[Pride and Prejudice] Second Marriage

"What's going on here?" Mrs. Reynolds, who was hurriedly dragged by Donna, looked around the people present nervously. When she saw Irene Parkinson, she immediately frowned. When seeing an unfamiliar yet familiar face, she couldn't help exclaiming, "It's so nonsense!"

Darcy's arms are always tightly wrapped around Juliet who is in a trance, and he doesn't pay attention to anyone, just staring at Juliet's face motionlessly.But he didn't see through Juliet's mind at all.

The expression on her face is blank, neither anger after seeing this misleading scene, nor grief or heartbreak after feeling betrayed, etc.It has been a long time since Darcy felt the panic of not being able to grasp his wife's thoughts. His heart suddenly constricted, and he couldn't help holding her face with his hands, and called softly, "Juliet, Juliet?"

The look gradually returned to Juliet's blue eyes, and she looked at Darcy with a strange look.However, she didn't mean to avoid Darcy, she looked around and looked at Mrs. Reynolds, "I'm afraid it will not be a good influence if a group of people are here, Darcy and I will go straight back to the tea party, Mrs. Reynolds, we must Please take it with you..." She paused, not knowing how to address Elizabeth.

But Darcy immediately reminded, "Mrs. Will."

Juliet glanced at him, and continued to say to Mrs. Reynolds, "You take her, please avoid the guests and prepare a guest room to accommodate her. Oh, Donna—" She turned her head to look at Elizabeth's close body with shining eyes. Maid, "You quietly go to the tea party and inform Mrs. Bingley—I think," she then cast her eyes on Elizabeth formally, "this lady must be very happy to meet her sister."

Elizabeth stood up straight and looked back at her, but her mind was desperately trying to remember where she had seen this face before.After the bewildered expression disappeared, the beauty of this face suddenly became vivid, especially seeing her mistress' demeanor, which made Elizabeth's original ease and ease disappear.

"As for Irene Parkinson, I really don't know how to make her mouth keep this secret." Juliet was quite frank, without showing any kindness towards the girl, she said to Elizabeth, "Maybe she needs new clothes And a clean dress, but your spiritual comfort. Ma'am, I don't care what you do - take her or send her away, but please make her keep her mouth shut. I say these are not at all Out of your own interests, or Pemberley's interests, and your own interests at the same time, if you don't want rumors to spread again and disturb your life and your family's life. Oh, maybe you don't know, you have a lovely Niece, little Elizabeth Bingley."

Elizabeth felt that she was at a loss for words and lost all momentum. She said angrily, "Are you threatening me?"

"Rather than a threat, you might as well take it as a warning." Juliet looked at her calmly.

Everyone present stayed away from Juliet's obvious gunpowder, only Darcy felt a strange sense of satisfaction from the bottom of his heart—he once again felt the strength of trust in Juliet.

Mrs. Reynolds put on a straight face, and acted immediately, "Mrs. Will, please come with me." She glanced at Irene who was hesitating, and said impatiently, "You come too, Miss Parkinson."

Although Elizabeth was unhappy when they frankly and hypocritically called her Mrs. Will, she had nothing to say. She had lived in the United States with this title for more than a year, and she should have been familiar with it long ago. Back to the beginning, the sense of disobedience and uneasiness.However, she also knew that at this time, under the circumstances beyond her expectations, she had no choice but to follow Mrs. Reynolds along a veiled path to the mansion.

Watching them walk away, Juliet reached out and took Darcy's arm, "Let's go."

Darcy offered Caroline his other free arm.

"Let me take the liberty to ask, what is the name of Mrs. Will? Has she married again?" After walking a certain distance, Caroline finally couldn't help asking.

Juliet didn't make a sound, and Darcy had no intention of explaining, but driven by the atmosphere of silence, he had to explain the truth of the matter.In the process of narration, he tried his best to be objective, and did not express any emotion in it, which made Caroline Travis not satisfied at all.

She reproachfully said, "Mr. Darcy, even though your wife is by your side, she must understand your behavior at that time. After all, you didn't know her at that time."

Juliet couldn't help smiling, "You're wrong, Caroline. We actually knew each other back then."

"Oh!" She exclaimed, as if she suddenly remembered something, "You are Georgiana's friend—the most common way of knowing, a friend's brother."

Juliet didn't seem to understand what she meant, and continued to speak steadily, "You're still wrong, Caroline, I've known Georgiana as long as I've known Darcy. I don't like it."

Caroline expressed disbelief, "When I saw you, Mrs. Darcy, I'm sure Mr. Darcy had a lot of affection for you."

"Actually," Juliet said slowly, "I'm also curious about how all this happened, because in fact, the truth is always beyond your expectations."

Hearing this, Darcy stopped immediately. He turned to look at his wife, and couldn't help smiling, "Oh, Juliet, are you blaming me?"

Little Sister Bingley didn't understand what charades they were playing, but she was very understanding, "Oh, do you need me to hide and give you a separate space?" She paused for a second or two, and said quickly, "It seems that I'd better go first wisely! Please stop and don't be impatient, my pace is very fast."

"Thank you, Caroline," said Darcy calmly.

Caroline expressed her gratitude to him, she was very useful.

As soon as she was out of hearing range from them, Darcy said at once, "Juliet, I didn't know you were still brooding about the proposal—I had a feeling that sooner or later it would be The beginning of a frank conversation between us."

The look on Juliet's face grew serious, and she looked back at Darcy, "I'm not puzzled by that, but it happened by such a coincidence. Even today, because of my emotions, I'd love to hear it." Listen to your justification for it."

Darcy's eyes moved slightly, "Although it would make me feel ashamed to say this, in fact, after the first marriage, I maintained a guarded attitude towards love, and I haven't even considered having another marriage. , even though I knew that the heir was imminent. I had intended to make use of my talents in politics, as my grandparents did—you do not know that both my grandfather and my father were Whigs—but when I saw But the one who is about to be enthroned..." He glanced at her, and deleted a few words, "I just dismissed this idea, even if my title came so meaninglessly - I didn't make a big contribution to the country and the king's enthronement , just to solve his financial crisis. But I would rather spend my life in Pemberley, the land I love."

At this time, Juliet reminded him in a considerate whisper that he was digressing.

"No, no, this is me explaining myself to you, Juliet. I haven't had this opportunity in more than a year of marriage." Here he stopped again, his voice becoming quiet and slow, " A marriage taught me a lesson, it taught me that high society is so united, and the lesson of breaking society's creed is that some of its convenient doors never open to you again, because you've betrayed once and you're no longer worthy of its trust .I am a vain coward, Juliet. I have since decided that if I were to have a second wife, she must be able to add to Pemberley's splendor."

"Actually, my identity doesn't attract you, otherwise I wouldn't have proposed to you first."

"No, maybe I had this idea at the beginning, and I can't deny that there was no such reason at that moment. But then I discovered that, in fact, it was your people who were influencing me." Darcy held She kissed her hand, and said in a low and gentle tone, "It took me a long time to figure this out. Everything about you is mysterious and contradictory. Some of your views fascinate me. Juliet, I know that love based on meeting is unreliable, but once again I lost my mind and made a bet with a surprise result. When I mastered the knack of getting along with you, what you bring to me every day is Surprise. I would like to thank you for your special way of dealing with the world, for your patience, tolerance and trust, for keeping my soul full and firm, allowing me to feel this strong emotion for eternity."

"You speak too well of me," whispered Juliet back.

"It's your turn to confess to me, Juliet." Darcy looked at her expectantly.

"If you start from the beginning, you really don't have to look forward to it. I respect you, Darcy. This kind of emotion can already maintain a marriage." Juliet gently put her head on his shoulder, she didn't want to analyze herself too much She couldn't review every detail clearly, so she said, "at a certain moment just passed, I saw through the gap in the bushes, when you stood with her, my body Governed by some emotion—I wanted to go up and push her away, to make her stop calling you Fitzwilliam so affectionately, to make her stop looking at you so charmingly with her chin raised and her head sideways. In Carlo The moment Lin spoke, I was dragged out of such an intense emotional vortex. You have no way of knowing how shocked I felt at that moment, when I realized that this emotion was jealousy."

Darcy immediately understood the origin of the dazed expression on her face at that time—it was tantamount to a disguised confession.

Juliet sighed softly. "I don't like that emotion, Darcy. Envy makes people ugly."

Darcy was overjoyed by her emotional confession, but he swore he would never let her experience it again.

They walked a little longer in the garden, whispering sweet and tender words to each other, before appearing at the tea party.The mutual trust between them made Elizabeth's appearance completely unaffected by them.

When they returned to the tea party, they were immediately spotted by many people.Mr. Pole surrounded Darcy with the pastor and several other committee members. They were discussing enthusiastically whether or how to build roads from the town to the village. No one could make up their minds. Give a reference.

Not a few minutes after Juliet was pulled away by Julian, Mrs. Amber and Mrs. Catherine had arrived hand in hand. The two ladies had different styles, but they had the same keen eyesight.

As usual, Catherine expressed her view that it is absolutely not advisable for the hostess and hostess to leave the guests behind and disappear for such a long time, in order to make Juliet confess what she was dealing with during the time when she disappeared.

And Mrs. Amber asked straightforwardly according to the usual practice, "What happened?"

Juliet understood that it was impossible to hide the matter from the two shrewd ladies in front of her, and she was unwilling to hide it, so she said easily, "Elizabeth Darcy is back."

Madam Catherine couldn't help but become agitated immediately, wishing to see the disrespectful Elizabeth immediately, so that she could yell at her before venting out.

Mrs. Amber calmed her emotions, and she did have a hand in this.When the tea party was over and the family had dinner at the long dining table, Mrs. Catherine said, "I hope the gentlemen don't have too much to talk about, because there is still a very special guest here who hasn't met us, although I Hate to see her again, but I really do want to know what she's thinking. Ladies, let's go to the living room first."

Mrs. Griffey didn't know it.

The insider, Caroline, drank the last bit of sherry in the glass nonchalantly.

Jane's hand shook uncontrollably, and the napkin slipped from her fingertips and fell to the ground.

Darcy looked at his wife questioningly, and Juliet nodded to him.