Pride and Predjudice: Hetalia Edition(England X Reader)

~Chapter 7~

  I again apologize for the late update. College started, and I've been working on a BTS series on AO3 and Tumblr. I added this message to the last chapter, but just so I know you guys will see it, I'm going to put it here. I will be referring to everyone with their first names, (except for the married people), unless they are being talked about or to by another character. Obviously siblings will still call each other by their first names.  

Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed (4), because of the lack of a male heir, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, couldn't supply the deficiency of his. Her father had been an attorney in Meryton, and had left her four thousand pounds.

She had a sister married to a Mr. Phillips, who had been a clerk to their father and succeeded him in the business, and a brother settled in London in a respectable line of trade.

The village of Longbourn was only one mile from Meryton; a most convenient distance for the young ladies, who usually walked there three or four times a week, to pay a visit to their aunt and to a hat shop just over the way. The two youngest of the family, Lovina and Felicia, did this particularly frequently; their minds were more vacant than their sisters', and when nothing better was offered, a walk to Meryton was necessary to amuse their morning hours and provide conversation for the evening; and however bare of news the country in general might be, they were always able to learn some from their aunt. At present, indeed, they were well supplied both with news and happiness by the recent arrival of a militia regiment in the neighborhood; it was to remain the whole winter, and Meryton was the headquarters.

Their visits to Mrs. Phillips were now productive of the most interesting intelligence. Every day added something to their knowledge of the officers' names and connections. Their lodgings were not long a secret, and at length they began to know the officers themselves. Mr. Phillips visited them all, and this opened to his nieces a store of happiness unknown before. They could talk of nothing but officers; and Alfred's large fortune, the mention of which excited their mother, was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of an ensign (5).

After listening one morning to their effusions on this subject, Mr. Bennet coolly observed:

"From what I gather by your way of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it for some time, but I am now convinced."

Lovina was disconcerted, and made no answer; but Felicia, with perfect indifference, continued to express her admiration of Captain Carter, and her hope of seeing him in the course of the day, as he was going the next morning to London.

"I am astonished, my dear," said Mrs. Bennet, "that you should be so ready to think your own children silly. If I wished to insult of anybody's children, it should not be my own."

"If my children are silly, I must hope to always be aware of it."

"Yes—but as it happens, they are all very clever."

"This is the only point, and I flatter myself with saying so, on which we do not agree. I had hoped that our thoughts were the same in everything, but I must differ from you very much, since I think our two youngest daughters are uncommonly foolish."

"My dear Mr. Bennet, you must not expect such girls to have the sense of their father and mother. When they get to be our age, I dare say they will not think about officers any more than we do. I remember the time when I liked a red coat myself very well—and, indeed, so I do still at heart; and if a smart young colonel, with five or six thousand a year, should want one of my girls I shall not say no to him; and I thought Colonel Forster looked very becoming the other night at Sir William's in his uniform."