The Sensory Animals of Ston Hill

Orisa has always had a dream, which in Sophie's words is a daydream - Orisa's grandmother, mother and three aunts all had boys as their first babies, and several mothers survived the birth , which made Orisa firmly believe that the women in her family have such inheritance.She had long shown an inclination in this direction: she would rather risk raising a child of her own by giving a rich old gentleman an illegitimate child than raising a named child with a poor boy.

Because according to the law, sooner or later, an illegitimate child will inherit the inheritance of his biological father, and then he will become a superior person; and at that time, she will become the mother of a superior person, and she will forever get rid of the fate of serving others.

Grace told Orisa Allen that Master was drunk and needed someone to take care of him, and he added: "He is drunk and you can ignore him."

But Orisa didn't seem to hear his second words, because she immediately jumped up from the bed, dug out her most beautiful dress from the box, and gestured on her body.

Grace retreated to her cold room.His room only sleeps him alone, so it is smaller than other maids' rooms, but it can give him a sense of security.

He took off his coat and lay down on the bed.Because of the cold, because of Alan Stone's abnormal tears, and because of Orisa's unscrupulous joy, he couldn't sleep.

Fortunately, Orisa came back soon, and there were some messy footsteps outside the door.Grace rushed out immediately, calling softly, "Olisa!"

Orisa clasped the two skirts of her blouse tightly to cover her chest with both hands, and the straps on her chest were untied.Young and plump Orisa has the most beautiful breasts in Stoneton Hills, standing proudly without the support of a corset.When Orisa laughed at Grace's flat chest in the past, she let Grace hold it. Grace grabbed it with a full hand, which was really different from her barren breasts.

At this time, the plump breasts showed beautiful arcs under the disheveled clothes. Orisa gave Grace a hard look, and ran into her room sullenly.

Then Orisa and Grace got into a fight, which happened a few times when they were kids, but not in recent years.

Apart from Orisa, Alan Stone also regained his previous coldness in front of Grace.

He understood Alan Stone's transformation.He can only confide his thoughts to the person he loves the most. If it were him himself, if someone other than Sophie and Orisa saw his weak tears, he would definitely hate that person, just like his secret was just revealed by Ai. As Lenston saw it.

Before the end of Alan Stone's vacation, Grace, as usual, gave him the letter she wrote to William Stone and asked him to convey it on his behalf.

If it was in the past, Alan Ston would have disdain to read the letter he wrote to William Ston, he could only yell "brother" one after another with those disgusting words.But this time, he opened the letter in front of Grace and read it openly.

"To my dearest brother, thank you for the book you asked Master Alan to bring back..." Alan Stone recited with a strange voice, and cast a contemptuous glance from time to time, reminding him that he was in William Stein made a shameful mistake, and his brother will never forgive him.

Grace had long been used to this kind of humiliation, but she was still blushing with shame in the recitation of the strange voice, and couldn't help but feel sad.

"I miss you very much, and I look forward to your reply infinitely. I will always love you, Grace..." After reading the last word, Alan Ston was silent for a while, and suddenly sneered: "Give up, brother will always be happy." I won't write to you!"

This time Alan Stone's departure from home set off a sad parting throughout the Heights.Of course, every time he left before, it would stir up a lot of people. Those young or not young maids were willing to shed tears for him, and they almost regarded every parting as the last time they saw him.

And this time, the feeling in the hearts of the women of Ston Heights was more real than ever before.Because after Alan Stone reported to school, he was about to participate in the real battle.

There was a peasant rebellion in Vinod Province in the south, and it was said that it was quite violent.Even Grace had heard of the place, Jerry the peddler used to mention it to him, it was his hometown.It is said that Vinod Province is next to the capital, which frightened His Majesty in the palace.

The Earl of Arundel recommended Alan Stone to suppress the rebellion. In his words, this adventure is a rare opportunity, "Those peasants don't even have guns, and those who stand in front of this young man only have military achievements, not Danger".Mrs. Stone has been persuaded by him, but on the day of farewell, she still cried into tears. Even the stern housekeeper secretly wiped away tears. After all, in this villa without a male owner, he was the only one who saw Alan. Ston grows up to be a male elder.

A few days after Alan Ston left, Ston Hill changed its new name-"Kent Hill", a very unromantic naming method, using the name of the Earl of Arundel.

The earl's servant brought more than a dozen stonemasons, and they set up a high shelf in front of the main entrance of the villa. Several stonemasons climbed up together and smashed the stone carving board engraved with "Ston's Villa".

Once again Grace thought of Alan Stone's scalding tears as the large and small wreckage of the slate fell to the ground and shattered into smaller wreckage.

The earl has become the owner of the villa, but he still seems to regard it as a resting place. When the stone carving board engraved with the words "Kent Hill Villa" is fixed, he also leaves.

He told Grace that the center of power is in the capital, in the palace, in the Senate, and in the Parliament.The people there were chasing power like a pack of wolves chasing a lone sheep, and there was nothing left in the blink of an eye, and he had been at ease here for too long.When he said this, he was still on the bed, stroking Grace's smooth body.

Maybe he really liked her, Grace thought, so she showed some nostalgia the night before leaving.

Grace did not stand outside the gate of the villa with the others, watching Earl of Arundel leave.

He walked through the woods by the same chestnut-picking road until Lord Arundel rode up with his servants.

The count reined in his horse in front of him, and gave him back the dagger that had been stuck in Jerry the peddler.

Grace immediately understood that this was a reminder, a warning, even though he didn't know what the Earl needed him to do.

Grace took the dagger and looked down at it. The blood on it had been wiped away, revealing the silver blade and golden handle.

Grace asked the count: "Can such a knife be bought with a piece of cheese?" He thought for a while, and then added: "It's the kind of fragrant and soft cheese made by Sophie's cook."

It's really strange, holding this blood-stained dagger, he didn't feel scared, but felt extremely sad.

Maybe it's because Jerry Thomson is dead and won't hurt him anymore, so he can only think of the good he used to be.When people talked about the rebellion in Vinod Province, he thought of Jerry Thomson's innocent smile when he talked about his hometown and his mother.

The Earl was amused by his innocent question, although it was only a fleeting smile, slightly like a leaf falling on the surface of a lake.

The Earl raised Grace's chin with a folded whip, "Son, have you ever been to a place other than the Villa?"

Grace shook her head.

The earl showed pity, "Poor child, is this your whole world?"

His expression made Grace feel offended, and she retorted: "But Ston Hill is very big!"

"It's Kent Hills." The earl corrected him tolerantly, with such subtle ripples on his lips.He took off his gloves, gently touched the top of Grace's head, and then rubbed his soft face, "When I'm not around, it's difficult to find Mr. Wales."

As soon as he lifted the rein, the steed turned around and joined the servants waiting not far away, and they disappeared on the other side of the hillside in a blink of an eye.

Grace stood there for a moment, raised her hand to touch the spot where her head was touched just now, and suddenly realized that he was the one standing there all along.Standing here, he watched those people leave before his eyes one by one, some he loved, some he hated, and some he feared.They walked away one by one, but he stayed where he was.

After the Earl of Arundel left, the villa ushered in a real severe winter.

It's been a harsh winter.The open space in front of the main gate of the villa began to be repaired. Mr. Wales obeyed the master's order and brought a large number of workers and gardeners.They shoveled an inconceivably large open space in front of the villa, built a road twice as wide and several times longer than before, and dug a huge pond in the middle of the road.

The road diverged in front of the pool, bypassed the left and right respectively, and then joined on the other side of the pool, extending to an endless distance.

Compared with admiring such a huge project, the young maids in the villa are more concerned about whether the workers have married wives and how much savings they have, while some older ones are concerned about whether these workers need to pay for women to wash their clothes .

A short house for the workers was temporarily built next to the villa, and many maids frequently traveled between the villa and these low houses, and the Ston Villa suddenly became lively.

After that, the woods became lively, as if overnight, countless lumberjacks poured in from other places.They cut down trees almost day and night, and the sound of huge pine trees falling to the ground would often make Grace's heart skip a beat, and she would put down her work and look towards the woods.

He used to run into the woods in the spare time of the afternoon, watching with concern how many of the oaks, cherry trees, and chestnut trees were left.But every time he went, he was disappointed.Not long after, the trees that William Ston picked cherries for him disappeared, and then the oak trees that the two of them often leaned on and read books in the shade of the trees disappeared, and after that, the whole The woods were all cleared... and then, in the extra space, a huge and ugly building gradually appeared, next to the great river that he and William Ston loved together.The men who built the gardens at the Heights called it the "Military Factory," and it was the Earl of Arundel's new venture.

When the garden in front of the villa first took shape, the weather finally showed signs of warming up. The gardeners were busy transplanting trees in the garden, and the workers in the factory were busy transporting huge machines in time for the river to rise. It is said that a lot of coal can be saved by urging the waterwheel from time to time.

Sophie finds out the spring and summer clothes left by Grace's mother, which are the most popular styles 20 years ago.

These skirts are completely different from the skirts worn by women today. Some people say that they are learning from Turkey, while others say that they are learning from ancient Greece. In short, these skirts will look very strange after 20 years. There is no corset, and there are not so many straps. There is no need to separate tops and skirts, there is only one piece from top to bottom, and the waistline varies from the waist to below the chest.

These dresses of Mary were brought to her by old Mr. Ston before he was buried at sea. They are all the best fabrics and patterns. They look very beautiful and feel very soft, but they are all out of date.

But Grace doesn't care about being outdated, he just wants to make dressing easier.

Sophie compared these skirts to Grace one by one, "Mary is a tall beauty. In the past, the maids wanted to wear her clothes, but they all dragged to their heels. Mary said that these skirts are only beautiful when they show their ankles... ..." She looked up and down at the child she raised with her own hands, and said with relief: "Our Grace has grown up."

There is only one problem with these skirts. There is too much richness on the chest, which is not a problem for Sophie: "Sew the pleats here, and it will fit and look beautiful."

But she only had time to change one, and she never picked up a needle and thread again.

Spring has come, and the maids need to take out the thin quilts in the storage room to dry.

Orisa took out a quilt that had been smoked with camphor for half a year from the pine box. When she came down the stairs, she fainted and rolled down from the top, bleeding all over the floor.

People soon realized where the blood came from. It turned out that Orisa had escaped Sophie's sticky green porridge and was pregnant with someone's child.

The baby was lost, and Orisa caught the flu while convalescing in bed, and it infected Grace and Sophie, who took turns caring for her.

Mrs. Brown worried that their disease would infect the whole mountain village, so she wanted to drive them into the temporary low houses built by the craftsmen.Those houses are very simple, and every time the wind blows, you can hear the whistle-like sound of the wind passing through the houses.

The three women were too sick to get out of bed, and letting them go to that kind of place at this time was to let them die.

The Earl of Arundel's servant, Mr. Wales, proposes to Lady Brown that they be housed in a guest room on the top floor, where they will have no contact with the rest of the estate.Mr. Wales also invited a doctor and a farmer's daughter for them. The doctor gave them expensive medicine, and the farmer's daughter fed them water and food.

In the end, Grace survived, while Orisa and Sophie died one after another on the softest bed they had ever slept on in their lives.

The doctor said he felt sorry for the two of them.Orisa was originally strong, but unfortunately she had just experienced a miscarriage, while Sophie was dragged down by her oversized body.

"Sophie said it's okay for a woman to be fatter, so that no man will tell her those elaborate lies." Grace murmured.

The doctor didn't hear clearly, so he asked again. The farmer's daughter who was standing aside understood, helped Grace to ask him to sit down, and said to the doctor, "Maybe she needs to rest."

By the time Grace could walk freely underground, the weather finally warmed up completely.