Mauritius

Chapter 20

What is needed is reality.I noticed this last year. "

As they both rode through the glade, Maurice tried to impress him with America.

"I think you've become vulgar." Clive criticized him, "Like them, they dismissed Joey." Clive is completely resistant to his family.They combined fame and fortune with ignorance of world affairs, and he hated it. "The kids are troublesome enough," he said as the horse slowed.

"What child?"

"Mine! Peng Jie needs an heir. My mother calls this a marriage, and it's all in her mind."

Morris was silent.It never occurred to him that he or this friend would have offspring.

"I'll have endless troubles. Like this, there's always some girl staying at home."

"It's just getting old..."

"What did you say, brother?"

"Nothing," Maurice said, tightening the reins and stopping.His heart was filled with great sorrow.He had thought he would never have such passion again.He and his loved ones would be gone.Their souls will not ascend to heaven, nor will they leave offspring on earth.They have triumphantly thrown off custom, but nature still faces them, saying with a grim noise: "Well, that's what you are; I don't blame any of my children. But you have to follow all the sterile Go down the road." When the young man thought that he had no offspring, he suddenly felt ashamed.His mother or Mrs. Durham may not have been bright and emotional, but they had done a visible job.They passed the torch of life to their sons, and they stomped out the fire.

He had no intention of hurting Clive's feelings, yet he spoke his mind as soon as they lay down among the ferns.Clive disagreed. "Why bring up the child?" he asked. "Why always children? Love, where it begins and ends, is much more beautiful, and nature knows it."

"Yes, but if everyone..."

Clive dragged him back to their own business.He muttered about eternity in an hour.Maurice didn't understand, but Clive's voice soothed him.

During the next two years Maurice and Clive secured as much happiness as a man under the stars could hope for.They are natural lovers, always consistent.Thanks to Clive being very sensible.Clive understands that fanaticism cannot last, but he can open channels for what lasts, and find ways to arrange the relationship between the two of them to last forever.If it is Maurice who creates love, it is Clive who maintains it, and he nourishes their garden with the flow of love.He could not bear to waste a drop of it on sarcasm or sentimentality.As the years went by, they refrained from swearing ("We've finished talking"), and petting was almost completely suppressed.As long as the two stay together, they are immersed in happiness.With others, they are at peace and secure their place in society.

Clive has been moving in this direction since his mastery of Greek.Socrates to Phaedo (Annotation: Socrates (about 470 BC-399 BC) was the first of the three philosophers of ancient Greece. Together with Plato and Aristotle, he laid the philosophical foundation of Western culture. Phaedo (c. 417-? BC) philosopher. Born into an aristocratic family, he was captured and sold into slavery during the war against Sparta (400-399 BC). A friend of Socrates bought him Then he became a student of Socrates. One of Plato’s dialogues is named after him. After Socrates died. Phaedo returned to Ellis and founded the school.) With that kind of love, he Reach out and reach.This is a passionate but restrained love that only those with elegant temperament can understand.The temperament Clive found in Maurice was not, to be precise, elegant, but willingly lovable.He guides his beloved up high and high along beautiful narrow paths, flanked by abysses.The path stretches to the end of darkness.Other than that, he was fearless.When the darkness came, they had lived a far more fulfilling life than saints or sensualists, and had taken to their heart's content the sublime and sweetness of the world.He had educated Maurice, or rather his spirit had educated Maurice's spirit, for they were already on equal footing.No one wonders: "Am I guiding or being led?" In order to perfect two imperfect souls, love fishes him out of mediocrity and Maurice out of confusion fish out.

So, on the surface, they live like other people.Society accepts them as it accepts thousands of them.The law sleeps in the back of society.Together they spent their last year at Cambridge and then traveled to Italy.Then the cell door was closed and both men were locked inside.Clive went to further studies to obtain the qualification of a court defense lawyer, and Morris went to work in a securities company.The two are still together.

By this time the two families had known each other.

"They definitely don't get along well." On this point, Clive and Maurice agreed. "They belong to different social classes." On the contrary, however, the two families were congenial, and Clive and Maurice were amused to see them together.They both hated women, especially Clive.Their natures are hard to change, and it never occurred to them that they should perform some duties in reverse.When they were in love, the female relatives became as distant as horses and cats, and they looked foolish no matter what they did.Kitty asks to hold Pippa's baby, and Mrs Durham and Mrs Hall visit the Royal Academy together. Director Sir HB Terry created it, and moved to Gower Street the following year.), they all thought it was not so much a difference in social class, but rather a twisted combination of people with different personalities, so they made random explanations.Not surprisingly, they themselves are ample impetus.The strong feeling between them became the strong bond that held the two families together, dragging everything like an undercurrent pulling a ship.Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Durham came together because the boys were friends. "Now," said Mrs. Hall, "we're friends too."

Maurice was there the day their "friendship" began.The ladies met at Pippa's London residence.Pippa married a gentleman named London.Kitty was impressed by this coincidence, and wished she would not laugh at it at tea.Following Maurice's advice, Ada was left at home because she was too stupid for an initial visit.Nothing happened.Then, Pippa and her mother drove back to pay their respects.He was in London at the time, and nothing seemed to happen.It's just that Pippa praised Kitty's brains to Ada, and praised Ada's beauty to Kitty, which offended both girls.Mrs. Hall reminded Mrs. Durham not to install heating in Penji.Then, they met again.As far as he knew, it was always like this: nothing happened, nothing happened.

Mrs Durham certainly had her motives.She was looking for a wife for Clive, and had put the Hall girls on her list.She had a theory that the blood should be more mixed, and Ada, though rustic, was healthy.There was no doubt that the girl was out of her wits, but Mrs Durham had no real intention of withdrawing into the widow's room, in spite of her words.Clive, she believed, was best manipulated through his wife.Kitty was less qualified.She's not that stupid, or that pretty, or that rich.Ada will inherit all of her grandfather's property in the future, which is quite considerable, and her innate good temper is also inherited from her grandfather.Mrs. Durham had met Mr. Grace once, and she liked him.

If she surmised that the Halls were up to something, she would back off.They were as indifferent as Maurice, and that attracted her.Mrs. Hall was too lazy to advise, and the girls were too innocent.Mrs. Durham thought that Ada had a good family background, so she invited her to Pengjie as a guest.Only Pippa, with a touch of modernity, was beginning to find her brother's indifference almost queer. "Clive, are you planning to get married?" she asked coldly.However, his answer, "No, you must tell your mother," dispelled her doubts.This is exactly what a man who intends to marry will say.

No one bothered Maurice.He established himself as a power in the family, and the mother began to speak in the same tone as she had spoken to her husband.He is not only the legitimate son of this family, but also a celebrity, which is unexpected by people.He kept the servants in order, knew everything about the car, approved of this, disapproved of that, forbade his sisters from certain acquaintances.At twenty-three he was a promising tyrant of a middle-class family outside London, all the more secure because his rule was fairly just and tolerant.Kitty resisted, but with no support and lack of experience, she finally apologized and was kissed by her brother.She was no match for this friendly, slightly hostile young man.His escapades at Cambridge had her occupying

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