Rimbaud's girl

love.

money.

political.

responsibility.

Her way of seeing things always amazed him, and sometimes she was as calm as a young woman who had just turned 20.

Gabriel smoothed her hair softly: she looked like a teenage girl in her sleep, his girl.

Gently put her arm under the quilt again.

To this day he couldn't believe that she was pregnant, that inside her tiny body was now his child, oh, theirs.In a few months, he will welcome his first child, their first child.oops!It all feels a little unreal.

It's too good to be true.

For a man, in the final analysis, he must have a family, a wife and children, and a career of his own, in order to be considered a fulfilling life.

Vitaly said that his level of thinking is not high, huh!She may have misunderstood something.He really didn't want to be a famous person with a long history. After all, there are very few famous people. As long as he can take good care of his wife and children, he will be great!

Vitaly laughed for a while, but finally admitted that he was right.

Of course he was right!

It was a pity that Vitaly had to return to England after not staying in the United States for a few months. In fact, she wanted to go south to Savannah or New Orleans, where the climate is pleasant and there are many French immigrants, so she should be able to quickly get used to basic necessities of life.Arthur wrote back, saying that Savannah was surprisingly similar to a French city, that French could be heard everywhere, and that fashion followed Paris's fashion, although it was a few months later.

He met some lovely French immigrant ladies in Savannah. They heard that he was a famous French poet and writer, and they all treated him very well.

Vitaly wrote back quickly, asking him jokingly if he was attracted to one of the lovely ladies. If the other party was a kind girl, as a younger sister, she would be very willing to meet this lady.

Arthur wrote back and said that you are about to become a marriage reminder like your mother, so just wait.

She wrote to him again, saying that she was planning to return to England at the end of November and should be able to arrive in London before Christmas, and asked if he wanted to go back together.

Arthur said he had decided to stay in America for a few more months and then go to New Orleans in a few days.New Orleans is in Louisiana, where the Mississippi River enters the sea. At the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War, many French people fled to New Orleans, Savannah, and Charleston to seek refuge. Edgar Degas stayed in New Orleans before for more than two years.

Degas was the eldest son. He served in the army during the conscription mobilization before the Franco-Prussian War, but was found to have eye problems, so he retired from the army after a short stay, and then went to the United States to seek refuge.

She wrote back asking him to come back early. It was the first time she gave birth to a child. According to tradition, relatives from her natal family should be present.He promised to return to London before the due date.

The Oran couple wrote a letter once a week asking if they had booked a ferry ticket. Mrs. Oran carefully asked her to find a reliable obstetrician in New York for a pregnancy checkup, and to ensure that she was healthy and healthy. Intimately comforting her, she said that women are not easy, and they have to bear the heavy responsibility of having children. If Gabriel does something wrong, please forgive her and educate him properly so that he understands that women are not easy;

I also wrote to Gabriel alone, telling him to take care of Vitaly and ask them to return to England for delivery. I was also worried that there were no good obstetricians in New York. After all, they were far away in a foreign country.

After all, the young couple boarded the ship back to the UK on the last Monday in November.

The ocean-going ship sailed on the Atlantic Ocean for more than two weeks. It arrived in Southampton on December 12, stayed in Southampton for one night, and took the train to London early the next morning.

He went back to his own home first, and as soon as he entered the door, the butler said, "Madam, there is a letter from Charleville, do you want to read it now?"

"When did it arrive?" Vitaly supported her waist.She is now five and a half months pregnant, and her belly is still only slightly swollen, not considered big.It is inevitable to feel tired from time to time, after all, there is a villain in the body.

"Go back to your room and lie down." Gabriel helped her upstairs, "Layla, take the letter."

"It's not that I can't walk a few steps, are you a little too nervous?"

"What are you talking about? Are you not tired after being bored on the boat for so many days?"

"It's not very tired. You let me lie on the bed all day. I'm more tired from lying than walking."

"Then you sleep for a while, and I will take you for a walk in the afternoon."

"Don't you need to go out to play?"

"I'll talk about it in a few days. By the way, Layla, send someone to tell the wife that we'll be there tomorrow."

Before they left New York, they wrote back in advance to tell the housekeeper about when they would arrive in London, and the housekeeper sent someone to change the clean bedding early.

Although I only stayed for a few days after getting married, it is more comfortable in my own house than outside.They are the masters, they can do whatever they want.

She changed into her nightgown and obediently lay down on the bed.The worst thing about pregnancy is that you can't sleep well at night. You have to get up once or twice at night. Gabriel is only a young man in his 20s. Once he is asleep, it is difficult to wake him up. Often she gets up at night to go to the toilet and sleeps half the day after returning. If he couldn't sleep, and he slept soundly, she would get angry for no reason and insisted on waking him up too.

Gabriel asked her to lie down, and then he took the letter and opened it, "It's from Mrs. Rimbaud. She—"

He frowned and hesitated for a while before -->>

Give her the letter paper, "Look at it."

The letter arrived from Charleville on the last day of November.

"My dear daughter:

I just received your letter from New York, and you should have left New York by now, so you couldn't get the last letter.Less than a fortnight ago I had a letter from Dijon saying your father was dying, and another letter the next day saying your father was dead.

My baby, the reason I can tell you this matter so calmly now is because I have no love for him anymore.But you are still his children, and any property he wants should belong to your brothers and sisters.So I sent your Uncle Felix to take Frederick to Dijon.

What I didn't expect was that you had arranged everything years ago.That's good, it's better than him leaving all his property to that child.I have to tell you about the handling of this matter. Your brother sent the child to a boarding school according to your wishes.He blamed that child, but your decision is very good, I can't take that child and raise it, I can't do it.

Frederick is a fool, and it makes me a little sad to say that, shouldn't he be thinking about how hard we've had all these years?Obviously you can live better.

I tried my best, I tried my best to let you live like other children. Even if I go to see God in the future, I can proudly say that I raised you all and fulfilled my duty as a mother. Not bad, far more proud than that man.

You don't have to feel sorry for him, and neither do I.As for Arthur, if he wishes to go to Dijon to worship your father, that is his business, and I cannot persuade him not to go.

Well, let's not talk about him.How are you doing?You must write to me as soon as possible, so that I can be at ease.I don't really want you to come back on such a long boat trip, but I want to be by your side when you give birth.

My child, remember my love for you.

God is with you.

your mother. "

Mrs. Rimbaud's education level is not high, and the letter is very simple, without any fancy rhetoric, and the matter is very clear. Captain Rimbaud passed away, and Uncle Felix and his brother Frederick went to Dijon. After finishing the funeral affairs, he dismissed the illegitimate brother.

Frederick the fool!

She was a little annoyed that he had forgotten how they were humiliated when they were children, "wild children without a father", and Lucas, the illegitimate child, had never been humiliated like this.How could he feel sympathy for other women's children?

She read the letter, folded the letter paper, and handed it to Gabriel, "You write a letter to my mother for me, and say that I know about it. I am in good health, please don't worry."

There was no fluctuation in her heart, probably because she didn't love him, so she didn't feel sad.

Gabriel put the letter back into the envelope and put it in the drawer of the bedside table, "Is it your father—"

"Forget it, it's not like you don't know how I feel about him." She said flatly, "I haven't lived together before, so there is no 'family relationship'."

He sighed, "I'm afraid you'll be secretly sad."

"If you think too much, I won't shed a single tear for him."

He squeezed her hand tightly, "Don't feel sorry for him. I'll just go and talk to my mother. I told her about it before. She pities you very much and thinks you are really pitiful."

She smiled, "I know she's fine and won't laugh at me."

"Why would you laugh at you?"

"That's why you haven't seen the people who laughed at us—children, they called Frederick and Arthur 'mongrels', and other worse things, I can't say."

"How can there be such a bad child!"

"Many people harbor malice towards the world, probably because they have lived too hard."

"But you had a hard time when you were a child, so you didn't become that annoying child."

"That's because I'm kind and hopeful, and hopeful people don't get too bad. We're not like you."

He is obedient and flattering, "I can tell at a glance that you are different from other children. Look! I have good eyesight, don't I?"

"Your eyesight is amazing!"

The two of them got bored for a while, Gabriel saw her yawning, and hurriedly told her to stop talking. "I'll go out first, you go to sleep."

She agreed in a daze, and soon fell asleep.

Gabriel carefully left the bedroom, and whispered to Leila not to go in and wake her up.

I went to the study, took out the letter paper, pen, and ink bottle, picked up the pen and wrote two words "Mrs. Rimbaud", and then put down the pen.

Thinking of Vitaly's attitude...too calm, her biological father seemed to be just a stranger to her when she died, and she didn't care at all, let alone cry for him.

It seems to be good, but it always feels not quite right - he can understand her thinking, her father left them when she was only two and a half years old, and she doesn't remember what her father was like at all, so how can she talk about family relationship?

He was worried that she was not as cold as she showed, wouldn't she cry when she was a child because she didn't have a father?Children will always want a father and a mother, and the absence of one is always not quite right.

well!He felt sorry for her, and thought that he would take good care of her and the child in the future, and would never let their child suffer any grievances.

The author has something to say: *Scum dad died.