Rimbaud's girl

Vitaly went to bed early at night, and did not see Arthur until early in the morning. 21GGD21 He was a little sullen and angry, and he ate very little for breakfast.

When he got on the train and sat in the box, he finally couldn't help but angrily told his sister about Verlaine's elopement with an unknown beautiful boy.

Vitaly pretended to know just now, and was greatly surprised: "Has he really given up his social status?"

Arthur looked at her in bewilderment.

"You don't know, don't you? He eloped with a man, that is, he gave up everything he had in Paris."

"Really? Will it?"

"Of course. If you are a married man, it's okay to have a mistress, but if the mistress is a married woman, the husband of the mistress has the right to sue you; if you elope with a same-sex lover, then you are finished, regardless of gender."

"Do women fall in love with women too?"

"Look at what you said!" Vitaly rolled her eyes, "Women fall in love with women is more secretive, generally not easy to detect, but there must be. Two women are not sisters but live together, no one will say anything unless The two of them eloped clearly; the two men are not brothers but live together, what will happen to others, you don't know."

Arthur rubbed her hair carelessly, "You know too much."

"I'm almost 15 years old, of course I should understand." She said angrily, "Don't mess with my hair!"

"You're fifteen! Oh! Then you can get married. Come on, tell me, does Oran still write to you?"

"Don't talk too much."

Arthur approached her with a smile, "He's still in England, when will he come back to see you?"

"How do I know? He didn't tell me." Gabriel had her address in Paris, so he went to Paris to write letters, send books, and sent her several photos. The handsome young man grew up on the photos up.Vitaly also sent the photos taken at Kalya's place to London. She loves taking pictures so much that she takes pictures almost every month, and even took many photos with Arthur and Foran.

"how old is he?"

"Seventeen--sixteen, won't be seventeen until August."

Arthur pretended to be surprised: "You remember it really clearly!"

She looked at her brother suspiciously: Why did you suddenly ask Gabriel today?He definitely didn't want to continue talking to her about the bad things about the bald man.That's fine, Arthur is proud, and he absolutely can't stand the fact that his former "lover" fell in love with someone else as soon as he turned around.It seems that he thought he was special, Verlaine's "true love", but the reality taught him a solid lesson: How can there be so many "true loves"?Bad characters are always bad, and oil paint can't hide the stench of that disgusting guy!

"Tell me, does he like you?"

"You are really annoying."

"He has been to England for several years, and he might know some British ladies." Arthur pretended to be a girl, picked up a non-existent teacup, ate non-existent snacks, and made serious comments in his shrill voice , this cake is not tasty, but the black tea tastes pretty good.

Vitaly couldn't stop laughing at him.

She only had a pen pal from afar, Gabriel, and the letters Gabriel wrote were quite serious, nothing more than where he went, what happened, who he met, what books he read, and so on. A girl of the same class and age as him, but they were all mentioned in one stroke, no different from mentioning other people; if you really want to talk about it, it seems like a pure teenage friendship?

Vitaly's letter to Gabriel was also about her going to school, first at Monsieur Pierre's and then at Monsieur Pestère's.She had been educated as a middle-class boy and in the future wanted to attend the Sorbonne, which had admitted girls during the reign of Napoleon III.

Gabriel said he was going to Oxford in the autumn, and Vitaly was quite envious.She had inquired that since the Franco-Prussian War, the Sorbonne had stopped enrolling girls.well!It is really difficult for her to receive ordinary higher education!

She didn't really need a college diploma, or a degree, but a boy could go to college, and she wanted the same right.I don't know if there are any universities in the UK that admit girls?It seems that I have never heard of it.

The servants of the Flaubert family picked up the Rimbaud brothers and sisters at the train station and arrived at the Crosval Manor at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Flaubert is walking on the lawn in front of the estate, pushing a wooden wheelchair in which an elderly woman sits.

"Mr. Flaubert, Mrs. Caroline." Vitaly followed behind her brother and saluted the two hosts.She had inquired with the servants on the way that there were only two owners of the Crosval Manor: Flaubert and his mother, Mrs. Caroline.

Mrs. Caroline is 79 years old and has always been in good health, free from illness and disaster. However, during the Franco-Prussian War, the Prussian army forcibly confiscated the Crosswald Manor, and Flaubert had to take his old mother to live in the port city of Le Havre. .Fortunately, the commander of the Prussian army knew that the owner of the Croswald Manor was the author of "Madame Bovary". The manor had not suffered major damage, and the interior furnishings were basically intact.

bsp; From the perspective of Flaubert and Mrs. Caroline, this was an irreparable humiliation, and Mrs. Caroline's health deteriorated as a result.She always talked about the lifelessness of the family. Since her granddaughter Caroline Jr. got married, there were very few guests in the family. Flaubert occasionally went to Paris to visit friends, but almost no one came to the Crosval Manor.

Mrs. Caroline immediately fell in love with the two young guests: "It's been a long time since there were young people talking at home, I hope you can stay for a few more days." Who doesn't like sunny and cute teenagers?In particular, Vitaly doesn't smile or speak, which is very likable.

The Rimbaud brothers and sisters were very interested in the Crosval Manor, Vitaly pushed the wooden wheelchair, Arthur was a few steps behind, and walked beside Flaubert.

Flaubert did not always talk about literature and art to young people, but he talked about some interesting stories when he was young.There are 6 siblings in his family, he is the fifth child, and his younger sister Caroline is the youngest child. He and his sister are 5 and a half years apart in age, and Rimbaud's siblings are also 3 and a half years apart in age; the relationship with his sister is also like that of Rimbaud's siblings They are the two youngest children of Mrs. Caroline, and they are also the two most beloved children.

Arthur heard him mention that his sister used the past tense, and asked with some doubts, "Where's Caroline?"

"She passed away." After more than 20 years, Flaubert was able to talk about this incident calmly. "She died of postpartum hemorrhage after giving birth to her daughter."

Arthur was surprised: "Sorry."

"Birth, old age, sickness and death are the only way of life, it's nothing."

Arthur thought of Mrs Rimbaud.He actually doesn't remember the little Vitaly between him and Vitaly, because he is young, he has no memory of his sister's death, but his mother, she will always remember the child who died young, but she was never there Ms. Caroline did, and Mrs. Rimbaud did.

He had only seen a dead Prussian soldier on the outskirts of Charleville before. At that time, he just lamented how fragile life is. Such a young boy died in a foreign country like this; and the loss of life can be seen almost everywhere in life, He ignored it.

Flaubert was never married, but had raised a niece, just like a father; he was fond, even pampering, of his young guests.He is introverted, but he was born rich, and he has learned a lot of bad habits that a young master of a rich family should have. For example, when he was 18 or 9 years old, he went to Greece and Egypt when he was traveling, and he lived a dissolute life for a while— —Of course he would not tell Arthur directly, but the Rimbaud brothers and sisters peeped some fragments from his early notes and diaries in the study, and pieced together his general experience.

Flaubert allowed young guests to use his study as long as they did not disturb him.His study room is connected with the library, and there are thousands of books in various categories.

The Rimbauds loved the library so much they would have spent the whole day in it if they could.

Flaubert actually didn't like being mentioned that he only remembered one copy of "Madame Bovary".This is indeed his proud work, but when it was first published, "Madame Bovary" was accused of being "absurd and obscene", so the author himself had to go to court to fight for his reasons. In the end, the publisher and the author won and the injunction Canceled, and Flaubert became a famous French writer because of this.

He is unwilling to be "defined" as a writer of "a certain school", so he always wants to seek innovation and change, and pays attention to "the rhythm of words and sentences, the sound quality of words, the effect of pauses, and the grammatical arrangement of phrases". Meet his perfectionist requirements; he doesn't have many works, and he often needs to write a page for a week, and it is common to write a book for 4 or 5 years.

He is also friends with many well-known writers, and there are many correspondences, which are stored in the library. He never said that there is anything in the library that they cannot touch. The Rimbaud brothers and sisters also think that all paper products in the library can be read. , They read some personal letters, early diaries, discarded manuscripts.Arthur was quite envious of Flaubert's foreign travels, eager to try.

"I also want to go to Egypt, the Middle East and the Mediterranean, that would be interesting for sure."

"If you have money, you can go. When I go back, calculate how much money I need. Mrs. Beverly should be willing to pay part of your travel expenses."

"Don't you want to go?" He asked curiously.

"I want to go, but I can't go until I have money. Flaubert advocates going to the field where the story is written, and I think you need it too."

"You always think about me, what about yourself?"

"I—" It would be a lie to say that she doesn't want to travel abroad. Who wouldn't want to spend a few months abroad comfortably with enough travel expenses?But first you have to have enough money.

"Is it because of the money?"

She nodded, "Captain Rimbaud gave me 5000 francs alone, and I asked my uncle to put the money in the bank, but 5000 is definitely not enough, at least—I think it needs at least 3 francs, and 5 would be even better." .”

"That's a lot of money!"

"For the really rich, 1 francs are just for the decoration of the emperor's ball, and 3 francs are only enough to attend 3 or 4 balls. You can't even imagine how rich people spend their money !"

"So this rotten thing like the emperor should have disappeared long ago!"