The gods crowned her [Famous Book]

Sure enough, as Arthur expected, Anna came angrily to ask the teacher the next day.

At that time, she was preparing to change clothes for an outing with Alice, when the door of the room was suddenly slammed loudly, making the makeup mirror on the table tremble with fright.

"Ivy? Mornington!" Before she stood up to open the door, she heard Anna screaming angrily, almost shattering her ears, "You'd better explain to me where the two thousand pounds went!"

She hurried to open the door, and Anna reprimanded her face: "You loser! If Verus hadn't approached me and said that he couldn't find a purebred birch tree, I would have been kept in the dark by you! Tell me, you don’t do business all day, you’re just mad at me, right?”

"The two daughters of the Wilburton family just got engaged. Are you planning to delay until you are 30 years old and become an old girl and be ridiculed? You don't care. I can't afford to lose face. Who are you relying on at home then?" to raise you?"

Even though her mother vented, Ai Wei didn't speak, just stood there, not in a hurry to defend herself.

When Anna seemed to have vented enough, she raised her head and looked directly into her mother's burning eyes, and said clearly, "Mom, I can support myself, and I don't need to rely on you and my future so-called husband."

Anna became even angrier when she heard this: "What do you rely on to support yourself? Do you rely on your crazy plans?"

"With my own brain."

"I can't wait anymore. For you, I have already been talked about by the ladies in the London social circle. They all said how proud I was when Anna was young. Now the only daughter is not engaged. Are you trying to force me to return to your father? Hometown Dublin?"

"I want to make a bet with you."

"What do you use to negotiate terms with me?"

"If our family does not have [-] pounds by the end of next year, I am willing to accept your arrangement." Ivy said.

Her eyes were very determined, which made Anna a little strange, "What the hell is going on in your crazy head?"

"Don't worry about the rest, I will prove to you and everyone that there is no man who can bring glory to the family like me, no less than Mrs. Rodman you envy."

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"Don't pay too much attention to it." After listening to Ivy's story, Alice comforted her while walking, "Parents, it's always like that. If what they say doesn't make sense, just ignore it. Like my father who regards money as his life, I think my family is rich enough, but he still insists on marrying a well-matched noble lady, and he must ensure that her family has a lot of property. I didn’t say anything, but I must be very resistant in my heart.”

"So I have always resisted marriage. I look forward to love, but it does not mean that I am willing to enter marriage. I think it is my freedom. Although I have made a promise with Anna, but when that day comes, I think I will never Run away from home without hesitation."

Fighting in this era will be very difficult, Ivy is naturally very aware of this, and it is almost impossible to change their ideas by herself.

But at least, her own destiny must be in her own hands, not even her own mother can control it a little.

"By the way, why isn't Mr. Clarence here?"

That being said, Ivy secretly rejoiced in her heart that that person didn't come.Although he is not an enemy, it is not easy for him to accurately step on her thunder point every time for some reason.

Alice didn't know what the girl next to her was thinking, so she replied apologetically, "Kevin went to the countryside to inspect the family's property today, and I'm really sorry that I can't accompany us as promised."

"It's okay, it's okay." She laughed, thinking that she would be comfortable without your brother, "There will be opportunities in the future."

It's already mid-spring, and the suburbs are mostly coniferous forests, and the whizzing wind comes in through the cracks above the head, making it chilly.

There was a sudden sound of horseshoes not far away, and it didn't take long for a gentleman to get off his horse, but he just stood there looking at it, and didn't approach it.

Sadness suddenly covered Alice's face, and a layer of water vapor covered her smoky eyes. She took off her gloves and waved goodbye to the gentleman. Saying "goodbye".

Then he got on his horse and left again, the wind blew up the leaves on the ground, and the sound of horseshoes gradually disappeared, as if no one had been there from the beginning to the end.

"Is that gentleman your friend?"

The tears in Alice's eyes did not dissipate, and she choked with some forbearance: "Yes, we have known each other for a long time, and he will leave London tomorrow to find a job at his uncle's house."

Ivy suddenly understood why she was crying.

"I think it must not be your wish to marry the young master of the Duke of Kent."

"But what can I do? Ivy, I can't dare to break with my parents like you said, I can only obey my father's wishes. Even if his decision is not necessarily correct, I have to follow it. Since With the ancient surname of Clarence, I can't leave the family behind."

"However, there have been many nobles who have eloped since ancient times. You can go to the southern border of Scotland. I remember that there is a direct train from London to there."

"Elope?" Alice's smoky eyes were misty again, and she shook her head, "Even if he is not willing to do this, his family is poor and poor, and there are four younger siblings who are in school. As the eldest son, he is It is impossible to leave the family."

Ai Wei was suddenly at a loss for words.

She realizes that not everyone is as carefree and carefree as she is.Although there is a snobbish mother, it is not difficult to get rid of.

In this day and age, it is more shameful for a gentleman not to have money than to have no virtue.

Even if a person is vulgar and foul-mouthed.But as long as he is rich enough, he will never lack the respect of those around him.

"Then if Kevin knew about this, would he force you to marry the Duke of Kent?"

Alice shook her head with certainty: "My brother will never force me to do anything. Even if he himself is controlled by his father, he will try his best to help my wish. As I said, he is actually a very gentle person, only Only people who know him and are not close to him will misunderstand him, but this time even he can't help anything, my father has already issued a clear order, forbidding me to say a word to that gentleman."

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Richard is really close to getting engaged.

Before that, Ivy only heard Anna mentioned it intentionally or unintentionally, but she didn't expect it to be true.

Rachel mentioned this news during an after-dinner tea talk, and mentioned that Anna felt that the other party's dowry was very considerable.So ignoring the fact that it's just a baroness.

"I heard that the baron of their family is still the old British king. When he visited the people, he found that her family had the best apples in England. Everyone knows that the old British king likes to eat apples. He was happy and gave her the title of baron. .”

This title doesn't seem very decent.

"However, that lady has a weird personality. Although she is as pretty as a flower, she is always hostile to others. Speaking of which, didn't you have friendship with her before? I remember you said that you didn't like her very much."

"Do I know her?" Ivy was confused. If I knew her, she might also be known to the original owner, but she couldn't remember it herself.

"Ugh, I almost forgot."

In fact, it's not that it's about to happen, it's that I've forgotten about it long ago.I don't even know what the baroness named Bertha looks like.

In fact, as soon as she heard this name, she thought of the ex-wife Bertha Mason of the hero in "Jane Eyre", and she was still a little ptsd.

After all, this sister is so crazy that she is the only one in the world of classics. In this era similar to history and classics, Ivy can't bet that she will meet Bertha herself.

Rachel only thought that she had a bad memory, and then said: "You will be the only sister-in-law of that Miss Bertha. You still have to be careful about the relationship between sister-in-law. If you don't like her, you'd better keep it in your heart. The Mornington family has always Make tolerance and kindness the first virtues."

"Hey, where did the pigeon come from?" Rachel suddenly yelled in surprise, causing Ivy to turn her head, and saw a snow-white pigeon slipping through the half-open window.

It stayed on the bookshelf for a few seconds. Ivy walked over and found that the little animal had something like a note in its mouth.

She took down the note, and the pigeon immediately flapped its wings and fluttered away, as if rushing back to return to its master.

Who was going to send her a letter now?Ivy couldn't think of who it was, so she leaned closer to see the small words as thin as ants, "A rose is not called a rose, but it still smells fragrant."

Form two is very form two, and literature and art are also very literature and art.

This is a sentence from "Romeo and Juliet". At first glance, it was written by the self-proclaimed poet Owen. It should mean that he will climb the wall of her house in the middle of the night like Romeo, and give this Ellie a suggestion. Awake.

"What's that?" Rachel asked.

Ivy quickly crumpled the note into a ball in the palm of her hand, stuffed it into her pocket, and concealed: "It's nothing, it's just a pigeon that sent the letter to the wrong person."

Rachel was pure-hearted, and decided that the young masters and misses she had grown up with would not lie to her, so she nodded and said, "So England should hire more postmen, and entrust a letter full of hope on unreliable pigeons." OK."

At this time they heard a light knock on the door, and they looked over and saw Arthur standing outside the door with an apologetic face.

"Come in..." Ivy called him in.

"Xiao Wei, I'm here to say goodbye to you. I'm leaving England." He said this suddenly, and Ivy was a little caught off guard. She frowned and asked repeatedly... "What are you leaving?"

"I'm leaving England." He whispered, the moonlight came in through the window, dragging his already slender shadow very long, his eyelids drooped, his thick eyelashes fluttered, and he held a cup of tea in his hand. Only a slightly rough music box. "Where are you going?" Ivy couldn't help being anxious, she stood up and asked.I am going to India. "