[Comprehensive classics] Darcy or Brandon

"So, you are the lady with the same name as my daughter?"

Mrs. Darcy and his family welcomed Mrs. de Bourgh and Miss de Bourgh at around nine o'clock in the morning. The lady walked out of the carriage with her chest held high and her head held high like a venerable queen. Her eyes slid past Annie and Lucy with a look of contempt. After arriving in the living room, she immediately sat on the sofa in the main seat, looking at Annie and asking, seemingly inadvertently, while arranging her skirt.

"Yes Ma'am, I am. It's a great honor to have the same name as your daughter." Annie replied with a smile.As the saying goes, you don’t hit a smiling person with your hand. I think she has always behaved like this. Even if Mrs. de Bourgh wanted to reprimand her, she would not keep saying bad things, otherwise it would appear that she was very rude. The concept of etiquette.

"I'm really lucky." Mrs. de Bourgh nodded and said, "Where is your sister, what's her name?"

"Her name is Lucy, ma'am."

"Lucy, this name suits her very well. How old are you two?" Mrs. de Bourgh continued to ask.

"I'm 23 years old, Lucy is only." Annie straightened her back, and began to prepare for Mrs. de Bourgh's offensive. Generally speaking, after asking a girl's age, the next step is to ask about marriage, and De Bourgh The main purpose of Mrs. Power's coming here is the problem of her marriage, to be precise, the problem of her nephew Mr. Darcy.

Sure enough, Mrs. de Bauer looked at Annie and began to ask: "Then you two sisters have entered the social circle, have you both entered the social circle, so do you have someone you love?"

"Yes, Lucy already has a fiancé."

"Really?" Mrs. De Bourgh squinted her eyes at Anne and said, "Do you already have a fiancé at the age of 17? Was it settled when you were young or when you grew up?"

"It was just decided this year."

"Oh, so what is the status of that fiancé? Is it a businessman, a lawyer, or a doctor? Nowadays, ladies like people with these identities. It seems that it is easier to enter the upper class by marrying them." Mrs. de Bourgh asked, his tone became rude.

Lucy knew the purpose of Mrs. de Bourgh's coming to London, and she was not pleasing to her eyes at the beginning. Now she heard her say this, and immediately interjected: "My fiancé is the heir of the Ferrars family. He is neither a businessman nor a businessman. Not a lawyer or a doctor either, he's a real aristocrat."

The behavior of Lucy's interruption made Mrs. de Bourgh a little unhappy, her face immediately fell down, and the corner of her mouth was raised and she sneered and said: "The new heir of the Ferras family, I know, use despicable means to seize I took over my brother's inheritance rights and became the heir. If you want me to say that this is not a good marriage, it's better to end it quickly."

Such words are too much, and others can't stand it after hearing it. Lucy stood up angrily and said loudly to Mrs. de Bourgh: "Robert didn't use any despicable means, it was obviously Edward I was disinherited because I didn’t obey Mrs. Ferrars’ order, and this has nothing to do with Robert, what right do you have to blame Edward’s mistakes on Robert!”

After Lucy finished speaking, she strode out of the living room with her skirt in her hands. Anne winked at Mr. Darcy to let him clean up the mess, and hurriedly chased after her, taking the opportunity to escape from this embarrassing living room.

Lucy ran back to the room angrily, threw away the pillow on the bed, threw herself on the bed and started to sulk.Annie chased into the room and sighed when she saw the pillows thrown on the floor. She closed the door gently, then walked to the bedside and touched Lucy's head, and said with some guilt; "Lucy, I'm very sorry. Sorry, I didn't expect her to operate on you."

"It's okay, it's not your fault." Lucy hammered hard on the bed, raised her upper body and moved to Annie's lap, puffing her cheeks and said, "It's all the old witch's fault, her What kind of attitude is this? Are we her maids? They look at us with that condescending look! It's really disgusting, I've never seen such an annoying old hag!"

"Shh." Annie stretched out her finger and pressed Lucy's lips, and said, "Be careful, don't be overheard, there may be maids coming in the corridor."

Lucy dawdled on Annie's lap and said, "I know, I will only curse in my heart from now on, and I will never curse out."

Annie smoothed Lucy's hair with her fingers, and said, "Okay, then you can rest in the room, and I'll go down first."

"Wait." Lucy turned over and held Annie's hand, still lying on her lap shamelessly, and said, "Annie, why don't you go down at all, we'll meet again at lunch time Go downstairs."

"That's not good. I'm the future hostess of this family. If the guests come and don't go out to say hello, it will be as Mrs. de Bourgh's will. I, not only will I go down to entertain her, but I will also entertain her very well. Well, let her know that she is just a guest, and I am the generous host." Annie said.

"But she will keep saying those nasty words. It's really aggrieved to think about it! If you want me, I won't go out." Lucy said, hugging Annie's waist.

Annie stood up with a smile, straightened her clothes in front of the mirror, and said to Lucy: "I am not wronged, because Mr. Darcy feels that his aunt treats me like this, and I feel guilty. , I will make it up to me twice when I turn back." When dealing with men, occasionally you should be a little bit wronged, so that it will be painful.

In the next few days, Anne fulfilled the responsibility of a hostess very well, taking care of Mrs. de Bourgh and Miss de Bourgh in every possible way, and Mrs. de Bourgh saw that Annie said everything she said was the same. The smiling face made him more angry in his heart, and his temper became worse, which made Mr. Darcy's face more and more ugly, and his heart felt more and more guilty towards Anne.

Miss de Bauer also felt very inappropriate for her mother's behavior, so she tried her best to be friendly to Anne, but her character was indeed much shyer than Georgiana, because de Bauer Mrs. Hall is overprotective, she probably hasn't had contact with too many people, and she has such a strong mother, so she didn't perform very well, but she did work hard.

To be honest, compared to Mrs. de Bourgh, Miss de Bourgh is actually quite likable in terms of appearance.Annie felt that the genes of the Fitzwilliam family must be particularly good. The few people in the Fitzwilliam family she knew were all very beautiful. There is a very attractive and morbid beauty about her body.Because she stayed in the room for a long time without being exposed to the sun, she looked faint, like the only light color in a thick oil painting.Her hair is golden, but the light color seems to be the same as platinum gold. Her skin is almost bloodless, so white that it is almost transparent, and there is a weak and ethereal aura about her whole body, which seems to disappear at any time. One couldn't help but want to grab her.

However, Anne is not very willing to get too close to Miss de Bourgh. Although there is no medical basis, and she has never heard of anyone being infected, Annie thinks that Miss de Bourgh may have tuberculosis, because she coughs from time to time. One or two sounds, which made her very worried. In this era of lack of medical care, it would be terrible if she was infected.And to be honest, Miss de Bourgh's character, although not annoying, is not likable, too sentimental.

It had just finished a light rain that day, and the air was very fresh. Miss de Bourgh invited Annie to take a walk in the garden. She really couldn't bear her mother's attitude, so she solemnly replaced her mother to Anne during the walk. Sorry.

"Actually, you don't have to apologize, Miss de Bour. ​​We all know why your mother is angry." Annie walked beside Miss de Bour, trying to keep a certain distance, not too deliberately, but assured The two will not accidentally bump into each other while walking.

"No, I don't want you to misunderstand the relationship between me and my cousin. My mother is a bit stubborn. She wants to realize the original joke for my own good, but I know it's impossible." Miss de Bourgh said.

"Mrs. de Bourgh is indeed a good mother." Anne picked the first half of Miss de Bourgh's sentence and responded. As for whether she thinks it is possible for her to be with Mr. Darcy, it has nothing to do with her .

Miss de Bourgh noticed Anne's little wit immediately, and smiled knowingly, but she continued on her own: "I like my cousin very much, Miss Steele, if my body can If I get better, I will definitely compete with you. Unfortunately, my body is really bad. Although my mother always said that I am just weaker than others, I have asked the doctor in private, and my body cannot support my pregnancy. Having a child, I am not even sure whether I can live to be 30 years old. So from the beginning, God was doomed not to fulfill my mother's wish."

What does that make me think Mr. Darcy was let go of your own accord?Anne silently thought to herself, even if Miss de Bourgh is a healthy and beautiful woman, it is Mr. Darcy who decides whether the two get married or not. It is obviously Mr. Darcy who decides which one to choose. Miss de Bourgh said this What does it mean!

"Miss Steele, please don't feel angry because of my words. I just hope that you will cherish your cousin more when you live together in the future, because I will always listen to your news from a distance with envy. " Miss de Bourgh looked at Anne and said.

Anne's forehead twitched involuntarily. As a person who can't ask for something, it's not wrong to have this idea of ​​​​the owner, but can you not say it and let others live in the future? Knowing that there is a person who has been spying on me from behind, it is really twisted.Moreover, these words somehow have the meaning of asking for a last word.

However, Anne glanced at Mr. Darcy who was chatting with Georgiana not far away, and said, "Miss de Bourgh, please rest assured, I will definitely live a good life with Mr. Darcy."