little miss austin

Ivo smiled, "You're so smart."

"Where are you going?"

"I can't tell you, this is to protect you." He took her hands in both hands and kissed the back of her hands. "Don't worry, Wesley has made arrangements for me. I hide for a while, maybe a year, maybe half a year. I can't write to you, but I will remember you, miss you, love you. I know now What can be done, what should be done, don't always think that I am still a boy, I will grow up. You... will you wait for me?"

"I'll wait for you to come back. You have to protect yourself and don't die young."

He relaxed a little, and smiled gratifiedly, "Wait for me, this is the only request I have from you."

Alice lowered her eyes, smiled, and looked up at him again, "Ivo, no matter where you are going, remember to come back, come back well." She moved closer to him and kissed him gently on the lips.

Ivo still doesn't know how to kiss, and kisses very carefully and youngly.

He couldn't hide his smile, "I have to go, while there are so many people." He kissed her forehead tenderly.

Alice went back downstairs, a little uneasy.

She was worried about Ivo's safety, he was right not to tell her where she was going, the less she knew, the better.

He turned out to be an investigative reporter!

This took her by surprise.

He has always been a spoiled baby who has no worries about everything. He doesn't know that there is a dark side in this world. He was shocked by the disappearance of little Thomas. The crime was made public, but it was also mentioned that this matter was too dangerous, and it was necessary to disguise and make perfect preparations, including finding a way out to avoid the criminals' revenge.

He didn't know when he made up his mind to go undercover, but it seemed that he might even have started preparations on the ship back to England. He lost a lot of weight, most likely to change his appearance and lose weight by fasting; Grow a beard. After all, a pair of glasses may not change your appearance, but a big beard will make you a different person.

She never thought that he would be so persistent!

Yes, and before he tried desperately to escape from the imprisonment of his parents, and even escaped in Ireland, she should have known then that if he wanted to do something, he would definitely try to do it.

He is a man of great perseverance.

She didn't want him to die at such a young age.

She had to believe that Wesley would arrange everything. Wesley was similar to Oliver in that he was not astute, but he was prudent, and everything would be considered clearly.She couldn't ask Wesley where he was, couldn't contact him.He would miss her, and she would miss him, too.

It is not easy to deal with corpse thieves and murderers. They are born in the bottom class, have low education level, are vulgar, only recognize money, and don't recognize anything else. They must be very careful.Before, Ivo could go to Newstead Manor with his parents and sister. After the investigation report was published, he had to go out to avoid the limelight, so as not to die on the street one day, and not hurt his parents, sister, and the girl he liked.

She felt flustered and uneasy.

On the way home from the dance, it started to rain.

Alice looked at the rain pattering on the window glass.

Cousin Anna asked: "What's the matter with you? You don't seem very happy tonight."

"I'm not unhappy, I just have something in my heart."

"What are you thinking about?"

"Think—the future, the future."

"Tell me."

"The future of the individual, the future of the world. What will Britain look like in 100 years? What will the world look like? In 200 years? Will someone remember me? I want others to remember me. Students learn my novels in class, and then they will curse: God knows what the central idea of ​​this book is and what social phenomenon it criticizes!"

Cousin Anna smiled, "Your wish will come true."

"But I don't know, I'll be dead by then and become a set of bones in the coffin."

"People are mortal, it's not scary."

Alice was silent for a while, "My mother said, I should get married and have children, so that my life will continue on the children. But I don't think it is necessary. My novels are like my children. If 100 years later, After 200 years, people will still read my novels, and this is the value of my existence."

"In the Name of the Father" was officially released at the end of September.

The distribution channels of Austin and Ferrero Publishing House have done very well in the past few years. They have been distributed in the four regions of the British mainland and almost all overseas colonies and enclaves.Because of transportation problems, the British mainland was the first to go on the market, followed by several overseas territories in Europe, Asian colonies, Bermuda, and Upper Canada.

"In the Name of the Father" cleverly combines religion, mysticism, secret societies, logic and deductive reasoning, revenge and love. The elements seem to be many but not chaotic. The story is exciting and the plot is very tortuous and fascinating.

People have never seen such a novel with strong storytelling and rich elements before, especially with religious elements. People grow up in the stories of the Bible, live in a religious environment, and are very interested in stories about religion, especially when they are written like this Thrilling, people just want to read it overnight after getting the book.

Alice reads to Cousin Anna and Claire. Even Cousin Anna, who is not very interested in anything, wants to know the follow-up of the story quickly, and analyzes the plot and characters with Alice and Claire very seriously.

She thought Mariana was a little too clever, too clever for men.This might make a guy think she's a little - not tender?In other words, too "alternative".

"But why do girls have to be 'gentle'? Besides, smartness and gentleness are not opposites. If men are afraid that women will be too smart, doesn't it mean that they know they can't be that smart?"

There's nothing wrong with logic.

"But she will be at a disadvantage in this way. Men would rather marry a docile and obedient lady. Tell me, is Mr. Weston in love with Mariana?"

"No, you have to wait for me to read it slowly, I can't tell you so quickly."

"I like Mr. Weston. He seems to be a good man and a smart man. He can help Mariana."

Claire quickly said: "I also like Mr. Weston, he is really nice."

Claire is 15 years old and has reached the age of longing for love.She is a well-behaved child, and she also received lady education from Mrs. Becker. Her adoptive mother, Anna, treats her no differently from her biological daughter, and she knows it herself.Alice felt that Claire was the perfect daughter that every mother wanted. She was sensible and obedient, and worked hard in everything. The only thing she was lucky about was that Mrs. Austin had the wrong chance to meet Cousin Anna, otherwise she would definitely use Claire to reprimand her. Annoyed that she wasn't obedient enough.

After the novel was published, book reviews in some review magazines and newspapers began to discuss this informative novel.Some book reviews believe that this is another genre that emerged after Gothic novels, but the requirements for the author are very high. The author must have a wealth of religious knowledge and secret society knowledge-although no one knows the authenticity of this genre, but also have a fluent The plot arrangement ability and the writing skills used in the novel itself have been perfected, and it is Alice Leigh's best work so far.

Other book reviews think that the description of Freemasonry in the novel is too absurd and unimaginable. Freemasonry is an open and secret society. Many famous people are members of Freemasonry, including the late Sir Newton, Copernicus, and European countries. Some members of the royal family, etc.; the Roman Catholic Church refused to recognize Freemasonry as a religious sect, denouncing it as "unorthodox".But the author handles it very cleverly, neither denying the Freemasonry nor praising the Freemasonry, basically remaining neutral, so none of the Freemasonry members strongly objected to this novel.

As for the Holy See, the British didn't care.

The sales volume of "In the Name of the Father" is very good, selling nearly 3000 copies in a month, and the price is slightly more expensive, 28 shillings.£1 is now 24 shillings.

But that was not as much sales as Byron's The Travels of Childe Harold.

This collection of poems does not have as many words and fewer pages as "In the Name of the Father", but the price is as high as 30 shillings, because there are many illustrations inserted in it, which can be said to be full of pictures and texts.It is also advertised first, and the pre-orders are not too many, only more than 100 copies, but after the official release in early December, the sales volume in the first 12 days was as many as 3 copies.

For a time, paper was expensive in London, and everyone in the upper class was talking about "The Travels of Childe Harold".

"The Travels of Childe Harold" is the first work published by Byron under the real name of "Lord Byron". The poet and Scottish critic EnglishBardsandScotchReviewers" is anonymous, but it was later believed to have been written by Byron, so it was scolded miserably.

"Child Harold's Travels" can be regarded as his Jedi counterattack, and the critics forget that it was more than two years ago that they criticized Byron's poems for nothing.

Reviews and newspapers were full of praise for the collection, praising Byron's poetry for its beauty and naturalness, its splendor of thought, and its exoticism.They were also very interested in guessing who the "To Alice" on the title page was.There was no girl named "Alice" among Byron's relatives, and the most likely girl he knew about his age was Alice Austin, the little sister of the owner of the Austin Publishing House.

Suddenly, Byron found himself an emerging poet of national renown.

Suddenly, Alice found herself bound to Byron, and a wave of gossip spread quickly.

Alice was going to be pissed off.

Byron was still ignorant, "Isn't that good? Mr. Austin agreed."

"Not good! Why don't you ask me?"

"Ask you? That wouldn't be a surprise. Don't you like it? I thought you'd be."

"In this way, it is easy for others to know that it is me. I don't want to be connected with your name in this form."

Byron was angry, "What do you mean? Is it embarrassing to be with my name?"

"Who told you not to ask my opinion first? Is it because you don't care what I think?"

"I didn't know it would sell so well." He felt aggrieved, "I thought it would be a lot to sell at most a few hundred copies."

"What does it have to do with sales?" Alice rolled her eyes unceremoniously, angrily, "In this way, others will think that we are about to get engaged. When my mother asks, how should I answer? Say, oh, dear mother, no need Worried, George and I are just lovers? Mom must kill me."

She pouted, sitting on the sofa puffed up, with her arms crossed on her chest.

"That's not bad." He sat down next to her and touched her face affectionately. "So that young Gordon won't come to you all the time." He meant Charles Gordon.

"Then you are wrong, he will find me more charming, because I am your lover." Throughout the summer, Charles Gordon probably kept visiting her once or twice a week, reading books with her, Reading the newspaper, taking a walk in the nearby park, Alice sometimes staying him for dinner, going out to see a stage play twice, are the usual activities of ordinary young men and women on a date.

"Did he kiss you?"

"No, he's too shy."

Byron shook his head, "That's so boring!" He cupped her little face and kissed her delicately.

Impatient, she pushed him away, "You know my name can't always be with you, it's not good."

Byron jumped up in displeasure, "What's wrong? What are you worried about? Are you worried about your reputation? But unmarried ladies worry about their reputation because it's not easy to find a satisfactory husband. Since you don't want to get married, why worry about your reputation? You don't care about any false reputation!"

"You are so strange! Who told you that I

Don't care about reputation?I don't want someone to say bad things behind my back, saying that I can't find a husband and can only be your lover. "

Byron sneered, "Then you might as well publish an announcement in the London Morning Post, saying that you have rejected marriage proposals from many people, but you just don't want to get married."

Alice didn't even want to roll her eyes, "Stop talking nonsense."

He snorted, "The books have sold thousands of copies anyway, it's too late for you to say anything now."

"Shameless!"

"hypocritical!"

Charles Gordon returned to Cambridge University at the end of September and sent her 9 or 2 letters a week, telling her everything.Of course he knew that Byron and her had known each other since they were teenagers, and he knew exactly who "To Alice" was for.So, he wrote her a love letter full of passionate love that he had never seen before, and felt that he was madly in love with her.

Alice thought, this is the illusion in love, regardless of gender, if your lover is loved by others, then you will have a sense of crisis, and you will eagerly confirm your lover's feelings, love for your lover It will also rise several levels suddenly.

Now she can receive many letters every week, Oliver has one letter per week; Calvin Possy has not many letters, but sometimes several letters are sent at once, probably because he is busy with work and writes a letter. Can't send it in time; Gabriel Bernisson also writes a letter almost once a week. French men are super good at talking about love. Every letter he writes is very hot and sometimes very explicit. He knows her French is very good. So all letters are written in French.

Byron also wrote to her, she couldn't go to him every day, he sent servants to deliver letters to her every now and then, and also gave her gifts, a lot of messy little gifts.

Grant returned to the United States at the end of July, and the speed of sailing passenger ships from Europe to North America is about 7 days.After returning home safely, there were 35 or 2 letters in about a month, saying that he returned to the home where he had been away for 3 years, and his little sister was about to get married. He was very surprised; Mr. Temple disapproved of his expedition, but he was determined to become a great He is an explorer who plans to go to Washington and New York next year to find investors. He will first go to the Mississippi River Basin to conduct a small-scale exploration operation; he needs to find a group of reliable and experienced team members, and he also hopes to find veterans with combat experience. Soldiers to ensure the safety of the expedition.

Julian and his young wife Maria lived in Newton Manor, and he was busy taking his little wife to play around all day long, having a good time.

Evan Holmes got the diocese promised by Baron Bundfield, with an income of 1000 pounds a year, but he has not yet gone to the diocese, and the priest of the diocese will not retire until the next year, so he can waste two more years, and may use It took two years to find a suitable wife.

Evan came to London to visit Alice and Mrs. Austin, and he had a good impression of Anna Austin, thinking that she was suitable to be the pastor's wife, but Anna was not interested in him; Evan had to ask Alice, saying that if he proposed to Fanny Will it come true.Alice said, are you stupid?Anna refused you, how could Fanny agree?Where are you cool off?

It did not take long for rumors of her and Byron to reach Mrs. Austen's ears.

So Mrs. Austen came to London.

Mum didn't come to her place very often, so Alice was quite nervous, talking a lot of nonsense, just hoping to interrupt, to pretend that something didn't exist.

Mrs. Austen did not ask her daughter in front of her distant relatives. She went upstairs to Alice's room before asking, "What's the matter between you and Byron? Do you know what's going on outside?"

"What's the news? He's not married, and I'm not married. This is at most a few words that other people are idle to say, and they won't say more than three."

Mrs. Austen snorted, "If you make a fuss like that—that Percy Shelley, it will be too late! I will never allow any elopement scandal in the Austen family."

"The boy in Shelley's family elopes because his father disagrees. He is called rebellious, and I don't worry about your disapproval. Byron has no parents, and no one can stop him." Percy Shelley in August and 8 years old

Henry Yate Westbrook

Ke eloped, and this matter has been rumored in London for a long time. Baron Shelley was so angry that he almost had angina. Although Mr. Westbrook is not an aristocrat, he has a lot of property in London, is a successful businessman, and has a reputation. The scandal left both families in a state of embarrassment.

"You mean, then, that you and Lord Byron will soon be engaged? He should propose to you. Has he proposed?"

"Mom, can you stop talking about this?"

"No." Mrs. Austin was determined to ask clearly, "If he hasn't proposed to you yet, ask Henry to tell him."

Alice hurriedly said: "It's all Henry's fault! If he doesn't agree with George writing those two words on the title page, it won't matter." She suddenly wondered whether Brother Henry used this insidiously to make her and Byron something public?Did Henry know something?

She suddenly felt a little flustered.After all, she didn't think there was any problem with the relationship with Byron, but her brother and mother would definitely not agree, and would want them to get married as soon as possible.

Miscalculated!she thought angrily.Henry is a bad brother!

"I think Henry is doing well. If you don't force you, you always say, 'Oh, mother, I don't want to get married yet.' It breaks my heart to have a Cathy in the family, and I won't allow you to mess around!"

Alice has a headache... This matter is really difficult!In fact, Byron didn’t want to get married either. He was a happy bachelor now, and he was also a famous bachelor. It had only been a week since the collection of poems was released, and letters from many admirers had flown to the Austin Press, and even sent to Byron’s apartment.

She thought dissatisfiedly, that apartment is mine!

So angry, but still have to keep smiling.

"I'm still young—"

Immediately she was gagged by her mother, "Anna is already engaged! You are an aunt, how many years older than her!"

"I don't think about getting married until I'm 25."

"It's not impossible to be 25 years old," Mrs. Austin calmed down. She was also afraid that Alice would run away in a hurry. Now that she has no shortage of money, she can go anywhere easily. "But you can get engaged first. If you feel that Byron is not good, you can call off the engagement. In short, get engaged first, so that the rumors will not get worse."

Mother's considerations are actually very reasonable. After all, scandals are always getting more and more outrageous. If they are engaged, there will be nothing to spread.Just like Shelley's elopement scandal, if they had been engaged before, the two families could try their best to make up for it, and the engaged men and women could not talk about "eloping".

Baron Shelley found that his son had run away, and quickly sent people to Scotland to chase him, but there were so many roads to Scotland, how could he catch up?The way things are in the world, scandals spread quickly.Percy Shelley is the son of a baron, and Henry Yate is the daughter of a new small capitalist. They are not in the same family, but the gap is not too great.

Henry also talked about Shelley's elopement incident. They had been to Westbrook's coffee shop for coffee, and they were considered acquaintances. Westbrook didn't mind his daughter dating the son of the baron. After all, if Henry Yate and the future baron Marriage is regarded as a promotion of class, which is a good thing for his family, but Baron Shelley does not want the eldest son to have any entanglements with the merchant's daughter, and Percy is not allowed to write letters to Henry Yates.

A rebellious middle school boy like Percy Shelley would of course rebel against his father's "tyranny", so it was almost doomed to elope with Henry Yate.