Rimbaud's girl

"He didn't ask, why did I take the initiative to tell him that I was engaged? Shouldn't it be Mr. Turgenev who told him that I was engaged?"

Caroline shook her head, "If he doesn't ask, Mr. Turgenev can't tell anyone about your engagement." She thought it was funny, "So, he thought you were a single girl?"

"But I'm not married yet, of course I'm single!" she whispered.

"So, don't you regret it now? After all, you didn't know a few young boys before you got engaged to Oran."

"Well..." Vitaly thought for a moment, "No. The richer the material, the better the novel, but the simpler the better, of course. Gabriel is very good, he is not complicated, of course It's not very simple, the important thing is that he has money."

Caroline couldn't help smiling: She's such a practical girl.

She was right, no money is not enough.Paul is lovely, but he's always late.

After entering the theater box, Vitaly and Caroline took two seats in the front row, and Paul sat behind Vitaly and explained the plot to her in a low voice.The synopsis of the plot was originally printed on the repertoire, the plot was not complicated, and the actors also spoke French instead of Italian.

During the intermission, Caroline went to the bathroom. Paul boldly touched the back of Vitaly's hand, as if he wanted to shake her hand. Get up, "I'm going to touch up my makeup."

Paul suddenly became uneasy, lest she would get angry, and he was quite disturbed.When she came back, he carefully looked at the expression on her face, seeing that she didn't seem to be angry at all, so he felt a little relieved.

Ingratiatingly asked: "Are you thirsty? Drink some water." Handed her a glass bottle of rose water.

Vitaly ignored the glass bottle and went to talk to Caroline instead.The next few scenes also basically did not speak to him, which made him uneasy.

In the intermission of the last act, Vitaly goes to the bathroom again, and Gisela escorts her out of the box.

After Vitaly left, Caroline pretended to be unintentional and asked, "You know she's engaged, right?"

Paul was very surprised, "What?"

"She's wearing an engagement ring, didn't you see it?" Caroline "kindly" prompted.

"Is that an engagement ring?" He really didn't think about it.Distraught, thinking that his love was just budding, he was suddenly caught in a deadly snowstorm.

When Vitaly came back, she couldn't bear to see him unhappy.

"What happened to you?"

He was so sad that he almost shed tears, "You...how did you get engaged?"

All she had to say was, "Yeah, got engaged at Christmas."

He was sleepy, "Why didn't I know you earlier?"

"Don't say that - I may hold an art exhibition in a few months, and I will invite you, your parents, and sisters to visit."

Paul nodded, "Okay."

But still super sad.

Caroline just bought a new apartment not long ago. The apartment is relatively small. The family of four lives tightly and cannot accommodate the servants, so she finds a daytime maid in Paris without arranging accommodation.

The house price was not expensive, only cost 1 francs, they took 4 francs themselves, Henri Commanville asked a colleague to borrow 3000 francs, Vitaly lent 3000 francs to Caroline, and Flaubert lent 5000 francs to Caroline. Rowling 3000 francs.

Caroline took Philip, who was going to school in Rouen, to Paris, and she was happy to see the child every day.

Vitali remained in Paris until the end of March, when he and Flaubert returned to the Château de Crosval.

The reason why Flaubert couldn't live in Paris was because of his illness.Flaubert was considered one of his attending doctors, but the Flaubert family was not good at internal medicine, and Flaubert also had a doctor who specialized in treating syphilis.

The first reason why Vitaly cannot live in Paris is that she is underage, and the second is that she must be accompanied by others to live in Paris, otherwise she will be regarded as an "improper woman" by strangers.Before that, I lived with Arthur in Paris. Of course, it would be no problem to live with my brother, and it would be no problem to live with my adoptive father. If Caroline could live with her, it would be no problem.

Her plan to open an art exhibition is progressing slowly. She originally thought it could be opened in the first half of the year, but now she finds that the problem is that there are too few works. It is not long for her to learn painting. Although she draws quickly, her works are not many. Oil painting Especially few, and she is too busy. In the past 3 months, she has only painted less than 3 oil paintings, and the number of works is insufficient.She had no choice but to temporarily postpone the plan to hold an art exhibition, thinking that even if she held an art exhibition at the age of 20, she would still be a very young artist.So don't worry.

As for the publication of "A Floating Dream", Mr. Alfonso has started -->>

The preliminary publicity has started, and the novels of the Rimbaud brothers and sisters will be launched at the same time, and the promotion will be bundled.This is also a publicity gimmick, after all, it is extremely rare for a brother and sister at such a young age to be able to have such writing skills and enthusiasm for creative writing.

After returning from London, Vitaly spent a month revising "A Floating Dream" from beginning to end, and re-transcribing it—again lamenting how inconvenient it is to not have a typewriter, copier and computer!She writes so much that the first knuckle of her right middle finger is calloused.

Leila used olive oil to maintain her hands every night, focusing on rubbing calluses, and complained a few times occasionally, saying that she was really not a lady, and a lady couldn't make her hands as rough as a village girl.Vitaly teased her, "A few years ago, I had to go to the field to harvest wheat."

Leila turned pale in shock, "What?" Although she is a maid, she is also a child born in London. Except for going to the country house with the old lady, she has never seen the scene of the farmer going to the field to harvest wheat, so she knows that it is not "Lady" "Will do the job.

Gisela bowed her head and smiled, "Don't listen to the lady's nonsense!" She came over and took Vitaly's left hand, "Look, does this look like a hand doing farm work?"

Layla didn't understand French very well, so she could barely understand it by guessing. "Miss is so naughty! Your hands don't look like those used to do farm work. But the young master said that I want me to take good care of you."

"Huh? What did he say?"

"He said that miss, you are still young, and there may be some unexpected things. There are no older wives here in the manor, and no one takes care of you."

"I really don't understand what's going on with his mother chicken mentality."

Teased Layla, "That's because he loves you and doesn't want anything—something bad to happen to you."

"He's - oh, I see. But he's thinking a little bit more simply. I'm not really going anywhere dangerous, or doing anything dangerous. But I don't blame him for being too worried." Gabriel It is reasonable for Lie to be worried about her safety. Many people die in carriage overturn accidents, just like in later generations, the number of deaths from traffic accidents far exceeds the number of deaths from cancer.If you want to really avoid accidents, you probably have to stay at home and never go out.

Layla had finished her manicure, Gisela had done her hair, and two maids put her to bed.

She pondered, she really had to get used to the presence of maids.

well!In fact, to be honest, I got used to it quite quickly, to the point where I wouldn't go out without a personal maid.Is this an early step into the aristocratic life?But when I think about Mrs. Orland's servants again, I feel that it is really very few to have only two maids.

After Leila came, Mrs. Reval's role was basically to accompany her when she went out, and Mrs. Reval could no longer intervene in other things.Vitaly had a talk with her, and planned to let Mrs. Reval go back to Paris to help Caroline. Caroline is definitely not enough to use a daytime maid. She can't clean the tables and chairs by herself, and it's impossible I do my own laundry, and a maid does housework and cooks, which is simply too busy.

This time they went to Paris, and Mrs. Reval also went to Paris together, and agreed to work as a maid at Caroline's house, mainly responsible for cooking and kitchen work.Mrs. Reval is not a professional cook, but she can cook well.

Leila came to France with her and returned to London with her when they got married. The Oran family paid Leila's salary, Gabriel paid Gisela's salary, and Vitaly now saved it for Mrs. Reval A yearly salary of 500 francs.She then decided to transfer the 500 francs to Vincent van Gogh who had returned to his hometown in the Netherlands from Arles, France.

Vincent sent her two letters and a large collection of paintings before Christmas, packed in wooden boxes directly from Arles, and sent to Rouen, where she was not at the time. The message was delivered to the Rouen train station in a wooden box.

It was only when Vitaly returned to the manor that he saw Vincent's letter. In the letter, he said that he wanted to go home and have a look. He would probably live until spring, and then decide where to go.In his letter, he said restrainedly:

"I'm a bit lost now, I don't know what I'm doing. You're right, to make money, make a lot of money, I don't know how to achieve the goal of 'making a lot of money'. I almost forgot that I was in Goupil How do I persuade customers to buy those boring works. I don’t know what works people will like at all. Maybe I don’t really care what others like, I just think about what I like and what I want.

I like flowers, lavender, irises, sunflowers, I like them all; there are also olive trees and wheat fields.People say that Arles is the most beautiful in spring and summer, but in my opinion, the place where you are is beautiful, but I can't go to you.

are you engagedI think so.My heart still aches for you.

Maybe you will think that I am a **** and annoying guy, I can't really leave you, but I dare not go to your side.

what!Oh God!Please give me courage!

Yours faithfully, Vincent. "

His handwriting was a bit messy, and he forgot to add his last name.