[Comprehensive British and American] Extraordinary

Amanda felt that she had already seen the phantom's capriciousness and moodiness. At that time, she was still in her own territory. Now, after she finished that sentence, the phantom turned around and left in his underground kingdom. , leaving Amanda with a cloak flying back.

Amanda was speechless.

After waiting in place for half an hour, Amanda decided not to wait any longer, and she decided to return the same way.However, just when she was about to move, she heard the sound of footsteps, she turned her head to look, and it turned out to be the phantom that had gone and returned, and said slowly: "I'm glad you listened to my warning. "

It was rare for Phantom not to retort. He didn't expect that she was still waiting for him to come back. He originally thought she had left long ago. After all, such a delicate and upper class person like her would not like to stay in this dark underground!The phantom said in a hoarse voice, "We should go."

"it is good."

After returning from the Paris theater, Phantom finally let go of her promise to teach Amanda how to draw. Is this considered progress?

It's just—"When drawing this picture, what was in our honorable Duchess's mind? How to cook a French dish? Why don't you ask your chef to teach you how to draw!"

"A three-year-old kid's graffiti is more interesting than yours. I strongly demand that the reward be doubled, no, three times! Because you are more stupid than I imagined!"

"Empty! No thoughts! What about feelings? Could it be that our lofty Duchess doesn't even have the feelings that a human being should have? Use your empty brain!"

"Haha, with the improvement in painting techniques, no matter what is painted is a dead object, people don't even have the desire to take a second look!"

"I doubt very much, if you are not a rich and powerful Duchess, there will not be a single talented person in Europe who is willing to teach you any knowledge!"

"I really want to know, are all your former teachers pissed off by your lack of understanding?"

"..."

For two full months, Amanda was soaked in the venom of the Phantom.To be honest, if it weren't for Amanda's great enthusiasm and perseverance in learning painting, as well as her unwavering mentality, just according to Phantom's extremely harsh words, maybe someone else would have been ashamed to hit the wall.

Under high pressure, Amanda thinks she has made great progress.

At the same time, I listen to Phantom's harsh words every day, and I look forward to the day when he suddenly repeats the previous words, well, I have the right to "joy while suffering".It's a pity that so far, Phantom has never been repeated.It can be seen that the Phantom is not only a talented architect, mechanism engineer, singer, composer, and magician, but also a highly accomplished linguist-the ironic art of language is used by him to perfect the point.

Meanwhile, the Paris theater is undergoing reconstruction in full swing.

After they returned from the Paris theater that day, it didn't take long for the phantom to give the design drawing of the theater, of course only the architectural design drawing on the ground.

Amanda didn't ask any more questions, and asked someone to take down the design. As for the next thing, there was no need for Amanda to ask in person, and a trusted subordinate was responsible for it.

In Amanda's view, the reconstruction of the Paris theater is not at all less important than her study of painting.She is not too worried about whether the Paris theater will be profitable after the reconstruction, but from the perspective of outsiders, she has already invested a lot of money in it.From the current point of view, there is still a need for continuous investment in it.

There are a lot of people in the upper class of Paris waiting to see the jokes of this high-profile and low-key duchess from England, especially the ladies and daughters-no matter the former or the latter, they all hate this As soon as the duchess arrived in Paris, she stole the limelight from all the aristocratic ladies and became the ultimate goal of the high-quality bachelors they wanted.

However, the Duchess has always lived in seclusion. In the past two months, I haven't seen her agree to any lady's invitation to come to the ball. Some people have secretly speculated that she is too busy with this investment that can only be paid out, and she has no time to go to any ball. .

These words had no chance to reach Amanda's ears, but more and more ball invitations were sent to the Duke's Mansion recently.

Rachel, the personal maid, finished processing the invitation, and when it was sent to the study, she saw the invitee, the Duchess, who was the focus of the outside discussion, casually wearing a white leg-of-mutton-sleeve shirt and black leggings, leaning over the table and writing Write and draw.

Rachel stood aside without saying a word, and she didn't come forward to present the invitation until Amanda stopped writing.

Amanda glanced at it casually, and said indifferently, "Didn't I let you handle it casually?"

"I think you might want to take a look. Maybe there is a dance you want to go to. It's good to go out and relax. You haven't participated in social activities for two months. I think they all want to know how you are doing."

Amanda signaled Rachel to put the invitation down, saying that she would take a look, but, "I have homework to finish, so I may not have time, and besides, I don't feel very welcome."

Rachel thought for a while and said, "You are definitely very popular among men."

"Rachel, you are so cute." Amanda has no idea about getting married. There are many restrictions on women these days, just look at the current fashion trends - the ideal high-class woman is slender, Fair complexion, small and exquisite, elegant and lovely "doll" for men to appreciate.In addition, the marriage law of this era stipulates that after a woman's dowry is married, the control is in the hands of her husband.It really made Amanda think "huh" very much.

She didn't come to Paris to circle herself.

Amanda put down the pencil in her hand, picked up the stack of invitations that Rachel brought in, glanced at the inviter, and threw it out.

"Not interested in."

"boring."

"Countess Rodella, well, her family has a daughter who is of marriageable age. What do you want me to do? To be her daughter's foil? I don't think she thinks so. I'm afraid she wishes I wouldn't go."

"Viscountess Bernard, ditto."

After a while, all the invitations were sent back, and when she saw another one, Amanda also glanced at the inviter, "The residence of the Duke of Shani? His family has a daughter who is not yet of marriageable age. Oh? It turned out to be an invitation to a wedding ceremony "Viscount Raul Chaney and his fiancee sincerely welcome you." If I remember correctly, this Viscount Raul Chaney was the original patron of the Paris Theater and fell in love with the newly appointed Soprano, as far as I knew at the time, they were privately engaged for life. Now, it seems that their lovers have finally married." Otherwise, there would be another well-matched lady's name on the invitation instead of just "fiancee" to refer to.

"Yes."

Amanda put the invitation down. "Not interested." She thought for a while and then said, "I think when the theater is finished, I will be happy to hold a dance and invite all kind people who want to know how I am. My dear How would you like a masquerade, Rachel? I'm looking forward to a big ball in what will soon be the most amazing theater in all of Europe. I don't think there could be a better opening than that. "

Although Amanda has never been to the theater under reconstruction, she has no doubt that when it is rebuilt, it will be an amazing building.Just as she has no doubt at all, the Phantom, who has been haunted and haunted recently, will rebuild a magnificent palace in the new theater!

The latter makes Amanda look forward to more than the former.

The personal maid has never disappointed the master: "As you wish, master."

Amanda continued to put her head down and paint her unfinished picture.Today is the day of the teacher's inspection, so she really can't let her relax at all.

It was already late when the Phantom came back from the theater, an hour later than usual.The Duchess fell asleep on the mahogany bench in front of the fireplace, and the firelight shone on her, filtering a warm halo around her, making her look like an angel in a mural.

Of course, Phantom knows very well that she has nothing to do with the word pure and flawless angel. From Phantom's point of view, she is like the mermaid Lorelai, who appears by the river when the sky is dark and unclear. The appearance and the sad and touching singing confuse passing boatmen, making them distracted and lose their direction, and finally sink to the bottom of the river!

After noticing the trembling of her eyelashes, Phantom suddenly regained his senses from contemplation, and he frowned angrily. How could he be fascinated by her?Sure enough, just like Lorelai, the appearance is too deceptive and seductive!

Phantom turned her attention to the stack of paintings on the desk that Amanda had prepared.

Although Phantom has always disliked Amanda's lack of talent in painting, he has been teaching her dutifully for the past two months.Not to mention that he has gone back to his underground kingdom now, but he still comes every few days.

When dealing with the homework that Amanda handed in, he did not perfunctory, carefully checked page by page, and when he heard footsteps coming this way, he criticized her mercilessly: "There are skills in nothing, I There is no room for you to improve. You have been a skilled painter at best in your life, not an eye-catching—”

The Phantom suddenly paused, staring at the last page of the painting, then sped up his speech and continued to speak viciously, "I'm a painter, and I don't know when, you changed from abstractionism to fantasyism, it's so unrealistic !"

Amanda was still a little unclear, so she glanced at Phantom's hand, and couldn't help being stunned.She lowered her eyelids, and her long eyelashes cast a small fan-like shadow under her eyes, covering her eyes like a blue sea, "Please give it to me."