So he took advantage of the fact that the ball had not yet begun to ask Mr. Clark, a famous man in the village who had just met him, "Mr. Clark, what is the name of that beautiful girl?" ”

"That's Elizabeth Douglas, the prettiest girl in our village of Lane." Clark replied disapprehantly.

"Oh, and who is the gentleman next to her?" Bentley asked.

"That's his cousin, Tony Linde, who's a lucky boy." Then, Clark told Bentley about Downing in detail.

After listening to it, Bentley suddenly realized, no wonder this guy has no aristocratic atmosphere at all, it turned out that half a month ago he was just a poor boy in the country, but luck and the damn "limited inheritance law" allowed him to inherit Douglas's inheritance and have the opportunity to squeeze into high society, and that beautiful Elizabeth because of his cousin relationship, so even if they live together, everyone can't find fault. It's a pity, isn't it a waste for such a beautiful girl to follow him?

Originally, Bentley wanted to take Elizabeth away from Downing at that time, but considering that he was the master of the ball today, he still had to get down to business first, so he had to glare at Downing hatefully, and then began to talk about the ball.

Downing was born with no talent for dancing, so after the ball began, he went to smoke cigars and chat with a few older neighbors, informed him of a small banquet at his house for a while, and then went out again to look at the Netherfield Manor at night.

After coming back, the whole hall was completely lively, a couple of men and women were dancing, Downing, who didn't like this kind of excitement, had to find a place to sit down and eat something, but just when he sat down, he heard Elizabeth's voice refusing not far away: "I'm sorry, Mr. Bingley, I've been dancing three times in a row, I'm too tired." ”

In fact, Elizabeth still had a trace of illusion when she didn't see Mr. Bingley, after all, whether it was income or family status, it was very in line with her own mate selection criteria, but when she saw Mr. Bingley with her own eyes, she knew that this man must have nothing to do with her, because this man is too beautiful, and his demeanor and conversation are elegant enough, how could such a man marry such a country lady with only a pitiful dowry, even if he wanted, his family would never be willing, So although Bingley has always deliberately curried favor with Elizabeth, Elizabeth has always avoided him, because he knows very well that there is no possibility between him and this Mr. Bingley.

But it was clear that Bingley himself was not giving up, and he continued to plead in a low voice: "Isa, don't do this, can you dance with me?" ”

Elizabeth frowned and said, "Mr. Bingley, we are not familiar enough to be called that, you should call me Miss Douglas." ”

Just as Bentley was about to continue to entangle, Downing strode over, dragged Elizabeth behind him, and said coldly: "Mr. Bingley, embarrassment and forcing a young lady does not seem to be what a gentleman should do." ”

Bingley glared at Tang Ning dissatisfied: "Who are you?" Don't you see I'm chatting with Isa? ”

"I'm Tony Linde, Isa's cousin and her current guardian!" Downing replied stiffly.

When he asked other people about Elizabeth just now, he had already found out about Downing's origin by the way, and he despised this kind of hillbilly who wanted to squeeze into high society purely by luck, not to mention that he was actually living with Sister Elizabeth now, my God, wouldn't such a beautiful girl Elizabeth have been given to this hillbilly, right?

Thinking of this, the anger in Bingley's heart became even more uncontrollable, so he sneered in an extremely exaggerated tone: "Oh? Who should I be, it turned out to be Mr. Linde, and you are so lucky to have gone from a poor boy to the heir to two thousand acres of land overnight. ”

"Wouldn't Mr. Bingley's luck be better than mine, having been born into a family like the Bingley family, otherwise you might not be as good as I was when I was at Fort Comb." Not to be outdone, Tang Ning sneered.

"Y-What do you mean? Are you mocking us Bentleys? Mr. Bingley angrily pointed at Downing and shouted.

"I have a lot of respect for the Bentley family, but I despise some guys who don't contribute to the family in the slightest and know that they are wasting their wealth all day long!" Tang Ning replied coldly.

Bentley laughed angrily, "It's as if Mr. Downing, your wealth has been earned by yourself." ”

Although he was confident that with his memory and knowledge of more than a hundred years ahead of this era, and with the first pot of gold of Douglas's legacy, it should not be difficult to make a fortune, but after all, he has not done anything now, and there is no reason to refute Bentley's doubts and ridicule.

Just when Downing was embarrassed and didn't know how to answer Bentley, suddenly there was a small commotion in the nearby crowd, and two men crowded over, and Downing looked up to see that one was Charlotte's brother Mr. Lucas, and the other young man was obviously not from the village.

However, when Lucas saw Downing, he looked very excited, and dragged the young man to point at Downing and said, "Hey, Mr. Duke, this is the Mr. Linde you are looking for." ”

The young man known as Mr. Duke seemed even more excited than Lucas, grabbed Downing's hand and said, "Mr. Linde, I have finally found you." ”

"Well, Mr. Duke, huh? What do you have to do with me? Downing pretended to be puzzled and asked, but he was overjoyed in his heart, because this Duke was actually his "nursery", that is, he paid Duke to come to Lane Village to pretend to buy a patent from him, so that he would not seem so abrupt when he suddenly had a few thousand pounds extra in his hand. But he didn't expect this guy to come at such a good time, it's just "timely rain"!

PS: Spit on a book, I won't say the title, there have been rumors in the circle before that there are writers "selling pen names", I don't believe it yet, but a recent book with a strong wind makes me believe in it. Because a writer's style will not change, such as an ignorant pig, he secretly changed his pen name several times and didn't tell anyone, but everyone knew it was this product as soon as he looked at the writing style, and what this writer writes now is completely different from what he wrote before, and the person who bought the number also wrote the same subject in order to be consistent with the original author, and the quality of the result is naturally conceivable......