Southern Rose [Gone with the Wind]

"Don't worry, Master Victor, the wife is always in good health—" Mrs. Jenkins frowned, "Maybe it's because she hasn't eaten anything these days."

She worriedly remembered that Josephine couldn't eat anything when she first gave birth to Victor, but that seemed different from this time.Another possibility is that she is not a doctor, and she will have to wait for the doctor to see her to find out if she is.

Soon, a servant hurried in with a doctor in his 40s.

Mrs. Jenkins asked Manny to take the young master to the living room outside the suite. After a while, she also left the bedroom, leaving only Lydia, a maid, to wait in the room.

Victor kept trying to keep the tears from falling.

He knew what it meant to be sick, and that sick people felt bad, but he still couldn't understand what it meant to "faint".

Mom must be very sick, will mom die?

He was terrified.He knew that a child without a mother would be very pitiful. When the grandmother mentioned those children who lost their mother at a young age, she always expressed regret, saying that those children are really pitiful. The mother is the parent who loves the child the most. , No matter what, it can't be compared with a mother's love for her child.

He was so frightened that he stayed on the sofa, not daring to move, as if if he moved, he would receive bad news immediately.

After about a year or so, Mr. Tarent came out.Victor saw the smile on his stepfather's face strangely, and thought to himself what's going on?

Philip walked over with a smile, "Mrs. Jenkins, you can go in."

Mrs. Jenkins breathed a sigh of relief. "That's great!" She hurried into the bedroom.

Victor looked puzzled and asked anxiously, "Sir? How is mother?"

"She's fine." Philip sat beside him, rubbed his hair, and couldn't hide his joy in his tone, "You're going to have a younger brother or younger sister."

Victor's eyes widened, not quite understanding, "What?"

Manny exclaimed, "Oh! Mistress has a baby! Congratulations, Mr. Talent."

Philip smiled triumphantly, "Manny, take good care of Victor, take him to see his wife, and then take him back to his room."

He said to his stepson again: "Your mother needs to rest, don't make her too tired."

"Yes, sir."

"Victor," Josephine leaned against the head of the bed, her face pale, "Are you okay?"

"I'm terrified," cried the boy at last, "I'm afraid you'll leave me."

"Come here, sit here." She patted the edge of the bed, "Mom is fine, don't be afraid."

Touching his little face, she motioned for Manny to bring a handkerchief, and wiped away her son's tears.The little boy was genuinely sad and scared, which she found funny and moved.

"Mom has a baby, do you understand what that means?"

"Mr. Talent says I'm going to have a brother or a sister."

"Yes. It's nothing to worry about, Mum's just not feeling well. Are you hungry? Wait a minute and let Mr. Tarent take you down for dinner. I'm tired and want to sleep." Kiss him on the cheek, " Go on, don't worry. Just ask Mrs. Jenkins before you go to bed at night, and if I'm awake, you'll come over and say goodnight, okay?"

"Okay, mother. You must get well soon." Victor stood up, but refused to leave for a long time. Josephine had to comfort him again until Philip came in and asked Mrs. Jenkins to take Victor away. .

"How are you, my wife?" He smiled uncontrollably.

"Want to sleep. You take Victor down for a walk and come back after dinner."

"I want to be with you." He kissed the back of her hand, "It really scared me just now, I was so worried!"

"What were you thinking?"

"I was thinking how could I be so unfortunate that I would become a widower just after I got married." He replied honestly, "Don't blame me for thinking too seriously, I was so anxious, I kept blaming myself why I had to bring you to Europe, You can honeymoon anywhere without making you suffer like this."

He smiled slightly. "I'm happy now, Darling."

Gently kissed her cheek, "I really want to be with you every minute, but for now, I'd better let you have a good rest."

Josephine fell asleep quickly after Philip left.

really tired.

In fact, the first few days after boarding the ship should have been her menstrual period, but at that time she could only lie down all day, not thinking about pregnancy.She is healthy and sexually active, and pregnancy is a normal thing.When a married healthy woman reaches her menstrual cycle but has no bleeding event, the first thing that comes to her mind is pregnancy.

She was actually not that excited. Pregnancy is not a comfortable thing for a woman, at least she has to lie in bed all day for the past few days.The doctor they found was not an obstetrician, so they would ask another obstetrician to make sure, but she knew that she must be pregnant.

Philip waited until the obstetrician and gynecologist came to see him and received another diagnosis that his wife was pregnant, and then he took Victor downstairs for dinner with satisfaction.

Josephine lay in bed for several days, and when he was able to get out of bed Philip took her to his house in Paris.Originally, they planned to take a train from France to Marseilles, and then go to Italy, Greece, and the Mediterranean coast by train and carriage all the way. If they wanted to go to Egypt, they would go to the Middle East and Egypt from the southernmost tip of Italy. one year.

But now that she is pregnant, this plan will be postponed until a year later.

Josephine was very dissatisfied, but could only accept it.Medicine is not yet developed in this era, and with her physique, which would cause her to faint for several days every time she boarded a boat, her physique is pretty good if she didn't have a miscarriage on the boat.Also, the current train transportation is not very convenient. Some small countries don’t have any railway transportation system at all. Long-distance cross-border travel usually involves trains and horse-drawn carriages, which is troublesome and bumpy. She is not allowed to torment like this.

Ugh!

Fortunately, the Tarent House is quite nice. It is a very spacious two-story building with a large terrace on the roof and separate servant rooms on both sides. stable.The entire house is a square independent small villa, which belongs to a high-end residential area in Paris, and the neighbors are rich.

Mrs. Jenkins quickly got started with the management of the house, and within a few days, the house was organized in an orderly manner, and she didn't have to worry about everything at all.Philip didn't intend to entertain guests at home either, so she didn't need to arrange a banquet or anything like that.He took Victor out to visit friends, and he had his own business to run, so he had to go out almost every other day.

She didn't care whether he was with her every day or not, and sometimes even disliked him for being too nervous.Mrs. Jenkins privately said to the hostess that the host was so cute and silly!

It wasn't the first time she was pregnant, although she didn't remember what it was like at that time, Mrs. Jenkins took good care of her, she just felt that the time passed quickly, and a month passed suddenly.

She and Philip initially reached a consensus, and then wrote back to the United States after four months of pregnancy, telling the two relatives about the great event.Josephine wanted the Robillards to come to Paris until she gave birth.It is also the custom for the natal mother to watch her daughter give birth. Emile didn't know it when she gave birth to Victor last time, and she blamed her many times for this.

The expected date of birth is probably in early June next year. The voting for the US presidential election has now been completed. On November 6, 1860, the counting of the votes was completed. The Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected as the US president with 11% of the votes. He will be sworn in in March next year. take office.

Southern states responded one after another. South Carolina immediately decided to hold a people's representative election in early December to elect a new governor; Louisiana also decided to hold a state people's representative meeting to decide Louisiana. Whether Anna seceded from the Union.

The southern states previously believed that the Republican candidate would not win, but they each made their own policies on how to respond to the state if Lincoln was elected. Simply put, the southern states decided to secede from the United States of America and establish their own southern slave-holding republic.

As the new president, Lincoln will definitely not allow the country to split, so this war will be fought anyway. The southern slave states are unwilling and impossible to give up the profitable system of slavery, which eventually caused the entire United States to pay a heavy price. .