After lunch, Isabel Walton walked out of the dining room with graceful steps, followed by Rose, the maid, and another young maid. As soon as he took two steps, he glanced back at the two cautious maids with an arrogant look peculiar to a nobleman. She suddenly felt that what she had said to her maid Rose in the morning was a little heavier, and she stopped thinking.

Two young maids, dressed in cheap leotards and hats, quickly stopped as well, and stood side by side only a step or two away from her, respectfully waiting for her orders. Isabel gently held the hilt of her saber in her left hand, and came to the two maids and chuckled softly, "Have you had lunch?" ”

The two maids looked at each other, and Rose plucked up the courage to reply, "Yes, Miss." ”

"Really? I'd say I'm going to be busy in the afternoon, so I don't want you guys fainting because you haven't had enough to eat. Isabel looked at the maid who had never dared to look up at her, and smiled again, "Go quickly, I'll go back to my room by myself." ”

After curling to see Isabel leave, the two maids subconsciously patted their chests twice, and when they hurriedly turned around and walked towards the servants' dining room, another young maid quietly looked at her companion, "Rose, it really scared me out just now, I thought we did something wrong again." ”

Lady Rose glanced at her companion as she walked, "Let's go, Miss said she's going to be busy this afternoon." ”

"Busy? Rose, what do you think Mademoiselle will do? ”

"I guess it's to reply to those letters."

When the two of them reached the hallway on the first floor of the Hawkins family's house, the young maid asked curiously, "Rose, why does Miss receive so many letters?" Does she have a lot of family? ”

Rose didn't answer immediately, looked at the servant's dining room at the front of the hallway and shook his head, "I think, in addition to relatives, maybe there are letters from good friends to her. Didn't you notice that some of the letters had different fire-marked lacquer insignias? ”

Rose, a maid who provided services to the merchant family, took it for granted that the noble coat of arms on the letters was the insignia of the nobility. As everyone knows, the coat of arms and emblems of the nobility are two completely identical patterns. The emblem has no fixed shape and no fixed rules for its use, it is only printed on the property of the nobility as a sign of ownership. The clothes of the guards and servants were also marked with insignia on their chests to show their loyalty to their masters, the nobles. However, as a unique hereditary symbol, the noble coat of arms is limited to a few aspects of the nobles' fire paint seals, gun flags, clothing, smocks and horse coats.

When Isabel returned to her borrowed house alone, she didn't have much time to look at the treasure chests stacked in the parlor and the various valuable colonial products. Her mind was just rehearsing the wording of how to reply to a large number of letters, and as she walked upstairs to her room, she pondered, "Now, the first thing to do is to find that guy Henry." ”

"Well, you can write a letter to your father and mother first, and ask your father about it."

"If my father doesn't know where Henry is, it's best to write another letter to Henry's retainers to inquire about the situation."

"Then, write another letter to Frances and let her know how much her £200 investment has paid off."

As he walked down the corridor, he nodded to his servant and the Duke's courtesy, and at the same time thought, "Sell most of the goods in three days as much as possible, and leave some to take back to the north for my father and mother, or to sell in Leeds and York." ”

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Rose, the maid, and her companions, after eating some more bread, cheese, and a soup with a few pieces of pork that had been charcoal-grilled for a long time, hurried down the Hawkins family's garden path. The young companion burped several times as he walked, and Rose squinted at her and laughed, "How much did you eat?" Didn't leave the restaurant with some ale or vegetable soup? ”

The companion couldn't help but touch his somewhat swollen belly, and glanced at Rose, "Miss said let's eat more, so as not to faint in her room from hunger." ”

"I'm right, the young lady is a very kind noble lady."

"Kindness? Rose, have you forgotten so quickly the fact that Mademoiselle reprimanded you? ”

Rose looked up at the roof of the house behind the canopy, winked and smiled softly, "I think Mademoiselle did reprimand me first, and then explained to me the reason for the reprimand. So, I still think that Mademoiselle is a noble lady who is willing to talk to servants. ”

The companion who walked beside her was silent and did not speak, and after a moment he spoke his thoughts, "Rose, you... Do you want to work as a maid in Miss's aristocratic family? ”

Rose was slightly stunned when he heard his companion's words, and then just smiled faintly, "No matter where we go, we can only be maids." I think that the honorarium for working as a maid in a noble family may be higher. ”

"Honoraria? Rose, how do you know that Miss's family will pay more than the Hawkins family? The companion was a little suspicious of her words, and after glancing twice at the sides of the road, he whispered, "I have heard from others that the young lady's family is somewhere in the north. Ross, do you know what it means to be north? ”

"What does that mean?" Rose's tone was calm, and she couldn't hear any change in her mood.

"Poverty, conservatism, chaos and robbery, not at all as tranquil as the South. Rose, did you know that the populace of the North is almost entirely crazy Catholics! ”

"Really? However, I think Mademoiselle looks very much like a Protestant. ”

"Protestant?! Ross, Catholicism is the enemy of Protestantism, and I, as your partner, think you should see that. ”

Rose's attitude still didn't seem to change, and he smiled and nodded kindly, "I know, I'll see this fact clearly." ”

Isabel sat at the Gothic stand that served as a desk, and wrote quickly with an ordinary quill pen in her hand on an ordinary piece of letterpaper. By the time the first letter was about to be written, two maids had already come to the room and knocked lightly on the door three times.

"Come in." Isabel didn't even raise her head, but kept staring at the contents of the letter in front of her as she said something calm.

Rose and her companion walked softly into the room and stood at the doorway to greet her. Isabel paused with a quill in her right hand, picked up a glass of wine on the table with her left hand and took a sip of it. Then, turning his gaze to the two people standing at the door, "Rose, have you and your partner eaten enough?" ”

"Yes, miss." As soon as Rose finished speaking, he thought of his companion walking on the road and burped, and when a smile appeared on his face, he quickly buried his face quietly.