Thomas' reference to the death of the fiancée and the girl who was almost a fiancée is very cold, which is also a common problem of the big nobles, who have little compassion for others.

People of what class play with people of what class. Thomas also knows some nobles and celebrities. The most popular in this era are cultural celebrities. Poets and novel writers are very popular. Musicians, painters On the contrary, it is considered a "service industry" because it is "not in the mainstream". The reason is that painters will accept customized business from big customers, musicians and singers will sing for ball accompaniment, but poets and novel writers will not.

Poets will recite their "masterpieces" in salon gatherings, but will not be regarded as "serving". Therefore, the creation of words is inherently "elegant", while music, singing, dancing, and painting are not.

Charles Robillard suddenly had a lot of invitations to balls, and Emile and John were often together, but Josephine didn't go out to the balls very much.

She often hosted Thomas at home, and they played chess and pool together, and sometimes played with the children for a while. The children went to bed at 8 o'clock in the evening, and Josephine settled the children and came down to chat with Thomas in front of the fireplace. To parents and brother back.

At first Emile found it a little strange that Wolfe did not seem to propose to Josephine.

"Oh, it was because he had to ask his father's permission. He wrote home. If the duke agreed, he would go back; if the duke didn't, he wouldn't go back."

Emile was at a loss, "What does that mean? Does it mean that he gave up his right of inheritance?"

"do not know."

"What do you mean? Do you want to marry Wolfe?"

Josephine hesitated for a moment, "Marriage is too troublesome..." Seeing Emile's shocked expression, she immediately changed her words: "Let's wait."

After such a wait, Christmas passed, New Year passed, and soon, 1863 ushered in.

The civil war has been fought for more than a year, and Cynthia is also more than one year old, and will be two years old in five months.

The Duke's letter arrived after New Years, seriously criticizing the idea of ​​his son marrying a commoner, and a descendant of immigrants from the New World, which was unthinkable for the great Austrian nobles.

Thomas replied, saying that he can ask His Majesty the Emperor to give Josephine a noble title, so you should be satisfied, right?

The duke wrote back and said that you were out of ideas. Even if the emperor made that woman a duchess, it would only be a "marriage of nobles and concubines". If you marry her, you will lose your father's favor and title. You have to think about it.

Thomas ignored it.

The Duke's letter came again, threatening property, saying that if your boy doesn't come home, you won't get a penny.

This is the most common method used by rich people.

Thomas has a lot of investments himself, so he doesn't have to rely on his family's money, which is one of the reasons why he dared to challenge his father.

Josephine felt sorry that things had gone in the most usual direction, but why not in another, more common direction?But it doesn't matter, she helped him think of things that the Duke's father didn't think of.

Josephine thought hard, created meticulously, wrote a sincere letter, and sent it to the Duke's father.

One day at the end of April 1863, Josephine took her two children and boarded an ocean liner bound for Boston with her father, John Robillard.

Josephine could only lie on the bed again, and John took the two children to play on the first-class deck, taking care of the children carefully.

A week had passed and he was still feeling sorry for Josephine.The Duke himself came to Paris, beat Thomas severely, and then came to visit Josephine, wrote a check for 10 gulden, and asked Josephine to leave Europe immediately; Josephine burst into tears, Said that she really loves Thomas, and Thomas loves her too, the Duke's father should think about his son's happiness.

So the Duke tore up the check for 10 Gulden and directly issued a check for 20 Gulden.

Until now, John has not figured out why Josephine accepted the check.

well!He understood that Josephine could not actually marry Wolfe. Wolfe's title was too high, and he could only marry a girl from a noble family. Before, he thought too much about this matter and forgot about the class difference.Earlier, he had disliked Wolfe as an "ominous" person, but seeing Josephine crying pitifully in front of the Duke, he felt sorry for his daughter and resented this damn class difference.

Josephine was indeed ready to leave Paris and return to Boston immediately as she had requested when receiving the check, while Thomas was brought back to Vienna by the Duke, and he did not come to see Josephine before leaving.

The servant said that Mr. Wolfe's servant had sent a letter, but Mrs. Tarent did not answer it.

John is very worried, Wolfe must be very sad, it's fine if Josephine doesn't reply to the letter, since she is leaving, she should go thoroughly, and don't leave any hope for Wolfe.

Josephine lay in bed reading the letter.

After the Duke arrived in Paris, Thomas sent a total of two letters. The first letter said that the Duke’s father had come and asked him to return to Vienna and obediently marry a noble lady.He refused and said, father, you are not old enough to have another son.The prince's father was so angry that he gave him a good beating, so he wrote to her lying on the bed.

He wanted her to come and see him, because he couldn't ride a horse or a carriage, but his hip and back hurt from walking.公爵爸爸揍了他一顿,反而让他更加确定他就是要跟她结婚,要她乖乖等着,等他打发了公爵爸爸回维也纳,就会过去向她求婚,然后他们会马上结婚,接着去On their honeymoon, the children strive to hold the two for three years and send them back to Vienna to be raised by the Duke's father.

Josephine felt that he was too used to talking to himself, and the Duke's father should teach him a lesson.

She did not reply.

The second letter was written in a mess and consisted of several sheets of paper.

"You nasty woman! I should have beaten you up when I got the chance!" and wrote a lot of childish resentment, but not viciously, at most it was enough to beat her up.

The style of the second letter paper changed and changed to praise her, "I have to say you are too smart, but you should have told me beforehand, now that I think about it, you must be accepting the check for our future, which is very strange." Well, I even think you ask for too little! You wait for me obediently, I will return to Vienna with my father temporarily, and I will be able to come back in a few months, at most until September. I will put the place where I live now I will give you this mansion, we will live in Paris after we get married, but Paris is a bit too dirty, maybe we should go to Marseilles or Venice. Do you like Venice?"

Then I used two pieces of letter paper to imagine my life after marriage.

She took the two letters with her, and read them when she was ready to do nothing.Thomas is arrogant and cute, but he is a bit out of control.

Receiving Philip's property was not as difficult as imagined, and even went so smoothly that Josephine and John were surprised,

Stanley has been handling all kinds of business for her, but because of his weak health, many businesses that need to be handled by himself cannot be handled, so he can only entrust the manager. He also said frankly that if the manager makes false accounts and embezzles a little profit, he is It's not easy to find out. He doesn't know the specific profit of the business. He can only judge from the profits of previous years based on the books. However, because of the war in the past two years, it can be said that all businesses have been affected, so it is impossible to judge correctly.

He was sorry to say that he tried his best. Philip didn't teach him many things about business in his lifetime. No one would think that he would die early.

As for Stanley himself, he also said frankly that he was in poor health and would never consider marriage in his life.The subtext is that if he doesn't get married, he will have no offspring. If he has no offspring, why would he want to rob the family property?He is not short of money. Philip gives him 1 annuities every year, and Philip pays for his other expenses. He doesn't need to compete with his niece for money.

As for Ryan, Josephine didn't quite know why the little brother warned her to be careful with Stanley.Ryan is a typical spoiled boy who loves to play and be lively. If someone wants to rob the family property, Ryan is more likely than Stanley.

The two younger sisters, Annabelle and Margaret, love their little niece Cynthia very much. They compete to pet her, play with her little niece, comb her hair, make new dresses for her, and spend a lot of their pocket money on her little niece. .

In fact, from Philip's character, it can be seen that the upbringing of the Tarent family is very good. Philip is upright and upright, sometimes too serious, which matches his overly correct appearance.

As for Cynthia, Josephine didn't want to admit that her daughter's personality and temper were like hers, but she didn't expect such a bad-tempered little girl to be loved and even doted on by the Tarent family.Old Mrs. Tyrone felt sorry for her eldest son who passed away prematurely, and doted on her granddaughter. Little Cynthia quickly realized that she could go to her grandmother if she could not satisfy her mother's demands, and her grandmother would never refuse her.

Josephine was very worried that her daughter would grow more and more crooked, but when she thought about it again, the girl couldn't be more crooked to be honest. She lost her father at a young age, and she was already very pitiful, so it's better not to be too strict with her.

As for Victor, who lost his father at the same age, she is still strict.Boys still need to be brought up well. Victor will be her heir in the future, and he will inherit the Hastings family and her personal property. He must not raise a selfish and cruel person who does not know the sorrows of the world.

She regularly arranged for Victor to go to some charities with Stanley and the old Trent. Rich people are used to doing charity to establish a kind and loving image for themselves. Sephine didn't think there was anything wrong, and she could take the opportunity to give Victor a chance to educate and let him see another side of this society.

He even wanted Victor to take a walk around the slums, but was stopped.

Rhett Butler shook his head, "You must have never been to a slum, never seen those real poor people."

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