[Comprehensive classics] Let Gao Leng learn the language

"Rivier, you have experienced France trying to hook you with golden fingers. I don't know if you hate it, but I hate the happiness that is exchanged for infidelity, cruelty and numbness. I didn't understand these things in the past. All precious. I never knew before that the price of those noble pleasures is so hard, so humble, so humiliating. You go, Riviere, I will not go back to France."

"lady."

"Let's go."

Ms. Gao Leng finished reciting her lines, stood up and walked to the bedroom first.

What Ms. Gao Leng said just now shook Riviere. He began to doubt his mission. He wanted to help Ellen. .

"Why don't you go back? Earl Oslanka's requirements are not high! You only need to show up as Countess Oslanka occasionally at parties."

Medora followed Ms. Gao Leng into the bedroom.

Seeing that she was not as angry as she usually was when she heard these words, Medora continued: "Paintings, priceless furniture, music, smart conversations, there are none here!"

When Medora spoke, the expression on her face became intoxicated by the past.

"Art and beauty, Ellen, aren't these what you love?" Seeing her unmoved look, Medora said anxiously, "Why did you drive Rivier away just now! The count's proposal he brought is not Is it good? New York doesn’t accept you, you don’t belong in New York. You just show up at parties once in a while.”

"I won't go back to France, don't mention it again."

"But," she looked at her anxiously, "but Manson Mingott has completely cut off your living allowance, what do you want to live on? All your property belongs to your husband, and you take every penny not."

"You don't have to worry about me."

Ms. Gao Leng was extremely indifferent, and the stones thrown by Medora did not stir up any waves.

"Okay," she said deflatedly.

Riviere, who was driven out by Ms. Gao Leng, is a messenger sent by Earl Oslanka, and he is now rushing to Archer's residence.

It was Mei who received him, and Mei took him to the study and asked him to wait a while.

"Archer, your friend is waiting for you in the study. He has something important to discuss with you. But I really don't know what that ordinary little Frenchman can have anything to do with you?"

May had known Riviere at a party of friends on their honeymoon with Archer.He said this about Riviere not out of influence, but out of a concept in old New York, feeling that his dignity was threatened, and if she was allowed to make friends, she would definitely make friends with people with more weight than Riviere.

Cornelius, who was watering the flowers, frowned at the interruption.

May never compromised because he didn't want to or didn't want to, and she was always the inheritor of the old New York tradition, she continued: "Don't keep your friends waiting, go quickly. I can help you water the flowers."

"Do not move!"

Cornelius categorically rejected her offer.

Mei's face and eyes trembled slightly like flowers that were about to wither. She was shocked and felt tears welling up in her eyes.

Cornelius did not notice at all, he put down the measuring cup, and walked quickly towards the study.

He didn't understand where Archer had so many friends and so many social interactions every day.

"gentlemen!"

Riviere got up from his chair as soon as he saw him, and he hurried up to meet him, saying: "Monsieur, I am not here looking for a job, I am here on a special mission."

Cornelius frowned, Rivier saw the doubt on his face, and he went on: "A special mission, not for myself. I thought--may I--tell you about Ors Countess Lanka."

"A special mission? Mrs. Oslanka? Mrs. Oslanka?"

Cornelius repeated Riviere's words, he didn't know why there was always Lady Oslanca in his life, Archer's wife would talk about it, members of the Mingott family would talk about it, friends would talk about it.

"Perhaps presumptuously, but I do it for her. Or, let me put it this way, I do it for considerable justice."

Cornelius could not understand what the man in front of him was saying, and he did not care at all, did not want to care about what he was trying to say.

He cared about no one but Tulip and Rosa.

He often misses Rosa all night long, and Rosa has completely defeated Tulip.

"Sir, are you listening?"

Cornelius came to his senses, and seeing Riviere standing still, said: "Sit down, please!"

Riviere nodded and sat down on a chair far away.Seeing that Archer did not resent in the slightest what he had said, he went on: "I would like to ask your help, sir."

Riviere stopped to observe Archer's expression.

Cornelius beckoned him to continue with his eyes.

"Sir, you know Mrs. Oslanka's situation very well. I think, please forgive me, what I say next may make you angry, but please hear me out. I went to see Oslanka today Madame Oslaka, Count Oslaka sent me to persuade Madame Oslaka to go back to France."

Riviere watched Archer's reaction as he spoke.

Seeing that he didn't show any signs of anger, he breathed a sigh of relief, and continued: "Mrs. Oslanka refused, this mission has failed."

"You want me to help you get her to agree?"

"No, no, no," said Riviere, rising eagerly, waving his hands, his face flushed, "that's not what I mean at all, sir. I hope, sir, that you can make this mission possible in the Her family failed as well."

"why?"

"Ah, sir!"

Cornelius' pure questioning was a refusal in Rivier's eyes, and he cried out in pain, looking helpless and helpless.

"Don't get excited, I'm just confused."

Cornelius, seeing his pallor, hastened to explain.

"Oh, sir, it is very kind of you, sir, if you could help..."

Riviere stepped forward excitedly and squeezed Cornelius' hand tightly.

"Monsieur Riviere, I hope you can explain a little more clearly, so that I will know whether I am capable of helping you."

"Yes, sir, please listen to me. Before I saw Mrs. Oslanka, I went to see Mr. Lovell Mingott at the earl's request, and I talked to him several times before going to Boston. As far as I know, he represents his mother's opinion, and Mrs. Manson Mingott has great influence over the whole family."

Archer was completely ignorant of the matter, and in the matter of Ellen, whom they had not spoken to since Archer had stood against them, they agreed that Lady Oslanka was a Unhappy wives were always better off than they were, and felt it was useless to discuss the matter with Archer, and sometimes he even denied such elementary common sense.

Still less could Cornelius know of it.

The bewilderment in his eyes met Riviere's anxious one, and Riviere said: "Don't you know, Monsieur—perhaps you don't—that his family is beginning to doubt whether it has the right to persuade the countess to refuse her husband proposal."

"The proposal you brought?"

"It was my proposal."

"Then which side are you on? What do you want to do?"

Cornelius finally caught a clue, and Riviere's tense expression aroused his interest in further questioning.

"Sir, I was on the earl's side. I really believed that restoring her status, property, and the social respect that her husband's status brought her should be a matter of course for Madame Oslanka." Good thing."

"What then?"

"Afterwards, sir, I saw her, and after hearing what she had to say, I understood that it was better for her to be here."

"you understood?"

"Sir, I have faithfully fulfilled my mission, stated the count's views, explained his proposals, and did not enter into any personal discussion. The countess is so kind that she has received me every time and listened patiently to me. , consider all the content of what I said objectively. Even in the process of talking, I changed my view and my understanding of this matter is also different from before.

"May I ask, what caused you to change your mind?"

"Just because I saw her change."

"Change? You knew her before?"

Riviere blushed.He said: "I used to see her often at her husband's house. I have known Count Oslanka for many years. Just imagine how he could entrust such a mission to a stranger."

"You say she has changed?"

"Oh, sir, if only I could explain!" Riviere added after a pause, "I think it's something I've never thought of before: she's an American. And, if a her Americans like that - no, like you - something that would be acceptable in other societies, or at least tolerated in general fair exchange, becomes unthinkable here, where ever Yes. If Mrs. Oslanka's varnish could understand these things, they must agree with her and would never agree to her going back. But they seem to think that her husband wants her to go back, which shows that he has a strong desire for family life. He paused again and said, "But it's not that simple."

"Monsieur Riviere, thank you for telling me this."

"Mr. Archer, I hope you can help Mrs. Oslanka, and don't let her go back to France!"

Riviere once again squeezed Cornelius's hand tightly.

"Mr. Riviere, I can't guarantee this matter. I can only say that I will try my best."

"Sir, please."

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