[Pride and Prejudice] Mary's Pride and Prejudice

Chapter 47 New Neighbors

In the next few days, both Mary and Elizabeth put the matter aside completely. If Lily were to go to London but put her in pain, the Bennet sisters would not be so cruel and ruthless.

Mr. Bennet left after breakfast that day. Mrs. Bennet immediately complained to her daughters about how unreasonable her husband was. It is said that Mrs. Lange mentioned it to her when she came to visit her yesterday. The Field Manor has been rented out, and the tenant is a young man from the north of England. He has already made an agreement with Mr. Morris, the housekeeper of the Booth family, that he will move in before Michaelmas Day.He was a wealthy bachelor, with an income of four or five thousand pounds a year.

"What a piece of news this is for us, boys, think, handsome and rich young gentleman, unmarried, he's sure to take one of you for his wife."

Elizabeth laughed and said, "It would be good if that's the case. It has become a well-known truth that every rich bachelor must marry a wife."

"Do you think so, too, Lizzie?" Mrs. Bennet was overjoyed, thinking she had found a comrade in arms, "The Lucas couple have decided to visit that Mr. Yes, they seldom take the initiative to visit new neighbors, so Mr Bingley will certainly be a good son-in-law."

"It seems that he is a big piece of fat. Although the neighbors don't know how he behaves, they already regard him as their daughter's possession." Elizabeth sarcastically said.

"It's a pity that your father refuses to visit him. I tried my best to make him change his mind yesterday! My God, he doesn't want to think about your lifelong happiness at all. He doesn't love you at all!"

Jane comforted her mother and said: "We can ask someone to introduce this Mr. Bingley to us. We will get to know him sooner or later."

"But what if Mr. Bingley is caught first?" Mrs. Bennet's eyes widened. "If he sees you first, he will definitely fall in love with one of you at first sight, especially Jane. Maybe you are destined Will be Nissanfield's mistress, but we have to make sure he sees you first."

Mrs. Bennet was chattering, full of complaints about Mr. Bennet, and she acted as if her daughters would never be married if Mr. Bennet did not visit Mr. Bingley.

Mary didn't pay attention to these, she looked at Jane, her expression didn't change a bit, it seems that not only Mr. Lawrence can't make any ripples in her, even that Mr. Booth has been gone.

Mrs. Bennet finally convinced Kitty and Lydia to persuade their father to let him visit Mr. Bingley, but Mr. Bennet was unmoved.Jane advised them not to continue wasting their minds in vain. Anyway, they will know each other sooner or later, so why rush for a while, and finally she was severely sprayed by Mrs. Bennet who hated iron and steel.Elizabeth was secretly glad that she didn't take the initiative to hit the gun, but she told the sisters that Dad should agree to visit Mr. Bingley. Mr. Bennet is not a hospitable character, but he will always have this basic etiquette Yes, even if he might only sit for a few minutes in Mr. Bingley's study.

Sure enough, two days later, Mr. Bennet suddenly said to Elizabeth who was decorating a hat after dinner one day: "I hope Mr. Bingley will like this hat, Lizzie."

Mrs. Bennet was a little angry when she heard this, and said that if Mr. Bennet refused to visit Mr. Bingley, then Mr. Bingley would have no chance to express his preference to them.Then she began to get angry non-stop, with the same meaning inside and outside the words, that is, she kept blaming Mr. Bennet, and she even blamed Kitty for not picking the time to cough.

Mr. Bennet was preoccupied, and then suddenly he casually mentioned that he had visited Mr. Bingley.

When the pause button was suddenly pressed on the screen, not only the children were a little surprised, but even Mrs. Bennet lost her voice for a while, but she quickly turned from anger to joy, and once again blamed Mr. Bennet for not telling her the good news earlier, and then she was satisfied The sisters said: "Your father is so kind. He really loves you. I don't know how you can repay his kindness." She completely forgot how she was angry with her husband these two days.She is excited to make new dresses for her daughters.

Only Elizabeth showed tacit eyes to everyone, and Mary quietly gave her a thumbs up: good luck!

According to Mr. Bennet, Mr. Bingley is an interesting young man, and he likes him very much, but Mary can hear from his tone that there must be something interesting about Mr. Bingley that Mr. Bennet thinks is acceptable. Kill the boring time.

But after this sentence, Mr. Bennet kept silent about Mr. Bingley. No matter how much the daughters pleaded, he would never describe a satisfactory image to them.It can be seen that although the old father finally succumbed to the wishes of his wife and daughters and visited Mr. Bingley, he was very depressed about his final surrender behavior, so he finally kept silent about this gentleman and successfully aroused the daughters' concern. Curious yet determined not to satisfy them as revenge.This made Mary look forward to seeing this very popular son-in-law in the eyes of the neighbors soon.

Then they quickly met.

After breakfast that day, Jane and Mary went out for horseback riding early in the morning. The two of the Bennet family liked riding horses the most, and Mary especially liked riding fast horses. This made Jane a little worried. When Jane found out that Mary was wearing When the trousers tried to ride Mr. Bennet's horse, Jane couldn't bear it anymore, and whenever Mary went out for a ride, Jane always went with her as much as possible.

Mary just wanted to try that time. If she didn’t have extraordinary skills in sideways riding, she couldn’t run too fast. And she was always envious of those men riding fast on horseback, so she secretly made a pair of pants and put them on I wanted to give it a try, but unfortunately, Jane found out, and the plan had to die halfway.

But Mary also liked having Jane with her, and whenever Jane was with her they both wore the fine riding clothes that Mrs. Bennet had prepared for them.Chic and charming riding attire, coupled with a beautiful hat with flowers, leather gloves and a small riding whip, riding on a tall and handsome horse, every time after such a well-armed swagger through the city, Mary's sense of beauty is overwhelming.

This time the two of them only ran about a little, and before the sun got hot, they decided to go home, with Mary riding ahead and Jane following her, and as they approached Longbourn, their speed gradually slowed down. Come down, because there seems to be a gentleman who is also riding a horse on the opposite side. Wouldn't it be funny if there was an ancient "car accident" where two horses collided head-on on this country road.Presently they came face to face with the gentleman.

This person is about 22 or [-] years old, wearing a blue coat, has the same blonde curly hair as Jane, and has a very handsome face.

This gentleman seemed a little surprised to meet two female equestrians here, but this kind of encounter made him quite happy, especially the lady at the back, which really surprised him. He dared to say that even in London He had never seen such a handsome rider in Hyde Park.

He stared at Jane for a while, and before this gesture became impolite, he quickly pressed his hat on his head and saluted the two ladies. According to their directions, he judged that maybe these were Mr. Bennet who were famous for their beauty. For the two of his daughters, he was still regretting not seeing them in Banfu just now, but he didn't expect his regret to be eliminated so quickly.It's a pity that they haven't officially known each other, otherwise they could have said a few more words, but the gentleman's heart jumped again at the thought that he would soon be dancing with such a beautiful and elegant lady at the Meriton public ball.

Jane also noticed this gentleman who seemed to have just come out of his house, and looked at him quietly, but it was not easy to take the initiative to talk to him now, so she had to smile politely at him, and then walked away.

When the two black horses passed by, Jane's elegant demeanor on the horse really fascinated the gentleman for a while. He watched Jane's figure gradually go away, and finally had no choice but to steer the horse to Nissanfield. At the same time, he decided to go As soon as he set out for London, he must call his sisters together, especially his good friend Mr. Darcy. The style of high society.But now he has found a pearl here, and he must tell his friends that Meridon must be a magical and beautiful place to give birth to such a beautiful woman.

When Mary and Jane got home, they were immediately surrounded by Kitty and Lydia who rushed down from upstairs.

Elizabeth said to the two of them: "Mr. Bingley came to visit Dad just now. It's a pity that you are not here, but he just left. Maybe you met on the way?"

"How does he look? Isn't he handsome? It's a pity we can only see his figure through the glass window. He seems to be very tall, and he is not short. He should be handsome if he wears a uniform." Liddy Ya asked.

"He has no uniform, and he's a gentleman, not an officer," cried Kitty.

"If that's the case, I really don't expect much from him. I like to dance with men in uniforms, especially red uniforms." Lydia eloquently expressed her love for red uniforms. It seems that this younger sister is a typical uniform lover, but the women in the Bennet family admit that men are indeed more handsome in uniforms.

Jane described Mr. Bingley's appearance to her sisters. Her first impression of this gentleman was so good that she used very moving words when she described it. danced with him at the ball."