charming smile on Louis's face suddenly became ferocious, his eyes were full of disbelief, and he gritted his teeth.But he soon realized his gaffe, stood up, and lowered his head.

Jane Eyre looked up at him, but under the backlight, she couldn't see his expression clearly.

"Mr. Louis, I'm not denying your sincerity." Jane Eyre also stood up and looked directly into his eyes, "It's just that I don't feel that way, and I can't return the same feelings to you, it's really unfair... …terribly sorry."

"You don't have to say sorry, Janet." After a long silence, Mr. Louis found his voice, and he said in his usual charming low voice, "I can't make you feel my feelings, it's me But, I still want to fight for myself, you know my wealth! Marry me, food and clothing are just the most basic. You can just be a rich wife, Janet. Those worldly things are all handed over Give me, I will give you the safest safe haven!"

"Sir, of course I can support myself!" Jane Eyre didn't care about those behaviors that declared her wealth, "I don't want to be a canary, I want to have my own life."

"Janet!" he cried suddenly, taking a step forward and raising his hand.Jane Eyre was startled, subconsciously took a few steps back, and saw the veins in his neck popping up.

'Is he bipolar? Jane loves to think, she is stunned by his sudden roar, she doesn't know what her words made him so angry.

He gasped heavily, and his face turned red.Jane Eyre was even considering whether to run to call for a doctor.But without giving her a chance to think, he rudely stuffed the jewelry box into his pocket, pushed aside the vines, and left in the other direction.

"...Okay." Jane Eyre picked up a bunch of grapes that he dropped on the ground, and put them back into her little flower basket. 'The guests must have felt strange. 'she thinks.It's been a long time since I left the main force, and if I stay any longer, there might be some gossip.So she returned along the old road.

At the previous fork in the road, she suddenly saw a familiar figure.

"Mr. Briggs! Why are you here? Where are the guests?"

Mr. Briggs was walking back and forth on the path. He lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking. He heard Jane Eyre's voice and looked up at her: "Miss Eyre! I just noticed that Mr. Louis disappeared with you I am very worried, so I came here to wait for you!" He watched her expression carefully, and asked cautiously, "He didn't do anything to you, did he?"

Mr. Briggs must know what not to tell John's secrets, and Jane Eyre decided to cheat him: "...No, it's just a marriage proposal."

"Marriage proposal? That's all?" Mr. Briggs raised his voice and became tense all of a sudden. "You must not have agreed, have you? Miss Eyre!"

"You guess?" Jane Eyre asked in a naughty tone on purpose.

Mr. Briggs covered his forehead: "Miss Eyre, don't test my heart anymore! It's going to jump out of your throat for you!"

"But, sir, I'm also very curious, why you are completely different from uncle, and you don't seem to approve of my affairs with Mr. Louis at all. He wished that I immediately agreed to Mr. Louis' marriage proposal."

"Miss Ai, Mr. Ai's love for Mr. Louis is beyond your imagination." He paused for a moment, as if hesitating whether to say it or not. Finally, looking at the girl in front of him who was somehow involved, he decided to give some pointers. "He regards Mr. Louis as his own child, even, he almost became his godfather. Maybe he thinks that making his two favorite children into a family can make up for his regret... But this is not for you fair."

"How do you know I don't want to?"

"Miss Ai, there is no love in the way you look at him."

"Can't I stay with him for wealth and status?"

"Then he must not be your best choice, Mr. Dar... sorry." Mr. Briggs coughed lightly, "I don't intend to speak ill in front of you, but Mr. Louis' character is really questionable. If you She is a confused woman, maybe she can accept such an 'innocuous' mistake. But I know that your sobriety and reason will definitely not accept such blemishes."

"Mr. Briggs, stop flattering me and playing charades. What is it that makes you so hard to tell?" Jane Eyre became more and more confused, and Mr. Briggs was so secretive that her Patience also came to an end.

Mr. Briggs looked distressed. He stuffed a few green grapes in his mouth and frowned from the sourness.He finally made up his mind: "Mr. Louis, it's actually—"

"Ah! You are here!" Butler Luthien's voice suddenly came from around the corner. "Mr. Louis told me to come to Miss Eyre. I didn't expect you to talk here. Briggs, Mr. Martin from Paris came to visit, He's waiting for you in your office!"

Mr. Briggs breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly left after agreeing.Before leaving, he glanced at Jane Eyre with complicated eyes, and Jane Eyre nodded slightly to him.

"Let's go back, the guests must be waiting impatiently." Jane Eyre said to Butler Lu Sien.

When he returned to the river, John was chatting with the guests.Mr. Louis sat beside him, pouring him tea.After Jane Eyre appeared, Mr. Louis did not stop, pretending not to see it.

He was so attentive before, but now he deliberately pretended to make everyone see that something was wrong.

John continued to introduce the production status and plans of the vineyard in recent years to the gentlemen, but from his occasional pauses, Jane Eyre could see that he was absent-minded. 'He must have known that I rejected Mr. Louie. ' thought Jane Eyre.She sat down beside the ladies, and Elizabeth joined her, talking to her about the fashions of dress in England at the moment.

Nancy snorted coldly, and quickly fanned the folding fan.When Mr. Louis got up to leave the main group and walked to the water to wash his hands, he found an excuse to follow, and her little sisters smiled contemptuously.

"Nancy still doesn't give up. She has spared no effort in seducing Mr. Louis!" Elizabeth whispered in her ear, "What's the matter with you and Mr. Louis? Anyone can see that something is wrong with him."

Jane Eyre didn't want to take the refusal of the marriage proposal as the capital to show off, so she just shook her head.Elizabeth tried several times left and right, but Jane Eyre didn't get into it, and she couldn't help but feel a little depressed.

"Ah! Monsieur Eyre!" came a confused exclamation from the gentlemen.Jane Eyre got up immediately, lifted her skirt and ran over there, only to see Uncle John's flushed face and pale lips lying on a gentleman's body, his eyes were closed, and sweat rolled down his cheeks.Jane Eyre quickly reached out and touched Uncle John's forehead, it was really hot.

"Mr. Lu Sien, hurry up and call the doctor! Gentlemen, please help me to carry uncle under the tree! Lila, you need ice cubes in the kitchen! Hurry up!" Jane Eyre hurriedly ordered loudly, and the gentlemen panicked. Together, they lifted John up, and Jane Eyre quickly tore off the tablecloth, regardless of the fruits and snacks rolling to the ground.She quickly ran under a big tree, spread the tablecloth, and then supported John with the gentlemen, lay down on the tablecloth, and leaned her head and upper body against the tree trunk.

The ladies were frightened by this sudden scene, and stood together in twos and threes in panic, whispering.Elizabeth bit her lip, but decided to step forward to help.

"Elizabeth, thank you so much, can you bring me a wet towel, uncle needs to cool down!" Jane Eyre said while wiping the cold sweat off his uncle's forehead with a handkerchief.She stayed behind John, keeping his head from the rough bark.Elizabeth nodded, and quickly took out a few handkerchiefs from the basket and ran to the river to cross the water.

Mr. Louis came back at this time, and was shocked when he saw the scene in front of him. He asked about the situation with concern, and his suitors explained to him in a hurry. "Miss Eyre, don't be too sad! Old John must be fine, otherwise we will worry about you." He said in that unfamiliar yet intimate tone.

For some reason, Jane Eyre suddenly felt a chill: "Of course, uncle is fine. He has always been in good health, so I don't need to trouble you." Their confrontation once again made the young guests exchange eyes with each other.

"Let John drink some water!" A gentleman suggested.

Jane Eyre frowned, the current drinking water is not boiled, it is not clean, healthy people can drink it, but the immune system of patients is weak, it is really dangerous.She just moistened his lips with a towel to give him a little moisture.

Lilith came quickly after taking the ice cubes. She ran fast and tied her skirt in a knot for speed, exposing her calves.Jane Eyre wrapped him in a thick towel to physically cool him down.

Fortunately, the private doctor came soon. He checked Mr. Ai's condition, continued to cool him down, and asked the apprentices to move John to the carriage.

"Mr. Ai just suffered from heat stroke! Fortunately, the temperature dropped in time, and the problem is not serious." He announced to the guests.

"Oh! God! His appearance just now frightened us, Miss Eyre, you can relax!" The mayor's wife stroked her chest, looking frightened.Jane Eyre comforted the guests, and they all expressed their understanding and left one by one.

Jane Eyre got into the carriage with the doctor, and John was half lying on the carriage.

"Although the weather is very hot for me now, even I don't have heat stroke. How could John...?" The more Jane Eyre thought about it, the more strange it became. He didn't have any signs of dizziness before.

After the car door was closed, the doctor lowered his voice and whispered in her ear: "This is not the first time Mr. Ai has this situation. The last time was at Mr. Louis's home. This is not simple heat stroke. I suspect it is related to the intake of sugar. Regarding... I have already reminded Mr. Louis and Mr. Love not to eat too much sweets, but Mr. Love doesn’t seem to believe my point of view, and Mr. Louis knows that Mr. Love likes sweets, so he always does what he likes. Miss Love, You must persuade Mr. Ai to let him restrain his appetite for the sake of his body and you."

Jane Eyre nodded, looked at the half-lying uncle with a much calmer face, and sighed.

John woke up before dinner.

The first thing he did after waking up was to call Jane Eyre to the bedside.

"Janet...you girl, I really don't know what you're thinking." He rested his head on the soft pillow, half lying down, looking at Jane Eyre sitting on the edge of his bed, "Little Louis proposes to you Now, why would you refuse? You make me really worried. "

"Uncle, I don't want to leave you yet." Jane Eyre didn't want to provoke him.

"You little liar!" He couldn't help coughing. "Can't I see that you still want to go back to England? Why don't you just say that you don't love little Louis!"

"Uncle, you already know, why do you still want me to marry him." Jane Eyre held his hand and knelt by his bed.

John shook his head: "That's not a good reason, Janet. Don't you already have your heart in England? Marriage doesn't have to be a deep love. Little Louis was the one I watched growing up all the time. He Undoubtedly, his financial resources are the best I can arrange for you. He is also extremely gentle, and I really can't think of a reason why a lady would not be tempted by him."

After a moment of silence, Jane Eyre whispered, "Compared with his wealth, I care more about whether he can understand me."

After coming to this world, she hardly thought about love and marriage.After 200 years of barriers, she dared not deliver her sincerity at will.So once in a while, there was a ripple in my heart, and she suppressed it calmly.She didn't dare to bet that her background made her doomed not to be able to find someone with a heart-to-heart connection.She can force herself to try to understand other people's thinking, but her own thinking is too "deviant", and she doesn't want people around her to be hurt by it.But even so, after being far away from the former world, she would occasionally feel a sense of helpless sadness when thinking about it.

John didn't hear her clearly, he was already feeling a little tired after talking for a while.Jane Eyre asked him to lie down and have a good rest. When she left the room, she turned around and said: "The doctor told you to eat less sweets, which is not good for your health! Even if Mr. Louis brings those sweets over again, I will let the servants eat them all." eat it!"

John covered his ears childishly, Jane Eyre sighed and closed the door gently.

Jane Eyre returned to the room, feeling an unspeakable exhaustion.As the sun set, desks, chairs and bedposts cast long, thin shadows.The pen in the pen holder on the desk is shining brightly in the sunlight.She remembered the letter she hadn't finished writing a few days ago.She sat by the window and opened the drawer—in it were all the letters and notebooks she had brought from England.

She read all the letters word by word by the orange-red light of the setting sun.Suddenly she cast her gaze on that book, she was so busy during this time that she almost completely forgot that there was still a collection of poems that she hadn't finished reading.

Mr. Darcy's handwriting became more and more elegant in the last few articles, which became a bit difficult for Jane Eyre.She looked at each word slowly.Until the last article, the sun was getting darker and darker. She lit the lamp, sat back at the desk, and opened the last page.

On this page Mr. Darcy made no notes, but copied in handsome cursive script a short poem from Shelley's "To—."

Jane Eyre was stunned.

The author has something to say: "To——" Shelley

There is a word that is often profaned,

I have no intention of blaspheming again;

There is a feeling of being falsely despised,

You will not come to despise;

There is a hope too hopeless,

Why do you need to be more careful!

Your mercy is unmatched,

Warmed my heart.

I can't give what people call love,

But I don't know if you will accept it

What reverence can this heart offer?

Even the Lord of Heaven will not refuse!

Like a moth to a star,

As the night seeks the dawn,

This kind of longing for a distant place,

I have already jumped out of the plight of the world!