Love England

Mr. Hale's funeral is finally over, and Christmas is a week away.Margaret and Mrs. Hale decided to dispose of their rented house in Milton after Christmas. At that time, Margaret and Dixon would sell some things they no longer needed with Henry's help. Including furniture, books and other odds and ends, and the mother and daughter will live in London with Aunt Shaw from now on.So Margaret and Dixon returned to London the day after the funeral with Mrs. Hale, Aunt Shaw, and the Lennoxes, who even invited me to come with them.According to Aunt Xiao, although I am Mr. Bell's fiancée, it is impolite to always live in my fiancé's house before I get married, but I can live with their family until I marry Mr. Bell.Because Edith caught a cold, the doctor advised her to rest for two days, which made the above plan changed: In order to have a better environment, Edith and Mr. Lennox moved from the hotel to Mr. Bell’s house. Mr. Knox will stay in Oxford until Edith gets better, I will stay here to take care of her, and the others will return to London together as originally planned.

Henry revised his will the day after they left Oxford, and Mr. Bell apparently settled his mind when it was completed, and he even invited me to go for a walk with him.It was the first time we had been alone together since I accepted Mr. Bell's proposal.We walked along the path in the park. Although the winter sun was bright, it had no heat at all. It shone on the dead branches of the trees on both sides of the road, showing a feeling of lifelessness. Today’s rare blue sky makes the lifeless Feeling so unreal.

"The weather is nice today, isn't it?" Mr. Bell said deliberately in that long-lost playful tone, "I finally know why many gentlemen choose to get married, and it's so pleasant to walk in the park after the snow with my beautiful fiancée Cozy!" I watched him smile, and he smiled too, but the smile was filled with a kind of lonely sadness, and Mr. Bell said again: "Today, when revising the will, I invite Mr. Lennox and my butler Witness to the will, Henry is a good lawyer and he took care of everything."

"Mr. Bell, every time you bring up the will, I feel a chill down my spine, just like I hear the death sentence given by the judge to the prisoner."

"Honey, be prepared, not to mention that I hope you will have the security of life here. Of course, I have to fulfill my promise to Old Hale and take good care of Margaret and you. Alright! We will never That being said, we can talk about the wedding, where we go for our honeymoon, and how Christmas is spent—you know I'm going to follow you to London for Christmas."

"You're really going to come to London to spend Christmas with me? Margaret must be as happy as I am—so you're coming to London with us tomorrow?" I was genuinely delighted at Mr. Bell's plans.

"Of course! When Mr. Lennox told me this morning that his wife has recovered and plans to return to London tomorrow morning, I already have this plan. I am also very happy to see that you don't dislike me as an old man!"

"You are my fiancé now, Mr. Bell!" I said with a serious expression on my face.

"Why didn't I think of that! The future Mrs. Bell!" He laughed.

So we were planning our wedding with great enthusiasm: we decided to wait until February after the new year to hold a wedding in London, and he wanted to hold a grand wedding for me, and he wanted me to be the most beautiful and happiest bride.We are going on a honeymoon in Europe - drinking coffee at an open-air cafe on the left bank of the Seine in Paris, enjoying the sunset with a gondola ride in Venice, listening to a Puccini opera at the Opera House in Vienna, and enjoying an opera in the Alps Follow the steps of the tour guide to the top of the mountain to watch the sunrise, and enjoy the warm sunshine on the beach of the Aegean Sea... The two of us talked about the wedding endlessly, as if it was really a wedding for a real marriage; we It seemed as if we no longer remembered who Mr. Hale was and who Mr. Thornton was, and it seemed that we were neither bride nor groom; And like a young man, untroubled by aging and gout, I seemed to be a real woman, looking forward to my wedding.In this way, after tea time, Mr. Bell and I returned home, dragging us back to reality.

Henry and Mr. Lennox are playing cards in the living room, and Edith, who has just the right chill, is sitting lazily on the sofa reading a novel.The Lennox brothers invited Mr. Bell and I, who came back from a walk, to join their game of cards. Mr. Bell said that he hadn't walked for such a long time and felt very tired, so he rejected their invitation and asked the housekeeper Sent tea to his study; I knew nothing of nineteenth-century card games, and would have preferred to watch the game or chat with Edith, and declined the brothers' invitation.

"Mr. Bell, it's a shame you and Miss Addams aren't coming to play cards with us!" complained Mr. Lennox.

"Sorry, gentlemen, for disappointing you! But I think Miss Addams will tell you some good news in a while, which will make you happy! After all, there have been too many spoilers recently! Do you think so, dear!" Bell After finishing speaking, the husband kissed my forehead like a father and said, "Just call me in the study during dinner, Cali! Gentlemen, Mrs. Lennox, excuse me!"

Mr. Bell bowed slightly to express his apology, and returned to his study. Edith couldn't hold back the curiosity caused by the "good news" that Mr. Bell just said, and pulled me to sit next to her. Brother Lennox They also put down the playing cards, waiting for me to speak.I told them about the wedding I had decided on with Mr. Bell during our walk. Everyone was happy for me and Mr. Bell. Edith was especially excited and volunteered to help me plan the wedding.The next thing can be imagined, the four of us talked about the wedding between me and Mr. Bell until the butler came to inform everyone that dinner was ready.

I got up and went to Mr. Bell's study room. I knocked on the door but no one answered. It must be that Mr. Bell was sleepy.I boldly opened the door and went in. The study was pitch black, and I could vaguely see Mr. Bell lying on a grand chair and sleeping soundly, holding something like a piece of paper in his hand.I approached him and turned on the lamp on the desk. A ray of yellow light shone on the thing he was holding, making me see that it was a black and white photo.The picture shown in the photo is a picture of Mr. and Mrs. Hale standing in front of a church with their teenage children.The Hales are so young in the picture, and Margaret and Frederick are carefree teenagers, I guess that church must be the one where Mr. Hale served at Helstone church.Everything in the photo is so beautiful, locking the happy time at that moment, and Mr. Hale in the photo is so vivid.

"Mr. Bell, it's time to get up for dinner!" I leaned over and called him in a soft voice.

"Mr. Bell! Mr. Bell?!" I tested his breath and the pulse of his neck with my hands—no response.My tears poured out like a fountain, and at this time Mr. Bell's body was already cold, and his soul had left with Mr. Hale.

Those who perish should always perish, and those that go away should go far away.People interact, fall in love, get married, and live, and the final outcome will all return to dust. Everyone cannot escape this reincarnation. The difference is that this circular reincarnation can be big or small.When two circles are connected together, a fetter is created. One circle of life cycle encloses another circle of life. Countless circles are continuously connected in series to form a chain-like relationship, which is interlocking and inseparable.Some circles are connected with countless chains. When this life disappears, the chains will be broken and separated, and the countless seemingly tight bonds connecting this circle will become very fragile.I was an intruder in this world, not part of any link in this chain.Because my appearance changed the cause and effect of the incident: Mrs. Hale died of illness, but now she has become Mr. Hale's widow; Mr. Thornton should have loved Margaret, but now the two have no love; Miss should have married Mr. Watson earlier, but now Henry and Miss Thornton have mutual love, even to the point of elopement; Mr. Hale and Mr. Bell should not have died so suddenly, but now they have died early.The link of everyone's fate has undergone a subversive disorder. The reason for this disorder is my sudden intrusion. Mr. Bell's death made me feel deeply guilty. I don't want anyone to be implicated. Realized that it was time for me to quit here completely and return to my own world.

Mr Bell was buried next to his dear friend the day before Christmas in the same church where Mr Hale was buried, and I gave him a respectable funeral as his fiancée, with only Lennox invited Mrs. and Mrs. Henry, the old butler, several loyal servants, and Margaret, who hurried from London, attended.After the funeral, Henry, acting as Mr. Bell's lawyer, read the will in the presence of witnesses and persons connected to the will.As Mr. Bell once said to me, he left half of his fortune to me, and the other half to Margaret, and we were both women of considerable fortune.But I know that Margaret should have gotten more money than she has now, because my half should have been Margaret's.I do not want this property, and I intend to bequeath to Margaret all that Mr. Bell has bequeathed me, before I return to my own world.But before that, I have to do one more thing, one thing I promised Henry.

The day after Christmas I returned to Milton again, this time as lessor and creditor of the Thornton Works in Badler Street.