[Pride and Prejudice] Crossing into Elizabeth

Miss Anne suddenly whispered something to her mother, Lady Catherine. Her voice was so small that Elizabeth was so far away that she could not hear her at all; but it soon became clear, for Lady Catherine immediately Said to Mr. Darcy: "Darcy, let Miss Elizabeth play the piano for us later, and we will listen to it when we have time. Don't you think it's too boring to spend the night like this? Let's play cards, Anne thought. Playing cards."

Although Mr. Darcy didn't like playing cards, he wanted to hear Miss Bennet play the piano more now, but since his aunt had spoken, Mr. Darcy could only obey.

The card table was quickly set up. Miss Anne wanted to play the casino, and the casino needed four people to play together, so Mrs. Catherine allocated it out. She asked Mrs. Bingley, two Miss Bennet and Miss Anne to join the game. Play cards at one table, and others play cards at another table.

Mr. Darcy felt that Mrs. Catherine's distribution method was a little inappropriate. It was not good for the host to be at one card table and send the guests to another table, so he asked everyone for their opinions, and finally arranged Darcy Miss, Miss Anne, Mrs Bingley, and Miss Elizabeth at one table, and the others at another.

The people at Elizabeth's table were all young, except for Jane, who were all unmarried ladies. They had nothing to worry about, but Miss Darcy and Miss Anne didn't like to talk, and Jane and Elizabeth were too familiar with each other. , and others don't talk, it's not good for the two sisters to talk endlessly.

Therefore, their table was very silent, and they seemed to have nothing to say except playing cards.

But Elizabeth doesn't need to observe carefully, she can also find that although Miss Darcy and Miss Anne don't talk much, the reasons are also different. Miss Darcy seems to want to talk, but she lacks courage, and Miss Anne is in another situation. He has a withdrawn personality, with a proud and stubborn look on his face.

The other table was much more active. At least Lydia kept bluffing and talking about her cards. Her voice was the loudest when the table was full, but no one paid any attention to her. Later, she probably felt that it was boring, so she stopped talking.

Elizabeth found that Mrs. Catherine likes to point fingers wherever she goes. She heard Mrs. Catherine say to Mr. Darcy: "Darcy, Christmas is coming soon, I hope you will tell your housekeeper to let her arrange the things she needs in advance. It's neat, Christmas is the most important holiday, I can't allow it to be careless, all the necessary things must be prepared, and these young ladies, I will take them to a nearby store in two days to buy things Well, I dare say they've got a lot to buy, and I can't let the girls spend Christmas in a bad way. Oh, how's your card, Darcy?"

Mr Darcy said: "My cards are all right, and Mrs Reynolds will get it all set."

After a while, their table was over, Mrs. Hurst won, but no one else cared about the little money, but Lydia said suddenly: "Oh, I don't want to play this game anymore. , Lizzie, I want to switch with you, I want to play casino."

Elizabeth knew that Lydia lost the card because there was no one to talk to, so she felt bored.

As Lydia spoke, she ran to their table, and Elizabeth had to change places with her.

Seeing Elizabeth coming, Mrs. Catherine smiled at her, and then Mrs. Catherine asked her: "Miss Bennet, do you have a lot of things to do?"

Elizabeth said: "Ma'am, I don't need to buy anything. Besides, we won't be here long. I'm going home after Christmas."

It was Lydia who said loudly: "Ms. Catherine, is there any good store around here? I'm going to see if there is any fabric for Miss Smith's new dress. I went to the store where Miss Smith bought the fabric last time and asked, but unfortunately That piece of cloth is sold out, and I haven't bought it, Elizabeth, Jane, you must remember? I told you I wanted to buy it when we were in London, but you insisted on seeing Gardner I don't even have time to go to the store, ma'am. If there's anything here, I'm bound to buy it."

Lady Catherine asked Elizabeth, "Is that Mrs. Gardner your aunt in London?"

Elizabeth replied yes, Lady Catherine nodded, and said no more.But Elizabeth could tell that Madam Catherine looked down on her uncle and aunt who were doing business. Elizabeth didn't realize it at the beginning, because in her original world, all people were businessmen. The successful people are the envy of everyone, but in this era, businessmen are looked down upon and their status is very low.

It seemed as if any man of distinction should be ridiculed if he had such lowly relations.

But Elizabeth is also powerless to complain, this era is like this, everyone thinks like this, it can be regarded as the imprint of the era.

After one more round Mrs Hurst said she didn't want to play anymore, she got up and said "I'm sorry" and then said: "I can't play anymore, I have to go and see Caroline, She doesn't seem very well, if I don't go with her again, she will definitely complain when she sees me."

After she finished speaking, she waited for a while, but no one said anything, and then Mrs. Hurst said to the Darcy brothers and sisters: "Georgiana, you can go and see Caroline later, and Mr. Darcy, I I bet Caroline will be delighted to see you."

After hearing this, Mr. Darcy said: "I'm afraid it's inconvenient for me to visit Miss Bingley at this late hour. Georgiana, why don't you go and accompany Miss Bingley with Mrs. Hurst."

Georgiana hastily agreed. In fact, she was thinking of Miss Bingley, but her aunt insisted that they play cards, and her brother was afraid of neglecting the guests, so he arranged her at Anne's table, so she couldn't go away.Now that her brother has spoken, she should stand up and go.

After listening to her nephew's answer, Mrs. Catherine felt quite satisfied, so she did not stop Georgiana from leaving. However, once Georgiana left, there was no one at their table. Elizabeth wanted to go back to the original table by herself, but it was too late to speak. Well, Mrs. Catherine said: "Mr. Bingley, don't you really want to play cards with Mrs. Bingley? I think you have been looking at that table just now. Come on, come on over."

Mr. Bingley obliged, and sat down at Jane's table.

Elizabeth had to stay where she was, but not long after Miss Darcy and Mrs. Hurst left together, Miss Bingley and Miss Darcy reappeared together. Miss Bingley thought she was angry with Lady Catherine for no reason, so she went upstairs in a fit of anger. Went to the room, waited for a long time, finally someone came up to see her, and heard that they were playing cards downstairs, no one paid attention to her at all, Miss Bingley thought about it, felt that she was hiding upstairs alone, but It was saving trouble for Catherine and her daughter, but he was at a disadvantage. Thinking of this, he stopped staying upstairs and simply came downstairs with Miss Darcy.

After Miss Bingley came in, she sat down on the vacant seat on the card table with a smile on her face. Georgiana saw that her seat was taken by Mr. Bingley, so she sat down on the card table of her brother. Miss Bingley said with a smile: "You guys are really mean. You didn't call me when the card table was set. If Georgiana hadn't come up to me, I wouldn't have known you were playing cards."

As the host, Mr. Darcy couldn't keep silent, so he said: "Georgiana and I thought you had been in the carriage for too long and needed to rest, so we didn't bother you just now."

Being unwell was the excuse for Miss Bingley to leave just now. Now that Mr. Darcy said that, Miss Bingley also smiled. When it was her turn to draw the cards, Miss Bingley smiled and asked Darcy What cards Mr. See had drawn, Mr. Darcy let Miss Bingley guess what she had drawn, without telling him.

Elizabeth thought it was quite interesting. Miss Bingley was always talking to Mr. Darcy, but now she seemed to be on a higher level, and she seemed to be deliberately trying to create trouble for Lady Catherine.

Lady Catherine's frown became tighter and tighter, but it was inconvenient to attack.

Later, in the middle of the card game, Mrs. Catherine asked Miss Darcy to sit next to her. Miss Darcy was inconvenient to refuse, so she moved her seat. Mrs. Catherine was very satisfied when she saw that her niece was obedient, and she gave Miss Bingley a meaningful look. However, Miss Bingley was not discouraged, and she still talked to Mr. Darcy while playing cards, and when Mr. Darcy was not talking, she talked to Miss Darcy across the table.

However, after Miss Darcy moved her position, Elizabeth and Miss Bingley were next to each other. Miss Bingley had been paying attention to Mr. Darcy, and she felt that Mr. Darcy always looked this way from time to time, so Miss Bingley I am very proud of myself.

Probably Mrs. Catherine was really blocked by Miss Bingley. After the game was over, Mrs. Catherine said that she would not play, and she would not let anyone else play. She said: "Darcy, it's so late, The game is over, these ladies must be tired, Mrs. Hurst has gone up to rest, Mr. Hurst, you must really want to go up and see Mrs. Hurst, right?"

In fact, Mr. Hurst is a card fan. He usually only cares about playing cards and eating and drinking. He doesn't want to go up to Mrs. Hurst at all, and he hasn't enjoyed playing cards yet, but Mrs. Catherine's tone is so firm, and her face is also very stern. Mr. Hurst didn't dare to say no, so he said yes involuntarily.

Lady Catherine said to Mr. Darcy again: "Darcy, come with me, I have something to tell you."

Seeing Mrs. Catherine say this, Miss Bingley was very disturbed. She was worried that Mrs. Catherine would speak ill of her to Mr. Darcy.

After the game was over, everyone went back to their rooms. Elizabeth, Jane, Lydia, and Mr. Bingley went up the stairs together. Lydia's room was the closest to the stairs. She yawned and said "" Oh my god, I'm so sleepy" and went back to the room on his own.

Mr. Bingley opened the door between him and Jane, but Jane told Mr. Bingley to go back first, and she would come over in a while, and Jane said: "Lizzie and I always have a chat before going to bed, you go in first, we Talk to Lizzie and I'll be back."