The Happy Life of a Duchess

Adele and the Duke looked at each other in silence.

She was hesitating how to speak.

From her point of view, her duke father is already very old, and there are some things that she hopes she can handle well. She is already an adult and independent individual, and cannot rely on the shadow of her parents for everything.

So when faced with such accidents and conspiracies caused by women's disputes and jealousy, she didn't immediately consider explaining and confessing to the Duke's father. Rather than suing, she preferred to end the matter by herself.

But the Duke's father obviously didn't think so.

Although he knows that he is not young anymore, at this time, people who are six or seventy years old can be called longevity. In other people's homes, they are all grandparents or even higher. He does have a granddaughter. Frankfurt in Prussia, unfortunately...

But his concern for his daughter as a father is not fake, and it is also the same as that of almost everyone in this era. He thinks that it is natural for a daughter to rely on her father before she gets married. It is also very legitimate and natural.

Seeing Adele's silence, he would be wrong, and couldn't help but sighed deeply.

Seeing this, Adele knew more and more that this old father, who was similar to her modern father to some extent, wanted to go so wrong, maybe why she was feeling melancholy by herself.

She explained with a smile:

"Dad, I'm just thinking about how to talk to you. If you don't mind, we can talk about it after dinner."

"it is good."

Mr. Duke nodded immediately, with a smile on his face.

He took Adele to his large office study.

Some rigid families may restrict women from entering and leaving places like the study, but he has no such rules.

Whether Adele borrows books to read in his study, or uses his desk to write and write, there is no problem. He himself is not in the study all the time. He does not need to work so hard, as long as he is there a few days a week In the study, the things to be dealt with were settled, all the letters that should be answered were answered, and his work was basically done.

At first, the Duke's father was able to distract himself from thinking "My daughter still loves me", but after listening to it, his brows frowned.

"Barry's family..." His face was not very good-looking, he didn't expect their daughter to be so presumptuous, and they bullied and plotted against her daughter.

"I have already taught Sophie Barry a lesson in this incident. I have pulled down everything she is most proud of. In addition, Mrs. Costa, who is also a victim, has also Even if I have gained a friendship, although it is not necessarily strong, it is still an extra point of connection and fate.”

"Miss Sophie Barry and her family will definitely not be reconciled. Seeing that Miss Barry is about to get married, but they have encountered such a thing, they will definitely want to get everything back, but they will not If I agree or not, she will not be happy if she offends those wives, not to mention that her reputation is not good in the first place, those other victims who don't know their identities will definitely act secretly."

Mr. Duke raised his hand with her, signaling her to stop talking.

"I know about this."

He was a little surprised at first, why his daughter, who had always been low-key and cute, suddenly changed her style. Of course, her daughter looks good in his father's eyes, not to mention that he himself is not so old that he can't tell the real from the fake.

My daughter is definitely good-looking and has a good personality that conforms to the public's aesthetics. There is no noble lady who is more approachable and lovable than her.

"The Barley family, I won't let it go." He sneered, "Sophie Barry dared to make trouble because of the Barley family's reliance on her, in the final analysis, it was his brother Bonn's love for her ,pity……"

He shook his head heavily and slowly:

"It's a pity that Bonn is a little guy who is nothing more than a conservative. He is too young, and he hasn't learned his father's sagacity. He hasn't even learned half of his father's business... If old Barry didn't die , I may have to be a little bit more scrupulous, after all, I am indeed old, and I have let go of real power for a long time, but I am just a young boy, who can think of a boy who can send his wife to be the king's mistress... Haha."

"I didn't make it easy for her either." Adele smiled slyly, "I guess, Miss Barry must be mad now."

"Oh? What did you do?"

The Duke's father showed a face of curiosity. He was not stupid, but he didn't want to use his brain and waste energy, and his life was more healthy than others seemed.

Now, Adele is eating goji berries and red dates for health preservation, and even the intake of sugar and alcohol is restricted, lest he eat more sugar and have a toothache all night.

"Didn't I ask Jenny to bring a box when I went out?" Adele smiled smugly, her eyes were crystal clear and full of lust.

"In that box, I asked someone to buy a box of very fake pink pearls. At the end of the ball, I asked someone to pass the box to Sophie Ba In Li's hand, she must be able to recognize the box of dyed pink pearls, hahahahaha..."

The more Adele thinks about it, the more amusing it becomes, the more she thinks about it, the funnier she is, the more she imagines Miss Sophie Barry's look, the more she can't help it, the corners of her lips curl up, and she can't help covering her mouth with a handkerchief Smiling straight on the sofa seat.

The Duke thought it through in an instant, and then smiled. He didn't "blame" very forcefully.

"You... narrow."

"I don't care, isn't she expecting me to wear pink pearls to embarrass Mrs. Bernard? Then I will return a gift of fake pearls. I want to see if she can act like a good sister to me. , I’m just a little rough, I don’t want her to touch it, and I definitely don’t let her take the opportunity to take the name of ‘good friend’ that I said to me.”

Adele opened her mouth willfully. If she hadn't learned from Miss Bernard, she wouldn't have let Jenny handle this matter early. After the old Baroness Bernard appeared on the stage, she knew that Miss Sophie Barry was really a little Don't want to let her go.

During the ball, the old Mrs. Bernard's energy was not very good, after all, she was an old and seriously ill person, but she carefully observed that this old lady did pay special attention to people wearing pearls, but It didn't go crazy, maybe it was under control, or it was because no one in the room was wearing pink pearls.

But Adele didn't want to gamble on the one-in-a-million possibility. As for the bunch of pink pearls she bought, they were not bad. She decided to wear them at the next ball with Miss Sophie Barry present. Disgusting her to death.

However, after giving the gift like this, Miss Sophie Barley must also know that she has already known her disgusting calculations and plots.

If she doesn't want to fall into the embarrassing situation of being ridiculed by Adele, she should avoid Adele wisely, just like she dare not talk to Mrs. Costa, and dare not contact each other, of course Costa Madam also wished that this disgusting person would go away and not talk to her. Who knows if she is planning something again?

"Do you have any plans today?" Mr. Duke asked her, "If you have nothing to do, let the designer come over. Since you like beautiful and special dresses, you can order two more. Our family does not lack that little money. After all, let the designer come over. You have a good time, the skirt can't be clichéd, and it can't be out of fashion, and there will be more when you attend salons and balls in the future, and you can't miss it."

"I see." Adele nodded, "Then make arrangements to come here today. I'll go to the farm tomorrow, and I still have to settle the matter with the curtains before. If I don't go and have a look in person to find out the situation, I always It's a little worrying."

"It's okay, remember to let the housekeeper follow you, and bring a few more male servants, don't tire yourself out, if it takes a long time, you can just live there, anyway, the farm over there is also tidied up, don't worry about it The housekeeper arranged for someone to clean it up, it shouldn’t be a big problem to stay for a few days, you can discuss it with Armand.”

"it is good."

Adele nodded yes, then remembered something again, and hesitated a little.

"What's the matter?" the Duke saw it and asked, "Is there anything else?"

"Dad, do I have a niece?"

Mr. Duke was taken aback for a moment, and then nodded vaguely. Seeing the curiosity on Adele's face, he finally couldn't bear it, so he said it clearly.

"That's your third sister who passed away. She was the only child in our family who grew up and got married. It's a pity..."

"What's the matter, Dad?"

Adele listened to Mr. Duke's description, but she couldn't remember where this inexplicable familiar feeling came from.

As she listened, she felt that maybe the identities of this brother-in-law and little niece were a little... strange?

This development seems to overlap with a certain masterpiece...

Adele's sister is different from Adele, who is too delicate and frail to go to school. She can only be taught by tutors most of the time. She studied in Saint-Denis, a small city in the north of Paris. After graduating from school, she didn't want to, maybe because she didn't live in Bailu Manor very much, and she didn't have much nostalgia for the aristocratic circle in Paris itself.

Mr. Duke thought it was not a big deal, but he did not expect that she had become so "rebellious" that she took a fancy to a Baron Mr. Sessmann who happened to pass by Saint-Denis and wanted to go on business in Paris.

The title of the baron was conferred by King Frederick William II of the Kingdom of Prussia, and he was considered very prestigious in Frankfurt, but his descendants did not continue to be favored by the king. He was far away from the center of power at all. It's just doing some business to maintain the family wealth.

The Duke at that time naturally looked down on such a boy, and he was unwilling to marry his daughter to such a gentleman, not to mention going to Frankfurt, the carriage for half a month and a month was too much trouble.

In addition, their family is Catholic, and there is Christianity over there, and there are various religious issues. The other party's family is not as rich as the duke's mansion, let alone in Frankfurt, and Paris, the center of art and culture, is even worse. up.

As a result, it was never expected that the daughter was extraordinarily persistent, claiming that their love would never wither, and even adopted more violent methods to fight for it. In the end, the Duke's father had no choice but to agree to the marriage.

In other words, when they got married, the duke's father was very dissatisfied with the other party and the other party's family.

"Isn't there something better?" Adele felt that the other party might be hiding something.

"Actually...he is not bad. I have met the old Mrs. Sessman, she is a kind person who is easy to get along with." He sighed deeply, "I persuaded myself that way, but I didn't expect that she married Not long in the past, after giving birth to a daughter, your niece Clara, she died of illness."

"I firmly believe it's because they didn't take good care of her and made her work too hard for her life."

"The last time we met was also at your sister's funeral," Adele no longer had these impressions. Of course, she should not have been too old at the time, but she was delicate and frail, so it was naturally impossible for her to be taken to Frankfurt. I didn’t have a chance to meet each other, “I only found out after I went there that not only your poor sister passed away early, but even her daughter Clara was also sick. A good child couldn’t stand up anymore, so she could only be pitiful. Lying on the bed...I had a big fight with Sethman, and the relationship was completely broken..."

"If you want to get in touch with Clara, that's fine too."

"Old Mrs. Sessman is a very kind person, and she doesn't care about it. Clara should be about ten years old now, and she is also a poor child."

When she heard the following description, she suddenly realized, isn't this the work "Heidi" by a Swiss female writer?Clara is an important character in it, the very kind noble lady.

Because it is not native to France, it was originally German, and it is more popular in English-speaking countries. Adele didn't think of it for a while, but now she finally remembered it.

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Adele: Look what I found, another one!Everyone in my family is the protagonist(?)