Southern Rose [Gone with the Wind]

This child is very shrewd at the age of three, and knows how to use everything to achieve her goal. Tears and coquetry are her most common methods, and they usually work.She's still too young to understand that Ryan isn't dad, though.

Mrs. Jenkins said: "Master Ryan may be too fond of Miss Cynthia."

"Isn't that good? Cynthia is really cute."

"Ma'am," Mrs. Jenkins shook her head slightly in disapproval, "Miss Cynthia is only 3 years old, if no one said it on purpose, she will not be wrong. I asked the maid, and Master Ryan told others that Miss Cynthia is his daughter ..."

Um?Weird Ryan.

Josephine didn't understand, "Why would he say that? Everyone in Boston knows Philip is dead."

"But not everyone knows who Mr. Talent is."

Um?That's right, Ryan is also Mr. Talent. The neighbors know her family is "Talent", but not everyone remembers what Philip looks like. It also seems to make sense to be the hero.

However, the problem is not the neighbors, but why does this kid say that Cynthia is his daughter?

Josephine didn't need to think too much, the way Ryan usually looked at her said everything.But this kid was so useless that he didn't dare to tell her directly.

He just passed his 7th birthday in July. He is more than a year younger than her. He is a good athlete in school and a young man who can play very well. The annual living expenses are not enough. Philip refuses to give more living expenses. His wife and Stanley secretly gave him money, but Ryan didn't feel dissatisfied with his elder brother, but secretly spoke ill of Stanley.Josephine could not understand this complicated "friendship" between brothers.

The three brothers of the Tarent family have different temperaments. Philip wants to set an example for his younger siblings, be upright and fair, and is a moral example and a role model for his younger siblings; Spoiled; Ryan has the capriciousness and destructiveness of a child who is always neglected at home. He has learned all the bad habits of the rich and fashionable young people nowadays. When he just entered college, he got pregnant with a girl from a small village near Harvard. a boy.

Of course, the Tarent family couldn't accept an illegitimate daughter born to a rural girl, and let the child be taken away and fostered in another place.As for the little village girl, she soon married a foreign worker.

Such is the bourgeois ruthless approach.

Philip didn't think it was a big deal, but he scolded his younger brother for being an asshole, and his punishment was to reduce his living expenses and give his horse to his two sisters.Philip thinks like a rich young master, and thinks that his younger brother is "irresponsible" to him for having an illegitimate child, but he never thinks about that poor and ignorant village girl.

Stanley told her about this. Now that I think about it, Stanley is not really cute, and he took precautions against Ryan early on.

To say that Ryan didn't do any "bad things", he really liked that beautiful rural girl, but it was obviously not from the right family, his family background did not allow him to marry an illiterate rural girl, class differences exist everywhere.Stanley didn't say who was handling the matter, or whether Ryan would visit the kids, but that it was resolved quickly and no one in Boston knew about it.

Ryan has reached the age of marriage, Philip died too early and left no son; Stanley is too poor to get married; Ryan is now the only person who can continue the surname "Talent", old Tyrone Mrs. Te was determined to marry a famous lady for her youngest son, so the balls held one after another, even a young dancer like Ryan couldn't bear it.

"Those ladies are so boring!" Ryan complained, "They know too little, except for clothes, lace and jewelry, they don't know other things."

"How can you say that? They don't know you well, so it's impossible to talk about other topics."

"Not as much as you know."

Josephine put down the book in her hand: how to speak?

"You mean I shouldn't read so many books?"

"That's not what I mean." He shook his head quickly, "I just don't want to marry a 'Miss' who doesn't understand anything."

His tone was a little mocking, but still full of the inexplicable superiority of a bourgeois young master.

"What do you want her to know?"

"Music, literature, art, geography, it's not that when I talk about Bohemia, she can't even figure out which continent that place is on."

Josephine thought that according to the current level of education in the United States, even most boys cannot receive education, let alone girls.Only rich families with at least a middle-class income can afford to send their girls to private girls’ schools, but rich families do not necessarily send their girls to school. Some short-sighted families still think that a girl who knows a little bit of words and can write letters counts. "Educated", I never thought that girls should receive better education.

Not to mention that many girls don't understand the benefits of mastering knowledge, and they don't like learning at all.

"The more a girl knows, the more trouble she has," she said flatly, "I thought you only wanted a wife who could stay at home and have children."

Ryan frowned slightly, "What do you mean by that?"

"It's literally. Don't you men think so?"

"Obviously not! At least Philip didn't think so, otherwise would he marry you?"

"He will marry me because I am beautiful."

Ryan looked at her in surprise, "You think him too vulgar. He is very good-looking, and many girls have secretly liked him since he was a child."

"Who is there? Do you know?" Josephine was very interested.

"Some female relatives in our family, there are many female relatives in our family, they are all married and have children now, it's useless to tell you. I mean, if he wants to get married, he has the opportunity from the age of 18, and there are many choices, There is also time to have a few more children. If you have a boy, mother will not rush to get me married now."

Ryan blushed a little, as if out of embarrassment and anger, "Is the value of my existence just to have a baby or a boy?"

"You will have children? Isn't that something for your future wife?" Josephine said with an exaggerated expression on purpose.

Ryan glared at her angrily at first, and then smiled, "Yes, you're right." With such an interruption, he forgot what he wanted to say in the first place.

After a while, he asked, "Are you preparing to go to Europe?"

"Yeah, probably next spring. What?"

"How long are you going to go?"

"5 years."

"It's been so long?!" He exclaimed.

"Victor should live in France for a few years."

He pursed his lips tightly, seeming a little impatient, "Will you come back?"

"do not know."

"What about Cynthia?"

"She is still young, there are more than ten years left."

Ryan stood up suddenly and walked around the living room, "No, you can't take Cynthia. I mean, I don't want you to be away for so long."

Josephine looked up at him and smiled.

He blushed again, "What should I do? I mean, do you want to go out for a walk? I'll take you and Cynthia to live in New York for a while, what do you think?"

She lowered her eyes first, then raised her head quickly, "You know this is not good."

He hesitated for a moment, as if he had made up his mind, "I'll take you to New York, so we can—"

He carefully stood in front of her, squatted down, held her hands lightly placed on his knees, and gently kissed the back of her hands, "I feel that I am already familiar with you, and you are also familiar with me. I can't see you I missed you every minute, but when I saw you, I didn't know what to say to you."

Josephine smiled at him and said nothing.

"I used to laugh at Philip why he didn't like you—"

"What's wrong with me?" Her voice was soft.

"I think you are a descendant of a French nouveau riche." He looked ashamed, "He is very demanding, and my mother thought that he might never find a woman he could fall in love with in his whole life."

"What do you think of me now?" For the Talents who have settled in Boston for five generations, the Robillards are indeed "upstarts".

He was obviously at a loss, "What..."

"I thought you learned how at Harvard."

Now he was even more at a loss, "You are a woman, why do you—"

"I am a widow, your brother's widow."

He sighed softly, stood up, and sat beside her casually, "Yes, you are right, you are not those...you are different from those unmarried ladies."

Josephine reached out and patted his thigh lightly twice.

He leaned back on the sofa back as far as he could to look comfortable, "That's all I know, young girls will like it, but I don't know what you like."

"Not much different."

Hearing this, he carefully touched her shoulder, and then touched her cheek: the woman's soft skin is elastic, no different from that of a 16 or 7-year-old girl.

He sighed again, "Josephine, I'm very jealous of Philip right now."

John Robillard sent back a letter saying that Charles' wife, Agatha, was pregnant!So Emile decided to wait until the baby was born before returning.Calculating the time, they became pregnant as soon as they got married, but according to the custom, they would not inform their relatives and friends of the good news until they were pregnant for more than 3 months.

The due date is at the end of March next year, huh?Calculating the time again, it should be before the wedding.Well, it's not a big deal for married couples to have sex before their wedding.But in this case, let's first write a letter to tell father about Aunt Ellen.

She was worried about how to write a letter to her father, but in the end she finished the letter and handed it to the maid to take it out for post.

As soon as the maid took the letter and went out, she heard someone asking: "Is this Mrs. Tellent's house? Josephine Tellent."