Granville's estate

When Cabo asked him to "don't be angry about it", Louis almost subconsciously denied this statement-according to Cabo's statement, even if Miss Louise de Waterville deliberately got the carriage Turns out, as an aristocrat, Callister also has an unshirkable responsibility to play the role of the knight who saves the beauties in trouble. In this case, how could he be angry because of such things?

"Ah, yes, yes, sir, I know you won't be angry, you've always had a very good temper," said Carbo, shifting concepts slyly: "I just thought I needed to defend our sir Just now, lest you should think that our gentleman left you on purpose in order to court the beautiful Mademoiselle de Waterville, which is always so easy to be misunderstood."

"...I didn't think about it that way." Louis said, he tried his best to ignore the strange feeling when he saw Callister helping Miss Louise into the carriage: "However, are you sure this is really Was it at the behest of Miss de Waterville, and not just an accident? I can't imagine a lady of noble birth would do such a thing, just to give your husband a chance to be a hero, It's too dangerous, it's just a joke with your own life."

Karbo shook his head with a smile when he heard him say that.

"Mr. Louis, you probably don't know that in order to get a chance to get married, beautiful and noble ladies will do whatever they can. After all, for them, marriage is the only thing they can grasp." Karbo said, he even I took the time to study Miss Louise's little thoughts: "You probably don't know that the current financial situation of the De Wattville family is not good. They lost too much property in the rebellion that year, and they haven't been able to do it for so many years. Recovered. Before, Baron de Waterville wanted to let the lady stay in the monastery forever because he could not get the dowry for his daughter. In this case, how could it be impossible for Miss de Waterville to put all her eggs in one basket? The day just now For a certain distance, it only takes half a quarter of an hour to go back to the spacious avenue, but when her carriage just passed our carriage, I heard her call the coachman's name and ask him Turn around and walk back immediately."

"Sir, I dare say there are few gentlemen in Paris who are more popular with unmarried ladies than our gentlemen, and I am not boasting. You think, a man rich enough to not care about the size of the bride's dowry Isn’t it the best husband candidate for a young and handsome nobleman whose family background and status are noble enough, and at the same time just about the same age, unlike those five or sixty-year-old widowers who are annoying to look at?”

"..."

This is indeed a fact——Louis thought a little angrily, after all, the gold coins owned by Viscount Calliste de Durand are as endless as the water of the Rhine, and he had previously made 50 francs to make Miss Claudia, who is not of good birth, ascends the throne of the Baroness de Portandière!If any noble lady could capture the viscount's heart with love, then she definitely wouldn't need to worry about the lack of dowry.

While Kabo and Louis were chatting, the rental carriage carrying them drove through the spacious boulevard, turned into a quiet alley, and finally stopped in front of a small three-story building - this is Kabo It's the other house of the Durand family that Bo said.

This courtyard is a quaint old-fashioned residence, both in appearance and interior, which has the characteristics of the old aristocratic era. It has a total of five large and small reception rooms (too many reception rooms are one of the characteristics of the autocratic era architecture), A dining room, two prayer rooms, two study rooms, and seven rooms large enough for a large family and a small garden to decorate the old gable that separates the building from the neighbor's yard. There are gilded wind vanes and even two small corner towers that are probably only decorative - typical of the old aristocratic times!

"Here you can rest for a while, sitting by the fireplace and warming yourself by the fire."

Kabo placed Louis in the living room on the first floor, where there are soft sofas, a warm fireplace, and some newspaper illustrations that can be used for entertainment. He ordered the maid to bring Louis a cup of hot water with fresh cream. Coffee, and then took the footman to the cloakroom on the second floor to find Callister's coat - his master had given Miss Louise his cloak before, and as a qualified valet, he had to Hurry up and ask the servant to take a new coat and go to the Baron de Wattville's mansion. After all, it is shameful for a gentleman not to have a servant to accompany him!

As a result, Louis stayed alone on the first floor. He walked around holding a cup of coffee, looking at the interior decoration of this other courtyard very curiously, and found that the style of furniture here was similar to that of the De Boudoir he had been to. The Vicomte de Gaigne's house was very similar; however, it was the painting at the corner of the stairs leading to the second floor that most attracted his attention.

It was a portrait in a gold-plated frame. The old man in the painting had the same blue-green eyes as Callister and Galbien, gray hair, and a stern expression. He was about to open his mouth to question the person who was staring at him; although the inscription time in the lower right corner of the portrait was written in 1807 under the rule of Mr. Napoleon, the old man was still wearing the complicated and gorgeous aristocratic costumes before the Great Revolution. He is holding a gold-plated cane with an eagle head and the family crest of the Durand family. From his clothing and accessories, there is no trace of the Napoleonic era at all.

"He should look like this when he is old, right?"

Louis stood on the steps of the stairs. For some reason, the first thought that popped into his mind when he saw this painting was: This old man must have a very close relationship with the Viscount; it doesn't take long, The words of Karbo who came down from the second floor confirmed his guess: "Sir, this is our gentleman's grandfather, old Viscount Maximilian de Durand, and his father has the honor to inherit the name of this lord. "

"Oh!"

Louis was taken aback. He thought it was the ancestor of the Durand family, but he didn't expect it to be the Viscount Mr. Countess de Lopez once said: "He just decided to send Card and your husband to St. Etienne boarding school, the viscount who sent Mr. Galbien to England? Why is his portrait hanging here?"

"Because that lord has lived here for a long time, Mr. Louis, during the years when His Majesty the King was forced to emigrate, because of the continuous deprivation of property, all the Durand family had to live together from various mansions. Come here." Cabo said, and he handed over the coat in his hand to the manservant, and asked him to go to the Baron de Waterville's mansion as soon as possible to give it to his master: "In fact, our husband has just returned from Saint-Etienne. He still stayed here when he came back, but... Well, he was not lucky at that time, just in time for Mr. Napoleon to escape from Elba Island, which allowed him to eat with that adult A lot of trouble."