little miss austin

Kate was very upset, "Miss, what's the matter with this woman? What's the matter with Master Oliver?"

Alice smiled, "Fool! I am here, less than 20 feet away from his room, even if Melissa is really his lover, he will never let me live here Discovered their - um, adultery?" This is so simple, she didn't learn deductive reasoning for nothing, okay?If you want to mislead her, you have to be smarter than her.

Kate was stunned, "What does this mean?"

"That is to say, Melissa just pretended to close the door." She walked to the nearest door, held the doorknob, and made a "closed door" gesture, "Look, do you think I just came out of the room?"

Kate suddenly realized, "She's pretending! But she—oh! I see, Miss, Melissa wants to marry Master Oliver!"

"Maybe. After all, Oliver is rich now, but he is still blind."

"Miss Alice! Don't always say that about Master Oliver."

"Okay, let's go downstairs and have breakfast."

"But it's not good, it's too dangerous. You can't live here forever, and Master Oliver can't see it. What if that bad woman pretends to be you and enters Master Oliver's room?" Kate's little head is full of plots Rich, with a lot of dog blood.

"You're right. I'll tell Oliver that if someone sneaks into his room at night, he can't just pretend to be a father."

"Miss, what strange things are you talking about?"

The master and servant were talking as they went downstairs.

"That is to say, if he falls asleep and doesn't know who the woman is, someone may use the child in his belly to force the marriage a few months later. He may ignore it, but he may also be forced to marry."

Kate was surprised, "What?"

"You don't watch enough drama."

Oliver went for a walk.

In the past, during the period before breakfast, he would go out for a run on horseback, but after he lost his sight, he couldn't ride a horse, so he could only stroll around the manor.

After returning from a walk, he ate breakfast and couldn't pick up his own food. The maid in the restaurant helped him get his favorite food and put it in front of him.

"Alice."

"I'm here."

"Have you eaten yet?"

"Ate."

"Sit down, come to me." He touched the seat beside him.

She got up and walked to him, "what, do you want me to feed you?"

"No, but I don't mind if it's yours."

Alice blushed a little: this guy!He never used to say such flirtatious words.

He ate very slowly, and the maid brought him two slices of bread, some chicken thighs, and a small bowl of fruit salad, which he could eat with a fork.

"What are you doing this morning?"

"There's nothing to do, just read a book and talk with you. Do you want to go out for a walk?"

"My injury is not fully healed, and I can't always walk around. The walk just now is enough."

"When will the doctor come to see you again?"

"Saturday."

"I asked Jacob to go back to get my manuscript and materials. I can spend more time with you these few days."

"Can you give me all of these days?"

"I suppose so. Oh, except at bedtime at night."

Oliver put down his fork and leaned towards her, "You seem to have something to say, have you heard anything?"

"No. If you mean Melissa."

He wiped his mouth with a napkin, "Come on, let's go upstairs."

Oliver's room is also a living room with a bedroom. She has been in his room when she was a child. At that time, she was young and not very particular about the rules. There was no place she could not go to in Newton Manor. Very familiar.

Ordinarily, she is now an adult, and they are not engaged and she cannot enter his room, but neither of them has any intention of paying attention to these rules. From the housekeeper Butler to the servants, they seem to believe that she is the future mistress. look.

Alice suddenly remembered that she had lived in the Faraday Manor of the Gordon family, the Newstead Manor of the Byron family, and now the Newton Manor, and it seemed that the servants of these three manors thought she would be their future hostess.

She thought it was funny, but sighed again.

"What's the sigh?" he asked.

"Don't tell me where you have an illegitimate child."

"I didn't. I'm not going to let you run away with that excuse." He's good at learning his lesson.

"That Melissa, did she do anything to you?"

He smiled, "Did she say anything to you?"

"She didn't say anything, but she did it for me. She pretended to leave your room."

He hurriedly asked, "You don't believe it, do you?"

"It's been said that she is pretending. I can't even see this. She must have seen you go out for a walk. She sneaked down and waited in the corridor. When I came out, she pretended to just close your door—this The method is too low-level, if I wouldn't do it at all! She wants me to misunderstand that she is your lover, doesn't she?"

"should be."

"do you like her?"

"Don't think about it, she can't even compare to a strand of your hair. If I would like her, then I must be blind."

"You are blind now."

"Yeah, I'm so pitiful." He turned his face to her, stretched out his hand along her arm, touched her face, "someone bullied me while I couldn't see."

"Who bullied you? Tell me, and I'll beat him up for you."

"It's you."

"Oh! I'm not bullying you, I'm stating the facts."

"Don't you hate that I can't see?"

"It's still early, your cornea has no physical damage, and it can be healed theoretically. When your chest and back injuries are healed, I will take you to London to find a better doctor. If no one in London can cure you , we can still go to Paris, I heard that there are very good doctors in Paris." If you are not short of money, of course you can find the best doctors all over Europe to treat him.

"Alice, you have to stay with me all the time."

"I will accompany you."

He rubbed his fingers, touched her lips, approached her, and kissed her affectionately for a long time.

He lost his eyesight, which really hit him hard. At that time, his chest and back hurt so badly, his chest was bleeding, and his eyes hurt so badly that he couldn’t open his eyes. Jimmy tried his best to carry him to the back and dragged a doctor to treat him.Wounded soldiers were sent to the tents in a steady stream, and the doctors and nurses were simply too busy.

The doctor simply bandaged his wound and found that his life was not in danger and his bones were not broken, so he was moved to the minor injury area.According to what Alice taught when Alice came to visit Oliver last time, first wash his wound with distilled water, then wrap up the wound on his chest and back with a clean bandage, and then wipe his face with clean cotton dipped in distilled water. Only to find that his eyes were red and swollen.

After the battle, General Wesley came to visit the wounded and saw him lying on the camp bed in the ward. The doctor said that his eyes were burned and he might be blind, so General Wesley put his name on the seriously wounded list. He was sent back to England a few days later.

He was young, healthy, pampered and pampered since he was a child, he ate and drank well, and his physique was better than that of ordinary soldiers. He recovered quickly from his injuries, but he was still blind.In the first few days after the injury, he didn't think it was a serious matter, and thought that it would not be long before the swelling in his eyes subsided and he would be able to see. But after a few weeks, he still hadn't recovered, and he was really anxious inside.

He was afraid that if he really couldn't see again, if he became blind, he would be no different from a disabled person. He would never see Alice again, and he desperately wanted to remember her appearance. What was terrible was that he found out in horror , Her appearance in memory gradually blurred.

But a pure man would not say this to others casually.He didn't want to tell Alice, he didn't want to worry her, and he didn't want to admit that his memory wasn't as solid as he thought.

He actually remembered her as a child. She was only a little over 10 years old when she first arrived at Daylesford House. She was a cute girl with bright eyes and bright teeth. Several boys liked to play with her. She rode horses, shot, played cricket, so it really wasn't surprising that they all fell in love with her as they grew up.

Jacob brought back her manuscripts and materials from London, packing a whole large suitcase.

Alice asked Butler, the housekeeper, to move a large table into her living room, and put the materials on the table by category; she also ordered a wooden board to hang on the wall.

She nails the materials and materials to the wooden board, writes the time, place and characters on the paper, the cause and the result, various permutations and combinations, weaves the frame, and then fills it with story lines and details.

This is a brand new attempt. Before writing, she just thought of an interesting character or story, and then she could start working. The new book plan is to start writing after clarifying the main lines and sub-lines of all five books. It is actually very difficult to have continuous clues, clear story lines, and full characters.

Oliver would often come to "watch" her work without asking her exactly what she wanted to write about.Alice played chess with him while pasting notes on the storyboard.He couldn't see, and there wasn't much he could do, but he could play blindfolded chess, and Kate helped them move the pieces.

Alice sometimes goes out for a walk with him, she is still used to working in the morning, eats a simple lunch, takes a nap for two hours as usual; in the afternoon, she will go out for a horse ride, Julian will accompany her, Oliver can only stay at home lonely; After dinner she read to Oliver for half an hour.

At the end of May, Julian excitedly announced to the whole family that Maria was pregnant!

Maria won't be 7 until July, and Alice always thinks she's too young, she's going to be the mother of a baby at 18 and a half, and thinking about it, oh, that's scary!

She told Oliver that she felt that Maria was too young, and that it would be safer to have children after the age of 20.

"My mother also gave birth to me at the age of 18." He said lightly.

"Mrs. Gemma? Do you remember her?"

"I only remember a little bit. I was only 5 years old when my mother died."

So, Mrs. Gemma died at 23 years old... which is even scarier.

"By the way, where's your little brother?" She suddenly remembered.

"He—should be dead, probably very young."

"The Baron still won't tell you?"

He shook his head, "He won't say it. But I think he is just average to Augustus, not very fond of him." Augustus is the son of the newborn little brother, Mrs. Caroline.

"I've looked at the family's account books, starting from the year Albert was born, and the family's expenditures are all explained in detail, but there is a payment for a certain church in Scotland that suddenly increased half a year after Albert was born nearly doubled until Albert was almost nine years old."

"He—maybe it was a good thing he died early."

"I know. He lived a miserable life, and it would be a kind thing to die early." His expression was still calm.They have never lived together, so it is of course impossible to have such a deep brotherhood, but from a humanitarian point of view, it is really better for a child born with a disability whose father refuses to admit it, to die early to relieve the pain.

"Alice," he said, taking her hand and kissing the back of it, "I can understand your thoughts now, maybe I have to face death to understand your fear. 'Death' is a terrible thing, I don't want to die, and I don't want you to risk your life. We...we are fine as we are now, you are by my side, don't leave me."

Alice found it difficult to answer.

"What are you still thinking? I can accept that you don't want to get married or have children, but you can't leave me, never leave me."

"I, I can't promise."

"No, you have to promise, don't leave me. Alice, I'm blind. From now on... I won't be able to see you again. Can you really reject me again cruelly?" His voice trembled slightly, "I Don't know what to do, you have to stay with me and tell me I'm not a useless piece of shit."

Alice was stunned: Damn it!Knowing that he deliberately called himself pitiful, but he just couldn't refuse.

"I still can't promise not to leave you, but I will stay with you until the day your eyes recover." She whispered.

"You're cruel. You're still ruthless, but—it's too bad, I just love you. You have to promise me that you won't be with Ivo or George when you're with me. I can't stand it, but I You can’t see them now, you can’t beat them.”

She immediately punched him on the chest angrily, "What did you say?"

He cried out in pain.

She panicked, "I'm sorry, I forgot that your injury is still not healed."

"It's okay." He turned pale.

"The wound won't burst, will it?"

"I... I don't know, take a look."

She took off his coat and shirt and checked the bandages.Fortunately, there was no blood stain, and it seemed that the wound was not open.After a while, she remembered that he had been injured for more than a month, and his chest was lacerated, so he bled a lot when he was injured, but the wound was stitched and should have healed long ago.

She thumped his arm violently, "You pretend to be in pain!"

He hugged her hard, and smiled lowly in her ear, "Otherwise, how would I know that you will feel bad? Well, you little fool, you obviously like me very much in your heart, so don't always think about it. I promise you All requests, no matter what has been said or not said, you can stay, okay? If I change my mind later and force you to marry or have children, you can leave at any time, is that okay?"

"Do you live here?"

"Isn't it good? Butler has long treated you as my fiancee, and you will be the hostess of Newton Manor in the future. Even if we are not married, as long as you want, you will be the hostess."

She thought about it, and it seemed to be okay.

"Then you also have to promise me that you can't marry anyone casually, and you can't—you can't sleep with anyone casually. I know you had a lover when you were in Lisbon. You are a grown man. If you say you haven't dated anyone yet I've slept in bed, that's impossible, I can understand. Don't worry, I don't care about what happened before, and I also..."

"You don't need to say it, I know." He mentioned Byron's name reluctantly, "I don't care about you and...George. But you can't be with him anymore, George is just like this, he doesn't care Maybe if you make a promise like me, he will hurt you. You know what kind of temperament I am, as long as you are willing to stay by my side, I will be loyal to you, never hurt you, never make you sad."

It seemed that something had been removed from her heart, and she felt that even her breathing became much easier, "Ollie, Ollie!"

"Quickly agree."

"Okay, I promise you." She said dizzily.

"I promise you too, as long as you are by my side, I will be yours."

Oliver has always been a very caring and gentle person.

Even if she can't see her, she is very good at taking care of her, knowing what food she likes to eat, and asking the cook to buy her favorite food and cook it according to her eating preferences; she left in a hurry and didn't bring much clothes, which is not a big deal, Memorized her measurements, sent to London to order all kinds of coats and skirts in the latest styles, and made a lot of shoes; bought a new grand piano for her to play in her spare time.

The purse that Alice sent him at the beginning of the year was lost in Badajoz, and she made another purse for him, but it was still very slow, taking almost a month to complete; the self-portrait she sent him was not finished He lost it and brought it back, but he felt that the self-portrait was too small to fit on the bedside table, so he hired another portrait painter from London to paint a full-body oil painting for her; Oliver also painted a self-portrait. Zhang's full-body oil painting, after painting a single portrait, he painted a double portrait with Alice.

The painter who specializes in portraits is good at painting. The double portrait hangs in Oliver's bedroom, just like the wedding photos of later generations.

It has been confirmed by everyone in Newton Manor that Master Oliver will soon be engaged to Miss Alice.

The baron asked the eldest son the same question.

"No, we won't get engaged." Oliver's answer was beyond the baron's expectation. "She doesn't want to get married right now, and I respect her opinion."

"But it's against the rules."

"Rules? She doesn't care about the rules, and I can only do this. Father, don't worry about me and Alice."

"I really don't understand you guys! You know you need an heir, don't you?"

Oliver shook his head, "Actually, I don't need an heir. If Maria gives birth to a son, you don't have to worry about the heir."

The baron stared: "Let me make it clear: Alice doesn't want to get married, so you won't have children—but isn't this problem easy to solve? Get her pregnant, so that she must agree to marry you for the sake of the child's status." .”

It is so reasonable that I really cannot refute it, and it is very operable!

The Baron considered the issue from the perspective of Alice's family's religious background. Alice may not be married, but if she has a child, she cannot make the child an illegal illegitimate child.

Oliver also felt that his father's proposal was very feasible.

But he still shook his head, "No, you don't understand how cruel Alice is, she—I don't know what she will do."

The Baron deeply felt that his eldest son was a fool.

One night a few days later, there were panicked screams from a room on the third floor of Newton Manor.

It was very late, after 12 midnight, Alice was woken up, took out a match and lit a candle, and looked at the pocket watch on the bedside table: it was more than 1 am.

what happened?

She picked up the dressing gown that was on the changing bench at the end of the bed, put it on, and opened the door to go out.

Julian was also woken up, wearing men's long pajamas, standing in the corridor sleepily, shouting dissatisfiedly: "What's going on?"

"I don't know. What's the matter?" Alice yawned.

"I rang for Butler to come up."

But Butler didn't have time to come, but called a maid to inform them that Miss Melissa was ill.

Julian sneered, "Sick? Who the hell is screaming?"

The maid said, "It's Miss Melissa's maid."

"What's wrong with Melissa?" Alice frowned.

"I don't know, but Butler told the kitchen to heat up hot water and told Jesse to call for a doctor." The maid hesitated, "I saw Miss Melissa's maid bring out a bloody skirt and bed sheet. "

Julian thought for a while, then sneered again, "I don't know what tricks she's playing this time."

"I want to go up and have a look, are you going?" Alice asked.

"Wait a minute, I'll have a word with Maria." He hurried back to the room and came out again later.

Oliver's door opened, "Julian."

"I'm here."

"I'll go upstairs with you to have a look."

"Ollie."

"Alice." He held out his hand.

Alice took his hand, "Are you going up?"

"I'm worried about what tricks she's playing again."

Tsk tsk, it seems that the two brothers have suffered a lot from it, but I don't know how the baron can tolerate such a restless stepdaughter?No matter how much he dotes on his new wife, a stepdaughter is definitely not as important as his biological son.

Alice's mind filled with a lot of bloody plot.

After they went upstairs, they found that the third floor was in a hurry, with servants running around, changing sheets, and bringing hot and cold water.The baroness was in Melissa's bedroom, and there was a cry from the bedroom.

The baron was standing in Melissa's living room, seeing Oliver, Julian, and Alice coming, he said, "Melissa has a miscarriage, which of you two is it?"

All three were shocked!