[Titanic] I can't help myself

Chapter 26

In the car immediately behind them were Cousin Connery, his two children, and Viscount Stuart.

I went up and hugged Viscount Stuart, "Uncle Patrick, I think we haven't seen each other for half a year, how are you doing?"

"It's not much different from the previous days." Viscount Stuart showed a faint smile on his serious face. He let go of me, looked at my face carefully, and finally sighed softly, "Henry, you are getting better and better. The more I look like your father, seeing you, I feel as if I have returned to more than 20 years ago."

"You miss your father so much, he must be very happy to know in the kingdom of heaven." I smiled and said, "Please come in."

Viscount Stuart nodded, took off his hat and walked in.

On the other side, Uncle Connery and his two little angels had just finished greeting their mother and Rose.

"Welcome, Nicholas." I shook hands with him, then squatted down and shook hands with his five-year-old son Thomas, "Welcome to Acton, cousin Thomas."

Thomas, like his father, has light brown curly hair and a pair of black eyes. Although he is only five years old, it can be seen from his immature face that he will be like his father in the future. Like his father, he has become the dream lover of many women.

He held my hand solemnly, shook it vigorously up and down, and said, "Nice to meet you, Cousin Henry."

I was about to stand up when Thomas suddenly grabbed my hand and said, "Cousin Henry, with all due respect, are you married?"

A little guy less than half the height of a person spoke like an adult, which unexpectedly had a comic effect. I suppressed a smile and said; "The position of the Countess of Richardmond is still vacant, Cousin Thomas."

Thomas frowned and thought about it for a while, and then he understood what I meant, and then suddenly said happily: "So you mean you are not married yet? That's great, I've met you The most beautiful person, so, will you marry me?"

Everyone present was quiet for a while, Rose couldn't hold back, and burst out laughing, "Poor Henry..." she muttered.

At this time, Madeleine, who was obediently standing aside, who was the daughter of Uncle Connery, said, "Tommy, men and men cannot marry."

"Why?" Thomas' face immediately collapsed, looking very unhappy, "The nanny told me that I will marry the most beautiful beauty in the world as my wife, but she didn't say that the beauty must be a woman."

"But even so, why is Cousin Henry your wife instead of you?" Madeleine asked back, "Cousin Henry is older than you, you must know that husbands are older than wives .”

Thomas immediately retorted loudly: "That's not necessarily the case. I just want to marry a wife who is older than me, so that I don't have to make her happy, and she can read me bedtime stories. The little girl is the most annoying, Daisy Always crying, meaningless."

Madeleine went on to say: "You just said 'she', not 'he'! Cousin Henry can only refer to 'he', you idiot."

Inexplicably, the two children looked like they were about to quarrel, and Uncle Connery hurriedly said, "Madeleine, ladies don't say such rude things. Tom, it is true that men and men cannot marry, ("Why?" ) can’t just not, at least not in the UK. Now we have to go in, it’s a very rude thing to block someone’s door.”

The next car came Rose's long-awaited best friend Miss Rebecca.She is a sweet-looking girl, and her gestures reveal a good family upbringing.The mother looked her up and down carefully with critical eyes, finally nodded in satisfaction, hugged her sincerely, said some polite words, and invited her into the room.

"She looks like a real lady," my mother whispered to me. "Hope she can be a good influence on Rose."

"I wish," I said.

Robert Branson got off the last car. He showed his Germanic ancestry to the fullest. He was blond and blue-eyed, with exquisite facial features. He looked like a doll, but the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose made this beauty greatly discounted.

I have always liked him, not only because he is good-looking and has a soft personality, but also because he is the only one who is shorter than me among my peers.

The servants brought by the guests carried their luggage in from the passageway on the side of the castle for servants. There, Mrs. Ford, who was in charge of the maids, would tell them the room arrangements of the guests and arrange for other servants to tidy up the rooms with them.The guests will stay in the living room on the first floor to talk and introduce each other until the dressing gong is sounded for dinner.

Mother and Aunt Violet sat talking on the small sofa nearby, and the three unmarried girls sat nearby for company.

Viscount Stuart stood alone, holding a cup of tea, quietly looking at the portrait of his father on the wall.It is the tradition of the Bukett family to place the portrait of the previous earl in the living room until the next earl passes away, so that his friends and descendants can remember him.

I just re-introduced Robert to Connery's cousin Nicholas, Thomas, who likes beauties, asked Robert whether he was married or not. After getting the answer of "no", he said: "You look so good-looking, I I really want to marry you, but they all say that I can't marry a man to be the Viscountess, but I really like you, alas, why are there so many regrettable things in this world?"

Uncle Connery's expression was extremely embarrassing at the time. Fortunately, Robert did not show any signs of being offended. He actually began to answer Thomas' question why men cannot marry men.

"Because the priests in the church say God thinks it's a sin."

"How do they know that God said it, that they've seen him?"

"No, they say that is written in the Bible, but in fact, I have not found God's clear definition of this relationship. To be precise, I think this judgment is an inference without sufficient basis. If they If you still can't find a more reliable basis, maybe one day this judgment will be overturned, and at that time, you can marry a man to be the Viscountess."

"I hope that day will come soon." Thomas smiled happily, "Then I can marry you."

"I'm afraid not, Mr. Thomas, I still want to inherit my father's title of Earl." Robert pushed his glasses and said seriously.

"What a pity." Thomas sighed a long time, "However, why can't I be a Viscountess after inheriting the title of earl?"

"because……"

Watching the weird question-and-answer dialogue of "Why..." and "Because..." between the freshmen and juniors, I exchanged glances with Uncle Connery.

"Does Thomas always ask this kind of question?" I whispered.

Uncle Connery raised his eyebrows, "Yeah, I don't know where these weird ideas come from. Whenever he asks, I don't know how to answer. It's hard to imagine that there are still people in this world. Someone who can handle Thomas' 'why', Jesus, I should have known this sweet little guy sooner."

I smiled and said, "Since that's the case, you can talk more, I'll go there first."

James walked over with his new wife, Carol. They met in London earlier this year, and then got married like lightning when no one expected it.This incident made the Darens family the laughingstock of the social circle overnight.Aunt Violet and Emily must have been devastated, but James seemed indifferent.

"Let me introduce you. This is the Earl of Richardmond, Henry Bukett. You can call him Cousin Henry, but he is a very kind and good boy. He will definitely not mind if you call him Henry. Henry, this is My wife, Carol, the current Countess of Cornwall, used to be an opera singer. She can sing very well and play the piano. In short, she is versatile. I was moved by her moving voice, so I decided to jump into The tomb of marriage, where you bury yourself."

I rolled my eyes at his messy introduction in my heart, but kept a gentle smile on my face. I didn't want to add any mental burden to this tense woman.

"James is right, Cousin Carol, you can call me Henry. You don't mind if I call you Carol?"

"No, I don't mind, LordRi... Henry." She almost called me Earl, which made her more nervous, and tightly held James' arm, "You can just call me Carol, I don't mind, real."

The mother described Carol as a top-notch courtesan, scheming, who seduced the young James, who turned from a sparrow into a phoenix, and got the position of Countess of Cornwall.But at least all I see now is a poor woman on the verge of fainting, enduring the excess of malice my class has shown her.

"You don't look down on her, Henry," said James suddenly, looking down into my eyes.

I really rolled my eyes this time, he grew very tall when he was a child, and he likes to laugh at me for being short, and often uses this posture of lowering his head and looking down at me to express his irony.

"Why do you think so? I don't look down on anyone, let alone the person you love, your wife, the mother of your future child."

James stared at me for a long time, I stared back without showing any weakness, Carol seemed to be frightened, and whispered: "James!"

Finally, he breathed a sigh of relief, and showed his signature lazy smile again, "That's good, dear Henry, there are too many fools in this world, if you are also such a fool, I will break up with you, Leave Acton at once, and never set foot here again."

"Oh, please, can you not be as naive as you were when you were a child?" I snorted coldly, "This will make me suspect that all the nutrients you use to grow your brain are used to grow your body."

"Ah, I said childish, I forgot." He seemed to have not heard, and said cheerfully, "If you dare to treat my wife slowly, I will call you Martha on all occasions where I can see you-" Miss Henry, whether in the fields or in Buckingham Palace!"

"How dare you!" I glared at him.

"What Miss Martha-Henry?" Carl came over and asked.

"Nothing." I said quickly, "Let me introduce you. This is my cousin, the Earl of Cornwall, James Durance, and his wife, Carol."