Comprehensive Victoria's Secret

In 1873, Elizabeth was 17 years old.

After a long time of hard work, Elizabeth finally completed the Phantom of the Opera. Because of the consideration of the times, she revised the previous plot, trying not to let people now feel the battle that will break out in the future, in order to verify the ability of what she wrote. How much reduction has been achieved, Elizabeth specially invited a relatively small choir with her own pocket money.

"Estelle, I have prepared a musical for you, I hope you like it." Elizabeth specially invited her mother to listen to the musical she prepared, hoping she would like it, it was just a paragraph.

It happened to be afternoon tea time, and the mother and daughter were drinking afternoon tea while listening to a musical.

In order to shake Estelle and ease the 100-year generation gap, Elizabeth first tried two pieces of "Think of me" and "Pass the point of no return", which should be closer to the popular opera singing at this time.

After listening, Estelle asked, "Is this the musical you prepared for me?"

"Yes." Elizabeth hesitated, she looked at Estelle expectantly: "Mom?"

"It's a good musical, but...how about the plot?"

"Hmm..." Elizabeth thought for a while, "It's a story similar to "Notre Dame de Paris."

"I know that book," Estelle nodded. "It's about my age, so what? Is this your surprise? Honey?"

"Almost...Mom..."

"Well, your cousin Philippe has a big say at the Paris Opera, my dear, if you really want this musical to be put on stage - oh, I can tell by the look in your eyes that you really do Yes." Estelle said softly: "We will go to France after the social season, and maybe you can see your own work performed on stage at that time. The sopranos and sopranos of the Paris Opera are very good."

Elizabeth was very excited: "Yeah! It's going to be performed at the Opera House! Mom! I can't wait!" The Phantom of the Opera premiered in the hometown of the Phantom of the Opera!Elizabeth was so excited that she didn't know what to do.

Estelle comforted her restless daughter: "No matter what, my dear, you must become a lady, and you are often not the only one in the noble's box."

"Yes, mother." Elizabeth smiled quietly, pretending that she was very ladylike.

"I think you can enter the social season, but before entering the social season, Elizabeth, I hope you can learn one thing." Estelle poured a cup of tea for Elizabeth: "You have been educated as a lady for so long , let's have one last chat before you formally go to St James's Palace to meet Her Majesty the Queen."

"Elizabeth, what do you think the lady needs to do?"

"Hmm..." Elizabeth thought about it carefully: "Probably... socializing, educating the servants, and then... um... having children for her husband? Asking questions?"

"That's right. So, do you know what women do when they're social?"

"Share some gossip, then exchange the latest fashion?"

"It's true, but it only allows you to cultivate partners to chat with. My dear, the authority of the nobility is declining infinitely. If you want to have a better social reputation, you need to learn how to spend money, for example, charity."

charitable?

Estelle nodded: "You should learn how to help some people. To put it simply, it is to distribute your excess to some who are lacking."

Elizabeth understood that the so-called way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency by making up for the excess.

"Let's go, let's do something." Estelle ordered the servants to get into the carriage carrying the big and small bags, and the carriage started.

Elizabeth followed Estelle out of the carriage, and then saw a plainly dressed woman busy.

Elizabeth was surprised that Estelle would bring her to such a place, which didn't look like a lady's salon or ball place at all.

The woman has brown hair tightly wrapped in a headscarf. She has a typical face of a Victorian beauty. Even though she is old, her facial features are still soft. Even in Elizabeth's modern eyes, she is quite gentle and beautiful.

"Nightingale, I've brought some clothes and medicine—do you need any help?"

Nightingale!Nightingale, Goddess of the Lamp!The world's first female nurse who created a nursing career!Elizabeth immediately stood up to attention in awe.

Nightingale said: "Thank you very much for coming, I have been running out of medicines and clothes lately - can you do me a favor?"

Elizabeth immediately agreed: "Okay, Miss Nightingale, what can we do for you?"

"A few children here have a high fever, and I need to test their temperature. I also need to manage other children who are in emergency. You just need to put them under their armpits," Nightingale said carefully. He ordered: "Don't worry that their disease is not contagious, you have to be patient with them."

"Okay." Elizabeth felt that even if she used all her patience, she would be crushed by Nightingale and Mother Teresa in the future. She could only try her best to patiently persuade these children to accept the unfamiliar thermometer, and then struggled. Check the above values ​​one by one.

Two hours later, Estelle and Elizabeth left the place.

"Miss Nightingale is really a kind person."

"Yes, she could have been intoxicated in balls, salons or occasional charitable acts like us, but she chose to give up all of these, marriage, family... and use everything of herself to make others happy."

"Mom..." Elizabeth was surprised that Estelle would have such emotion.

"Actually, it is difficult for me to do things like her. Even now, I am willing to buy some clothes and medicines for her, so that she can help the poor and children. However, if I am required to take care of these children at the dance Choose one of them, I will still choose the ball, because that ball may be crucial to your father's career." Estelle said: "What she can do is something that humans cannot do. If the world If there is anyone who looks most like an angel, it must be Miss Nightingale."

Perhaps only the future Mother Teresa can be compared with her.

弗罗伦斯·南丁格尔（1820年5月12日－1910年8月13日），英国护士和统计学家，出生于意大利的一个英国上流社会的家庭。在德国学习护理后，曾往伦敦的医院工作。于1853年成为伦敦慈善医院的护士长。[

特蕾莎圣女（1910年8月27日－1997年9月5日），一生致力于消除贫困的存在……

Two weeks after taking Nightingale away, God sent Teresa again.

For the first time, Elizabeth felt that there might really be angels in the world.

After returning, Elizabeth felt a lot of emotion, but she still had to do what she had to do—she needed to go to St. James’s Palace to meet the Queen, even though she had been formally received by Victoria before, but this time the meaning was different, which meant that she was an adult , You can enter the social world to think about marriage.

In St James's Palace.

Elizabeth had a tall feather in her head and wore a gown with a train that was exactly 2.74 meters long.Wearing the skirt on the left arm, holding the business card, waiting to see Queen Victoria.

Elizabeth didn't dare to look in the mirror or look at things like mirrors around her, because thinking about it, she knew how much funnier she looked now.

When Elizabeth finally arrived, she asked the servants in the palace to straighten her skirts for her (Elizabeth thought that the reason was probably because she couldn't straighten herself because of her corset) and handed her her business card.Then the attendants introduced her to Queen Victoria.

Elizabeth walked in rather painfully (Estle asked her to be as corseted as possible to keep her from being the gossip of the social season), and curtseyed to the queen.

Queen Victoria bent down and kissed her forehead, and the ceremony was over.

This kind of ceremony is only a few times a year, and young girls have to participate, so the ceremony is quite short. After the face-off, Elizabeth once again put her skirt on her left arm, facing the queen and slowly exiting.

Once outside, Elizabeth tore the sides of her skirt with her bare hands like a stray dog, freeing herself from the corset.Then he quickly put on the coat in the maid's hand to avoid being naked, and then quickly threw down the feathers on his head to make himself look less funny.

After all this was done, Elizabeth was relieved - it was really too cheating.

Her maid hurried up to give her some information: "Miss, the Count said he would hold a ball on your birthday."

"Prom?" Elizabeth was stunned for a moment: "March 3, just during the London social season..." It seemed that there was no way to escape, so I could only obediently attend.

But having said that, she is only 17 years old now, Deng Jia is going to marry her in such a hurry?

Finally, Elizabeth still couldn't help complaining: "It seems that my father is really anxious. I just entered the social season and wanted to hold a ball and marry me off."

"Miss, you know that from April to June, the competition in the marriage market is the fiercest. If the girls don't snatch a husband within these three months, they can only continue to live single, and may even become spinsters .The earl is also thinking about you."

Elizabeth has a headache... She is still a minor according to modern standards... What kind of marriage...

However, it shouldn't be easy for an unladylike girl like myself to marry, right?

The author has something to say: The addressing system in the West is different from ours. I actually want to call Mylady...it doesn't seem so ambiguous.