gentleman's manor

Last week Simon wrote to tell me that William was getting married and my father didn't mention me, but if I wanted to go home and see, he could come and pick me up.

My sister-in-law is still the same as in her previous life, a lady William met in London. They met at a ball and fell in love quickly.She has a dowry of [-] pounds, which is quite a lot, and her status matches. I really wonder how William tricked him into such a well-matched wife. Maybe the other party took a fancy to William's handsome face.

In my previous life, I only saw her when my elder brother passed away. I heard that she remarried immediately after taking off her filial piety. She married a rich man from France, and then left England, so I guess she is not a quiet woman.

Simon drove to pick me up. He looked a lot older.

"Master Adam, nice to meet you, how are you?" Simon smiled and hugged me.

"I miss you Simon." I smiled and said to him, "How did you convince my father to take me home?"

"After finishing this year, I will leave Quint." Simon said with a disappointed expression: "Mrs. Jenny has found another butler to replace me. The old butler's last request, sir, will satisfy me no matter what."

I looked at Simon in disbelief: "But you are not yet 60 years old, how can she fire you? That woman is really getting more and more arrogant, didn't my brother object?"

"Don't worry, Master Adam, my son has already found a job as a housekeeper in Murray County in the north, and I can join him."

The atmosphere on the road has been very silent. Before arriving home, I changed from the beautiful and exquisite Locke School uniform and put on a very simple coat, and then followed Simon into the home that I had left for almost three years.

Quint Manor has not changed much, it is still beautiful, and the scenery here will never be tired.

A small shadow stood at the gate and smiled when it saw me.

"Brother Adam." My younger sister Anna ran towards me, stood beside me, looked at me for a while, then threw herself into my arms, and said softly, "I miss you so much, you didn't say goodbye to me when you left. "

She hugged her so tightly, when I pulled her away, I found that the little girl was crying.

Anna is also a very lonely child. She lost her mother and was ignored by her father since she was a child. I am one of the very few people who care about her. She will miss me.

"I'm sorry, it's all my fault, please forgive me?" I pulled her into my arms again and hugged her tightly.

"Are you going back this time? Can you not go?" She said while wiping her tears.

I looked at Simon, who shook his head and sighed. It seems that Anna has suffered a lot at home.

Many guests came to Quint Manor, and Madam Jenny was busy entertaining them. Most of them were relatives of the bride's family. It was heard that the wedding ceremony would be held in a nearby cathedral.

My father saw me, but he didn't come over and say a word to me, as if I was a transparent person.

When I went upstairs, I met Elizabeth. She was standing on the stairs, looking down at me: "Look who is this downcast? I thought I saw a beggar on the side of the road, you savage thug, you What are you doing back here? It's really annoying!"

I haven't seen you for a few years, and Elizabeth has grown into a big girl. She has inherited the beauty of both parents and has become a big beauty.However, the arrogance between her eyebrows has increased a lot. As an illegitimate daughter, she is too arrogant.

I smiled and bowed to her and said, "It's nice to meet you, dear sister Elizabeth. I wanted to apologize to you before I left last time, but unfortunately I didn't have the chance. But a kind person like my sister must have put those Leave the little misunderstanding behind, forgive me, don't you think?"

"Hmph!" She glanced at me coldly, then turned and went upstairs.

That night, a grand banquet was held in the mansion of Quint Manor.

The wall lamps and chandeliers in the banquet hall are filled with white candles. Menservants in neat dresses and silver wigs shuttle among the guests, carrying trays full of wine glasses and food.

The father and brother stood in the middle of the hall, they smiled at each other, and the atmosphere seemed to be very harmonious.

The father held the hand of Mrs. Jenny, and the brother held the hand of his fiancée, and the two couples announced the start of the banquet together.

Mrs. Jenny is really bright, and although her oldest daughter is seventeen years old, she still has the vitality of a young girl.She wore a light blue silk dress, which showed her slender figure and full breasts vividly.Her long blond hair was not rolled up, but was permed into small curls and hung behind her, like a young and playful schoolgirl, she was good-looking, but she was too frivolous. How to laugh at her.

My brother's fiancée is Helena. She should be a pure-blooded Englishman with beautiful white skin, dark brown hair and eyes.She wore a snow-white dress with bare arms and front breast, and a layer of pearl lace on the breast neckline and short sleeve cuffs.There are golden jewels around the neck and wrists, and an expensive emerald barrette is stuck in the towering hair.

In short, the two women competed for beauty, which was really seductive.

The father picked up a glass, tapped it a few times with his silver spoon, to attract the attention of all the guests, and then announced: "As you all know, my son William and Miss Helena, Mr. Brown's daughter, are about to marry. I would like to extend my sincere wishes to the two newlyweds, wishing them happiness and happiness.”

There were applause and cheers from the guests.

Then the four of them led the dance together, moving gracefully in the eyes of the guests.

Although I am 15 years old, I am still the age of a child. I was squeezed on a sofa with a group of children, big and small, looking at the people on the dance floor bored.

A boy next to me asked me, "Is that your sister?"

I looked in the direction of Elizabeth. She was dancing on the dance floor, smiling and full of youth. It seemed that the young people at the banquet were fascinated by her, and they couldn't look away.

"Oh, well, you know, she's an illegitimate daughter," I said.

Hearing the words of illegitimate daughter, the boy raised his eyebrows, seeming a little regretful, and looked at the other girls in a blink of an eye.

Elizabeth is only 17 years old this year, and she is still a year away from reaching the social age, but Mrs. Jenny can't wait to push her out to meet people.She was wearing the most fashionable and expensive dress in all of London, the most luxurious and exquisite jewelry, and the latest and most beautiful hairstyle. She was so dazzling that she could compare to Miss Helena, the focus of tonight.

I knew it from Helena's displeased expression. I thought she would suppress her anger and settle the score with Elizabeth later. Who knew that during the group dance, several girls from Helena's family stretched out their feet to Elizabeth quietly.Sure enough, Elizabeth, who was getting carried away dancing, fell a big somersault and landed on her butt in embarrassment.

There was a burst of laughter around, the gentlemen didn't smile too deliberately, but the smiles of the women were meaningful, among them, the unmarried ladies were quite reserved, but the wives didn't care about it, and commented on Elizabeth on the spot.

"I heard it's an illegitimate daughter. Her mother gave birth to her when she was Constantine's mistress."

"It's a pity that she looks pretty. I'm afraid I can't find a good family. I'm afraid even those wealthy merchants won't let a woman who hinders their reputation."

"Look at her, she is just as frivolous and presumptuous as her mother, maybe she won't be able to get married, and she will be someone's mistress, but I don't know if she has the good luck of her mother to succeed in taking the position." A sarcastic woman commented .

"What kind of superior is she? Quint's real mistress is about to marry in. Will she be allowed to embarrass herself on such an occasion?" A woman complained, "It's all because Quint Manor doesn't have decent women. Master, my family has seldom interacted with Quint these years, and after marrying a girl from the Brown family, we can finally get back on track. Otherwise, every time Mrs. Jenny has the cheek to mess with me, I will have to deal with it."

There were more and more voices in private, but the poor Mrs. Jenny didn't know anything about it. She was comforting her daughter in the room.

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Mr. Hall is the man Elizabeth has been courting tonight. He is handsome, with a noble family background, and he is the first heir to the baron.He was the most eye-catching unmarried man among all the male guests that night, and almost every girl stared at him.

Mrs. Jenny is not as self-aware as her daughter. She knows that as a daughter, it is impossible to marry the noble Mr. Hall. If a rich and landed squire is willing to marry her, everyone will be happy.

So she comforted her daughter and said: "There are other excellent men at the ball, and they all like you, because you are the most beautiful girl in the audience, and those who don't love you are blind."

"But I was so ugly." After finishing speaking, she said bitterly: "I know who stumbled me, they are all jealous of me, those ugly women, who are not as beautiful as others, use these despicable methods , I must take revenge back!"

Mrs. Jenny shook her head and said, "Don't be so impulsive, you will mess things up."

"But that woman's friends and relatives are making trouble."

"She is gaining momentum now, we have to hide from the edge and deal with her slowly in the days to come." Mrs. Jenny's eyes were full of ambition.

"Mother, is there really nothing we can do? When father dies, that bastard William will definitely drive us out. By then, Quint Manor will be theirs. I'm really scared." Elizabeth said.

Mrs. Jenny held her daughter in her arms, stroked her back and said, "Don't be afraid, I will never let that happen. Quint Manor belongs to us, and it belongs to my son Joseph. Anyone can rob it." No. Your father stands by us, and he will help us."

"Mom, what are your plans?"

"Slowly you will know." Mrs. Jenny said with a smile.

The next day, William and Helena were married to everyone's blessings.

Wearing a white wedding dress, Helena walked into Quint Manor, holding her husband's hand, this beautiful manor that will belong to her in the future.

For a newlywed, she was gentle enough to say hello to Anna and me with a smile, and then to ignore us.After all, we are only his husband's younger siblings, and we have to leave the manor when we become adults. Her greatest enemy is our stepmother, Mrs. Jenny. As long as Dean Constantine is alive, she will occupy the throne of the mistress of Quint Manor.

So the struggle between women is also very cruel, it depends on who is the best, but I have no chance to appreciate it, I have to go back to school.