The Happy Life of a Duchess

With the second half of the negotiation, basically the content that needs to be signed is almost the same.

Then there are some relatively trivial things to go back and forth, such as the process of engagement and the holding of the dance party, such as the arrangements for future marriage, such as the future life of the two, and so on.

Mr. Duke hopes that Adele can stay in Paris for a long time. The days when he can see his daughter are numbered, but he does not want to disturb her new life too much.

He is also very clear that an overly dominant in-law's family or a father-in-law who is always looking for trouble is a burden to the son-in-law, and it may even affect the relationship between the young couple in the future.

But he also knew that at this age, even if he knew it logically, he still couldn't avoid some emotional little emotions.

Young couples must of course have their own lives and live happily and independently, and Mr. Duval is not the kind of young man who cannot walk independently. He is a mature man, and of course he knows what life is like when he is single or married. look.

After getting married, there is no lady who always runs to her mother's house, and after a man gets married, he will naturally not continue to live with his parents.

Unless it is a special situation with the status of an heir - a big family may live together in the ancestral manor, but normally the young couple live out by themselves.

In this regard, the two also briefly talked about it.

Adele still has the main right to speak, and Mr. Duval has given his future concubine considerable autonomy in this regard.

Knowing the attitude of the other party, and knowing that he is so knowledgeable and interesting, Mr. Duke can't ask for more.

He has fought for as many interests as possible for his daughter, although there are still many things in his heart, but no matter how many demands come, it will not be a marriage, but an enemy.

"Dad, I will miss you and will come back to see you often."

With these words, Mr. Duke felt that all the things that were not going well were smoothed out at once.

In the past, he didn't feel it, but now the Duke felt even more, all the melancholy and little emotions he hadn't experienced in his life seemed to pop up all of a sudden.

Fortunately, his lovely and amiable little daughter has always been considerate, so she quickly changed the subject, and somehow it came to Count Garcia's house.

"Oh... is there such a thing?"

Mr. Duke obviously didn't hear the relevant rumors, but maybe he was busy with other things recently, which made him a little bit insufficient in these gossip news.

"Tomorrow, lawyer Chad will come back, and you may be asked to sign a few places. Some of them have wills and some have relations with Duval. In short, you just follow what he said."

Lawyer Chad is a very close lawyer in the family. Since Mr. Duke was young, his father was helping him. Now that his father is old and lacks energy, his son continues to cooperate with the Juradi family .

Because it may involve family business or matters such as property inheritance, not all lawyers can take on it.

Mr. Duke's habit has always been to cooperate with a lawyer who knows the basics, and if necessary, he may invite another prestigious notary or another lawyer who is also very reliable to complete the work together.

Attorney Chad is the son of the original one. He is now in his 40s and less than [-] years old. He is already very experienced as a barrister like his father was at the time. He is asked for help in many noble cases.

He is also a gentleman with a good reputation, at least he is very tight-lipped, and this is enough to prove his professionalism and reliability to a certain extent.

He doesn't take care of any incidents now. He has a law firm with two lawyers and seven or eight legal assistants under his management. Most of the work is left to his subordinates.

Only an "old client" like Mr. Duke with a high status will take care of everything big and small. Whether it is Adele's marriage contract or Mr. Duke's future inheritance, no matter how big or small, he will personally take care of it. As for the details How many assistants will participate is also explained in advance, at least there will be no nonsense, and Mr. Duke will not care about everything with him to that extent.

After a while, Monsieur the Duke himself sighed again.

"I said earlier that the stock business is not easy to do. Investing in other people is so risky. There should not be too many people who are cheated, so there are countless people who have gone bankrupt..."

"Things that even the great astronomer and physicist Sir Newton couldn't handle well..." Adele smiled and said with relief, "Did he lose tens of thousands of pounds at the time?"

"Twenty thousand pounds," Mr. Duke nodded, and said in slightly blunt English, "'I can calculate the movement of celestial bodies, but I can't calculate the madness of human beings.' This is not something that can be played casually, Even if one or two speculations can be tricky, there are still some problems...the risk is too high, people, it is better to do some serious business in a down-to-earth manner."

Adele understood what he meant, and knew that he was talking about land business such as real estate. The chain of contempt always existed, but such profitable behaviors as stocks or investing, including horse betting, were all regarded by the Duke as Part of gambling, keep it at arm's length.

Even if he does investment business, he only does it among acquaintances, and never dares to be greedy for profit, otherwise he will suffer some bad results.

On this day, before the salon, Adele invited Leopoldina Hugo to come to play at home.

"My God, dear, I really didn't think of it." Leo stepped forward to hug her and kissed her passionately.

"Did you think I'm getting engaged?"

Adele also hugged her intimately, not hiding her joy and happiness of seeing her friends.

"Maybe you would like to share some of your stories with me..." Leo paused, then couldn't help laughing, she was sincerely happy for her friend, "I didn't expect you to move so fast, I really didn't expect you to Get engaged faster than I can."

"What about you?" Adele took her hand and walked into the garden.

"To be honest, I haven't thought about it, but my family hopes that I can make a decision before the end of this year. I will get engaged around Christmas or New Year's Day. I can get married in half a year, and I will be married in summer and autumn." You can spend a honeymoon happily."

Hearing what she said, Adele paused obviously.

She remembered that Leo seemed to be destined, and she didn't know if it was appropriate to say it, but anyway, the fact that she and her future husband would die during the honeymoon was like a thorn in her throat.

"So my dear, do you have a favorite..."

Adele's voice is full of concern, she really cares about this matter very much, when Leo can't learn to swim, she thinks it is very important that her husband is strong enough to be able to swim and save people Of course, it would be nice if they could bring more servants who can drink water when they spend their honeymoon.

Maybe avoiding the Rhine would be a solution, but at this time, people spend most of their honeymoon boating or other such activities-this is a common part of honeymoon, she can't take things that she can't give evidence Keep Leo and her husband from one of those activities that everyone else does.

Adele is not sure whether there will be other rivers or lakes without the Rhine, and she has no way to accurately obtain information such as time, place and people.

"Honey, I thought you were the protagonist today?" Leo retorted with a smile, but he only teased his friends a few words, not really unwilling to say, "But I have some new doubts recently, because I found that Mr. Fitch A very fine gentleman too, but I'm not sure if he's expressing affection for me."

"You know, he...has a good status." There was a little hesitation on her face.

"Leo, your status is not bad. You are the daughter of a councilor and the eldest daughter of the Hugo family." Adele trusted her friend very much and encouraged her.

"But you know, Fitch's family has a military background, and our family doesn't have any of this... Even our political status is not very appropriate, but it is very influential among literati. Although Mr. Fitch didn't join the army, But he has good financial resources, his family is very powerful in business, he is a very wealthy gentleman for our family, and many women can be crazy about him with a wave of his hand."

Leo is not a person who doesn't understand, but maybe she is really moved, which is why she is so hesitant.

Adele reluctantly tried to persuade her, and she quickly let go of her emotions.

"Oh, by the way, you asked me before, what works should the salon use as a discussion point, I have carefully read what you said several times, I think..." Leo talked about literature, which is very interesting. Thinking about it, she immediately got into the mood, Adele pretended to be listening attentively, and asked the servant to bring over the relevant bibliography after serving the refreshments.

"Compared to Mr. D's poems...Of course I'm not saying that his poems are bad. In fact, I think Mr. D's poems praising nature are very good in terms of rhythm and description. He tried to correct the style after adapting the style The free exploration and pursuit is a bit like Boccaccio, and it has a romantic and treacherous color in the mythological background."

Leo gives her own opinion.

"But I think it might be better to discuss Mr. J's novels than you'd expect."

The two of them were talking about a recently popular up-and-coming writer with the pseudonym J.R.

This Mr. J knew that he was a man just by his brushstrokes. Although he wrote a romantic and tragic love story that is popular nowadays, he was very controversial.

The biggest problem should be said that men seem to like his works very much. Watching his little character protagonists get the love of different ladies step by step, and then successfully get into the upper class by virtue of his outstanding female popularity, become a successful person, and Playing among all kinds of social celebrities, although the text is not long, but in the eyes of men, this gentleman with good pedigree but whose family has declined is worth "learning" and so on.

Adele chose his story precisely because she found that among the ladies, the reputation of Mr. J and his works was very average, and she even heard a few ladies and ladies ridicule with disdain.

The protagonists in Mr. J's works are able to succeed so smoothly, largely relying on women.

He is a very popular character, whether it is a rich woman who spends a lot of money on him, or he marries a wealthy inheritance heir lady whose parents died, in short, it is always back and forth, even the travel expenses for his initial fortune are not his own, But he didn't know how many generations he thought his noble lineage had been traced back—of course, according to everyone's thinking, it was still noble.

The tragedy of this story lies in the fact that the several women that the male protagonist really fell in love with all died and left due to some kind of force majeure.

In the end, after reading all the wind and moon, he still fell in love with a married man, and he was also his younger brother and sister.

"This woman with a young and pure soul made him tremble all over. He immediately stepped forward and held her hand..."

It is very interesting that Mr. J also arranged a very bloody but very close to the background of Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther", that is, this woman is actually his sister who regrets his first love, and the first love is exactly what he wanted to do at the beginning. Everything was saved for the woman who gave him the fare money. After he returned to his hometown, he found out that the woman had been forced to marry for the sake of her five younger siblings.

"Tell me about it?" Adele didn't immediately draw conclusions. She knew that Leo must be able to feel the expectation hidden in her words in the letter. She also knew that Leo was a smart girl who read and understood. Dale really wanted to do something.

Compared with Mr. D's poems, the most obvious feature of Mr. J's story is that it is very controversial.

Some critics say that this is the shameless complacency of an incompetent man, but some critics think that this is a very natural love tragedy inherited from reality.

To be honest, the two sides are quite fierce. Leo only said that women must see things differently from men's angles, just as mainstream men's critics are talking about these mixed with incest, cheating, multi-sports or A true or false love story—

But Adele and Leo were able to immediately notice how the protagonist got more or less benefits from each woman, and defined him as a man who relied on women for his superiority.

The author has something to say:

Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) once lost about £2 (equivalent to over $200 million in today's dollars) in the South Sea Company's British stock bubble. "I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."