Chapter 10: The Oxford Gentleman

In the lecture hall of Grey Sam College, Arthur and Elder sat at the front.

Arthur's ears were buzzing with human voices, and his nose was filled with the smell of expensive perfumes.

In the halls packed with listeners, the proportion of ladies is more than seventy percent.

Each of them was dressed in grace and luxury.

The bell-like wide skirts, the petticoats are stacked like folds, and the waists of the ladies are slender under the constraints of the corset, like butterflies waving their huge wings.

It was not yet summer, but as if they had made an appointment, they had already changed into short sleeves, and the sleeves were as bright as buds blooming on their shoulders, and Arthur could not name the many ornaments adorned on them.

When it comes to the taste of necklines, the choice of ladies varies.

Young ladies prefer to have a lower neckline and drape a small translucent lace cape, the mantlet, through which their snow-white skin and clavicles are as soft and slender as the horizon of a landscape.

As for the older ones, the choice was more conservative, and most of them chose to wrap around the raff collar, which had been popular since the Renaissance, to cover the other positions, and only to highlight the swan-like swan-like neck, and the eyes of the ladies could not be seen under the wide brim of the richly decorated, only the tips of the ladies' noses that stood up like bamboo, and the corners of their mouths seemed to have no smile.

The charm of young girls is better than youth and cuteness, and the calm and charming gestures of ladies are also different.

Elder was dazzled, and he tugged at Arthur's sleeve excitedly, and although he had tried his best to keep his voice down, he could still imagine the hormonal surge in the kid's body from his red cheeks and trembling voice.

"Oh! Arthur! Look at the lady! Look at her, she's so charming! Oh, I don't dare to be his lover, even if I am a puppy in her arms, I am willing to die. ”

"Hey, hey! Look, Arthur, the lady. Oh my! She flicked her skirt at me! My God, is she hinting at me? ”

"Damn! I should have brought my sister here today so I could borrow her to help me talk. If I went up to greet me so rashly, she would definitely think that I was uneducated. ”

"Damn, the science is amazing! My God! Why didn't you let me know about this place sooner, if I had known, then I wouldn't have studied any classical literature.

What Shelley and Byron, they're not bullshit! I have decided that from this day forward, Sir Isaac Newton is the only sun in my heart! ”

The gentleman sitting next to Arthur frowned and looked at Elder's pig brother, and lowered his voice and spoke to Arthur.

"Mr. Officer, the lecture is about to start, can you tell your friend to be quiet?"

Arthur said calmly: "No, sir, you misunderstood, I don't know him, I'm the same as you, I just happened to sit with him." But rest assured, as soon as the lecture is over, I will escort this public order disturber to Scotland Yard. ”

When the gentleman heard this, he smiled apologetically, and he took off his hat and thanked him: "That's really thankful." ”

"You're welcome."

Arthur glanced at Elder and explained to the gentleman, "You know, it's no secret that people who graduated from Oxford with a degree in classics are always like him. ”

The gentleman was stunned: "Is that the case with Oxford graduates?" ”

When Elder heard the key word Oxford, he couldn't help but turn around and ask, "Oxford?" What Oxford? ”

Arthur glanced at him and asked, "Sir, may I ask what university you graduated from?" ”

Elder didn't react at first, until Arthur stomped on him.

He snorted through his nose and loosened his collar angrily: "An authentic Oxford gentleman who never shy away from his graduate school. ”

Arthur turned to the gentleman next to him and said, "Look, it's like I said. ”

As soon as Arthur finished speaking, the gentleman sitting behind him also acclaimed: "That's right, just like this police officer said, Oxford is like this." ”

"Where did you graduate?"

"Me?" The gentleman in the back row patted his chest and said proudly: "Cambridge." ”

Elder on the side was about to answer, but before he could speak, he found that the originally noisy venue suddenly fell silent.

Everyone looked up, and at some point there was a middle-aged gentleman on the podium, wearing a bright red bow tie, a white shirt, and a neat dark black suit.

Under his command, the staff of the Royal Society were carrying the experimental equipment that would be used for the upcoming speech.

In the quiet hall, I don't know who shouted: "Mr. Faraday, I will always support you!" ”

When the gentleman on the stage heard this, he couldn't help but blush, showing a shy smile, and he waved his hand to the audience kindly.

It was good that he didn't wave, and Faraday waved his hand, and the hall immediately burst into thunderous applause and cheers.

Seeing this, Elder couldn't help but sigh: "Oh my God! My cousin really didn't lie to me, Michael Faraday is the most popular scientist in the Royal Society! Look at the ladies, all of them standing up and applauding his accomplishments. ”

Arthur stared at Faraday for a long time before shaking his head: "I think it's probably not just a matter of scientific achievement, even if he is just his appearance and demeanor, he is enough to outperform most of the men present."

However, meeting him here really gave me a sense of fantasy, after all, the last time I saw him was in a textbook. ”

Elder was surprised: "Do you still teach chemistry in your history department?" ”

Arthur shook his head: "I didn't study it in college, I studied it in middle school." ”

Elder touched his head: "Is your Yorkshire secondary education so up to date?" Our middle school there still teaches some grammar, rhetoric and so on. Arthur, it's no wonder you can become a police inspector at such a young age, science is such a good thing. ”

The Red Devil Agareth squatted on the back of Arthur's chair and said with a wicked smile: "Arthur, do you envy this Faraday? Don't worry, as long as you listen to me, you can be like him in the future. ”

As soon as Agareth finished speaking, Faraday stood on the podium.

He cleared his throat, and his not-so-large but clear, magnetic voice rang out in the quiet hall, just as he had done.

"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen."

As soon as Faraday finished speaking, the audience erupted in applause.

As soon as Farah raised his hand, the applause immediately stopped, and he smiled and said, "I know that many of you probably think that I still have to talk about chemistry today. But unfortunately, today may be about to disappoint you.

In fact, a few years ago, I was assigned by my mentor, Sir Humphrey David, to pursue a career in the field of electricity. It's just that because of my stupidity, I haven't achieved anything in recent years, so I don't dare to appear on the podium as an electrical researcher.

However, from today, all this is different. I'm about to present to you for the first time my latest research on the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction! ”