Chapter 3 Chapter One

Anything in Catherine.No one who met Moran in her childhood would have guessed that she was destined to be a heroine.Her family background, the character of her parents, and her own appearance and temperament were all against her.Her father, a priest, was neither neglected nor impoverished.Very respectable, though he went by the common name of Richard, and was never handsome.In addition to his two generous pastor's salaries, he also has a considerable independent asset.Also, he didn't like keeping his daughter locked up at home. Her mother was a simple, able woman, even-tempered, and, above all, in good health.She had three sons before Catherine was born.When Catherine was born, people feared that she would not survive, but she survived, gave birth to six children in succession, and watched them grow up around her, and she herself has remained healthy.If a family raises ten children, all of whom are well-equipped with brains and limbs, they are always called a beautiful family.But the Morins family had nothing else to praise, for most of the children were ordinary-looking.And Catherine has been ugly like any other kid for years.She was thin and clumsy, with grayish-yellow skin that was bloodless; her hair was black and straight, and her features were rough.Her appearance is nothing more than that, and her intelligence seems to be equally unsuitable for a heroine.She loved all the games boys played.Not only does she dislike rag dolls, she even dislikes those hobbies that are more suitable for a heroine, such as raising a dormouse.Feeding a canary and watering roses was far less fun to her than playing cricket.It is true that she disliked the garden, and picked a few flowers now and then, which was probably out of mischief, at least so it was surmised, for she picked flowers that were not allowed to be picked.That's what she is.Her qualifications are also very special.She couldn't learn anything without being taught, she couldn't understand, and sometimes she couldn't learn it even if she was taught, because she was often absent-minded and sometimes stupid.

It took her mother three months to teach her to recite a poem "The Beggar's Petition Song" It turned out that her eldest sister could recite better than her.Catherine wasn't always stupid, far from it. She learned the fable of "The Rabbit and Friends" faster than any girl in England.Her mother wanted her to learn music, and Catherine believed that she would like music, because she loved to fiddle with the old piano that no one cared about, so she started learning music at the age of eight.I didn't expect her to be overwhelmed after studying for a year.Mrs. Moran never pushed what her daughters couldn't handle or didn't like, so she let Catherine quit halfway.

The day when the music teacher was dismissed was the happiest day in Catherine's life.She doesn't particularly like painting, but whenever she can get an envelope from her mother, or grab a piece of weird paper at random, she will start to draw, such as houses, trees, hens And the chicks, they all look the same when they are painted.Her father taught her to write and arithmetic, and her mother taught her French.But she couldn't learn any of them well, and avoided class whenever she had the chance.What an incredible weirdo!At the age of ten, he behaved so indulgently and uninhibitedly.But she was neither ill-natured nor bad-tempered, she seldom insisted on her own opinion, seldom quarreled with others, was very kind to her younger siblings, and seldom bullied them.In addition, she likes to be noisy and wild, she doesn't want to be locked up at home, and she doesn't like cleaning. Her favorite thing to do in the world is to lie down and roll on the green slope behind the house.

Catherine.This is what Moran looked like when he was ten years old.By the age of fifteen, she had grown beautiful, curled her hair, and longed for the ball.Her complexion became better, and her cheeks became fuller, so that the features appeared very soft.Her eyes were more animated, her figure more striking.She no longer likes to be dirty like before, but pays attention to her clothes. The more beautiful a person is, the cleaner she is.Now, she sometimes heard her parents say that she was looking like a human being, and Catherine was getting better and better with age, and she was almost beautiful today.She couldn't express how happy she was to hear such compliments in her ears from time to time!A girl who has been plain for fifteen years of her life is much happier to hear that she is almost beautiful than a girl who was born beautiful.

Mrs. Morland was a very virtuous woman, and she wished very much that all her children should be successful.It's a pity that all her time is taken up by childbirth and raising young children. Naturally, she can't take care of her older daughters and can only let them take care of themselves.No wonder, then, that Catherine, so devoid of a heroine, at the age of fourteen would rather play cricket, baseball, horseback riding, and running about than read books, at least intellectual ones. Book.She never objected to reading books that contained no useful knowledge, but were full of plots that were easy to read.

However, from the age of fifteen to seventeen, she was training herself to be a heroine.Anyone who is a heroine must read some books, remember the golden words in them, so as to cope with the ever-changing life, or use them to comfort themselves, and Catherine has read all these books. She learned from Pope to accuse such people that they Putting on a fake sad look everywhere. (Translator's Note: British poet Alexander Pope's "1688 | 1744": a verse in "Remembering an Unfortunate Woman".) learned from gray How many flowers bloom unseen, Their fragrance is wasted in the wilderness. (Translator's Note: British poet Gray's "1716 | 1771": verses in "Elegy of the Cemetery".)

From Thomson, the lesson is that enlighten the minds of young people, It was a pleasure. (Translator's Note: Scottish poet Thomson "1700 | 1748": verses in "Spring".) Also learned a lot from Shakespeare, including A little thing as light as air, to a jealous man, It will also become as strong evidence as a heavenly book. (Translator's Note: A verse from Shakespeare's Othello, Act Three, Scene Three.) besides A poor beetle trampled by us, Its physical pain, It was no different from what a giant felt when he was dying. (Translator's Note: Shakespeare's verses from Act III, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's "What Comes Around"

A young girl in love, always looking Like the incarnation of patience engraved on the tombstone, smiling at sorrow. (Translator's Note: The verse in Act II, Scene Four of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.) She has come a long way in this area, and in other areas as well.Although she couldn't write sonnets, she was determined to read more.Although she doesn't seem to be able to play a piano overture of her own composition in public and make everyone ecstatic, she can listen to others tirelessly.Her biggest shortcoming is in the brush, she doesn't know how to paint, and she doesn't even want to draw a profile of her lover, so as to reveal the secret.She's pathetic in that respect, and falls short of the heights of a true heroine.At present, she does not realize her own shortcomings, because she has no lover to draw.

She was seventeen years old, and she had never seen a young man sufficiently attractive to move her, nor had anyone else been attracted to her, nor had she been admired except by a very limited and fleeting envy. Germinated any heart of admiration.This is really strange!However, if the cause is identified, no matter how strange things are, they can always be explained clearly.It turned out that there was not a single lord, not even a baronet, in the vicinity.None of the families they knew had raised a foundling accidentally picked up on the doorstep, nor a young man of unknown origin. People of this race are considered nobler than commoners because of their noble blood.).Catherine's father had no protege, and the parish squire had no children.

But when a young lady is destined to be a heroine, not even forty families around her can stop her.The development of things will definitely send her a leading actor. The Morans lived in the village of Fullerton in Wiltshire, and the property in and around the village was largely owned by one Mr. Allen.Mr. Allen, on the doctor's orders, went to Bath to recover from his gout.His wife was a pleasant woman, and liked Miss Moran very much.She probably knew that if a young lady couldn't find any romance in her village, she should seek it elsewhere.So they asked Catherine to go to Bath together.The Morlands readily agreed, and Catherine was also full of joy.