Southern Rose [Gone with the Wind]

Little Cynthia didn't understand anything yet, and she lost her father when she was less than two years old. Emile felt sorry for her little granddaughter.

Victor couldn't believe that his stepfather was dead, and he was sad for a long time.

Emile is busy worrying about her daughter and two grandchildren. Cynthia is too young to understand that her father is gone. Victor is almost 7 years old. Such a big child already understands what "death" is. His stepfather is also gone, I'm really worried that the kid will be too sad.

So they decided to take the three of them, mother and son, to vacation in other places to relax.

Marseille.

Emile rented a spacious seaside villa. Marseille is a seaside port city with a humid climate, a bit like Savannah, but more lively than Savannah.

Josephine takes the children to play on the beach for most of the day every day, and sometimes the weather is fine and can spend the whole day on the beach.

Cynthia didn't know that she should have a father. She was a bad-tempered little girl who was very close to her mother. Josephine didn't like children, but she couldn't do anything to Cynthia. She threw herself directly into her mother's arms, and softly said that she was tired and wanted to eat, drink, and hug her.

Victor and Damian were always running around on the beach without getting tired, sweating profusely.

Josephine really didn't know how such a big boy could have so much energy!

Victor is still not close to his mother, but this is not Josephine's problem, but Cynthia's problem. Cynthia is very domineering. Whenever he sees his brother approaching his mother, no matter what he is doing, he will always run over immediately and forcefully Push brother away.If her brother refused to leave, she would immediately cry and cry.

Josephine originally said not to spoil her, let her cry and shout, children, if you are tired of crying, you will naturally stop crying.But when I saw my daughter's wrinkled face from crying, I felt really pitiful when I thought that she lost her father.

Victor said sensiblely: "Mother, you hug Cynthia, she is crying so pitifully!"

He seemed to have forgotten that he too was a child without a father.

Josephine doesn't think it's a big deal for children to have no father. She has enough money for the children to live a good life, but in this era, a family must have both parents to be considered a "complete" family. Especially a beautiful woman is not suitable for being single for a long time.

She didn't like black mourning clothes, and she only wore a black dress for a few days symbolically, and threw it away immediately after arriving in Marseilles.

She also wanted to restore the surname "Robilard", but was rejected by Emile.How can a woman with two children still be a "Miss"?This is outrageous!

Well, Josephine doesn't necessarily have to be a "Miss" again.

Soon invitations to Mrs. Tarente's balls and banquets were flying into the drawing-room of the villa.

At this time, Emile wanted to tell everyone that her daughter was in mourning.Josephine didn't pay much attention to these invitations. It wasn't that she suddenly lost interest in balls and banquets, but that no one of the invitation's owner could make her look twice.

Men in this era also have countless shortcomings. If a beautiful young lady looks at him a few more times, then he will be complacent and think that he can have a "knight and lady" love with the young lady .There are not a few men who think this way, and do not know whether their looks and wealth are worthy of those of their young wives.

Youth is fleeting, and Emile does not think that her daughter needs to mourn for her dead husband for several years, but first of all she has to go back and make arrangements for Cynthia's future.It is not easy for a girl to be born, and the more property she has, the better she will be able to live comfortably in the future.

She also doesn't invite guests, and people can only see her from the beach.

John sent a letter saying that Charles was injured, Captain Butler smuggled Charles to Washington, and he was going to take Charles to New York to recuperate; Stanley was not like someone who wanted to embezzle his niece's property; Tiancui asked Josephine when she could bring Cynthia back. According to the old Mrs. Talent, Cynthia looked a lot like Philip when he was a child; he also felt that Cynthia was very similar to the photos of Cynthia and the oil paintings of Philip when he was a child in the Tarent house. Father.

The war is still not over, and it is getting harder and harder to cross the border from Richmond to the south. Butler said that the south now seems to have won many battles, but too many soldiers and officers have died, and soon there will not be enough soldiers to fight , the South would lose the war.

John didn't like to hear these words at all. Could it be that the casualties of the northern army were not large?Same sacrifice.But he also had to admit that the South would lose, and the North could not be considered a win. This would be an inevitable situation where both sides would suffer.

Old John was very sad, and said the good old days in the South were gone forever.

After reading the letter, Josephine handed the letter to her mother, picked up another letter and opened it. Suddenly, she let out a cry and dropped the letter.

Victor picked up the letter paper, on which a sentence was spelled out with letters cut out from the newspaper: I know what you did 5 years ago in the summer.