Miss Eugenie Grandet

Nanon was married, to Antoine Gaunoyer, who had been appointed chief steward of the manor.Although she is not young anymore, thanks to her strong and rough appearance, aging has nothing to do with her.She looks the same as she did 20 years ago.Cornoille got his wish and married a woman who was the closest relative to Mademoiselle Grandet. Not only in the eyes of others, but also in his own opinion, it was a very proud thing.

The wedding ceremony of the newlyweds was held in Saumur's church. Nanon wore an expensive white wedding dress ordered from Paris generously given to her by the hostess. Be the happiest person that day.

After the wedding was over, and after a few days' holiday for the newlyweds, Eugenie returned to Floisphon alone on the same day.

Now Floavon, almost every day has a steady stream of visitors.She's already used to all this.But today, she felt extremely tired.She left everything to the young and capable secretary, and then, after returning to the room, ordered no one to disturb her, she fell asleep.

This time, she slept very deeply, as if she would never wake up.But she finally woke up.Before the dawn of the next day, when the east was turning bright and dark, when she realized what she was doing, she found that her footsteps had brought her to the river—a certain day many years ago , it was in this place that she first met that man who always used to smile with a bit of pretentiousness.He was dying and she saved him.

That haystack has long since disappeared.In the field were rows of dense grape bushes that grew taller than the top of a person, and the grapes were beginning to bear fruit. The dew in the grass on the ground wet her feet and the hem of her thin nightgown.

Standing alone in this quiet dawn, she suddenly began to cry.

It was a cry owed from that quiet house in Pulitov.But she kept holding back and didn't cry.Up to now, she didn't know what was going on, and she suddenly cried like this—at first, she was just crying silently, and gradually, the tears began to flow out violently, and in the end, she couldn't control the crying anymore, and she squatted He fell to the ground, buried his face in his knees, and cried without restraint.

She cried and cried and cried and cried.Tears flow dry, dry flow.She didn't know that a person could have so many tears, as if they would never dry up.

I don’t know how long I cried until it was dawn, and when the sun’s rays shone on the surface of the Loire River and this vineyard, the two sharecroppers who got up early to work together in the nearby vineyards were attracted by her crying. , finally found here, only to find that his hostess was squatting on the ground crying in pajamas with fluffy long hair, one can imagine what a huge shock and horror it was.

"Mademoiselle—Mademoiselle Grandet—what is the matter with you?"

After looking at each other, the tenant farmer tried to interrupt her in a panic, at a loss as to whether he should pretend not to see her and leave quietly or step forward to provide her with the help she needed.

Eugenie finally stopped crying, and with red and swollen eyes, she stood up slowly, and sent the two tenants away who were frightened by her in a tone that was trying to calm down.At this moment, she seemed to see someone walking towards her in the distance in front of her.

It was a figure she was very familiar with.

She forgot to wipe off the tear stains on her face, forgot to straighten the wrinkled dress that was wet with dew, and forgot to brush up her long hair that was so disheveled that it was almost invisible. As if casting a spell, he stood still on the spot, opened his eyes that were red and swollen from crying, and stared at the figure coming from the opposite direction without blinking, lest the phantom would disappear immediately in the blink of an eye.

That's not a phantom.

It was a man, and he was walking quickly towards her.He didn't wear a hat, and the sun's rays shone on his military uniform. The epaulets and the brass buttons on his chest reflected the sunlight, shining a dazzling golden light.As he got closer, that face became clearer and clearer.

Philip Larner finally came up to her and stopped.

He stared at her, and his gaze passed over her disheveled long hair, her tear-stained face, the wrinkled nightgown on her body, and finally met her pair of red and swollen eyes.

Under the astonished stares of the tenant farmers in the distance, he slowly knelt down on one knee towards her.

He looked up at her with a serious expression, and said in a low voice with strong suppressed thoughts, "I'm back. As soon as I came back, I took the earliest car to come to you. My queen, will you Consider accepting me as the gardener in your garden?"

Eugenie lowered her head, stared at him blankly, and said nothing.He also raised his head and kept staring at her.However, the corners of his mouth gradually turned up, revealing a smile. When this kind of smile began to creep up to the corners of his brows and eyes, making his face look a little more familiar with the air she once was, she suddenly felt He pulled him up from the ground, and before he understood what was going on, she had already wrapped his arms around his neck, forcing him to bow his head towards her, then stood on tiptoe, and kissed him heavily lips.

She was not actually kissing him, but biting him with her teeth, which even made him feel sharp pain.But this kind of pain is so wonderful, all the senses sleeping in his heart seem to be completely awakened at this moment.After a short period of confusion, he immediately turned his back on the guest and kissed her lips instead.

While kissing her greedily, he unbuttoned his clothes, took off the clothes that still had the warmth of his body, and covered her exposed shoulders that had been chilled by the morning dew.

He kept kissing her, her forehead, her eyebrows, eyes, nose and lips, but soon he found that he had just kissed the tear stains off her face, and new hot tears rolled from her eyes , wet his cheek.When he coaxed her in a low voice and begged her forgiveness for scaring her, she cried even harder—and he decided to take her back to the house, where, where no one could see, He could express his apology to her in a more enthusiastic way and make her stop crying.

He panted, and after kissing her lips for the last time, he let her go, and turned to look at the tenant farmer whose eyes seemed to be about to fall out.

"Gentlemen, may I please leave?"

The tenant farmers just woke up, looked at each other, hurriedly bowed and apologized, followed, turned and left in a hurry.

"Dear Mademoiselle Grandet," he looked down at her after the onlookers disappeared, "you once asked me if I had anything to say. I said, when I come back, I do have a lot to say. I want to tell you something. Now that I'm back, would you still let me tell you?"

Eugenie nodded to him with tears in her eyes.

He picked her up and strode towards the house.

"Then let's go--let me carry you, I've wanted to do that a long time ago--I can't wait--"

He said with a smile, his eyes shone like diamonds under the sunlight.

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