I do not own Divergent or Pride and Prejudice. Credit goes to Veronica Roth and Jane Austen.
Immediate frustration went about the Prior house as to news of their new guest that would be arriving.
Mrs. Prior was in a mess about it. For their guest, Mr. Alan was the relation of Mr. Prior and it was he who would inherit the Prior's home when Mr. Prior would pass away. There would be little inheritance for her daughters, all five of them. Therefore, it was set for Mrs. Prior that she needed to marry them well.
According to Mr. Alan's letter they were to receive him that afternoon. Since Mr. Alan was a man of conduct, moral, and punctuality he did arrive at the desired time that he had stated.
"He's a clergyman," gasped Lauren when he had arrived upon the Prior dwelling.
Shauna quickly censured her younger sister.
"Mr. Alan," said Mr. Prior welcoming him to their home.
"My dear Mr. Prior, my dear Mrs. Prior," Alan bowed to them. Beatrice too thought him odd and held back a giggle next to Shauna.
Dinner conversation was a little quiet at first, until it was Mr. Prior who decided to engage his relation.
"I understand you have as your patroness a Lady Evelyn DeJohnson?"
Of this, Mr. Alan was glad to speak of.
"That I do," he smiled. "She is the mistress of Rosings, a very fine estate in Erudite. My humble dwelling is separated from hers by only a lane," Mr. Alan explained with such admiration. It was because he thought Lady Evelyn a most prestigious woman.
Beatrice was shocked by his extraordinary deference for Lady Evelyn and his kind intention on christening, marrying and all things moral.
"Fancy that, Tris," her father quickly got her attention. "It is separate by only a lane." She smiled at this for she knew her father's irony.
"Does she have any family," asked Mrs. Prior.
"She has only one daughter, the heiress of Rosings."
"Ah," said Mrs. Prior. "What sort of young lady is she?"
"She is a most charming young lady indeed. She is unfortunately of a sickly condition, so she is not widely known. But I have informed Lady Evelyn one day that her daughter's absence from society, she has deprived the British court of its brightest ornament," Mr. Alan replied enthusiastically. "These are the kind of things that please her ladyship and it is the sort of attention that I feel am particularly bound to pay. It makes all the ladies happy, I think."
"What happiness for you, Mr. Alan, that you have the talent of flattering with such delicacy," said Mr. Prior as he glanced again at Beatrice with a joking smile.
Myra thought him congenial and sensible and smiled at the remark. Lauren scoffed at it, while Beatrice decided to question it.
"May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?" Her mother quickly looked at her.
"Both I must admit. I do arrange such phrases ahead of time while others have arisen chiefly from what is passing at the time," he replied.
"Excellent," Mr. Prior commented.
The next morning while the girls were in the sitting room, Mr. Alan decided to walk with Mrs. Prior and inform her of his intentions of coming to their home.
"You are aware Mrs. Prior of the situation that your family is in, should Mr. Prior find himself ill?"
"That I am," Mrs. Prior said downhearted.
"Well, it is my esteem honor that I intend to find a mistress for my parsonage and had thought to come and find such a woman among your daughters."
With this news Mrs. Prior had become very well aware. Since Mr. Prior would leave his house to Mr. Alan, what better way to secure the future of herself and her other daughters, should one of them wed Mr. Alan? It was perfect. The fact that he had made his intentions known to her, it was all the more encouragement for her to marry her daughters off.
"They are all fine young ladies," Mr. Alan commented on them.
"They are fine girls," Mrs. Prior smiled happy that she would still see one of her daughters to be mistress of their home in Longbourn of Abnegation.
"I must admit that the eldest Miss Prior has caught my special attention."
Now there was a problem. For Shauna, according to Mrs. Prior, was already promised to Mr. Pedrad, even though no intention had been made aware of. Quickly, however, Mrs. Prior was able to draw him to another potential partner.
"Now, Beatrice is similar in both age and beauty. She would make any a fine partner, wouldn't you agree Mr. Alan?"
"I do say, you are correct," he smiled gazing upon Beatrice as she walked with Shauna in the garden. "A fine alternative I am sure."
And with that, he set upon wooing Beatrice.
Sorry for the short chapter. Really short I know. But I wanted to put in an update on here.
I wanted to post my thoughts on Insurgent in here:
I saw Insurgent twice!
Needless to say the first was the IMAX 3D experience and the theater we went to had gave us a special package that the 3D glasses were in. I thought my boyfriend put them in his pocket. Instead he ended up throwing them away. I was so mad that I made him take me again the next day, which he did, but it was to the regular showing. BOO!
I liked the movie, I did tear up when Jai Courtney died and it took me a while to focus on the rest of the film. It really did. Something about me just cracked inside.
As hot as Theo James is, I just... something about Eric running too... I just... I leaned over and kissed my boyfriend because that's just how it made me feel... There were so many differences in the book and film. Like Tris was not on the peace serum, the whole box thing was new, yet I liked that a lot, they slept together in the movie, but didn't until Allegiant in the book, Tori was the one who killed Jeanine, but in the movie it was Evelyn, Lynn is still alive, Christina was one of the three who was under sim control, Max died later on in the movie instead of Lynn shooting him at Candor, Marcus was still in Amity when the video was shown, the list can go on and on. But other than that, I liked the movie.
I loved Octavia Spencer and Daniel Dae Kim. I think they did excellent jobs as Amity and Candor leader. I also loved Kate Winslet's performance. She is a great actress. My favorite Jeanine line has got to be when Tris dies and she starts shouting: Bring her back. Miles Teller was also awesome. I thought he was just the right amount of being a two timing punk with some comedy in there.
It was hard for me to watch Caleb and Tris interact when I recently just saw Fault in our Stars... It was just so difficult for me. The scene where she sees that Caleb betrayed her wasn't that much of an impact for me. I didn't even think the argument between her and Christina or her and Four were that big. I guess because it was a movie that they had to cut a lot of it out.
Again... these are only my thoughts, my opinions, my takes on it... Reminder: Opinions are not facts. So you can agree or disagree with me, which is fine. But I just thought I share with you all how I felt about the movie.
Until later... take care Divergent fans!