[Pride and Prejudice] Mary's Pride and Prejudice

Chapter 27 Go shopping and take a break

Mary hurried into the store, where Mrs. Bennet was angrily arguing with a gentleman, to be precise, it was a one-sided reprimand: "Pretty clothes should be worn on beautiful ladies, and a well-bred gentleman should wear them." Don't you feel ashamed to buy women's clothes?" Mary saw that she was holding tightly in her hands a piece of fabric that looked like a light pink, a very rare color, and it seemed to be woven with gold thread, and the beautiful pattern shimmered. Beautiful sheen, very radiant.

The young gentleman, a very handsome young man with bushy eyebrows and an omega chin, could be seen struggling to bear it.At this moment, he tightened his eyebrows and his face was cold. Instead of confronting Mrs. Bennet directly, he said to the clerk in a stiff tone, "Please wrap up my clothes."

The clerk trembled under his oppressive gaze, and frantically stacked the clothes on the counter. It was obvious that the gentleman bought a lot. The clerk put several clothes of different materials and colors, and then tried to pull them out. Material in Mrs. Bennet's hand.

Mrs. Bennet was annoyed by his arrogance. She surrounded the young gentleman and yelled loudly.

This sentence seemed to anger the young man. He glared at Mrs. Bennet angrily, his chest heaving violently, but he restrained himself, and said coldly: "I repeat again, that dress is made of sister-in-law for a month." I ordered it before, if you want to buy it, you can order it next time with the clerk, please return it to me this time.”

"This is outrageous. If it has already been booked, why did he show it to me? It's just that you know each other and work together to deceive me. I won't be fooled. Don't you think I'm an ignorant fool from the countryside? woman?"

"I just want you to take a look at the look, and if you like it, you can order it," the clerk was about to cry, "Please forgive me, I didn't do it on purpose, this piece of clothing was really ordered by this gentleman's sister, This material is very rare and expensive, so there are not many produced, but if you really like it, I can order it for you, and it will arrive on the 10th of next month."

"I have to wait another month, I can't wait!" Mrs. Bennet was very annoyed, she frowned at the young man, "As a gentleman, he doesn't know how to be courteous to women, it's really embarrassing to gentlemen! "

Mary seemed to see a well-shaped vein bursting out on the young gentleman's forehead, which showed that he was really annoyed by Mrs. Bennet's nonsense, but even so, he still didn't speak ill to Mrs. Bennet, but urged the clerk: "Wrap up my clothes, please."

His tone was not heavy, with a habitual commanding tone. It can be seen that he is usually a person who often gives orders. He has been facing the clerk, and occasionally looked at Mrs. Bennet who was cursing around her, but obviously he did not. Don't take her seriously.This invisible superior attitude made Mrs. Bennet even more angry, but she didn't swear like a village woman, so she kept saying that he was uneducated.She held on tightly to the fabric, and the clerk didn't dare to grab it for fear of damaging the fabric.

The material was very beautiful, and Mary had never seen that material before, so it seemed to be a new product.

She went up, squeezed to the clerk, took a look at the piece of fabric that Mrs. Bennet was holding tightly to, and said pleasantly: "It's great that there is this kind of fabric here, too. Mom, I just saw this kind of fabric in another store and thought it was very beautiful, but unfortunately it is too expensive, I want to ask you to pay for it? There is no need to go back now!"

She cheerfully asked the clerk, "How much is this piece of clothing?"

"4 pounds and 8 shillings." The clerk blurted out, which made the gentleman next to him frown and became more irritable.

"What? 4 pounds 8 shillings! Are you robbing money? This is a small piece of fabric." Mary's expression was very surprised, "Then do you have many different colors?"

"No, just this one color, this is a new product, currently only available to the royal family, if you need it, you can order it."

"It's too expensive!" Mary said to Mrs. Bennet angrily, "This store is too dishonest. The store I just bought only cost £3 and 15 shillings, and there are many different colors?"

"Really?" Mrs. Bennet was overjoyed.

"Of course!" Mary nodded affirmatively.

Mrs. Bennet immediately threw the clothes back into the clerk's arms: "Give it back to you quickly, the ignorant people will be so eager for your clothes."

The clerk immediately wrapped up the material and handed it to Mr. "uninformed" who was eager to let go, and explained: "The lady must have made a mistake, Mr. Darcy, I guarantee that this kind of material is only sold in our store, and the price justice."

Mr. Darcy did not speak, he turned his head to look at the rude, annoying, noisy mother and daughter who had just left, and Mary was helping her mother to open the store door, and she was also turning to look at Mr. Darcy, her eyes met Mr. Darcy, and she showed a very apologetic smile. Mr. Darcy was stunned, and nodded to Mary. He felt that this little girl might not be so pleasant compared to her mother. hate.

Mary took her mother and sisters out, and Mrs. Bennet immediately asked Mary where was the cheap and plentiful clothing store.

Mary smiled: "It's a bit far from here, but there are a lot of fabrics there, so there's no need to worry. I think we have too few shops to be deceived. We should shop more. Maybe there is a cheaper one waiting for us."

Mrs. Bennet felt that what her daughter said was completely reasonable, so she continued shopping with Mary. When they saw the jewelry they wanted in a jewelry store, Mary agreed to advance the insufficient money for them, but in this way they could not buy those jewelry. Clothing materials, but what the heck, the clothes made of materials can only be worn a few times, but the jewelry can be worn for many years, so the mother and daughter happily bought a necklace and went to join Jane and Elizabeth. I never thought that buying things in the past was a normal process where the store delivered the goods to the door and then paid.

Until the evening, Mrs. Bennet talked about Mary's generosity. She said to her two little daughters: "Mary is such a good sister. When I was not married, your Aunt Philip and I never wanted to pay each other's bills. , you must be obedient in the future, Mary is for your own good. She is even willing to co-sign the patent right with you. According to me, this patent is entirely due to the big girls in our family. What do you two know? It’s a great credit for not making trouble and dragging your feet, but your sister is completely willing to share such fame and wealth with you, what a sincere sisterhood!  …”

Kitty and Lydia obviously never thought about it that much, but Mrs. Bennet's crackling words shocked the two of them a lot. The most intuitive effect is the behavior of the two children during this time. She is very obedient and obedient, which makes Mary less pessimistic about Mrs. Bennet's trip to London. At least her education for her two children has finally become a propeller rather than a hindrance!

After dinner, the family was resting in the living room. Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. Gardiner were discussing the latest fashion styles of clothes. Jane was reading poetry to her uncle's two cousins, and Elizabeth was writing a poem to her father who was left alone at home. Mary watched the letter, and Kitty and Lydia were reading a novel in a corner of the sofa. After a while, the two quarreled. Justice.

But Mrs. Bennet hadn't read that novel at all--she didn't like books, even the romance novels that ladies like--so she couldn't tell whether it was the young, handsome and rich Mr. Wood who Deserving of love, or serious and rich Earl Fred more deserving of love.Then she said, "Have pity on your mothers, and I will be content if any such man proposes to any of you in the future, no matter which one." She sent the two little girls to bed, and then The side novel was placed on the table, "Why did you write about two men? If the author only wrote about one man, there would be no such quarrel."

"Tell me," Elizabeth continued to put down the quill in her hand, "These novelists are indeed a little greedy. There will always be many people who like many people, and then fall in love again and again. I can't touch the last one. I have seen through it all. "

Mary laughed loudly when she heard this: "Yeah, these people are always so vacillating. Is it pain or pain? It's despair or despair. Just because there are so many vacillating people in the book, so men who love these novels and the women have become vacillating. These novels are always the same."

"You can't blame the person who wrote it," Elizabeth said to Mary with a wink. "The world is ever-changing, but it is also the same. When we chat, we often talk about what happened to someone in a certain year and month. One thing, and then someone brings up the other because they have something in common. So it can be said that the world is different everywhere, but it is also similar everywhere.”

Mary nodded and said, "You're right Elizabeth, you always have your own opinion on things. I like to hear your opinions, but I still don't like to read the novels that arouse your opinions, especially those popular horror novels , I used to be afraid to go to church because of this, because it would remind me of a monastery, you know, more than half of the horror stories will happen there." Mary folded her arms and made a trembling gesture, which managed to keep her resting The people in the room burst out laughing.

The author has something to say:

Mr. Darcy finally appeared, hahaha, the author decided to write slowly, there are still four to five chapters before the plot of the original work.