beauty and money

"Get out of my house, I don't want to hear you say that." Mary was furious, embarrassed and offended.Although she always puts politeness first when dealing with others, even in a bad relationship, she will not be too aggressive in words, but this Elliot in front of her makes her disagree.Weaker than a woman, he knelt down and wept in front of another man. What he admired was the non-existent Edward, a figure in his fantasy.

"Please forgive me, please have mercy on me, I know that you have always kept yourself clean, I just ask you to let me look up to you humblely by your side." He buried his face in his hands, and looked at you through the half-open door. In the street lights, Mary saw a man low in the dust.

"You are really shameful. My friend said that you were following me. I didn't want to pay attention to it. I hope you know how to measure and know how to advance and retreat, but you are too embarrassing for me today. Your shame is not because of your strange admiration for me. It's your humbleness, that you kneel before a man who has no feelings for you, instead of kneeling before God and begging his forgiveness. What about your self-esteem as a man? If you really admire others like a gentleman , then you should change yourself instead of begging me." Mary retreated to the edge of the table and lit the oil lamp, and she held up the oil lamp to illuminate the face, and in the yellowish light, Eliot seemed to be kneeling before God to repent sinner.

"You don't understand my pain. I look at you from afar, yearn for you, but force myself to stay away from you. What a painful thing." Eliot wanted to argue for himself.

But the door creaked open, and a plump woman came in, and she shouted in panic: "Mr. Ah, he, he's the one who's been following you! Shall I call the police?"

Elliot panicked like an ant seeing the light. He looked at the woman with a pale face and looked at Mary imploringly. At this moment, he realized it belatedly, as if he had been reported as a homosexual. His future will be ruined. "Please don't..."

Before he could say anything, Mary said, "No, this is my classmate. I don't want to make a fuss. I can handle it."

"He must be that kind of person. I don't worry about you. You are a good person. Good people shouldn't encounter such things." The woman stood at the door blocking the way, and Elliot knelt on the ground trembling. The pain just now was completely transformed. Come for regret and fear.

"Anyway, it's time for you to go. But what I want to say is that if I love anyone and he doesn't love me, I won't bother him to make him suffer. I will just bear it myself. This is what we The biggest difference. I sincerely wish you the best of luck, and I swear to God I won't say anything about tonight."

Elliot stood up from the ground, he ran out in a panic, and the woman chased after him, shaking his head at Mary disapprovingly.

Mary walked to the door, and when she closed the door, she saw the neighbor sticking his head out of the window to see what was going on. She glanced at the man, and the other man immediately closed the window, while she slammed the door shut.

Back in the room, Mary sank deeply into the bed, today was too bad, these men and women love affairs made her extremely bored.There is also Mr. Yang who has not replied to the letter all this time. She still refuses to believe that the other party is intentional. Maybe it was delayed, or maybe she felt that she was too rebellious and couldn't accept it for a while.In a burning drunkenness, she fell into a deep sleep.

Elliot was stopped by the woman within a few steps, and she said to him: "That gentleman is a good man, but you are not, you can't harass him anymore, otherwise you won't want to know the consequences."

"I promise, I won't show up again, I can go." Elliot's face was ugly. The woman saw his ugliness and knew his secret emotions.

"Just go like this?" Her plump body took a few steps forward and asked with a smile.

"Then what do you want?"

"Money, you give me money."

"I have no money."

"Then I will report you. That gentleman is a good man, but I am not." On the quiet street, the woman's face was hideous like a devil, and she asked for money with a smile.

Under the dim light of the oil lamp, Elliott's slender face looked a little scary. He lowered his face and asked, "Are you sure you won't leak the secret?"

"Of course, I've always been tight-lipped." She said with a smile, holding out a hand, the one that picked up Mary's door key, a hand full of scars.

Elliott gave her all the money he had in his pocket, and said, "You know what? I write horror novels. Thrilling, eye-catching stuff. Usually, dead people have tight mouths." The woman was startled when he said those words, but then he said, "I'm just kidding."

The next day, in order to avoid being entangled again, Mary hurriedly packed her bags and headed to London with a small handbag. Mr. Bennet had also received the letter, and he was waiting to pick up his daughter Mary in London.After getting on the stagecoach, Mary showed a slight smile. She would change back to Mary instead of Edward, and she would no longer have to worry about her behavior being suspicious.

However, she didn't know that a group of people came to look for her at noon, to be more precise, they were looking for Mr. Edward Bennet.But they missed.

Just last night after Mary left, the woman casually returned to Greed and said, "He's gone. He must be gay. He doesn't even look at me."

"Not necessarily. He is wearing a scarf to cover his neck. This is July." Gradle stopped the woman's slender waist and muttered.

"what?"

"It's nothing. It seems that our Brotherhood of Glory has to move again. They are already on vacation. They are really annoying." Gradle complained, even if he guessed wrong, then the crime of homosexuality is enough for the Brotherhood to punish These students are vermin.

But what was unexpected was that Mr. Edward left so quickly, as if someone had tipped him off, but after asking the landlord, he learned that his father was in London, and he was going to attend some social activities with his father.

Out of some kind of vanity, the landlord said to the group of college students who pretended to be in a bad mood: "You are the classmates of Mr. Bennet Jr., I advise you to be respectful. The Oxford professor personally arranges everything for him. When I first came here, I was squeamish like a prince. After all, everyone is equal in college, but in society, hmph, who knows what my future will be like?"

"No matter what his status is, he must abide by the rules when he is in college. You are just his landlord, are you familiar with him? I think you have no future in your status." The group of college students Someone said disdainfully.

The landlord who felt ridiculed immediately yelled loudly: "Although I am only his landlord, I am very familiar with him. He often praises me, my stewed grouse. Besides, his father is not a mere merchant , I lived here because I was afraid of being recognized by others. If you want me to say, you should be more polite. Your father and brother may all rely on the protection of that gentleman's father." The landlord closed the door angrily after finishing the big talk After entering the room, this group of brats with high self-esteem, on the surface they are gentle and polite, but in private, their nostrils are turned upside down, so it is time to frighten them.

After being scolded by the landlord, several people looked at each other in blank dismay. They were all at a loss. A gentleman whose status was much higher than theirs, they didn't have the courage to bully each other. It would be terrible if they were retaliated by the other party's family up.

"Let's go back first." After someone raised it, several others agreed.The elders, who were waiting for the brothers below to catch the sinner back, were silent after hearing the news. Their fraternity has always taken it as their responsibility to safeguard the honor of the academy, and they dare not retaliate against the poor and the middle class if they punish them. A person of high status imposes punishment, and the other family may destroy their family.In the final analysis, they are just a group of bullying guys, relying on their bloodlines and identities to arbitrarily sentence others to crimes, and call it glory.

As a person with a relatively high status among them, Grad proposed several possible candidates. Although the other party deliberately concealed it, there were too few young people of the right age in the aristocratic circle, and after much deliberation, they did not meet the characteristics of appearance and so on. "The other party must be bluffing and trying to intimidate us. We cannot be intimidated by such people."

"If the other party is really a great nobleman, I'm afraid we can't afford to offend him." Several key members held different opinions.

Instead, Grade said casually: "There is no such person in the circle of great aristocrats, I'm sure, but our Regent, you know, his own romantic and illegitimate children. His status is noble and he has to be concealed. I can't think of it except for being an illegitimate child." For other reasons."

"But he is at least sixteen or seventeen years old, shouldn't he..."

"Maybe it's the regent year's romantic debt, do you want to say this?" Grad tilted his body to one side, resting his chin on his elbow in boredom, and casually swept across the people who were so scared by this answer. , find it funny.

"That's right, that person is too mysterious. He never interacts with people, always avoids people, and has a very close relationship with the professor. That law professor is famously strict, and he takes care of him a lot. He must know something. "

Grad snapped his fingers, and he said again: "The regent has no wedlock, don't you have any ideas?"

One man, guided by his train of thought, said: "What is the connection between the law professor and the Prince Regent's illegitimate son? My God, he is trying to find a loophole in the law to make it legal."

"Very good, continue..." Grad laughed in his heart, this group of people was really interesting, his face turned pale with fright.

"The regent wants his illegitimate son to be the heir, and the other party may inherit the title of duke!" Others were already sweating coldly, but luckily they didn't implement anything, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

"Don't forget, there are other possibilities. Our regent may want to allow the other party to legally inherit the British Empire," Grad covered his mouth with his hands, and he looked at the students with ashen faces, full of It's funny to see the cold sweat on your head. "Who knows." These were all their own guesses, and he didn't have a word of affirmation.

Mary, who was already in the car, had no idea how frightened her classmates were by her.Nothing could stop her from the joy of being reunited with her father in London.

Mr. Bennet, who was waiting in London, brought his daughter a whole pile of letters that had been received in her absence.