gentleman's manor

My sarcastic words made them change their faces on the spot.

Elizabeth's expression was as cold as frost, she raised her chest and chin, and said fiercely: "How can you be a priest! You have no qualifications! You low-class person!"

What I said made her angry from embarrassment. Her expression was ferocious, and she was trembling all over, like a big cock in a fighting state.

A man beside her hurriedly stood in front of her and said to me angrily, "Who are you? Why are you so rude to Miss Elizabeth!"

"He is our half-brother." Joseph interjected, "Because he was cruel and bad since he was a child, he bullied his mother and our siblings, and even beat my sister. My father couldn't save his devil-like character, so he was sent out to school. .When he grew up, he was ungrateful and came back to extort money from my father. I guess he just used the extorted money to pretend to be a superior person. In fact, he is a mud leg! You should find a servant to throw him out!"

"Joseph, you have grown up, and you are more and more like your mother. You are very good at yelling and catching thieves. I haven't questioned you yet, but you have accused me first. I will never stop telling you about your abuse of Anna!" When I think of the past of these two people abusing Anna, I hate it.

In the memory of my last life, Joseph is always the figure who laughed wildly.Even though he was just a child when we met again, I never forgot that he was the murderer who killed me.I have thought countless times that I want to kill this person, to avenge my revenge, and to make him taste the suffering I have suffered.But every time I picked up the knife, I couldn't kill Joseph, who was still a child. I hated him, but I couldn't kill anyone.So I just hid away, hoping that we would never see each other again, there would be no conflict of interest, and naturally there would be no killing.

We were arguing loudly, which had already attracted the attention of the surrounding guests.

Edward was talking with a few acquaintances, but when he saw this, he walked over, and the gentlemen followed me.

"What happened? Gentlemen," asked Mr. Robert, the organizer of the ball.

"This gentleman has just insulted my fiancée. I ask you to expel this disreputable gentleman from the ball!" said the man beside Elizabeth.

He claimed to be Elizabeth's fiancé, so he should be the famous Mr. Sean.

Although Elizabeth was an illegitimate daughter, it was rumored that she would have a dowry of 3000 pounds when she entered the society.At that time, countless bees and butterflies were attracted, even if she once chased Mr. Carlos backwards, it didn't matter.Who cares whether her reputation is good or not, she is an unmarried lady with a dowry of 3000 pounds. Whoever marries her will no longer have to work in this life, and can live a wealthy life only on bank interest.

Of course, this group of crazy bees and butterflies are all paupers without any inheritance rights, or just middle-class with an annual salary of tens to two hundred pounds. How could Mrs. Jenny and Elizabeth take a fancy to these people.They were also staring at nobles with titles at first, but after experiencing what happened to Mr. Carlos, they understood the reality, so they had to lower their figures and turn their attention to the wealthy landlord class.It's a pity that the family that really deserved a dowry of 3000 pounds didn't want any illegitimate daughter at all. There were a lot of well-known ladies with rich dowries to marry in, so why would they need a lowly illegitimate daughter with a bad reputation and no education.

So Elizabeth entered the society at the age of 18, and has not yet married at the age of 25. It is not because she has no dowry or is not beautiful. The only reason is that her vision is too high.In the end, she had to settle for a man, that is, the Mr. Xiao En in front of her.He was handsome, tall, handsome, the son of a country gentleman, and would inherit land with an annual yield of 300 pounds. This was the best husband Elizabeth could have picked for many years.

I was surprised at first to hear that Elizabeth was not as capable as her mother, Mrs. Jenny.Mrs. Jenny is penniless but can become the mistress of Quint Manor, and Elizabeth has to pay backwards to marry a decent gentleman.

Hearing Xiao En's words, Mr. Robert, the organizer of the ball, frowned and said, "There must be some misunderstanding. Pastor Adam will not offend a lady for no reason."

Mr. Robert called me 'Adam', and he knew the relationship between me and Edward, because he knew that Edward and I were close friends, so he would not offend me because of one or two strange guests.

Elizabeth stared at me viciously, and squeezed out a sentence between her teeth: "How could he be a pastor!"

"Of course my brother is a pastor." Anna walked over with her chest held high. She stood in front of Elizabeth and said proudly, "My brother graduated from the Divinity School of Oxford University. He is a real gentleman."

"You must have deceived everyone!" Elizabeth pointed her finger at us, terrified and without manners.

"What do you want to say? You want to say that Mr. Dean Constantine sent me to a poor charity school, so I can't be a gentleman?" I smiled and said, "If you don't believe it, you can check it out, I Graduated from Locke College and then Oxford University, all the qualifications are clear and clear. Why don't you explain why your terrible mistress mother sent us to charity boarding school in order to squeeze the children of our ex-wives If it wasn’t for a generous gentleman who sponsored me to go to school, I would have been ruined by that vicious woman of your mother long ago!”

As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately exclaimed. After all, marrying a mistress is not a glorious thing, let alone oppressing the children of his ex-wife, it is simply a big scandal.

"You nonsense! Because you beat me, you! You are a devil! That's why father drove you away!" cried Elizabeth.

"Tsk tsk." Edward shook his head and said, "Miss, don't be so ugly. Look at you, as expected, a slut just can't get on the stage, no matter how much you pretend, a moth can't turn into a butterfly. Didn't your etiquette teacher teach you that? Don't point fingers when you talk, and don't spit everywhere like a toothless child. Look at your tasteless clothes, my eyes are going to be stabbed, even the nouveau riche know how to learn from other noble women's dress , instead of dressing like a clown. There is no etiquette at all, and she is indeed the illegitimate daughter of a mistress. The current circle is really getting more and more unseemly, and even inferior people like you can get in."

This made everyone laugh. Edward is indeed a child who grew up in the aristocratic circle. He knows what the upper class despises best, so he specifically focuses on the details to laugh at and sarcasm, and his tone is very sharp and mean. A chubby little nobleman who is extremely proud.I'm afraid his two words are enough to make Elizabeth the laughing stock of London.

And Mr. Xiao En and Joseph, who were still aggressive just now, also pulled Elizabeth secretly, as if they wanted to leave.Because they have already caused the ridicule of many gentlemen and ladies on the spot, and if they continue to stay cheeky, they will lose their dignity.

Elizabeth's face turned red and then turned pale. She might still be able to show off to Anna and me. After all, subconsciously, she thought we were still the ones who could only be bullied by her.But when she faced a gentleman, or many gentlemen, her arrogance quickly faded away like cold water was poured on her.

But in the end it was Mrs. Jenny's daughter. She felt bullied, so she shed tears in an aggrieved 'Badabada'. It seemed that she was besieged and bullied innocently, and then she turned around and ran away crying.

"Oh, God, look at her, did we say something wrong? Inferior people are indeed inferior people. They have no self-cultivation. As a woman, they don't even have the heart to accept good advice from others. It shows that they have been lacking in education since childhood." "Edward continued to sarcasm others, and his regretful sigh looked like he was heartbroken, as if to say, I give you advice because I think highly of you, you are shameless, and you really don't deserve to enter our circle.I'm afraid that from now on, the big hat of 'inferior' will be firmly placed on Elizabeth's head.

I looked at Edward in surprise, this guy is really good at running people, he speaks directly to other people's hearts, he looks like a proud and difficult noblewoman.

After Edward finished sighing, he raised his eyebrows at me, clearly meaning that he was asking for praise.

I feel very happy this evening, as if I have finally relieved the long-term depressed mood, because I have been suppressed for so long under the tyranny of my father and Mrs. Jeanne.When I was young, I was powerless to resist and could only suffer in silence.Even after escaping from Quint, I did not dare to easily reveal where I went to school, because the money I used to go to school cannot be disclosed publicly.Although I embezzled my mother's jewelry, legally, these jewelry belonged to my father. Under the harsh criminal law of stealing more than seven shillings and being punished by hanging, Butler Simon risked his life to help me enter a noble school. of.So I have been living carefully, until I got funding from Mr. Martin, I was finally relieved.

Now that I have grown up, I have acquired the status of a gentleman by my own strength, I no longer have to rely on anyone, I no longer have to be afraid of anyone, even if my father can't do anything about me, I have opened up a new world for myself.

But a few days later, when Mr. Laurent came to visit me with a letter, he stammered: "I have a letter from your brother, Mr. Joseph."

I opened the letter and glanced at it, and suddenly my heart was on fire.

In the letter, Joseph first complimented Laurent, and then hinted at one thing, saying that Anna was raped by a manservant in the manor when she was a child. Although he regretted what happened to his sister, he did not let Mr. Laurent know It's not right, so I wrote to let you know.

"This is slander! This is slander!" I said angrily, "This is a random fabrication without facts!"

Mr. Laurent seemed a little dazed, and his eyes wavered.

I was terrified by this, and hurriedly said to him: "You know we have a very vicious stepmother. Her children have always been enemies with our brothers and sisters, and she abused Anna when they were young. They were taunted by us because of a dance. Just deliberately slander Anna's reputation, don't believe their nonsense. No one outside will believe them, because everyone knows that Mrs. Jenny is a mistress and kicks out all the children of her ex-wife, they just They made up rumors on purpose out of jealousy."

"No, I don't believe it, of course I don't believe it." Although Mr. Laurent hesitated, he still refused to believe it after hearing my explanation.

After seeing Laurent off, I sulked alone in my study.I regret that I provoked them at the ball yesterday. They can't hurt me, but they can easily hurt Anna.They are like a pack of shameless hyenas, and it is not wise to provoke them, because their vindictive nature will wait in the shadows and keep causing trouble until they kill their prey bite by bite.

Am I just going to sit and wait?Can't do anything about being slandered by them?I said to myself, we must protect Anna, and we cannot let our brothers and sisters fall into the same fate as they did in the previous life.

However, one morning a few days later, we were having breakfast in the dining room.Hughes delivered a letter to Anna's hand. Anna cut open the envelope with a dining knife, and was stunned as soon as she glanced at it.

The letter paper fell lightly on the table, and tears welled up in her eyes.She got up and ran out quickly, but fell to the ground because her feet were not stable. The maid hurriedly helped her up, but her feet were so weak that she couldn't stand up.

I stared dumbfounded at the letter, which was sent by Mr. Laurent.He said his father objected to the marriage, so he wanted to call off the engagement.The reason is high-sounding, but I know it was caused by that letter.

This Laurent is so stupid as to believe our enemy's one-sided words. If there is something wrong with Anna, the women in the entire Quint Manor will become sluts.Otherwise, how could they only write a letter to him and not spread it to the world, because people outside would not believe what they said, and instead would accuse them of intentionally discrediting a young lady's reputation.

I was so angry that I couldn't help it, I rushed into the study, took out a musket from the drawer, and was about to go out.

Seeing me holding a musket, Anna rushed up to hug me crying, "Where are you going? What are you doing?"

"I'm going to kill that idiot Laurent, and then Joseph! Get out of the way!" I pushed Anna away.

"Don't! Don't!" Anna shouted: "Don't do this, you help me hold him!"

Hughes and Martha rushed to help, and several people grabbed me and didn't let me go out.

At this time, the door opened, and Edward walked in. Seeing the mess in the room, he frowned and said, "What's wrong?"

Anna cried and said: "Mr. Laurent wants to break off the engagement, and my brother is going to find him with a musket."

Edward's face also became ugly instantly. He pushed me and pushed me against the wall: "Are you crazy! Calm down!"

I was panting heavily, my face was so hot that it was about to burn: "Go away! I'm going to duel with them!"

"Do you think this was 200 years ago? A duel? Even if you don't die, you will go to prison!" Edward pressed me and said, "Look at how you have made Miss Anna panic! Now the most painful thing is Miss Anna, you It's fine if you don't comfort her, but let her worry about your pain, do you want her to visit her brother who was sentenced to death in prison!"

The author has something to say: the French love duels, and the country has repeatedly promulgated laws prohibiting duels in private, but duels have become popular and have been banned repeatedly.The British are reserved and generally not as bold as the French.