Rimbaud's girl

Shock!Vitaly glared at Gabriel immediately.

He smiled helplessly, "Vitaly, think about it, is it possible?"

Eugene immediately said, "How could he tell you the truth?"

Gabriel glanced at Ou Ren and smiled hypocritically: "Is Your Highness's life in Woolwich too ordinary?"

Ou Ren smiled slightly, "Not bad. How about you? How about Oxford University?"

Vitaly thought there was something... weird between the two of them.Thinking about the first time she and Ou Ren met, how could she become a good sister who can talk intimately?

She asked curiously, "Who is Miss Margetta?"

Gabriel said, "She didn't come today."

what!That is to say, there is indeed a "Miss Margetta".

She's upset: "You've never mentioned 'Margotta' before."

"I don't know her very well, I just met her a few times, so I don't need to tell you specifically." He said carefully.

"Then why... Your Highness said that you are getting engaged? Is there something you are hiding from me? Engagement doesn't require you to be together every day." She was angry.

"It was an agreement with Margetta's mother and Oran's mother before my father died." Ou Ren said with a smile.

Gabriel glared at him angrily, "Your Highness, please stop talking nonsense."

"You should go back and ask Mrs. Oran."

Now, Gabriel was not too sure.But he was still very calm on the surface, "Mother will not hide anything about me from me."

Eugene smiled, "Women, they don't need men to know what they do." He stretched out his hand, "Miss Rimbaud, may I have the honor to ask you to dance?"

Vitaly glanced at Gabriel, seeing his displeasure, immediately put his hand into Eugene's, "Your Highness."

Gabriel was very annoyed: "Vitale!"

"What? Who do I want to dance with, and do I still need your permission?" She raised her small face with dissatisfaction.

Eugene smiled at him with a hideous victorious smile, and took Vitaly away.

The crown prince is a well-bred teenager, and although he actually invited her to the dance to get angry with Gabriel, there is no disrespect for Vitaly.The waltz is very good, the attitude is very kind, but there is still an air of arrogance that has been cultivated since childhood.

He asked where Vitaly was from, and when he knew she was French, he immediately switched back to French.His voice is soft, and like Gabriel, he should be in the middle and late stage of voice change.He looks more like his mother, Queen Eugenie, with a straight nose and a small and delicate nose. He is a delicate young man.Sure enough, the beauty's genes are still reliable, and it's no wonder that Napoleon III fell in love with Eugenie back then.

Boys' friendships are so strange!In fact, Ou Ren was jealous that Gabriel was favored by his father, right?He is an only child, and he didn't know what "competing for favor" was since he was a child. A boy of the same age appeared in his life, and he was loved and even doted on by his father. Of course, he was dissatisfied and very jealous.Coupled with the fact that Mrs. Orland is his father's "rumored mistress", the likable boy may really be his half-brother, which is even more enviable.

The emperor had many illegitimate children, both before and after marriage. Even Queen Eugenie couldn't care about it. After Eugenie was born, Eugenie was already disappointed with Napoleon III. The couple went out and entered together, but lived in separate rooms at night.When Ou Ren was a child, he thought that all couples in the world lived in separate rooms. When he found out that his parents' way of getting along was different from that of other people's parents, he had to accept this painful fact.

In contrast, Mrs. Orland, who had a "gossip mistress" scandal, has always had a good relationship with her husband. Gabriel, an annoying little guy, grew up under the doting of his parents, which really made him extremely jealous.

"Is Your Highness familiar with Gabriel?"

"I've known him since I was 5 years old."

"Go to school together? I mean, private tutor?"

"No, no one can take classes with me."

"Because you are the crown prince? You studied foreign policy and how to govern the country?"

"Yes. Why, why do you want to know this? You can ask Oran to find out."

"Your Highness is the one who knows his lessons best."

Eugene smiled, "That's all in the past. Now, I'm just an exiled prince."

"Your Highness still has a chance to return to Paris."

Ou Ren obviously didn't want to continue this topic, "Did Orlan let you meet his parents?"

"No. Is the engagement you speak of true?"

He smiled slyly, "What do you think?"

"Your Highness probably won't lie," Vitaly flattered her seriously, "so there is a high probability that the marriage contract exists, but it should only exist verbally. As long as the Oran family doesn't admit it, there is no problem."

"Then I can't tell." Ou Ren held her right hand with his left hand, and put his right hand on her waist. "Why are you so short!" He said with disgust.

"Your Highness is not very tall." She immediately choked on him.

"I'm 1 inch taller than Oran." Ou Ren was actually very proud.

Vitaly was about to die from laughing: Sure enough, he is a boy, and his height needs to be compared.

"Gabriel will grow taller."

"Then he won't be taller than me."

At the end of the song, Eugene not only did not let Vitaly return to Gabriel, but also ordered all the white camellias to be sent to Vitaly in flower baskets. The best-selling of "" did not make this expensive and beautiful exotic flower withdraw from the market, but became the next flower to express love.

Gabriel was furious, but Vitaly couldn't refuse the flowers presented by the Crown Prince even if she didn't know what he meant.

Afterwards, Eugène danced 4 more dances with Vitaly, while Gabriel was being dragged to talk and couldn't get close to her.

In the end, Vitaly felt that she could no longer be sandwiched between the two boys, and refused the sixth dance on the pretext of a sore foot.

"It's too hot." She took out a Chinese silk folding fan and fanned it vigorously. "Is there supposed to be some rest room here?" She looked left and right.

"Yes, I'll take you there." Ou Ren bent her arms to signal her, she thought about it, but still pretended not to understand.

"Where's Gabriel?" She searched for him in the crowded dance hall.

Ou Ren was a little proud, "I asked someone to stop him. Come on, I'll take you to the lounge."

childish!How old are you?

There were a few ladies, wives and gentlemen who were resting and chatting in the lounge, but when they saw the crown prince coming in, they retreated out with a sense of interest.Eugene asked for drinks again, and asked her whether she would like champagne or fruit juice.Fruits are scarce in winter, but orange and apple juice are still available, and Vitaly asked for orange juice.

She sat down on the baroque sofa, and Eugene sat beside her, not too close.

When he got to a place where there were only two people, he didn't talk much.

He didn't speak or smile, but there was an indescribable cold sadness on his face.Photos of the crown prince are also often published in newspapers. Vitaly has seen his photos since she was a child. The young Eugene is really a beautiful baby, with a round face that is [-]% cute, with delicate features and dark brown hair. His hair is slightly curly, and he has been wearing a strict parted hairstyle since he was a child.

Thinking of Eugene, Vitaly really struggled to save face.He is the crown prince, and he was beaten up, so he could not complain to the courtiers, the Oran couple, nor his father. The emperor would definitely think that his son was the crown prince, and such a trivial matter as two children fighting should be resolved by himself, and he could not go to his parents crying .

Therefore, it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, it is not that the time has not yet come.

He doesn't talk, and she won't take the initiative to talk to him.There might be something about the marriage contract, but judging by Gabriel's expression, he had never heard of it.She thought that Gabriel must explain it carefully later, if the explanation is not clear, she would ignore him, hum!

"Olan never mentioned you." Eugene said suddenly.

"He didn't mention you either." No one is afraid of anyone.

"do you like him?"

"I like it."

"How can you like him?" Ou Ren snorted unhappily.

"Tell you that you won't understand."

He snorted and asked again, "How old are you?"

"Sixteen and a half."

"Looks like 13 years old." Disgusting face.

ignore him.

"Do you like camellias?"

"good."

"I asked someone to bring you flowers every day."

"No, Gabriel will send me flowers. Besides, I will return to Rouen after the New Year."

"Rouen? Are you not from the Ardennes?"

"I live in Rouen now."

"How about Charleville?"

"Near Sedan."

Ou Ren pursed his lips, his face gloomy: This Ardennes girl really poked her so hard, she must have done it on purpose.The Battle of Sedan was the decisive battle in the Franco-Prussian War. In Sedan, the French Emperor Napoleon III surrendered to the Prussian army-the emperor was still thinking about this disastrous battle until his death.

After a while, he whispered: "You are a girl, you don't understand war."

Vitaly accepted it as soon as it was good, and said nothing more.

Gabriel finally found her, "Vitale!"

Ou Ren looked up at him, "what? Are you worried that I will beat her?"

Gabriel ignored him, sat beside her, and held her hand tightly, "Want to go back?"

"Tired, let's go back. Where's Arthur?"

"outside."

She stood up, "Gabriel, I'm sleepy."

"Go back to bed early." He brushed her hair lightly, then leaned closer to her face and kissed her lips.

Eugene looked at them displeased.

Arthur was stopped outside the lounge by Eugene's attendants. Seeing Vitaly come out, Arthur breathed a sigh of relief, "Are you tired? Let's go back."

Ou Ren didn't show up again, and Ou Ren's attendants sent the three of them to the carriage of Oran's family, and also sent the basket of white camellias to the carriage.

All three of them stared at a basket of camellias.

The camellia is very beautiful, with plump flowers, white double petals, layered on top of each other, with a velvet-like touch, more graceful.

Vitaly picked up a camellia and asked casually, "Gabriel, what's the matter with your engagement?"

Arthur was stunned, "What? What!" Gabriel didn't want to live anymore? !

Gabriel was very nervous, "I swear, I have never heard anything about my engagement! I am only 17 years old, not yet 18 years old, my father will not let me get engaged so early, no matter who the other party is, it is not too serious." possible."

"What about me? Do you want to get engaged to me in the future?"

"Of course!" He nodded quickly, "Don't think too much, I will go back and ask my parents, wait for me at the apartment, I will come to you tomorrow morning."

"Tomorrow is Christmas Eve."

He was a little uncomfortable, "I, I can't stay and spend Christmas Eve with you tomorrow, I can have lunch with you, and I'm going home in the afternoon. I sent people to deliver a lot of food, I hope you have a good time Christmas Eve."

She raised her chin, "Don't think that you can buy my whole family with a little food. If you don't explain the marriage contract clearly, I won't forgive you!"

"The crown prince didn't do anything to you, did he?" Arthur asked her in a low voice when he returned to the apartment.It's not that he hasn't heard of what those noble young masters will do.

"No. What can he do? He is the crown prince, and countless eyes are on him."

Arthur wanted to continue asking, Mrs. Rimbaud came out of the bedroom, -->>

"sleep earlier."

Arthur made a face at Vitaly, which made her laugh.

There was a kerosene lamp on the table in the living room, and Vitaly brought up the flower basket, and put it next to the kerosene lamp, a basket of bright white camellias.

"Who sent the flowers?" asked Madame Rimbaud.

"Mother, the crown prince also went to the ball tonight, and invited me to dance several times. These are the flowers that the crown prince gave me."

Mrs. Rimbaud was very surprised, "Crown Prince? Prince Eugene?"

"Yes." The imperial crown prince is "Prince impérial", and the British crown prince is "prince", but in fact the title of "Prince of Wales" is used to refer to the British crown prince.The only person in this era who will be called "Prince impérial" is actually Prince Eugene of the Bonaparte family.

Mrs. Rimbaud was extremely surprised: Crown Prince!That's unbelievable!She suddenly realized that the Oran family was actually a noble family that could directly meet the emperor and the crown prince, which was quite different from the Rimbaud family!

She said absent-mindedly: "The hot water is ready, wash and go to bed early."

"Okay, mother." Vitaly replied obediently.

Isabel had fallen asleep.

Vitaly changed her pajamas, climbed onto the bed lightly, and fell asleep within a few minutes.

When I woke up the next morning, I didn't think much about what happened last night.In her opinion, the crown prince is just a teenager; moreover, the heir of the abdicated emperor is actually no different from the common people, except for those nobles and speculators who still hope that he can return to Paris and ascend the throne.Although she didn't know what happened to Crown Prince Eugene in history, France never returned to the monarchy after that. This is a knowledge point in history textbooks.

Mrs. Rimbaud was in the kitchen working on the Christmas dinner, and she called her two daughters to help.In her opinion, women must go to the living room and enter the kitchen, so daughters should not be lazy about housework, especially cooking, at least they must be able to cook a decent Christmas dinner with 10 and 8 dishes. It is considered qualified, and the portion should be enough for a family of six.

Because Vitaly didn't go home usually, she only saw her mother once a year, and she left in no more than two weeks. At this time, she was still willing to cooperate with her mother, and she would do whatever she was asked to do.Mrs. Rimbaud is a bit harsh and vulgar, but generally speaking she is a good mother. She is limited by her low education level and cannot understand her children, but as long as she doesn't hold back, in Vitaly's view, she is already More than the mothers of many families.

Gabriel didn't come until almost 11 o'clock.

He looked relaxed, and took Vitaly to the study when he came.

"I asked my mother, and it was Margetta's mother alone. She thought... I haven't seen Margotta much, and I don't know why she thinks I like Margotta, so she told the emperor When it comes to the marriage contract, my mother just agreed casually, but she didn't confirm it."

"So there is indeed such a thing. If Margetta—" Vitaly frowned, "Margotta should also be a nobleman, right? She will worry about not having a suitable husband?"

"Then I don't know, and I don't care. Anyway, don't worry, no one can get me an inexplicable fiancee without my consent."

"What if they got engaged for you in your absence?"

Gabriel froze for a moment, "No."

Vitaly lowered her head and thought for a while, "I don't know how you nobles do things, but I can tell you how I do things. If you get engaged to someone else, I'll just adopt a baby from an orphanage, Take me to your house and say this is me and your child, and your parents must write at least a 5-digit check before they can send me away."

Gabriel said solemnly: "1 pounds is not enough, it must be worth at least 5 pounds. If you take this money, I will sneak out and walk with you." He boldly hugged her waist, Cheek to cheek, rubbing, kissing.

"No! What can I do with 5 pounds? I don't want to take you with me."

"Really don't take me?"

"No. Oh! Where do you put your hands? Take them away!"

"No."

"You really**."

After a while, Gabriel said: "I can't come tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, I can be with you all day. Don't worry, I'm thinking about you now, what about you? Are you thinking about me too?" ?”

"I think Eugene is not bad either."

"You made me angry on purpose, I don't mind." He said generously, "Eugène may be engaged to Princess Beatrice, the Queen likes him very much."

"Queen Victoria?"

"Of course."

"So, the queen also thinks that he will return to Paris and become emperor?"

"Maybe."

"What about you? Does your family put their hopes in Eugene?"

"I don't think there's much hope, but my mother thinks it's possible."

"Where's your father?"

"Father is British, he doesn't think it matters."

"I don't want him to become the emperor, otherwise, your marriage contract may really come true."

"There is no emperor of the empire, so you can't really take what you say. Eugene is just using this to anger you. If you have a big fight with me, he will be happy."

"You can tell him that I quarreled with you and beat you up."

"I don't want it." Gabriel expressed disdain. "I'll tell him, you're nervous, crying and saying you're going to stay in London, stay with me, piss him off!"

"Will I cry? Just talk nonsense."

He took the opportunity to say: "You really should consider staying in the UK. As long as Arthur applies to Oxford University, he will be admitted. If you also go to Oxford, we can live together. I rent a two-story small apartment in Oxford." Lou, enough for Arthur to live with you. Don't you want to be with Arthur?"

"No, Arthur should learn to be independent. I think he has adapted well in the past few months. I want to stay in Crosswale Manor. I will have my own business in the future. I can't waste time now."

"How can it be a 'waste of time'?" He yelled dissatisfiedly, "Mr. Flaubert is very good and will be your good tutor, but you can also learn a lot of literature knowledge at Oxford. I study classical literature. , Arthur must also study literature, you can't go to school to attend lectures, but if you don't understand something, I can take you to the teachers in the college immediately, there are so many teachers, there must be a few good ones, right?"

It makes sense and cannot be refuted!Flaubert was good, but he really wasn't a qualified teacher who could "teach lessons and solve puzzles", so she was moved.

"I'm going to go back and think about it. If Arthur is going to enroll, it will be next fall, and it won't be until September."

"You think about it carefully, and you can also ask Mr. Flaubert for his opinion."

She thought that she had jumped three grades in a row, from Charleville to Paris, and then to Rouen, and maybe she would really go to Oxford in the future.For writers, accumulation is very important.Poetry creation pays more attention to "talent", but it is necessary to pay attention to "accumulation" and "knowledge".There are so many publications in European countries every year, and the big waves wash away the sand. The real "literature and art" that people still love to read after hundreds of years, time will tell everything, and will prove whether your accumulation and dedication have been rewarded enough.

The scene she imagined of the Oran couple waving a check to tell her to take the money and leave did not appear, and she blamed it for a pity that there was no chance for a large sum of money to suddenly fall from the sky.

After Christmas, Gabriel took her to another ball, allowing her to meet Margota.

Miss Margotta was a few months older than Gabriel, also born in 1856.The nobles who could go into exile with Napoleon III were not short of money, and they were all the emperor's confidantes. Margetta was a proud noble lady like a little peacock. She was not beautiful, not as good as Vitaly, but Rich and educated, there are many suitors around.

Rich girls don’t worry about their husbands. Vitaly heard gossip from other ladies, saying that Margetta is likely to get engaged after the New Year. She gets engaged at 18 and gets married at 19 or 20, which is very common in aristocratic families.There are actually very, very few older young women like Queen Eugenie who have not been married until the age of 27. People said that Eugenie's mother wanted her daughter to marry the king or at least the duke, so she delayed her daughter's marriage. .

Ou Ren is very familiar with these noble children of similar age, and his two close servants are also noble teenagers.As for Vitaly, she didn't have a title, but as a beautiful young girl who had danced several dances with Eugene only a few days ago, no one made it difficult for her.

Vitaly thought, everyone probably knows about the sticky boy friendship between Eugene and Gabriel.Ou Ren didn't have to kill Gabriel at all, more just wanted to make him angry; Gabriel didn't care too much about him, and sometimes he could have a friendly conversation with Ou Ren, but usually not for long, Two people will stab each other for some reason.

Why don't they fight every time they meet?

The author has something to say: *It was a false alarm.The clichéd plot of the man's parents throwing a check and telling the heroine to leave probably shouldn't happen.

*Chinese poet Haizi wrote a poem about Rimbaud.

To Rimbaud: The Martyr of Poetry

against the moon

Green watering sky against moon belly

Rimbaud, my physical king

Rimbaud, the son of my sister who married far away and died young

Rimbaud, water beast of language and secret lover of girls

Rimbaud under the Enormity of the Sky——Spine Cleft

Hit the road, hit the road Rimbaud like a drunk boat

hit the road desperately

Ramboru's Car Full of Doctors

A patient as far away as Rimbaud

The tree-like fingers in the distance are pregnant with flowers and fruits

against the middle class at home

Rimbaud is the ultimate wave on the lashes of the beast

-

(There are a few more sentences later, but I feel more like annotations on the manuscript than verses. The original text is as follows:

Rimbaud in the village

father of poison

(1864~1891)

buried here: the sun

Haizi's poem)

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Some of Haizi's poems are not very good, some are very good. This poem written by Rimbaud is a bit artificial (I don't know the exact time of creation, it was written between 1986 and 87), not as good as the later "Motherland (or Dream as a Horse") )", "Diary", and the overused "Facing the Sea, Spring Blossoms"——

Be a happy man from tomorrow on

Feed the horses, chop wood, travel the world

Caring about food and vegetables from tomorrow

I have a house, facing the sea, with spring flowers blooming

From tomorrow, communicate with every loved one

tell them my happiness

That happy lightning told me

I will tell everyone

Give every river and every mountain a warm name

Stranger, I also bless you

May you have a bright future

May your lover be married

May you be happy in this world

I just want to face the sea, the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming

-

面朝大海这首诗是1989年1月13日创作，距离海子卧轨自杀（1989年3月26日）只有两个多月。

Haizi (1964-1989) was born in Anqing, Anhui. He was admitted to Peking University (15) at the age of 1979. After graduation, he was assigned to work as a teacher at China University of Political Science and Law. After graduation, he began to write poetry. From 1984 to early 1989, that is more than 4 years. time. To be admitted to Peking University in the late 70s was definitely a genius boy.