Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility

Chapter 2 Unexpected Surprise

Although Mr. Bennet has always said in front of his wife that he does not want to visit Mr. Bingley, in fact he has always planned to visit him, and he was the first group of people to visit Mr. Bingley.

Mrs. Bennet did not know the truth of the matter until evening, after he returned from his visit.This is how she learned the news...

Mr. Bennet saw his second daughter, Lizzy, adorning her hat, and suddenly said to her: "I hope Mr. Bingley will like your hat, Lizzy."

Mrs. Bennet said very angrily: "Since we are not going to visit Mr. Bingley, of course we have no way of knowing what he likes."

"But you forget, mother," said Elizabeth, "that we shall meet him at the ball someday. Didn't Mrs. Lange promise to introduce him to us?"

"I don't believe Mrs. Lange would do this. She has two nieces herself. She is still a selfish and hypocritical woman. I look down on her."

"I despise her, too," said Mr. Bennet. "You don't expect her to be of any help to you, and I'm glad to hear that."

Mrs. Bennet ignored him, but she didn't get angry and scolded her daughter: "For God's sake, don't keep coughing, Katie Katie is The nickname of the fourth daughter, Catherine.! You just have to be considerate of my mother’s nerves. You are going to break my nerves!”

"Katie has no idea," said her father, "and doesn't know the right time to cough."

"I didn't cough on purpose." Katie was very annoyed.

"What day is your ball going to be, Lizzy?"

"It will be another two weeks from tomorrow."

"Oh," cried her mother, "Mrs. Longe won't be back until the day before the ball, and she won't have time to introduce Mr. Bingley to you. She doesn't even know him. Woolen cloth."

"Then, my dear, then you have an advantage over your friend, and you can introduce this noble person to her in turn."

"Impossible, Mr. Bennet! Impossible, I don't know him myself; how can you laugh at me like that?"

"I really admire how thoughtful you are. Of course, it's impossible to know what kind of person he is in just two weeks. However, if we don't try, others will. After all, Lange Madam and her niece will definitely not miss this opportunity. Therefore, if you are unwilling to do this, I will do it myself, anyway, she will think it is our kindness to her."

The daughters were all staring at their father.

Mrs. Bennet just said casually: "No sense!"

"Why do you make such a fuss!" he cried. "Do you think it's pointless to make introductions? I don't quite agree with that. What do you say, Mary? I know your opinions are often very original. Read The books I wrote were huge, and I took a lot of notes."

Mary wanted to say something, but she didn't know how to say it.

Mr. Bennet went on: "Let Mary think it over before she makes an opinion, and we shall return to Mr. Bingley."

"I hate to talk about Mr. Bingley," cried his wife.

"It is a pity that you should say such things to me. Why didn't you say so sooner? If I had heard you say that this morning, I would certainly not have called on him. What a coincidence! Now that I have called After that, we will have to make this friend in the future.”

Sure enough, as he expected, they were all stunned when they heard what he said, especially Mrs. Bennet, who was more surprised than anyone else.Immediately, after a joyful uproar, she said at once that she had expected it.

"You are such a kind soul, my dear! I knew I could persuade you. You love your daughter so much that you would not neglect such a friend. I am so glad! You The joke was really funny, who would have thought that you would visit him this morning, and you just talked about it now."

"Katie, now you can cough with confidence," said Mr. Bennet, and walked out of the room.For he could not help feeling a little disgusted to see Mrs. Bennet so carried away.

As soon as the door closed, Mrs. Bennet said to her daughters impatiently: "My children, your father is very kind. I don't know how you can repay his kindness; Repay me well. To tell you the truth, we old couple have lived to this age, and we have no interest in making friends every day. But for you, we will do anything. Lydia, sweet baby, Though you are the youngest, perhaps Mr. Bingley will dance with you at the ball."

"Oh," said Lydia indifferently, "I don't take it seriously. I'm the youngest, but I'm the tallest."

They therefore guessed when Mr. Bingley would call on Mr. Bennet, and calculated when they would invite him to dinner.In this way, the whole evening passed in chatter.

(End of this chapter)