It was an honor to meet you, Miss Jane Austen, he said.
Just a bland story, not even a little more turbulent than P&P or even S&S. He used to always forget her name, like she did it on purpose. His Pride her Prejudice, a trance is clearly the shadow of Darcy and Lizzy. Acquaintance and encounter are anger and embarrassment, tit for tat aggressive, they are so similar. He obviously didn't want to see it and didn't want to ignore it, but his mind drifted over unconsciously. Annoyance that no amount of adjectives is enough to convey, or just a blunt and unsuccessful cover-up. He laughed at her novel, and she complained angrily about his self-righteousness. No trace of him could be found at the dance, only dancing with others in a fit of anger. Then he turned around accidentally and met his smiling eyes. In the quiet woods, in the noisy room, the characters in the novel appeared one by one. Snobby mother, weak sister, stupid pastor, bossy wife, many, many different things. Little trouble But Happy Ending. She was like Lizzy, a well-educated country girl, stubborn and stubborn. But he is not a single man in possession, and he has to face the cloth and the darn potato together. She doesn't care, so she simply rejects Mr. Pastor's stiff marriage proposal. Yet she couldn't pretend not to see him—his mother, his brothers, his sisters, they needed him, and she couldn't just selfishly take him away.
So she left.
Somerset Maugham said that there are only two endings in the novel, death and marriage. Death is the end of everything, so it is the total end of a story; and marriage is also very suitable to end; those worldly so-called reunion, self-styled people should not be despised. And Jane's novels are always the latter. Always thought they were just another Cinderella story, whether it was P&P or S&S, the proud prince bowed his head for love and condescended to find a pair of eloquent lovers in London. And his efforts finally paid off, and the lovers became married. She said that although my protagonists have suffered and experienced twists and turns, they will finally have a happy ending.
And her own, not.
So when the time overlaps again, she smiles as he walks closer, holding the young Miss Lefroy, and stops. When the girl with the same name as her looked at her, her eyes flashed with eagerness and admiration. Will he remember his feigned dismissive comment? The exceptional recitation, who is it reading to? With that graceful British accent—
"She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both; by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved, and from his judgment, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance. But no such happy marriage could now teach the admiring multitude what connubial felicity really was." The
slight waves were in whose heart.
When Lefroy was old, a son asked about the rumors between him and Jane. It was such a young love--that's all. As in the biography of Jane Austen, that first love with Lefroy was just a passing. What is the truth of history, we have no way of knowing. Maybe every little girl once hoped that she could become Jane, a story and a monument, and that kind of immortality. The boyhood who turned over the pages of the book was running away, so when I looked back again, what kind of different stories did I see?
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