[Pride and Prejudice] Mary's Pride and Prejudice

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The time at home should be pleasant and relaxing, but Mary's life is not easy at all these days. Although she encourages Lydia to socialize more with the young people in Meridon, she is afraid that she will really be deceived by those frivolous young people gone.

No matter when and what generation, excellent young people are always rare, and most people are still full of mediocrity, not to mention anything else, it is the sons of the Lucas family who spend their days doing mischief except drinking and chatting, Mary I'm really afraid that Lydia will find her such a little brother-in-law. I really can't say which one is more noble than Colonel Edwards!

Such repeated contradictions really tortured Mary, a person with low psychological quality.

But during this period of time, there was also good news. Alice ran to tell them excitedly that her sister Lily had written from London, saying that she was engaged to the young man who opened the shoe store downstairs.The fiancé will be visiting his fiancée's family next week, and then the two young lovers want to have a wedding in London next month.

Everyone was extremely happy to hear the good news, and Elizabeth said it was the best news she had heard in recent months.So everyone is looking forward to this newly released fiancee.

A week later, the young couple finally returned to Longborn under the expectation of everyone. They were warmly welcomed by everyone in the village. The next day Lily took her fiancé to Bennet's house to visit.The young man was about 24 to [-] years old, with freckles on his face, very smiling and very polite.It can be seen that he loves Lily very much, eight out of ten words he mentions her, and Lily has become more beautiful and confident than before.It seems that the magic of love should not be underestimated. Lily used to be so afraid of London, but now she is really looking forward to returning to London to get married.

The wedding was scheduled for the end of February, and of course Lily's large family members would go to London to attend her wedding. In addition, she invited Mrs. Bennet to take all the girls there. Mrs. Bennet saved their sisters from the fire and water, and they had long since died. I regard this kind lady as an angelic benefactor, and of course I hope she can attend such an important moment as marriage.

Mrs. Bennet liked nothing more than being honored, and Lily treated her as a most honored guest, which made her very happy, and she promised to go, and she also offered to join Lily's family if they had no place to live. Going to stay at Gardiner's house, she believed that Mr. Gardiner would lend them a few rooms for her sister's sake.

But Lily said that they have already booked a hotel for their family, which is very convenient next to the shoe store, and they will not disturb the Gardiner's house. Moreover, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner have helped them at the beginning, and she also wants to Invite the Gardiners to the wedding.Mrs. Bennet thought that very fitting, and Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, as her kindred relations, would certainly be willing to attend the wedding of the shoemaker and Lily.So a trip to London is imperative.

Mary is really contradictory. Although there are people in London she wants to see, there are also people she doesn't want to see!

Later, she thought that these things were beyond her control anyway, so she just went, so what, anyway, the soldiers came to cover up the water and the earth.She wrote to Alfred that she would return to London next month, and Alfred was overjoyed. He said that he must visit Gardiner's house at that time, so the two young people waited with their own concerns. That day has come.

Mrs. Bennet was very well prepared for this trip to London, and she brought a lot of clothes and jewelry. Mary advised her to take less, as they were not going to live there for a long time, but this time she guessed her mother's intentions wrongly.

Mrs. Bennet said to her: "We are here for a long time, my dear, and I won't come back until I marry your sister off!"

Mary was stunned by this tone of certainty. The sister in her mother's mouth must be Jane instead of Elizabeth, but how could Mrs. Bennet be so confident?

"I thought that Jane would meet Mr. Bingley in London. I thought that with her beauty, as long as she could see Mr. Bingley one more time, Mr. Bingley would never escape Jane's palm." Mrs. Bennet put the two Clenching his hand tightly, he said with certainty, "But Jane's luck is too bad. The fish that had already bit the hook was escaped by it. Of course, Jane can't be blamed. She is also very pitiful, and she wants to punish Mr. Bingley." Unfeeling and unjust, it would be better for Jane to die of grief, I write this on the tombstone-the poor girl died of love! When Mr. Bingley sees her grave, he will regret it! I am always angry. Thinking of these will give me some comfort, and my headache will feel better immediately."

Mary looked at her mother shaking her head with black lines all over her face, and thought to herself: Mother, your daughter is dead, so there is no use for Mr. Bingley to be sad?She could not at all imagine that there was anything in it that would be so comforting to Bennet!

But what Mrs. Bennet said was right. She said: "There are countless young talents in London. There must be many nobles and rich old people there. My dear Mary, there are so many of you." Dowry, so what if Jane doesn’t marry Mr. Bingley? I believe there are plenty of men who are willing to marry her! What’s more, she is so beautiful, even if there is no dowry, her beauty is worth ten thousand pounds. But Jane She has never been sociable. She has been there for a month and has not attended a dance. If she does not attend the dance, no one will know how beautiful she is and how rich she is. We're going to hide in the country for the holidays, we have to give her a chance before that!"

Mary deeply admires her mother's thoughtfulness. Although Mrs. Bennet is vulgar and superficial and ignorant, her love for her daughter is spotless. Mary is moved by Mrs. Bennet who is doing her best for her daughter. No end, she hugged her tenderly and said to her: "Thank you, Mom, you are always so thoughtful about us."

But Mrs. Bennet didn't feel this kind of warmth at all. She said to Mary: "Oh, you are the one who worries me the most. You are the ugliest of all your sisters. You don't look like my daughter at all." I'm really sorry for you. Mary, if you don't hold fast to that Mr. Alfred, I'm afraid you won't be able to marry later. That Mr. Alfred is such a gentleman that he doesn't Even Kitty is prettier than you if she pursues you because of her future wife's appearance..."

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May I thank you for Mr. Alfred?Can I show my looks outside, okay?

Well, Mary decided to take back the emotion she just felt.

After deciding to go to London, things seemed to change for the better.Mr. Wickham, whom Mary regards as a confidant, has recently changed his direction and fell in love with someone else. It is said that it is a lady named Jin. What a good grandpa, he made his granddaughter who had been neglected all of a sudden become very popular in Meriton.

Of course Elizabeth would not feel happy about Mr. Wickham's empathy, but she did not show any pain. Mary talked to her about this matter in detail, and she said to Elizabeth triumphantly: "I said that Mr. Wickham can't do it." Trust, mercenary, look, now is the time for him to show his true colors."

However, to her surprise, I don’t know if Elizabeth was baptized by Charlotte’s marriage, and this time she did not express anger at this obviously out-of-interest love. She calmly said to Mary: “The world is not as expected. , we have to understand a truth, a handsome young man is the same as a mediocre young man, they all have to live on money. Moreover, if he is really mercenary, then she should chase after me, after all, I am more expensive than Miss Jin Rich, though that is in the future."

"That's the point, Lizzie," said Mary. "You haven't got any money in your pocket yet, and Miss King's inheritance is all in cash, and that's more attractive than anything. As far as I know, Wei Mr. Han usually likes to play two hands very much, his annual salary was lost at the poker table early on, and he owes a lot of money to many people in Meridon alone."

Elizabeth was very surprised: "Really? I've never heard of it!"

"I have a special channel for this kind of thing." Mary spread her hands.In fact, she asked Alice to inquire about Mr. Wickham's character in Meriton and see how he behaved on weekdays.She told Alice that Mr. Wickham seemed to be pursuing Elizabeth. Although people believed that the dirty relationship between Mr. Darcy and Mr. Wickham must be caused by Mr. Darcy, she still could not be sure that Mr. Wickham was a good and honest person, so As relatives and friends of Elizabeth, they were obliged to investigate Mr. Wickham secretly.

Of course Alice is willing to contribute. She opened a store in Meriton and has a wide range of contacts. From the upper-class people who go there to eat, to the working people who wash dishes for the food store, they get along well with Alice.

According to Alice's inquiries, Mr. Wickham is well-spoken and personable, and has been loved by many people. However, he is also inevitably contaminated with some bad habits of young people, such as being unable to make ends meet.

Gambling is a popular entertainment in this era. As long as that person does not lose all his family property and does not owe gambling debts, no one will make irresponsible remarks to those who like to gamble twice, so Mr. Wickham owes Many gambling debts were not deliberately concealed.In fact, it wasn't just him, those militia officers who had nothing to do, either went to the city to have fun, or went to the town to have fun, and it was very common for them to owe others gambling debts.However, when you meet people on weekdays, you don't deliberately ask who owes whom, so the amount of debt owed by Mr. Wickham can't find a chance to scare people.Moreover, his skill of tearing down the east wall to pay the west wall has already been fully used, so few people know about borrowing new debts to repay old debts.

Elizabeth was a little stunned when she heard this. She didn't know that Mr. Wickham's life was so worthless.However, she regards Mr. Wickham as a friend, and naturally she will habitually think of him in a positive way: "As long as he doesn't owe any debts and walks away, we can't be too harsh on him. Moreover, I now know that Considering his situation, put yourself in his shoes, he may have had a painful struggle in the choice between me and Miss Jin, in this way, I can't criticize him even more if he chooses Miss Jin."

However, she still carefully considered her relationship with Mr. Wickham, and she finally said to Mary: "I believe that young men and women who really love each other will never give up marriage because they have no property, but if you can choose a little, Everyone has the right to love those who have property, as long as that person is worthy of love, this is not a shameful thing. Miss Jin..." She frowned and thought for a while, "although I don't know what happened to her But maybe it’s because I don’t know her well, and I haven’t heard of her having any qualities worth criticizing, so I still have to treat this young couple with a blessing.”

She looked Mary squarely and said: "I must admit that Mr. Wickham is not in love with me, nor am I in love with him. Although I have a good impression of him, I have not felt any pain in his pursuit of Miss King, Of course, there is loss. It’s not a good feeling to lose to people, but to money. So in order to alleviate my own pain, I’ll assume that he is actually in love with Miss Jin herself.”

Anyway, Elizabeth has admitted that Mr. Wickham is not as perfect as she saw. Mary thinks this is enough. Now that Mr. Wickham has self-destructed the Great Wall, even if he turns around and pursues Elizabeth in the future, Elizabeth will at best only Be good friends with him again.