aristocratic engagement

Miss Slivan's spine stiffened for a while, and she looked at the domineering Mrs. Edgerton and the frosty Miss de Bourgh in a somewhat helpless manner.

Annie's lips were tightly pursed, and there was cold anger in her eyes.

This lady is really unreasonable!

Anne understands Mrs. Edgerton's small calculations. She has a whimsical dream, asking Anne to marry her youngest son who cannot inherit the family property, so that he will have no worries about food and clothing, and even take Rosings' wealth to himself—Anne can't help but laugh. Mrs. Edgerton greedily covets the coveted land and income of the de Bourgh family, but also despises her "small family".

Miss Slivan's words were vague, but when Mrs. Edgerton heard the key words, she immediately thought that they were discussing the eldest son with great prospects who would inherit the title, and stared at her like a thief.

This is very contradictory, but also very "real".

As far as Mrs. Edgerton is concerned, if her eldest son wants to marry Miss de Bourgh, it is de Bourgh who can't afford it.

But Annie felt that it was here that she couldn't figure it out. Since Mrs. Edgerton deliberately urged Alan to approach her, how could her first reaction be that she missed her eldest son?

"Mrs. Edgerton, please pay attention to your wording." Anne squinted her eyes and glanced at her coldly from head to toe, "Of course I have nothing to do with Mr. Edward Edgerton, please don't insult me. My innocence. You seem to be accusing me of 'conspiring against Mr. Edward Edgerton'? I don't think any lady can bear such an accusation."

Mrs. Edgerton's eyes widened in surprise, and she choked with anger.Didn't expect de Bauer to be so... outspoken?

But what is there to avoid?Anne scoffed at this. Mrs. Edgerton thought highly of herself, but she was unwilling and had no reason to flatter her.

Miss Slivan's eyes turned back and forth between Mrs. Edgerton and Miss de Bourgh. If any other lady had a conflict with Mrs. Edgerton, she would be on the lady's side as soon as possible.

But Miss Slivan hesitated.

Intuition told her that Mademoiselle de Bourgh was not to be trifled with.The fact that she was able to get the invitation to the Phoenix Club before Mrs. Edgerton was worth exploring.Besides, she was the one who started it just now, and she obviously wanted to ask Miss de Bourgh about that Mr. Allen Edgerton....

But now it seems that even though she has a good impression of Mr. Alan Edgerton, knowing that this Mr. Edgerton will eventually leave the family, she has to face up to his mother's problem.

Miss Slivan gritted her teeth, made up her mind, stood beside Anne, and said, "Mrs. Edgerton, you misunderstood. What I talked to Miss de Bourgh just now was Ellen... Alan Eyre Mr. Gerton." Started talking, Miss Slivan gradually improved, "I met Mr. Alan Edgerton on the way to the Earl's Mansion today, but I saw his face was embarrassed and injured. I thought Miss de Bourgh had some friendship with Mr Edgerton, and asked her about it."

"Injured?" Annie was slightly taken aback. Could it be that she was injured while fighting the fire that day?

"You don't know?" Miss Slivan was also taken aback, but a secret joy rose in her heart.It seems that Miss de Bourgh and Mr. Ellen Edgerton are not as close as she guessed...

Mrs. Edgerton's face was a little pale, as if she had just realized her gaffe.

She coughed lightly, with a nonchalant expression on her face, and said casually: "There was an explosion and fire in Phoenix's factory building, Alan happened to be nearby, he is a gentleman, of course he is obliged to organize the rescue. The fire is so big, it is inevitable that some injuries will be caused, and it will bother Miss Slivan to take care of her."

As she said that, she looked at Miss Slivan with a trace of satisfaction and pickiness that was hard to detect.

Mrs. Edgerton glanced at Anne, seeing the undisguised surprise on her face, and the indescribable joy and regret in her heart.

Annie didn't know it was true that Allen was injured, but she also guessed that Mrs. Edgerton didn't know that she went to the factory area with Allen Edgerton that day.Anne suddenly remembered that when she first met Mrs. Edgerton, she showed the complex jealousy, envy and gloating towards Mrs. Catherine.

For such an "elder", Annie planned to ignore her, but she "provoked" again and again. This person has a strange brain circuit and always loves to trip Annie.

Since she was full of prejudice and malice towards herself, Anne was unwilling to "serve" any more.

Miss Slivan softly invited Mrs. Edgerton to go with her, and went to the teahouse with Anne to meet the ladies and ladies.Mrs. Edgerton took the diaper handed out by Miss Slivan, nodded her proud head, and with her head held high and her long skirt dragging, she twisted and squeezed past Annie.

"Lady Edgerton," Anne called to her.

The sound was not loud, but it made Mrs. Edgerton stop suddenly.

"You don't have to be hostile to me." Anne whispered in her ear, "I am not interested in any Edgerton. I have seen your painstaking efforts. Once you and Lady Catherine— I don't care about the grievances between my mothers, but who is the winner and who is the loser is not up to you."

"But I want to say that as a mother, Lady Catherine is a million times more qualified than you."

"I think, based on Phoenix and the Phoenix Club, you have long been curious about my identity and my relationship?"

"You can guess, what is my backer?"

Anne's voice gradually became weaker, and after she finished speaking, she took a step back and showed a false smile to Mrs. Edgerton-a smile that was not on the surface.

Mrs. Edgerton stared at Anne intently.

Annie chuckled, turned and looked at Miss Slivan, who didn't know why, and said, "I've kept you waiting for a long time, let's go to the teahouse together, ladies and gentlemen are waiting anxiously." After finishing speaking, she didn't care who was standing there Mrs Edgerton, walking along the long corridor behind the gate.

Miss Slivan staggered behind Anne step by step, looking back at Mrs. Edgerton who was still in front of the gate from time to time, and hesitated to speak for some unknown reason.

The content of the tea party revolved around what was happening in London.

The wives sat together and discussed the explosion that had just occurred—things in the factory area had never been their subject, but the protagonist of the explosion and the fire tightly touched their hearts.

"I don't know whether it was an accident or man-made? The fire just burned the warehouse to the ground. The cloth I ordered early was about to be shipped out, but this time it caught fire." A fat woman Complained, "I knew..."

"I knew it earlier? If I had known it earlier, such a thing would not have happened." Countess Fitzwilliam interrupted her, and while pinching the delicate pastry on the dinner plate, she casually glanced at the lady sitting on the table. Anne among them said, "We are not the worst. I heard that Richter's manager, Mr. Smith, is walking around to deal with this matter. I can't even imagine how much damage this explosion will bring to Phoenix. "

"That's what you said, poor Herr Richter!"

"However, we don't know when we can get the fabrics we ordered. You see, it's already the social season—it's not that it's too late to order another batch of fabrics to make clothes, it's just..." the wives exchanged with each other eyes, but embarrassed to say it.

Yunluo's price is not low, and the money to make a dress is enough for the price of several dresses they used to have.For the wives, this was originally decided with gritted teeth for the daughter's social ball.But who knew, just the day before Phoenix was going to send the fabric to each house, the warehouse was hit hard.

"Countess Fitzwilliam, what are your plans?" Mrs. Slivan ventured to speak under her daughter's hint. "We can't decide, should we wait for the refund or wait for the delivery?"

The fat woman murmured, "When they finish weaving again and send it back, the social season will be over!"

The countess calmly put down the teacup in her hand, and after making a gesture to Anne, she said to the ladies: "I think everyone has received a letter from Mr. Smith. Phoenix promised to rush out the fabric before June, and suspend other items." As for me, the Earl's Court is not in a hurry to use the fabric, but if you want to return it, why don't you write to Mr. Smith? I think they will understand."

The truth is this, but for the ladies and ladies in social life, the significance of the Phoenix—or the phoenix is ​​definitely not just those exquisite and precious fabrics, but the joint network of people.

No one will easily make a decision in private, regardless of what other members think.

Seeing that everyone had their own thoughts, but no one dared to stand out, Annie smiled and said loudly: "I heard that another textile factory in the city—Davis Textile Factory seems to have a similar problem." Products, on the day when there was an explosion and fire in Phoenix, there was a lot of turmoil, and I heard that people who came to buy the products lined up from the street to the end of the street."

This almost told them openly that the explosion in Phoenix had something to do with the Davis Textile Mill.

But some people can't understand such a clear statement.

Mrs. Edgerton was not the host of the tea party this time. With her awkward position among the ladies and her intentional or unintentional ignorance of all the things that happened to her youngest son Allen, the content of the conversation with the ladies for a while He couldn't speak, couldn't get in his mouth.

And Miss de Bourgh had mentioned the Davis Mills!Then she has something to say.

"Oh? Davis Textile Factory? I've heard of this factory." Mrs. Edgerton put her fan on her nose and waved it a few times triumphantly. "They came early and brought me a The new style of fabric is still in the warehouse, I haven't had time to look at it yet! If you are interested, I can ask the maid to go back and fetch it for everyone to appreciate."

There was a dead silence, and the ladies exchanged meaningful glances with each other.

Miss Bennet sat in the corner, watching the turbulent An Tao in the arena, and dared not make a sound.Liz seemed to understand everything, looked at Anne worriedly, and curled her lip at Mrs. Edgerton secretly.

After the eerie silence, Annie spoke slowly.

"Mrs. Edgerton, we are very eager to see what the new products of Davis Textile Factory are like. Please trouble your maid." Anne fiddled with her skirt lightly, then suddenly raised her voice, and asked curiously He said, "However, please forgive my curiosity, dare to ask Davis Textiles to flatter you... Is it Sterling?"

The author has something to say: Does anyone remember Mrs. Sterling?The lady who stole at the Rosings ball.

If there is a second update, I will work hard and post it as soon as possible after finishing writing.

I've been really busy recently, so there's no way to guarantee the daily update, but the specified number of words on the list will still be guaranteed_(:зゝ∠)_

I often go to Hangzhou and Nanjing for interviews, and when I come back, I am so sleepy that I can fall asleep immediately... Sigh, it is so difficult to find the job I want!