The Sensory Animals of Ston Hill

The children have been picked up from the shelter.

On the day they left the villa, it was already midnight when they arrived in the capital.His Majesty's convoy was naturally going back to the palace, but the children were taken away by the guards.They said goodbye to their sister hurriedly in the carriage and were sent to the almshouse of St. Marin Abbey in the north of the city.

Eva later went to a shelter and came back crying.The girl held back her tears when her mother died, but she said to Grace in tears at that moment: "I may have made a wrong decision...even if life is born to atone for sin, it should not be subjected to that kind of abuse. .”

Grace said he should be responsible for the incident.

He got the money quickly, and though it cost him something, he thought it was worth it.Eva and Anna used the money to find a new home and a loving guardian for the children. Only Luca, a sensible boy, remained and was taken by a young priest of St. Marin to the St. Marin Convent School.

What a great honor!Luca became a classmate of those little marquises and counts, and studied with the archbishop's nephews and illegitimate children!If he lives up to expectations and is lucky, he might become a cardinal in the future!

This is what Eva told him.And Anna told him that Luca was always punished at school and bullied by his classmates because people saw his sister wearing cheap clothes and heard their country accents when they talked.

So Grace will put on a big skirt and a hat with a brim, and take a high-end carriage to St. Marin.

Thanks to the generosity of Alan Stone, Grace switched from a planned two-horse carriage to a four-horse carriage.

It takes more than half of the city to go from the palace to St. Marin, and only the King's Road that exits the palace is good. After walking 1000 meters, turning the corner, the road immediately deteriorates.It rained in the middle of the night last night, and the road surface was covered with silt and garbage, and the car was very unstable on it.Horse excrement was everywhere on the carriageway, and human excrement on both sides of the road.

Eva told him that this street is full of people who work in the palace, because it is close to the palace, the rooms are very popular, and many people can live in one house, so there is more waste water on the street than other streets.

Anna said: "The pigpens in the backyard of the villa are not so dirty."

The number of houses and people in the city is far beyond the expectations of these three "country folks".

The house and the house are all next to each other, and there must be servants on the lower floor, and there are people living in the sloping attic that can only be used as a storage room in Grace's view.

Many seemed to have nothing to do and wandered the streets in dirty, old clothes.Some of the women sat in front of the door, sewing or weaving, while the children washed and cut potatoes—the townspeople didn't peel them!

Grace saw two drunk men in nightcaps helping each other out of a tavern, and it was unclear whether they were hungover from last night or drunk early in the morning.The two staggered to the base of the wall, took out the thing and peed.The carriage bumped forward, and Grace turned her head and kept looking there.

"Grace," Eva whispered to him, holding his face to straighten his head, "don't look at that."

Grace grimaced at her, leaned her elbows on the window sill, and cupped her chin, brooding.

A few days after entering the palace, His Majesty exposed his body to him.It was very different from what he had expected. Although His Majesty's thing couldn't be hardened, based on what he observed after he entered the palace, His Majesty looked similar to other men.In other words, he can completely pretend to be a healthy person!This makes Grace feel cheated.

Of course, he didn't say anything at that time, and when His Majesty hugged him as if he was about to cry, he even patted him on the back to comfort him.

His Majesty also has two illegitimate daughters, two young ladies, one of whom walks unsteadily, and the other wants to be hugged.They only inherited their mother's surname, but everyone in the palace knew that they were princesses, and they were the only next generation of the royal family in the palace.

That was all Grace was thinking about now.He understands the principle of how a man impregnates a woman, and it is strange how His Majesty put his own bodily fluids into the stomachs of the two ladies.

The car picked up speed and jolted harder as it ran over horse manure.The coachman reminded them to sit still, saying that he wanted to make the car go faster, and raised his whip as he spoke.

Grace and the two girls glanced up the road and screamed at the same time.Grace yelled, "Stop! Stop! Humans!"

There seems to be a market in front of it, the street is full of vendors and shoppers, how can a carriage pass!

The groom was still holding his whip, and turned around and said, "Ma'am, don't worry, just help me. I have been driving carriages for ladies and gentlemen for 20 years, and I have never let ladies and gentlemen fall down!"

The horses were blindfolded. They didn't know that there were people in front of them, so they ran forward without any hesitation.The carriage rushed into the market place, and the two girls screamed with the fleeing adults and children.

Grace shouted to the groom to stop the horse, stretched out her arm from behind and snatched the whip from the coachman, and he almost fell out of the cart himself!

The carriage stopped in the middle of the street, and the people who were frightened by it and fled in all directions gathered back on the street, looked at them in fear but got used to it, and continued walking.

The coachman turned his head sullenly. He seemed to see through Grace's actions just now that he was a fake "Madam", and he was no longer so polite to him: "Madam, if you don't let my horse run, these poor people won't give it to you." We give way! How are we going to get there?"

"It's always driven like this! Which old lady's carriage doesn't run like this? If Ma'am is so timid, we won't be able to leave the city center at night! I only charged you half a day's money, which is based on my usual speed Come to calculate the price, if I follow your speed, I will definitely delay the business in the afternoon! After lunch, Mrs. Timmeler will get up, and I will send that lady to have her hair done, and I will send her there after finishing her hair Hat shop, after Madam finishes shopping for hats, I will take her home. If you are lucky, you might meet other gentlemen and wives near Madam’s mansion who want to go to the theater by car!”

When the coachman talked about the excitement, he almost tore his yellowed scarf, "Oh! God! The kind and generous Mrs. Timmeler rides in my carriage every day. Do I have to do it because of the timidity of a certain lady? And snub my best guest?"

Alan Stone sat in the cafe on the second floor, staring at the street downstairs, which was the only way to go to the north of the city by car from the palace.

There was a sudden commotion outside, like the sound of a crowd booing, mixed with whistles.

Alan Stone's heart moved, he stood up and looked out.

ha!Sure enough, it was the maid!

Grace was wearing a gigantic dress almost as big as the ladies from last night.The heavy skirt was pulled up to the calf, revealing a pair of old boots on the feet.Encumbered by her skirt, Grace staggered on the muddy and dirty road, supported by two young maids.The two maids held a pair of soft-soled shoes in one hand and a large millinery in the other, and their posture was as cautious and dignified as a bishop holding a holy body.

That must be Grace's hat.Alan Stone recognized the golden-brown hair first, and then recognized the person.

Surrounded by spectators, they slowly moved forward with them.A luxury carriage followed behind, and the coachman sat leisurely in the carriage with his hands folded on his chest, watching Grace slipping in the muddy road proudly.

Alan Stone had sat in front of this window for nearly an hour before, getting annoyed almost every 10 minutes, feeling like a fool.But now he laughed, and leaning out of the window, he called out, "Hey, miss! Why are you wearing such ugly boots?"

The person downstairs raised his head, revealing an extremely annoyed face.

A barefooted man in an old felt hat next to him shouted upwards: "Sir, I sold this lady! Although my boots are ugly, they are very strong, and they are easy to step on the mud. Charged her a pound of rent!"

Now all looked up, and the maid with Grace's hat recognized him, and exclaimed joyfully, "Master Ellen! How good to see you here!"

"Oh, really? I'm glad to see you too!" He smiled slyly, stepped on the window frame to get out of the Italian window, stepped on the pergola on the first floor, and then jumped down from it .

The author says:

When it comes to Italian-style windows, I think of a sentence: Then window, let day in, and let life out. --- "Romeo and Juliet" Shakespeare