[Titanic] I can't help myself

At the end of November, Mother again invited the James family to Acton for Christmas.Carroll was nearing labor, and Acton had adequate medical conditions.This is not only good for Carol, but also a good choice for Aunt Violet who has been ill.

Moreover, I am not worried about leaving James in that environment. Although he can barely support his superficial strength now, it is actually the time when he needs someone to accompany him.If he is left at home, he can only take on all the things alone, even if those things are not complicated, but the psychological pressure caused by it alone can crush him.And if he comes to Acton, with us to accompany him, we can share some of the burden for him, at least psychologically it can make him feel a little easier.

At first, Aunt Violet strongly disagreed, as if she had been greatly insulted.For so many years, she has been secretly comparing with her mother, the relationship is tense, and letting her mother come to her home to help is already the most helpless choice under extreme circumstances.Therefore, she resolutely rejected our invitation on the grounds that she has enough servants to take care of her and that there is a hospital in the town.I later told my mother what I thought about James, and asked her to pass it on to Aunt Violet, who, as I expected, panicked at once about her son's mental state. After only thinking about it for one night, agreed to come to Acton for Christmas.

As a result, Christmas in 1916 was more lively and crowded than ever.There are almost hundreds of patients in the castle plus doctors and nurses.We held a big Christmas dinner, and all the people, whether ordinary soldiers or officers, nobles or servants, men and women, all gathered in the hall and enjoyed a Christmas meal crowded together, and everyone sang Christmas carols, but also spontaneously performed a lot of programs.

In addition, there was an unexpected surprise. Carol suddenly felt a stomachache at ten o'clock. The labor pains before delivery came quickly and violently, and she was immediately sent into the room by the doctors and nurses who attended the Christmas dinner together.

James turned pale with nervousness, and quickly asked his servants to carry him outside the delivery room to wait.Fortunately, because Carol had given birth to a child before, this time the delivery was unexpectedly smooth. Within an hour, the cries of two children could be clearly heard in the delivery room.

James, who heard the cry of the child, went limp and almost slipped out of the wheelchair. Fortunately, Carl had quick eyesight and quick hands, and helped him in time.

Carol gave birth to two babies, one boy and one girl. When the nurses took the two babies out and showed them to the guests in the hall who were also looking forward to it, everyone cheered and applauded enthusiastically.The birth of a new life always makes people feel happy and moving, especially in this age of war full of death, it is a great touch to these soldiers who have escaped from death.Everyone expressed their intention to hug these two little angels.

James didn't say no, he was still shaking and immersed in the joy of becoming a father for the second time.So the two new members of the Cornish family were transferred from the arms of one soldier to the arms of another under the protection of the nurse.Everyone was cautious, as if a little effort would break the baby.Some soldiers even sobbed softly.

"Oh my god, the baby is so cute." They exclaimed with red eyes and weeping, and quickly put the child back into the nurse's arms, as if they were afraid that their embarrassing crying would scare the child.

This process didn't take much time, and soon, the crying children were sent back to their mothers who had changed their clothes.

This Christmas night ends with the birth of two new lives.Excited James watched his wife fall asleep tiredly, then forced me to continue drinking. James, who was drunk after only two glasses of wine, kept talking about the things between him and Carol, looking forward to the future. The future of the two babies, especially the long-awaited youngest daughter, is envisioned from zero to 20 years old.Eight out of ten sentences he said were sick, and the remaining two were still tongue-in-cheek. I listened to him confiding until early in the morning, and finally couldn't help but fell asleep. It was all his slurred speech.

After Carol gave birth to James' second son and young daughter on Christmas night, James' mental state suddenly changed drastically.In the past, he just barely supported himself, forced and paralyzed himself and pretended not to care about the reality of his paralysis.But now, it seems that being a father for the second time suddenly injected him with infinite courage. He began to face the reality from the bottom of his heart, and began to face all this optimistically and positively.

Whenever he held the two children in his arms, the spontaneous paternal love that emanated from him made him look like a giant.Although he was in a wheelchair, he didn't feel weak or haggard at all.

The birth of a child made him stronger again.He finally became the James I knew again, full of confidence and fearlessness.

The war is still going on, and every day I receive news of the sacrifices of people I know.We attend a funeral almost every week, and the family crests on the gates of many manors are surrounded by black frames to show that someone in the family died in battle.Acton is constantly receiving new wounded soldiers. Many ordinary soldiers are unable to return to the front line because of their severe injuries and disabilities. It may be difficult for the disabled to find jobs. I opened a new cannery for them. Jobs are provided in the factory, which has a higher degree of mechanization, and the work content is easier and easier for them to operate.They don't work that long, and their wages are naturally not as high as full-time workers, but the wages I pay them are very fair and have not caused anyone's dissatisfaction.

Rose seized this opportunity again, and asked Viscountess Waynes to report and publicize the matter in the newspaper, encouraging everyone to buy canned food from HC Foods, and to support the work of disabled veterans.

Of course, someone soon jumped out and said that I was using disabled soldiers, which was inhumane exploitation and stage play.However, the reporter and editor of the Viscountess Waynes wrote very well, and they quickly responded sharply. This back and forth, not only did not cause any damage to the reputation of me and HC Food Company, but also caused My cannery has played a lot of advertisements, and sales have increased dramatically.

Meanwhile, Dan, under the pseudonym August, serialized five novels in the Viscountess Waynes' newspaper.Although his novels are all love stories, the plots are ups and downs, the content is substantial, real but not boring, and he soon became a well-known writer.However, his identity has been well concealed, which has led many people to speculate that he is a female nurse in the field, because his life is more or less related to the battlefield, and his delicate emotions are not something a man can describe.

When John wrote to me, he made fun of this incident, because even their comrades began to read Dan's novels, and everyone firmly believed that the author was a beautiful and sentimental woman, and they expressed it unabashedly admiration for the author.This made John very sad.

John had confessed everything to Dan, and Dan was surprised, but not disgusted, and he didn't refuse.But he still can't make a decision whether to accept John or not. He can't figure out whether his feelings for John are pure friendship or mixed with some romantic things.John said that he didn't plan to press him, and that he was willing to wait for Dan to figure it out for himself.But I think John has a bright future. When a man starts to consider whether the relationship between two people is pure, it proves that his relationship with the other party must be impure.

The war continued until the autumn of 1918.From 1917 onwards, the situation began to be significantly biased against us. The United States joined the Allied Powers to fight against Germany, and China, thousands of miles away, also sent a large number of troops to help us.During this time civil strife broke out in Russia, soldiers against the authorities stormed the palace and imprisoned members of the royal family in their rooms, and Russia withdrew from the war, which was a great loss for us.But soon, in 1918, the supplies and troops of the Allies began to be insufficient, and victory was in sight.

The Allied Powers launched a large-scale counter-offensive in July, pushing the front line to the Marne River, and then there were frequent reports of success. At the end of October, a sailor mutiny occurred within Germany, and soon Kaiser Wilhelm II was forced to abdicate.Two days later, on November 1918, [-], an armistice was signed in a train carriage outside Paris.

So far, the war that has lasted for six years and claimed too many lives has finally come to an end.No one will continue to be injured and sacrificed, and our surviving soldiers can finally go home to be reunited with their loved ones.As for the subsequent division of interests, it will be left to the parliamentarians and politicians.

At noon on the day of the armistice, we all wore military uniforms, pinned all the medals on our chests, and led all the officers and soldiers who were recovering in Acton to pray for the lives lost in this war.

Many ordinary soldiers cried out in a low voice.They have waited too long for this day.

It was not until May of the following year that all the wounded who came to Acton were discharged, and then the medical equipment that filled the castle was pulled away bit by bit, and it took us another month. Restoring the castle to its original state, and it's already August.

The author has something to say: Mommy, school is about to start, and I haven’t read any of the literature that the tutor asked me to read! ! ! !Die! Die! ! !