[Comprehensive classics] Darcy or Brandon

Elizabeth's face was flushed, and she left angrily, leaving Charlotte shaking her head helplessly.

Anne was sitting a few steps away from Elizabeth. She looked as if she was watching the dancing people seriously. In fact, she had been listening to the two dancers when she found Elizabeth and Charlotte sitting next to her. people speak.The two country girls had never seen much of the world, and they only talked about some gossip that happened around them. Anne secretly thought it was funny when she heard Elizabeth's self-righteous opinions.In fact, many of the people Anne is in contact with now are somewhat self-righteous, but Elizabeth is the one who is particularly stubborn. Anne thinks that Charlotte is really good-tempered. They talked about five topics, and four of them were about Charlotte. All opinions were forcibly refuted by Elizabeth, and Anne would definitely not be able to bear it.

Because she didn't have much affection for Elizabeth, and she was quite envious and jealous of her perfect marriage, so when Anne saw that Elizabeth was humiliated by Darcy, she felt a little gloating in her heart, and she couldn't help but put on some smiles on her calm expression .

Mr. Darcy noticed Anne's smile, sat down on the stool before Elizabeth, and looked at Anne sideways.

Charlotte followed Mr. Darcy's eyes to see Anne, she smiled immediately, walked up to Anne, and said, "Miss Steele, I didn't expect to meet you here, I didn't notice you sitting here just now. Here. By the way, where is Miss Lucy, is she here too?"

"It's a pleasure to see you too, Miss Lucas. Lucy is here too, and she's dancing. Actually we didn't expect me to be able to attend this ball. It's all thanks to Mr. Wickham, who Invite us." Anne said with a smile, she would be happy to chat with Charlotte, but unfortunately the seat next to her has been occupied by Mr. Darcy, Anne thought of it with some complaints, and then she couldn't help but glance at Mr. Darcy.

Seeing that Anne was looking at him, Mr. Darcy immediately looked over without hesitation. He looked at Anne slightly sideways and said, "Are you that lady just now? Nice to meet you."

Since coming to Longbourne, Mr. Darcy has always maintained an attitude of not talking to strangers. This is the second time Charlotte sees Mr. Darcy talking to a lady on his own initiative. The previous exception was Elizabeth .Charlotte was a little surprised, and immediately introduced to the two: "Mr. Darcy, this is Miss Steele. She and her younger sister, Miss Lucy, are here to attend the wedding at Mr. Travers' house. Steele Miss, this is Mr Darcy, who is a good friend of Mr Bingley, master of Netherfield Gardens."

Anne stood up and nodded towards Mr. Darcy. In fact, she was quite surprised. It was really surprising that Mr. Darcy would take the initiative to know her.There was a hint of surprise in Anne's heart, but this surprise only existed for a few seconds, because Anne felt that Mr. Darcy wanted to know her because he saw a picture of her making a fool of herself when he entered the ballroom, and then she was poured all over him with wine s reason.Sometimes people will be like this, when they see the other person make a fool of themselves or do something that impresses them, they will deliberately want to know that person, and then they will realize in their hearts that it is so-and-so who did these things!

If Mr. Darcy knew her name, he would probably think in his heart that this unlucky lady who could fall asleep while sitting in a noisy ballroom was called Anne Steele, and it turned out that this girl who could not walk without eyes was hit The unlucky lady who poured wine all over him was Anne Steele.Then when he goes back and talks to Mr. Bingley about what happened at the ball today, he will tell them that Anne Steele is really a funny lady, next time I can introduce you to her.

Because of these words silently in her heart, Anne seemed very calm when she responded to Mr. Darcy, and could even be said to be a little cold.She nodded to Mr. Darcy, and said, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Darcy, and I am very sorry about what happened just now."

When Mr. Darcy heard Anne say that he was invited by Wickham, and thought of the scene he saw in the lounge just now, he felt a little worried. If this lady is a friend of Wickham, then probably He couldn't be friends with her, so Mr. Darcy said, "Miss Steele, please stop apologizing, it wasn't your fault. Actually we met in town the other day, don't know Does Miss Steele remember?"

"Yes, I remember you going away very quickly."

"I had some urgent business to attend to. But I remember that you, Miss Steele, stayed with the Bennet ladies and two militiamen."

"At that time I accidentally ran into Mr. Wickham, so I met him and another Mr. Danny. Just a few ladies from the Bennet family came over, and they knew Danny, and then we were Introduced to several Miss Bennet. Speaking of which, today is the third time I see Mr. Wickham, but he left without saying a few words. I didn't say a few words, and I didn't even thank him for inviting me to this ball." Anne explained, she made clear the relationship between herself and Wickham, and she didn't want Mr. Darcy to feel that she was Wickham's friend was then put into the rank of incommunicable by this gentleman for no reason on the grounds of bad conduct.

After hearing Anne's words, Mr. Darcy felt relieved. As long as Anne had nothing to do with Wickham, he could make friends with her.But Mr. Darcy is still a little worried. Wickham is used to please the ladies, and their behavior in the garden just now was a little too close. I don't know if Anne was cheated by Wickham. He seemed to say unintentionally: "Many ladies here seem to want to dance with Mr. Wickham. Miss Steele, do you regret not being able to dance with Mr. Wickham after he leaves?"

When Anne heard it, she felt that Mr. Darcy really regarded her as those stupid ladies who were obsessed with Wickham. She was a little unhappy in her heart, and she didn't hide her face, and said: "If Mr. Wickham finishes his work and rush If you come back, it’s better to ask him to dance with the other ladies. I was able to come to the dance today by accident, so I don’t have much mood to dance.”

Mr. Darcy nodded, and then said: "Really? It seems that I am going to do something to make you feel angry, miss, because I have already planned to invite you to dance after dancing with Miss Lucas, no Knowing that you can make your mood a little happier, how about agreeing to my invitation?"

It was obviously a joke, but Mr. Darcy said it in an unusually serious manner. Combined with his serious expression, it even made people feel that there was some coercion in his words, which seemed to make Anne accept his invitation happily.Anne suddenly understood the feelings of all the villagers in Longbourne. If Anne hadn't learned something about Mr. Darcy in the book, she would definitely find this gentleman extremely annoying.

Of course, this attitude is actually quite annoying now. Anne is quite happy to dance with Mr. Darcy, but after being said that by him, Anne feels a little bit forced, which is really uncomfortable.Couldn't Mr. Darcy have just smiled, stood up, saluted her, and politely invited her?Could it be that such a face-saving invitation can only be exclusive to Elizabeth Bennet?

But no matter what, Anne didn't have Elizabeth's big face to reject Mr. Darcy's invitation willfully.Even if Mr. Darcy didn't care about it afterwards, other people in the ballroom would secretly laugh at her when they saw her, a lady with no beauty and no dowry, reject Mr. Darcy, a golden bachelor. I also have to agree.

"I accept the invitation with pleasure, Mr. Darcy."

After getting the answer, Mr. Darcy was finally satisfied, and then turned his head to look at the ballroom without hesitation.

Charlotte, who was sitting on the side and inevitably heard the conversation, sighed in her heart, deeply feeling that Mr. Darcy was really a fool who didn't know how to get along with girls at all.As soon as this gentleman came to Longbourne, he offended Elizabeth because of the sentence "not beautiful enough to impress my heart, I have no interest in flattering those ladies who are neglected by others", and now Mr. Darcy will probably offend Sri Lanka because of what he said just now. Miss Teale.

In fact, this really cannot be blamed on Mr. Darcy, he and Anne did not use any politeness when talking in the cave, in his consciousness he and Anne are already very close friends, after all they shared so much that day There are many things that Mr. Darcy has never said to others, and there are many things that he believes Anne has never said to others.Therefore, Mr. Darcy felt that he and Anne could be familiar with each other. Unfortunately, this gentleman overlooked one thing, that is, that he recognized Anne, but it did not mean that Anne also recognized him.

The first dance was over soon, and after a brief pause, the music started again. Mr. Darcy led Charlotte into the dance floor, and Anne was left alone in the corner.Annie relaxed her straight back, and sat on the chair lazily. She felt that she could sit comfortably like this for at least 10 minutes, but Elizabeth, who didn't know where to go just now, suddenly sat down on Annie. side.

Elizabeth had a smile on her face, and seemed to have completely forgotten the anger just now. She looked at Anne and said, "Hello Miss Steele, it's nice to meet you. I heard Mr. Danny say that you and your sister are Invited by Mr Wickham, is it not?"

"Yes, Miss Elizabeth. The last time we met in town, Mr. Wickham and Mr. Danny said they would invite us to this ball. Lucy and I thought it was just a joke, but it turned out that Wickham The gentleman really came to invite us."

"Oh, Mr. Wickham is naturally a gentleman who walks the talk." Elizabeth said, and then she glanced at Mr. Darcy who was chatting with Charlotte in the ballroom, and asked again: "Miss Steele , are you familiar with Mr. Darcy? I saw you were chatting just now, and that gentleman is not a person who can chat with others casually. "

Elizabeth's words did not conceal her dislike of Mr. Darcy at all, but Anne believed that under normal circumstances, if a person really hated another person, the most likely thing to do was to ignore that person and not waste money I don't have enough energy to pay attention to that person's affairs, so Elizabeth's inquiry now is a bit strange.

"I don't know Mr. Darcy very well. He probably talked to me because I was hit by Miss Lydia just now and accidentally spilled the wine on him. He didn't want me to feel guilty. "Annie said, not paying attention to Elizabeth, she found where Lucy was, got up and walked over without waiting for Elizabeth to respond.

"Miss Steele..." Elizabeth still wanted to talk to Anne about Mr. Darcy, but Anne had already walked away just as she spoke. Elizabeth was a little anxious. For some reason, she just wanted to tell Anne something about Darcy Mr. Sy's bad words, and then let Anne know how arrogant, rude and annoying Mr. Darcy is.

In order to let the gentlemen and ladies have space to dance, people who were not dancing crowded around the room, and Anne walked around a long way before reaching Lucy.Lucy was chatting with the gentleman who danced with her just now, and the gentleman was telling her something interesting. After hearing this, Lucy laughed loudly, looking very happy.

"Annie, have you rested? Do you want to have a dance with a gentleman?" Lucy immediately walked to Annie and said, holding her arm.

"I've got a gentleman for the next dance," said Anne.

Lucy said to the gentleman who was talking to her just now: "Mr. Cliff, I am going to chat with my sister, and I will listen to your joke later."

"Okay, Miss Lucy, I'll come and see you after the third dance." That Mr. Cliff said, and left politely.

Anne looked at the back of Mr. Cliff leaving, and whispered to Lucy: "Do you like this gentleman very much?"

"I really like it, but Mr. Cliff is just the second son of a small manor owner." Lucy said with a little bit of regret.

Anne immediately understood what she meant. Lucy would not find a gentleman who was not qualified to inherit even a small manor, even if she liked him very much.

"You can dance a few more dances with him," said Anne.

"I thought so too. I originally agreed with him to dance the first two dances, but just now I accidentally twisted my foot while dancing, so we will wait for the next dance." Lucy held the wine glass said with a smile.

There was a bit of shyness in that smile, and Annie couldn't help but said after seeing it: "Lucy, there is nothing wrong with the second son of a small manor, he may not get much inheritance, but his parents will always leave him some what he lives on, and he's an officer, and he's going to get a better life if he works hard."

"Annie, Annie! I know you don't care about money so much. Even in such a poor life, you can live a splendid life, but I can't. Annie, I have lived poor enough, and I don't want to live like this for the rest of my life So don't try to persuade me any more." Lucy took a deep breath and said with a firm expression.

Annie acted affectionately again, scolded herself as a dick, then turned around and thought about it again.In fact, there is nothing wrong with Lucy's choice. In ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, and from ancient times to the present, most women only seek material happiness in marriage.Everyone is different, some people pursue spiritual satisfaction, some people pursue material satisfaction, Lucy is the latter, as long as her marriage does not hurt anyone, and she and her future husband are in marriage In the eyes of most people, this is a happy marriage.

"What are you thinking, Anne?"

"It's nothing." Annie shook her head. She just suddenly felt that she wanted too much more than Lucy. She didn't care about money like Lucy said. On the contrary, she lived a good life so she had higher requirements for material things.It's just that she is self-aware that in her current situation, she can only lower her material requirements a little, but that doesn't mean she doesn't need it. She not only needs a certain amount of material satisfaction, she also needs spiritual satisfaction.

"By the way, Annie, where is the gentleman you just said is going to dance with you?"

"Here, I'm dancing with Miss Lucas." Annie pouted and said.

Lucy remembered Charlotte. She found Charlotte's position immediately, and then her eyes widened in surprise, "Is that Mr. Darcy? Anne, was he the one who invited you to dance?"

Annie nodded, "Of course, why are you so surprised?"

"Of course I was surprised!" Lucy said in a low voice with a look of course, "This Mr. Darcy has an annual income of [-] pounds, he is the richest person here, and he looks like this Handsome, he is simply the best candidate for marriage, yet he even took the initiative to invite you to dance!"

"Stop, stop! Stop daydreaming, Lucy, my dear. A gentleman with an estimated income of ten thousand pounds a year would be willing to ignore my meager dowry if your sister was as beautiful as a fairy, but your sister is as beautiful as a fairy." It is exactly the same as the lady standing in front of you, so even a gentleman with an annual income of only one thousand will not ignore the fact that I only have a little dowry." Annie said with a pause gesture.

Lucy rolled her eyes helplessly, and sighed: "Annie, you have to bless a beautiful dream, maybe that gentleman just has a crush on you, you need to know how different you are, I know you The most special one among all the ladies, maybe that gentleman likes such a special lady. You can't completely deny yourself!"

"Yeah, I'm the very poor one among all the ladies present." Annie looked at Lucy and said. Young lady, but her soul is already a middle-aged woman. She knows what she wants and what she can get to the maximum. She will not waste energy doing unnecessary struggles.

"Annie..."

"Okay, Lucy, I have to find another quiet corner, go to the gentleman just now, at least you can talk to him for a while." Annie waved her hand and said.

"Okay, Annie, but I think you can still hope for it." Lucy said.

She is Annie's younger sister, and she knows how many valuable things there are in Annie's body. Although she has been hiding them, she still knows that these things have never been found in other young ladies. Lucy thinks these qualities are worthwhile. A rich noble handsome gentleman to cherish them, not an ordinary, no-more-ordinary squire to own them, which would completely bury these fine things.

The appearance of Mr. Darcy made Lucy very happy. Since Lucy started to communicate with people in Longbourne, she had heard people say that Mr. Darcy was arrogant and indifferent no less than ten times. He would take the initiative to talk to strangers, let alone invite a strange lady who is not beautiful and looks like he has little money to dance, but now he has indeed invited Annie, and Lucy firmly believes in this move It must represent something, something different.