Chapter 2671

Foreigners often comment on London like this: it is foggy, humid, and cold in winter, but this still cannot change that it is the "homecoming" of exiles from many countries.

After the outbreak of the French Revolution, many French aristocrats came to Soho. Unlike the 20th century, Soho was messy, full of Greeks and Italians, social dregs and wild cats running around, tomatoes and animal offal. Randomly thrown in the street.

These people either drink in taverns, or plan and write in cafes, hoping to continue their careers with their "compatriots" far away in China. However, London brings them more disappointment.

This is not an ideal place for refugees to seek safety and comfort, but a city hidden in thick smog like a "Leviathan".

There is an inn in Mayfair that has been in operation since the mid-18th century. As a top luxury hotel, during the First and Second World Wars, nobles including the king directly regarded it as their home, and the queen herself also liked it very much.

Whenever there is a large-scale celebration, when Buckingham Palace cannot accommodate, some dignitaries and celebrities will be arranged in that hotel, so it has a nickname "Buckingham Palace Annex".

In fact, it is not difficult to find a hotel of the same level of luxury in London, but according to a "former employee of Buckingham Palace", the reason why the Queen likes that hotel so much is because of the "service" inside. Passing the "dead fly test" is only the first step to entering Buckingham Palace. If there is a comparison, the employees of Buckingham Palace must carefully think about how to remind the queen to eat without disturbing her work.

The hotel staff treat most of the guests as familiar and kind as they treat acquaintances and family members. Of course, to live in the "Buckingham Palace Annex", you must first be rich enough to pay the high nightly room rate, but just being rich does not make it into their class. The service of the hotel can even be attentive to the point where the waiter who comes to clean up the room will not look up at you before you have put on your makeup. Because they're just so "sweet" about how you feel, knowing that you don't want to be seen looking haggard and disheveled.

This kind of life is like a gap compared with Soho, but these exiles are "people of one world" in their former countries. Every French lady has a copy of "Paris Time" on her dressing table. After they read the news in it, they go to salons, banquets, and balls to chat about these "news" with other people who have read the book.

The employees in the hotel have a job. They have to put an alarm clock next to the guest's bed. This alarm clock is carefully selected by the hotel manager from hundreds of alarm clocks available in the market.

Waking up people is a technical job, and the hotel also provides room wake-up service, but even if it is elegant music or a sweet voice, listening to it "waking up" is not as comfortable as waking up naturally.

So the hotel manager spent a lot of energy and time to find an alarm clock worth 20 pounds and put it on the king's bedside. It's not sterling silver, antique or designer.

Some people will think, oh, so this is top-level service, and it is to work hard on "useless" places.

In fact, the alarm clock is more likely to be noticed by people in the dead of night. After turning off the lights, no matter how luxurious the room is, it will be dark, and only the sound of the alarm clock will be heard.

The most important function of the hotel is to let people rest. If the guest can't fall asleep listening to the sound of the alarm clock, and it happens that the guest is going to attend an important meeting the next day, then the alarm clock is similar to the clock on the time bomb. Worked.

"boom"!

Pomona shuddered subconsciously when he heard a loud noise.

After she followed the sound, through the glass window, she found that the sound was not a bomb, but someone opened a bottle of champagne next door, and the waiter was pouring the golden wine into the glasses that the guests were waiting for.

The woman looked a lot like Josephine, she meant Josephine who had taken off her coarse skirt and put on silk, tulle and lace again, she was no longer as unkempt as she had been in prison, and painted With delicate makeup, it looks dignified and elegant.

Pomona had heard that the servants of the Tuileries would stop in the corridors just to watch her walk and hear her voice, as smooth as a lover's caress.

She is an irresistible, elegant and languid woman, and even if she is no longer young, this elegance can make up for all that time has stolen from her, allowing her to be with her younger than her teens. Divas competition.

"It's all ready, ma'am," said Charlotte softly.

Pomona put down the teacup in his hand.

It produces a crisp, almost harsh sound in a quiet room.

"You know why I kept you?" Pomona said softly.

"Guess a little bit."

"What is it?"

"Because... I can't read." Charlotte said, "I haven't read that book."

"anything else?"

"I don't know, ma'am," said Charlotte.

Pomona let out a long breath.

"Why do you think they would be pleased if I wore the jewels that the Genoese sent me?"

Charlotte opened her mouth.

"How did you suddenly change from a rebellious little wild cat to a 'pet' that wants to please the owner?" Pomona continued to ask.

"I……"

"What they want is what they don't have at home." Pomona went on to say, "When we become someone else's mistress, we don't want to be liked. I think the reason why the Viscount likes you is because you don't like me." Living off him like other women do, you can punch, can't you?"

Charlotte looked at her in surprise.

Georgiana stood up.

At the moment she was wearing the dark red velvet dress, but she didn't wear any jewelry.

When she left the lounge, the waiter outside the door opened the door for her. At this time, she was in the Belgian History Museum, and the exhibition hall was full of ancient Egyptian cultural relics.

The Genoese, who had been accompanied by Edgeworth and Saint-Tirrell, all showed surprise when they saw Georgiana.

"Good morning," said Georgiana, smiling.

As soon as her voice fell, a group of women dressed in ancient Greece came in from the next room. They scattered flower petals from baskets, and there was even a band performing in the room they had just walked out of.

Pomona remembers Elizabeth's sister in the novel "Pride and Prejudice", she always regarded herself as a talented woman.

Of course a talented woman must have some talent. The gentlemen and ladies of the upper class can't play one or two musical instruments. Even Frederick the Great can play the flute, and Madame Pompidou can perform and sing.

But Georgiana felt that she was not a talented woman, not even a lady. Her hobbies were watching Muggle movies besides sleeping. She had seen Cleopatra played by Elizabeth Taylor, and the scene where Cleopatra VII appeared in Rome was so grand that it was impossible to see the female pharaoh bathed in golden light and wrapped in a blanket. The Egyptian princess in the book is connected.

Caesar the "Conqueror" seemed to have conquered Egypt, but Cleopatra relied on Caesar's power to replace her younger brother as a female pharaoh and the last monarch of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

The founding monarch of the Ptolemaic Dynasty was a Greek general under Alexander the Great. After he established himself as the Egyptian pharaoh, he did not abolish the Egyptian system and switch to the ancient Greek system because he was a Greek. Instead, he continued to use the ancient Greek system. Egypt's original autocratic bureaucracy.

In this way, the Egyptian version of Spartacus and Macedonia can be avoided. Cleopatra is not so much protecting Egypt as protecting the continuation of the "Pharaoh" in Egypt. For the Egyptians who had already experienced the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty, it made no difference whether they were ruled by the Greeks or the Romans. The inclusion of Egypt into the Roman province was nothing more than the lack of "Pharaoh".

In fact, Marie Antoinette still has a way to "solve" Madame Dubarry's problem. She can write back and describe all the insults she has suffered as insults to the Holy Roman Empire and Queen Teresa by the French. The marriage was messed up, but it represented the failure of the "diplomatic revolution" to end the long-cherished wish of the two countries to jointly fight against Prussia, and France and the Holy Roman Empire ended their alliance and went to war.

Maybe the Prussian and Austrian coalition forces entered the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles "in advance" and established the German Empire.

Even if France is not erased from the territory, it can be divided up with the United Kingdom, like Poland, unless France can withstand the attack of the "anti-French alliance".

Rousseau's Emile mentions a woman who wants to be a man, and she is not popular in the rococo Paris society.

Severus always said that Pomona's smile was fake because she knew the real self was not flattering, so she put on a "mask".

Now that she doesn't have to wear a mask, she feels relaxed, although at the cost of being seen as "not cute" and unlikable.

And liking is Josephine's way of survival in troubled times.

Pomona is not someone's wife, so of course she doesn't need to learn "wife ways" and "subject ways", and Albus never gave her any education in this regard.

When the husband chooses to be unfaithful to the marriage, the wife has no obligation to remain "virtuous".

Pomona had urged Narcissa to empty Lucius Malfoy's bank vaults before.

Now she wants to see how many houses in France she can sell.