"What are you two doing here? Everyone is dancing, come out and dance together! ”

Maria's face suddenly froze, she didn't expect that she was hiding here, Elizabeth also came over, is this the heroine's halo again? Maria pursed her lips unswervingly, but with a smile on her face, she said, "Elizabeth, why are you here?" ”

Elizabeth's face turned pale, and though she had been persuading herself to accept her fate lately, she was finally uneasy—because she knew so well that she had missed Mr. Darcy, she would never meet such a person again in her life.

Thinking of this, Elizabeth brought a touch of irony in her eyes, in the past she always preached that she was a maverick, love first, and opposed to material marriage, but now it seems that she has just not met a rich enough gentleman, maybe she is also a layman like her mother in her bones.

Maria looked at Elizabeth, who was silent, a little speechless, and winked at Mr. Darcy: "Honey, I didn't bully her.

Darcy blinked, indicating that he was witnessing.

In the end, the three of them didn't stand by the window as stakes, they simply went to dance together, and today's country dance is really not interesting, one by one in a circle.

Elizabeth looked at Maria with a look of envy and said, "Maria, sometimes I really envy you, you are always so lucky. ”

Maria raised her eyebrows, she didn't expect Elizabeth to envy herself, but it didn't look like a fake look at her like that: "Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet don't also regard you as the pearl of their palms, what is there to envy, in fact, to put it mildly, your family's life is much better than ours, Charlotte still had to work with her when she was a child, your sisters have never done rough work, right?" ”

Elizabeth does not deny that what Maria said is true: "It is true, when I was young, there were few people in Hertfordshire who did not envy our family, but it is a pity that my mother never gave birth to an heir to the Bennets, otherwise we would not have to shrink our clothes and food." Looking back now, I was the happiest child when I had nothing to do—"

Blinking, Maria began to think back to her childhood, and suddenly she realized that her situation was completely different. What was she doing then? It seems that she is fighting wits and courage with the "Great Writer" system, and she learns in the dark every day, so she seems to be losing, after all, Maria feels that because of the system, she has lost a complete childhood.

"You're so much more comfortable than that. At that time, I wanted to wear a floral skirt and buy money, but life was really difficult, but in real terms, I still have a comfortable life now. ”

Maria didn't mean to respond to Elizabeth's words, she really felt that life as a child was boring, after all, Mrs. Lucas and Sir William both had their own affairs, and they locked her up at home all day, and there was a system to exist, otherwise she would have suffocated. Bennett's family is different, they have many sisters, and the family is very lively.

Fortunately, Elizabeth didn't think much about it, and said casually: "When you say that, I remember that you were wearing Charlotte's old dress, and my mother said that Mrs. Lucas was partial and refused to make you new clothes." "Who would have thought that Maria, who was so poor that she wore her sister's old clothes, would save up a fortune of £100,000.

At Elizabeth's remark, Maria remembered the old story, which would be known to everyone in Hertfordshire, to which Mrs. Bennet had contributed so much, that the culprit's daughter had brought it up herself.

"You're overthinking. Charlotte and I are both biological, so where would my mother be partial. Besides, the reason why I wore old clothes in the first place was partly to save pounds to buy pen and paper, and partly because I didn't care about dressing up. Charlotte's pocket money and I were the same, and everyone spread the word that it had changed, which made my mother and Charlotte very disgraced at the time. ”

Elizabeth was about to nod her head when she suddenly remembered that it was Mrs. Bennet who had been the one who had been making a fool of her. For a moment, Elizabeth was red-faced and ashamed, and secretly hated Mrs. Bennet for not having a doorkeeper in her mouth, which had disgraced their sisters.

Turning to other things, Elizabeth said with a little envy: "If you weren't engaged, the gentlemen of the whole Hertfordshire would have broken through the threshold of Lucas's cottage as soon as the dowry of 100,000 pounds came out." ”

"You're making fun of me." Seeing this, Maria felt that although the other party still had feelings for Darcy in her heart, she would not do the previous things.

"I'm not afraid of your jokes, I'm really a little envious of your foresight now, you said that if I had thought about it earlier, would I have become a writer now?" 100,000 pounds she couldn't help but blush.

Maria didn't expect Elizabeth to think about writing novels again: "I think you're quick-witted, and if you're really interested in writing, it's never too late." "I'm afraid that Elizabeth won't be able to persevere, and if she hadn't been supervised by the system, she wouldn't have achieved what she is today, and she should be grateful to the system.

Elizabeth was more and more moved by what Maria said, and it was just a waste of pen and ink and postage, and she might want to give it a try......

Maria didn't know that she had made Elizabeth fall in love with her casual remarks, and she thought that there was someone else who Longborn might want to try out besides Elizabeth: "My Mary is really remarkable, and she is more knowledgeable than many girls her age." ”

Elizabeth didn't care about this, and looked at Mary, who ran to the piano to line up again, and almost went crazy: "Maria, you praise Mary too much." If she can get away from the piano at this time, I will be Amitabha. ”

"When did you convert to Buddhism?" A familiar word came out that almost didn't dumb her down.

"That's not true, it's just that I recently read your "Taj Mahal" and learned two sentences from it." Speaking of this, Elizabeth's eyes were a little erratic, and she asked in a low voice: "Maria, are those Indian dancers really so charming?" Just looking at the words in the book, the beauty in it made her yearn for it.

"There are a lot of Indian beauties, and it would be nice if their skin could be whiter, but if they do turn white, I always feel that I don't have that unique charm again. I think the Indian dancers I saw in the manor of the Viceroy of India were all extremely beautiful, not to mention men, even I liked to look at them twice. ”

The smile on Elizabeth's face gradually became a lot more sincere: "Do you know how to belly dance inside?" "She was actually interested," I ......, but the movements were so unladylike that she didn't dare challenge Mrs. Bennet's fragile nerves.

"Do you want to learn? I asked the best Indian dancer to do it......"