Southern Rose [Gone with the Wind]

The question of who exactly is the idiot remains unanswered.

Mrs. Tarent soon returned to Paris with her mother and children, and John arrived in Paris with Charles almost at the same time.

Charles has lost a lot of weight, and he regrets Philip's death very much, and feels very sorry for his sister.

Josephine said someone was trying to blackmail her, and she got someone to sort it out.

Mr. Robillard was called by Thomas Wolfe.

John basically agreed to Wolfe's proposal.

"If it were in Savannah, I would never agree with her getting married again so soon." John said seriously to his wife.

Emile didn't take it seriously, "Is that so? A man who just died yesterday can marry another woman today, isn't there such a thing?"

"That kind of man will be laughed at. I don't want anyone to laugh at Josephine in the future."

"The mouth grows on other people, and we can't make him stop talking."

"I know. I want our daughter to be happy—do you think she has bad luck, ma'am?"

Mrs. Emile couldn't hear such words, she kept a straight face and said angrily, "What are you talking about? She just had bad luck. I think Wolfe seems to be a very good person."

"Are you looking for his title? I don't quite understand. Can a nobleman like him marry casually? He will be a duke in the future, so he can marry a commoner woman casually?"

When it came to this, Emile really hesitated, "I forgot this!" She was able to marry Robillard back then because her family had fallen and she was not a close friend of Napoleon III, so no one cared about her marrying An American nouveau riche.Besides, there is no comparison between earls and dukes. Some grand dukes belong to the royal family and can be called "princes". Although the Wolfe family is not a grand duke, they are also a powerful duke family.

The marriage of high-ranking nobles must be approved by the king or emperor, otherwise it is "illegal" and is called "marriage of nobles and commoners". In the future, their children will not have the right to inherit the royal family, and may not have the right to inherit family property.

Josephine knew nothing about it.But if she told her parents that she never thought of marrying Wolfe, they would be scared to death and give her a good beating.In the final analysis, they are still too idle.

So she decided to have a ball, but not in her own name, but to have Thomas give it at his Parisian mansion.

When Thomas figured out what she was trying to do, he teased her, "You're stupid, you're wrong, you can't have a dance in my name."

She looked at him puzzled, "Why not?"

"I am the Marquis. The guests I invite must be nobles, either rich or noble. You want to find a possible wife for your brother, but you can't find it in my dance hall."

Oh, it means that the Robillard family is not up to standard.

She's not angry, that's a fact.Immigrant cities like Savannah still talk about class, and Paris is the capital of the French Empire, so naturally it is even more about class.There is a wall between the nobility and the common people, and only like Emile, the daughter of a declining noble family would consider the American nouveau riche.

What's worse, because of the civil war, the Robillard family's property has shrunk significantly, and now they only have the money invested in the railway company.

John failed to smuggle to Savannah. According to Charles, almost all the hundreds of black slaves on the family farm ran away. Only a few old, weak, sick and disabled remained. They lived, so why bother driving them away, let these old, weak, sick and disabled continue to live, and promised to eat all the food in the field, as long as they could harvest any food.

Both Charles and John understood that the farm was over, and a farm with no black slaves working was worth only the land, but who would buy the land at this time?John gave Eulalie tens of thousands of dollars at that time, and Eulalie listened to the demagogy of "the South must win" and bought all the bonds issued by the Confederate States, and these bonds were about to become waste paper.

Charles took a few pounds of gold from his family, gave some to his three aunts, kept some for himself, but gave them to Butler, so Butler agreed to take him across the line of fire and send him to near Washington, D.C. John went to the appointed place to pick up his son.

John had complicated feelings for Butler. If Butler helped Charles for Josephine's sake, he honestly accepted the gold; Savannah and Charleston both knew to turn to Captain Butler for supplies, and he did not hesitate to charge a high fee.

In good conscience, there are many such people, not him alone, but someone else. If Butler did this, it would be really unworthy of Butler's father who kicked him out of the house back then!

I heard that old Butler was so angry when he knew what his eldest son had done, that he threw out all the food his son brought home.Butler had to secretly send the food to Eulalie, hoping that Eulalie would have the opportunity to give the food to his mother and sister.

After Charles was injured, he lived in Aunt Eulalie's house and met Miss Butler.Miss Butler lost a lot of weight, and she said shyly that she didn't have enough to eat, and she was very pitiful.

Josephine blames Miss Butler for being sympathetic to Miss Butler, but with Rhett around, she can secretly deliver food to her, and she can’t starve to death. If it doesn’t work, she goes to eat at Eulalie’s house every day. Not by my side, I must be afraid of being lonely.

Eulalie was relieved that the children had been sent away in time before the war, at least the children would not have to starve in Charleston.She is just an ordinary woman, without a good and worry-free life, anxious all day long.

When John received Charles, he asked Butler to deliver letters and food to his sisters, but Butler agreed for the sake of money.

Charles also said that he saw Scarlett. Scarlett brought her children to Savannah and Charleston, but she left after a short stay and went to Atlanta. Her son Wade Jr. is small and thin. I don’t know if it is Also can't get enough.

As for Tara Manor, the black slaves also ran away a lot, and there was no one working in the fields. In short, it was a mess, everywhere.

Josephine was very sad.

Although she is in Europe, the whole family is said to have been little affected by the war, but the family's property has shrunk now, which is incomparable to before.John was no longer able to provide Emile's previous life, and the two father and son came to France almost naked. Stanley Talent gave the two father and son $2, saying that it was Josephine's annuity in 1862 next year.Another $2000 in travel expenses was given, which is not bad.

As for Josephine's own property, it was basically not affected. Her money was invested in the railway company and some northern enterprises, as well as land; Her; the property of the Talent family might be embezzled by Stanley, but it is not so easy to be taken away, so it is not a big problem for the time being.

She was thinking about when she would go back to Boston to receive the property, and it would be better to go back in the early spring.There's nothing she can do about seasickness. Who told her to have such a physique?

After the beginning of spring, Cynthia will be almost two years old, and she should be able to bear floating on the sea for more than half a month.Cynthia was in perfect health, and that was enough of her comfort.

And the railroad business, Charles should be all right by the spring.Charles joined the army this time. The Robillard family has already donated money and shed blood for the South.Neither John nor Charles will sit at home and wait for her to take money to support them. There is also a railway company at home, and it will take a few years to turn around.

Charles's leg was injured in a good place, the main artery was not damaged, so his life was saved.His leg was also saved, without infection, but he was not walking like before, and he was still a little lame. He, who has always loved beauty, couldn't accept it, and thought he was a "disabled person".

Emile worried that her son would be considered "disabled" and that it would be difficult to find a suitable wife in the future.

Thomas had no interest in the American Civil War.

To him, America was a wild place, and Americans were poor, oh, except Josephine.

He didn't do anything for five years. He returned to Vienna after leaving Paris, and soon got engaged, but the unfortunate girl got tuberculosis and died.Speaking of which, the fiancée was also an aristocrat, so she shouldn't have suffered from malnutrition. Josephine guessed that the girl was probably extremely picky eaters, so she was malnourished.

Thomas was amazed how she would know that poor girl was a serious picky eater.

Hey, don't say it, don't say it.

It's unlucky for the Marquis' fiancé to die of illness, but it's nothing. There are quite a few marriageable girls in Austria, as well as Hungary. It's normal for the great nobles of Austria and Hungary to marry each other.After his fiancée died of illness, he proposed marriage to a daughter of a great Hungarian nobleman. Unfortunately, the girl fell into a dark ditch during a picnic and broke her leg. She died within a month.

Josephine was stunned: This guy is too unlucky!

So now no one dares to propose marriage to him, and everyone thinks he is "unlucky".

What is this called?

Emile really wanted to dislike Wolfe, but thinking about it again, her Josephine... was not so lucky.She was very worried, thinking that if they really got married, who would bring "bad luck" to whom?

John was also stunned when he learned of Wolfe's misfortune.If you want to say "dislike", a person who often brings misfortune to those around him, regardless of gender, will be disliked by others, thinking that they are "cursed" and have bad luck.

Josephine just felt that he was unfortunate, not that he was "unlucky".Medicine is not yet developed in this era, and people don’t understand that tuberculosis needs to eat well, sleep well, ensure nutritious food, and live in a well-ventilated living condition. Therefore, many tuberculosis patients rest at home and die of illness after being raised.Many doctors advise tuberculosis patients to go out for recuperation, but the rich can still travel, and the poor can only wait to die.

As for accidental falls and deaths, there are even more accidents. It’s really not that you can’t think of accidents.