The Sensory Animals of Ston Hill

The Earl was extra curious about William Ston, browsing those books in the study.

He could tell which books belonged to William and which belonged to Allen just by their spines: "Plato, Voltaire, Montesquieu, no surprise..."

"This should belong to my younger brother." He took out a book by Rousseau, flipped through it, and chuckled mockingly: "What a young man! If you tell me that he admires Napoleon, I won't be surprised."

Alan Ston really admired Napoleon, and he hid several books about Napoleon in his bedroom. Grace also saw him design mortars based on the manuscripts left by Napoleon.

But Grace restrained herself and did not expose him to the Earl.

The Earl of Arundel has a better understanding of the brothers, and is therefore more satisfied with them: "They were able to control their young and impulsive desire to express, and did not make too many annotations in the book. Grace, you have to Remember, don’t let your opinions get put on paper easily.”

Grace couldn't understand, he was always cautious when writing on paper.

Paper is very expensive, and William Stone must have asked Alan Stone to provide himself with paper before he left home.So Alan Stone locked up all the papers at home, and only gave himself a piece of paper every two months when he went home for vacation.This piece of paper, together with a piece bought by Grace herself, was written into a letter as long as two sheets of paper, and handed over to Alan Stone.

Grace didn't dare to think about the final whereabouts of those letters. Sometimes he was very pessimistic, and he would rather those letters were thrown away by Alan Stone halfway.

He is pessimistic now.

It is very difficult to lie to the Earl of Arundel when he needs the truth, and Grace herself is willing to tell the truth, because the man he is speaking to shows nothing in the face of his immoral feelings. The astonishment, disgust, contempt, etc., and such expressions frightened him.

He couldn't help but relive the wonderful experience with William Ston in front of the earl. Usually, this kind of memory would make him feel sweet, but today it was uncontrollably sad.

Perhaps it was because William Ston had been away from home for too long, and Grace felt that she was getting further and further away from her brother.When he recalled William Ston, he seemed to see his brother standing in the thick fog, his face blurred by the white fog.He stretched out his hand, trying to shake the fog away so that he could see his brother more clearly, but he found that William Ston had already stood on a distant mountain.

He learned how the Earl recognized books. No matter how much a book is cherished, a book will leave traces if it is read a lot.

He stood in front of William's bookshelf, looked up at the books, and realized that he didn't seem to be standing here very often.

Compared with this side, Alan Ston's bookshelf over there is obviously more attractive to him, although he is reluctant to admit this.He reads poetry, learns Latin, and memorizes history, all to hear William praise him; and those science magazines of Alan Ston will naughtily stretch out their little hands to seduce him when he is drowsy from memorizing history with him.Did humans evolve from other animals?Is it possible to treat hysteria in women by resetting the uterus through marriage and pregnancy?These articles made him extremely curious, even at the risk of being discovered by Alan Stone, he still wanted to take a peek.

He had to admit that he knew too little about William.

He selected a Bible with a worn spine, a Latin edition.After he seduced William Ston, William Ston went to the study that night, and Alan Ston later told him that his brother blamed himself for the crime and read the Bible in the study until dawn.

Grace touched the cover lightly, and then stood the book on the table.

The sacred book spread out naturally, and stopped on the most read page, the very front page.

Grace still remembered that when she first learned this page, William Ston skipped it without explaining the reason.

Now Grace has to use his limited knowledge of Latin to figure out what the page says:

"...they acted out the lusts of their hearts by doing unclean things, so that they defiled each other's bodies..."

His Latin is really bad, and it is extremely difficult to read unfamiliar sentences, especially when his eyes are already blurred:

"...indulge in shameful lusts, and their women turn their natural uses into perverse ones...men and men do what is shameful, and receive in themselves the due recompense of their error."