Granville's estate

"God!"

As a kind of light carriage, the Cabriolet two-wheeled open carriage is generally designed to be very light and simple, but once the small carriage rolls over, the fate of the passengers on the carriage can only pray for the blessing of God—— It was not uncommon in this day and age to be killed in a wagon accident, or to be caught under the wheels (especially ladies in elaborate skirts with bustles!).

"Holy Virgin Mary, who will save our young lady!"

The coachman who had been in a catastrophe cried out for help miserably. He broke his right foot and could only grab the rein as hard as he could, trying to calm his horse, but the reckless horse snorted loudly and kicked. He hoofed and shook his head from side to side very disobediently, trying to break free from the shackles of the rein.

"We've got to get down to help right now," Callister said to Louis, and before Cabo jumped off the back of the wagon to open the door for them, he unlatched the carriage door and jumped down.

All this happened so quickly that the women on the side of the street screamed when they came back to their senses, and a few quick-witted men ran over, trying to help control the out-of-control horse.

The unfortunate Miss Louise de Waterville was thrown from her seat when the carriage overturned and fell to the ground, she must have been terrified, screaming and trying to escape the danger of being caught under the wheels, But he couldn't move because he was too frightened; when he saw that the horse, which was getting more and more manic because of the injury, was about to trample towards her, Callister who just arrived picked her up and took her to To the edge of the street, away from the neighing hooves of wounded horses and the carriage that might do harm again.

"Miss de Waterville, are you all right?"

When Louis and Cabo, who were behind the viscount, arrived, Callister had already untied his velvet cloak and put it on Miss Louise. The thick cloak completely wrapped the poor girl tightly. In fact, it also covered her skirt that was stained with mud.

"me……"

Miss Louise was terrified, her face was pale, her hat was crooked, her hairstyle was messed up with a lot of thought, and a hat pin used to fix the hat fell out, and she was limp in Callisto. In his arms, trembling, he could hardly speak: "First, sir..."

"Sir, this lady doesn't look very well, maybe she needs a little smelling salts."

Cabo, who came to the viscount, proposed to his master, perhaps judging from their clothing that they were nobles with status, some people on the street also surrounded him, and one of the women heard Cabo's words , shouted: "I have smelling salts here, and I am going to bring them to my master! Give me a gold louis, and I will sell them to you."

A gold louis—this is a big mouth for a lion, but Cabo took out a gold coin from his pocket and threw it to the woman without blinking: "Bring it!"

The woman who had just said it casually, but did not expect that she would really get fifty francs, was surprised and delighted. She bit the gold coin with her teeth, and when she was sure it was true, she corked a bottle containing smelling salts. Carbo ran; and Carbo unscrewed the cap of the bottle of smelling salts and put it under Miss Louise's nose, and she took a deep breath and coughed violently.

"Ah! The lady looks like she's dying of breath, maybe she needs a maid to help her undo her corset that's too tight."

Someone in the crowd gloated, but was immediately countered: "I think she'd need a doctor to bleed her a bit, that's always the case with overly frightened people, their blood thickens with fright , it must be reduced.”

It would be too outrageous for a group of low-status civilians to judge a noble lady. Callister glanced at Louis and Carbo beside him, and made a decision almost immediately.

"Miss de Waterville, please allow me to take you back to Baron de Waterville's house, you need the care of your family." Callister said to Miss Louise, he and Carbo exchanged a look, and The attendant understood immediately: "Sir, Mr. Farentin and I will wait for you in the other courtyard first."

Calliste nodded, but Louis, who was at a loss, hadn't figured out what the so-called "other courtyard" meant, so the Viscount said to him: "You and Cabo are waiting for me in the other courtyard, and I will be there soon." return."

"wait wait wait……"

Louis was going to say "I can go back to 79 St. George Street by myself", but Cabo quietly pulled his cloak, so the puzzled Louis had to stop talking for a while; and Callister had already waved to his The coachman brought the carriage over, and he almost half-supported Miss Louise into his carriage.

"Mr. Louis, we have to go back in a taxi first."

After the carriage of the Durand family carried the Viscount and Miss Louise away from the block, Carbo glanced at the coachman of the Waterwell family who was struggling to clean up the mess (with the help of several brave young men, he managed to Only then did the injured horse calm down), and said to Louis: "Please understand, this is by no means a slight to you, but... Uh, no one would have thought that such a thing would happen."

"This, it doesn't matter."

Louis replied somewhat absent-mindedly. He looked at the direction in which the Viscount's carriage was leaving—the carriage without a badge soon turned the corner of the street and disappeared from his sight; The scene of Miss Louise boarding the carriage was lingering in front of his eyes, and a strange feeling that he couldn't explain exactly came up, which made Louis feel that his chest was a little congested.

Carbo didn't notice Louie's strange mood—or maybe he did, but he didn't say anything; After the newlyweds' cabs (Carbo thinks this kind of low-end cabs are too insignificant to Louis' status and are unwilling to stop them) pass by, they finally see a more elegantly decorated one, which Carbo thinks is barely worthy of their status. By the way, the price of this rental carriage is two francs per hour, which is enough for a family of five in other provinces to spend for a day.

"Sir, please allow me to take the liberty of sitting with you in the carriage."

After stopping the carriage, Kabo begged Louis, and Louis naturally agreed without saying a word.

"Where are we going to wait for your master?"

After boarding the rented carriage, Louis asked the attendants sitting beside him that he didn't really want to go to the other courtyard that Carbo said: "Actually, I can go back to 79 St. George Street by myself. I'm worried that my friend has already returned. If he can't find me, he will be anxious."

"Ah, Mr. Louis, the other house is not far from here." Carbo said, and like his master, the servant automatically ignored Louis's words that he wanted to return to 79 St. George Street. : "That other courtyard is one of the properties of the Durand family. It is usually vacant, but there are servants and maids there. I will definitely not neglect you."

"I'm not worried about that... Ah, forget it."

Louis sighed, and he glanced out the car window, thinking that he might not be able to get back to 79 St. George Street before Al went home: "You said that the other courtyard is very close to here, and there are servants to attend to it Now, why doesn't your husband take Miss de Waterville there?"

Karbo who heard Louis say that turned his head to look at Louis.

"I think the master just doesn't want to take the lady there, so he wants to send her back to her home, sir. After all, if you meet such a lady and lady, you need a different house, how many seats does our husband have?" There are not enough other houses.”

"what?"

This sounds really confusing. Louis was stunned for a while, but still didn't understand what Karbo meant: "How do you say that?"

"I told you before, sir, many people want to approach or ask to see our husband, and they will do whatever they can to do so." Carbo said, he shrugged his shoulders: "For example, like Miss de Wattville just now , deliberately asked the coachman to overturn the carriage, so that our husband could come to a 'hero to save the beauty'."

"What, what?"

"Ah, yes, that's it, sir, you don't need to doubt, our husband encountered exactly the same thing last time, but at that time the lady wanted to ask our husband to give her husband a lucrative position." Carbo said that he didn't look like he was joking: "So don't be angry about it. If it's just a commoner who has an accident today, I can solve it without the presence of sir; but Miss de Waterville is a nobleman." , and our husband is also, in his capacity, he must do this when encountering such things, otherwise the nobles in Paris will think that he does not have the demeanor that a nobleman should have, and will bring him unnecessary criticism .”

"I, I'm not angry!"