Rimbaud's girl

Speaking of Queen Elizabeth's darling, Marie Valese wears men's riding clothes and often wears men's clothes every day. The queen likes her dressed as a boy.

Vitaly was noncommittal.

The Austrian empress can certainly be capricious, but letting her niece wear men's clothing frequently may be more about treating her as a pet than a "niece".But, that's what the superiors are like, you can't accept it.

She was glad that neither the Oran family nor the Boldwood family were close to the royal family, and she didn't have to worry about going to see Her Majesty one day.

Charles was fascinated by the Queen of Austria, and kept talking about how slender and beautiful the Queen was, how charming and heroic she was, and how good her riding skills were, and she was as good as the best knights in England.She still doesn't pay much attention to Queen Victoria, although the queen is very kind to the queen, and lent her steamship to Her Majesty the queen. Bert".

As the queen of the second largest empire in Europe, Elizabeth is indeed self-willed, even the big landowner Her Majesty the Queen can't do anything about her.He said that the queen should visit the queen when she came to England, but he just met the queen in a hurry and refused the lunch, which made the queen very angry.

The Queen of Austria is not the Queen of England.Her Majesty the Queen did not have a crown of "Queen of India" until May this year, but the country is still a kingdom, not an empire.Moreover, in terms of historical inheritance, because the Habsburg family once held the title of "Holy Roman Emperor", Austria is the oldest and most powerful of all empires, and it is full of gold.

The Queen of Austria and the Queen of France are old acquaintances, but she did not go to see Queen Eugenie either.She is here in a private capacity, not an official visit between countries.

They ran for less than an hour and went back.

The men dismounted first, and Vitaly waited for Gabriel to come and help her off. He carried her off and asked her if she was tired.

"Fortunately, I'm not very tired." She sweated slightly from the tip of her nose.

"Come on, let me wipe your sweat." He took out his handkerchief and wiped her forehead and nose carefully.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome." He said sweetly.He took her hand, took off the gloves for her, and kissed the back of her hand.There was a leathery smell of leather gloves on her hands, which was very chic.

She smiled and touched his face.

"Come on, don't be in love here." Charles said "single dog indignation", "Come in, I sent a telegram to my uncle yesterday, asking where they are now."

"Aren't they around here?"

"No, I went to Northamptonshire the day before yesterday."

"Then you still call me over!" Gabriel said.

"It's all your fault for coming too late!"

"It's not too late, okay? If you want to say it's in Northamptonshire, we'll go straight there."

"Ah! Don't you want to see me?" Charles pretended to be surprised.

"In the past three years, I have seen you for 9 months a year, which is longer than seeing my parents."

The two talked and laughed, and entered the living room.

Not seeing the Queen of Austria was not a big loss. They spent two weeks at Langdon's house, riding horses every day, and Charles also called a few noble youths nearby to go hunting together.Summer is not a good season for hunting. You can only hunt birds, and the harvest is actually quite good.

Gabriel hardly played with the young men, busy teaching Vitaly how to use a shotgun.She had never played with a shotgun before, so she was just an entry-level player. She didn't say that she was awesome as soon as she got started, and she learned it right away, and she learned it very well.She is very interested, and spends a lot of time with her fiancé all day long.

Charles' mother has passed away, and an unmarried aunt lives with him to take care of him. Miss Connery is the daughter of an earl, a typical British Lady, not too old, less than 50 years old, and in good health .

Vitaly stayed with Miss Connery in the housekeeping room in the morning, embroidered with her, and watched how she handled the housework.There are some housework, most of which are arranged by the housekeeper, and there is nothing for the hostess to worry about.The hostess has a good temperament, but it is a common problem of older single women, she loves to chatter.

She told Vitaly that Earl Langdon actually wanted Charles to go to India, how terrible India is!There are tigers and swamps everywhere, as well as mosquitoes the size of a palm, and there are scary yellow and emaciated farmers everywhere, always thinking of stabbing the white master's neck.

Vitaly wondered where Miss Connelly had heard all this nonsense.But she didn't seriously correct it, she just echoed that India is indeed very different from the UK in terms of living habits, and Charles is probably not used to eating Indian food, which is more serious than other problems;

Miss Connelly was worried. "Is it? Am I right? He won't even get a decent meal in India! Oh! My poor Charlie!"

"Yes, it's a big deal if you don't eat well!"

r/>"That won't work, I have to tell Langdon that Charlie can't go to India."

"Do you want to ask what Charles means? If he wants to go, you'd better let him go."

"Hey! Charlie is still a child, he doesn't know how scary foreign countries are!"

"Maybe, you have to go to the UK to know the benefits. You know, young men always want to run outside, want to go abroad, want to go places they have never been, this is an adventure in their bones**.'The world is so big , I'd like to see'. Is that so, Miss Connelly?"

"You're right. You're such a smart girl! By the way, when are you going to get married? You and Gabriel."

"Next summer." Vitaly said generously.

"I just like the way you look!" Miss Connery was very happy. "Don't be like those little girls, it's so boring! Marriage is a good thing. If you can marry a boy like Gabriel, you will be happy .”

"You like Gabriel very much?"

"Oh, Gabriel is like his name, he's an angel, a lovely boy." She smiled and squeezed Vitaly's chin, "I really want to see you get married soon! Then my Charlie may I want to find a good girl to marry earlier. The Langdon family has only one boy now, so he'd better get married obediently, stay in England, and have a lot of children."

Well, it seems that the matter of urging marriage and urging childbearing can be found everywhere.Charles may have thought of going to India to escape this force of marriage urging.If he went abroad, no one would be able to nag him.

Gabriel had mentioned the situation of the Langdon family. Langdon's uncle—in fact, his father's cousin—had inherited the title of a distant relative of his family. He had a son, Charles' second cousin, but The boy climbed a tree when he was six years old, fell from it, and died in a coma for weeks.Uncle Langdon had two more daughters after that, but failed to produce a male heir.So now Charles is expected to inherit his uncle's title in addition to his father's title in the future.

There are many situations like this, and it is normal. Gabriel also said that if his cousin Philip is unmarried all his life, or if he gets married but does not have a son, their son may hope to inherit the title and property of the Boldwood family in the future.

Look at this guy!As if he was sure to have a son!

The pleasant country holiday was over, and they returned to London.

On arriving at Oran's, the maid brought a letter and a parcel from M. Alfonso in Paris.

"What is it?" Gabriel took the package, "Can I unpack it?"

"Open it." Vitaly took the letter opener and opened the envelope.

Mr. Alfonso said in his letter that both "Floating Dreams" and "Destruction" are selling well, and they are sold in dozens of bookstores in Paris, and they are also selling well in bookstores in provincial capitals outside of Paris.The strategy of bundling the brothers and sisters into marketing was a great success, coupled with the recommendations of the special senior writers, created the shining signboard of "brothers and sisters who are new stars in the French literary world".

Facts have proved that people all over the world love the "young genius" trick, not to mention that they are brothers and sisters, with good looks but low background, of course it is extremely inspirational.This is also a proper energy for the current political situation in France and the period when the Third Republic is still trying to consolidate its power.

Ordinary people have a high degree of acceptance of the Rimbaud brothers and sisters who rely on their own talent and hard work to become a typical literary rookie from the sons of military officers.Arthur's novel is much easier to understand than poetry, it is no longer "stream of consciousness", tells a clear story of teenage growth, and is clearly semi-autobiographical, and part of the plot about homosexuality arouses readers and Controversy among literary and art critics, but so far no government department has said "this is not possible";

"A Floating Dream" was slightly cut, and some new content that was not published in the newspaper was added. The evaluation was slightly better than "Destruction". Compared with "Paris Dream", the class antagonism was not so sharp, but it was still not going away. Ordinary way.

Mr. Alfonso is eager to know what her next book will be.Her new series of writing plans has been approved by Mr. Alfonso, and she is waiting for her to return to France for an interview.

It was only then that Vitaly remembered that she had to go to the library to complete work when she came to London, and she had to go to the library to look for materials.

Gabriel opened the package, and inside were two French novels: "A Floating Dream" and "Destruction".Ordinary 32-mo paperback, well-printed, with no images on the cover, just simply printed with the title of the book, the name of the author, and the name of the publisher, "Vitalie Rimbaud" and "Arthur Rimbaud".

He carefully placed the two books side by side on the coffee table.The coffee table is covered with a milky white lace tablecloth, and the black ink printed cover is clean and eye-catching.

"I'm so proud of you," he whispered in her ear.

She smiled.

"You should be proud of yourself too."

"I've always been proud of myself," she said confidently.

"I just like your smug look." He gently kissed her face, then kissed her lips. "France owns your novel, and I own you."