[Comprehensive classics] Darcy or Brandon

Annie hugged Lucy gently, then stroked her hair, looked at Lucy who was holding back tears with loving eyes, "Lucy, you only have three capitals now, a young and beautiful face, five A dowry of a hundred pounds and your virginity. These are consumables, of which beauty and pounds are gradually reduced, and virginity is only once, and it will be gone when it runs out, but it is the most important thing in a marriage in my opinion s things.

Lucy, as far as your dowry is concerned, gentlemen with an annual income of more than a thousand will not be looked down upon, but you are beautiful enough to make them marry you.However, the higher the income, the higher the gentleman's requirements for his wife. When their love has diminished after marriage, they will be extremely picky about you. There is nothing but a brain that can come up with a little calculation. If you don't even have the most important chastity of a woman, then your life will be very difficult. I have reason to believe that you will completely lose your dignity in your husband's house. "

Lucy covered her mouth and cried again, "Annie, I'm sorry, I let you down. I didn't want to, I was scared, but Edward assured me again and again, so I believed his words. Annie, I am What a fool, I have always been complacent about my own cleverness, and now I have finally tasted the bitter fruit. It is all my fault, it is all my fault, and I have completely forgotten your teachings."

"Don't cry, Lucy, it's a good thing it's not the worst, and it's all right. Don't cry, we're going back to the ball. There's a lot of nice gentlemen here tonight, and maybe we can find some He is better than Edward Ferrars." Anne comforted, she took out a handkerchief and carefully wiped the tears on Lucy's face, Lucy had just experienced a very failed relationship, in fact, she really shouldn't She was asked to pretend nothing had happened and even go back to the ballroom with a smile on her face, but unfortunately they didn't have a choice.Today Pratt Manor has invited many decent guests. If they don’t entertain them well, then the chance to stay at Pratt Manor next time will be in the foreseeable future. People without money are not qualified to be willful.

Fortunately, Lucy knew this situation better than Anne, so she held back her tears firmly, and when they slipped into Pratt Manor, she even put some smiles on her face, although there were no smiles in those smiles. How much genuine happiness.

"Oh, Annie, Lucy, where are you all? I've been looking for you for a long time." Mrs. Pratt saw Anne and Lucy and waved to them angrily. She was about to go upstairs, but now she took her foot back.

"Auntie, Lucy and I went to sit in the corner of the garden for a while." Annie pulled Lucy and went up to explain.

"Don't wait for a good ballroom, go to the garden and do something, isn't it cold outside. Oh, I don't care what you are doing, go upstairs and help right now, Mr. Ferrars met a crow in the woods Unluckily, he fell down and is resting in the room now, you two go take care of him." Mrs. Pratt said, flicking the handkerchief, with a natural expression as if Sister Steele was her maid.

"Aunt, aren't all the maids free?" Lucy asked, she definitely didn't want to see Edward now, she was so shocked and disappointed that she forgot her anger in the cabin, but now her heart is full Suppressing a mass of anger, she wasn't sure if she would beat him up like Annie did when she saw Edward.

Mrs. Pratt gave Lucy a displeased look, and then looked around herself. Seeing that no one was paying attention to them, she lowered her voice and said, "Mr. Ferrars is our honorable guest. The Ferrars family is quite famous in London." Fame, your cousin Emond will need a lot of help from him in the future, the maids are always careless, they can't take good care of Mr. Ferrars, so we must take good care of Mr. Ferrars, understand, Anne , Lucy?"

"Understood, auntie, we will definitely take care of Mr. Gu Fellas." Annie promised with a smile.

"That's good. You go to the kitchen and ask Jasmine to make some digestible liquid food for Mr. Ferrars. He hasn't had dinner yet, so he must be very hungry. And the doctor will come soon, and the maid will be sent as soon as the diagnosis is out." Come and tell me," said Mrs. Platt, and wriggled into the ballroom.

Lucy snorted coldly, but Annie covered her mouth.

"Lucy, go back to your room and rest. I'll go to the kitchen and give orders. I'll go back and talk to you after Dr. Taylor comes to see Mr. Ferrars," Annie said.

Lucy nodded, pursed her lips and went upstairs.Annie breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and went to the kitchen, and ordered Jasmine to make a large plate of creamy seafood soup and send it to Edward Ferrars' room.Anne remembered that Edward once told them that he actually didn't like seafood very much, because seafood would make his stomach hurt, and all seafood-related foods would make him feel very disgusted, but in many cases he had to eat them out of etiquette, This was quite a painful thing for him.

"Is it enough to just have a creamy seafood soup? A young and strong gentleman will never get enough to eat just this." Jasmine said.

"Yes, there is no need to send any food to Mr. Ferrars, because he has a bad stomach today. If he eats something wrong, he will suffer all night. He has to go on his way tomorrow. He must be eager to return, and he can't wait to go Flying home, we had better not delay his trip. By the way, try to use as much seafood as possible in the dishes tomorrow morning. I heard several guests say that they like seafood. I think the food that suits their preferences will definitely be Let them live here more comfortably." Annie said.

When Anne arrived at the guest room where Edward lived, Edmond and several other gentlemen were in the room to condolences to Edward. Anne saluted everyone, and then went to Edward's bed and sat down with great concern. Tears, and said to Edward: "Mr. Ferrars, I am very sorry for what happened to you tonight. The crow that did something wrong will definitely be punished."

Edward took a shortcut and rushed back to Pratt Manor before the Steele sisters. He sneaked back to the guest room from the small balcony in the backyard to change clothes and then went to the ballroom. Mond and the others saw him in a panic.In order to conceal his real experience, Edward had no choice but to tell a far-fetched lie. Fortunately, he was an honest person in front of everyone on weekdays, so no one doubted his unreliable excuse.However, out of concern, Edmond asked his servant to invite Dr. Taylor who lived not far away. Edward wanted to stop him, but Edmond pushed him to the bed to rest.

Edward was really sad, he was in pain all over his body, and he needed to see a doctor very much, but he absolutely couldn't let Dr. Taylor come to check him, because he had just seen it secretly, and his body was covered with red, swollen and bruised marks , Dr. Taylor knew at a glance that it couldn't be made by wrestling.So even though Edward could hear the irony in Anne's words, he could only ask Anne for help in a good manner.

"Miss Steele, I really don't need to see a doctor. I just fell and it didn't weigh much."

Anne is also very clear that Edward must not see a doctor, but the servants have probably arrived at Dr. Taylor's residence by now, and it is obviously too late to stop him now, and Edmond is indeed very worried about the physical condition of his friend Edward, even if he can stop him in time Nor would Edward be allowed not to see a doctor.

Annie looked at Edward's body, then stared at the position of Edward's feet and said, "Oh, Mr. Ferrars, I think your ankle must be hurting now. Don't worry, Dr. Taylor's medical skills are very good. He Just one look at your ankle will tell you how badly you're hurting."

Edward immediately understood what Annie meant. After Dr. Taylor came, he didn't say that there was something wrong with his body, and asked Dr. Taylor to look at his ankle. Of course, it turned out that there was no problem with his ankle at all.But just to be on the safe side, Dr. Taylor still left some medicine for rubbing bruises, and asked Edward to apply some if he found those bumped places on his body uncomfortable.

Since the dance was at the time of the first party, Edmond and a few of his friends didn't stay in Edward's room for long before returning downstairs.Annie divided the medicine left by Dr. Taylor into two, and after taking the lesser one, she stood up and said, "Mr. Ferrars, you must really want to sleep now, so I won't bother you. Jane I'll stay and look after you."

Edward also wished that Anne would leave immediately. Now that he saw Annie, he would think of Annie beating him violently with a wooden stick before, and the pain in his body was even more intense.

When Annie returned to the room, Lucy had washed up and was lying on the bed in a daze. Annie sighed, and walked over with the ointment, "Extend the injured leg, and I will apply the ointment for you."

Lucy stretched out her leg obediently. On her smooth calf, there was a red swelling two fingers wide, which looked really scary.Anne regretted her behavior of beating Lucy before. She sat on the edge of the bed, hugged Lucy's feet and put them on her lap, and then carefully began to apply the ointment.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have hit you. But I hope you can remember the pain tonight, and then think about it when you do things in the future, so that you will reduce the chance of making mistakes."

Lucy closed her eyes and muttered to herself: "I don't think I will forget what happened tonight in my life, I will never forget it in my life."

Anne was sure about this, but she was not sure whether Lucy would do stupid things again in the future.Anne's hope is to marry a man with an annual income of one or two thousand pounds, decent looks, good communication skills, and similar interests and hobbies, but Lucy is really ambitious and hopes to marry a very handsome and very rich gentleman, young Income of at least three or four thousand pounds.According to Lucy's conditions, if she wants to marry such a high-income gentleman, she must have other means besides luck. For this Lucy is willing to take off her clothes this time, and next time she may do something more serious than this maybe.

After applying the ointment, Annie stuffed Lucy's legs back into the quilt, looked at Lucy's eyelids and lips that were still trembling while pretending to be asleep, and did not preach again.She optimistically thought that there would be no pie in the sky, so in Lucy's case, she probably would never meet another man like Edward Ferrars that she felt she could handle.