Chapter 54 (1/2)
The next day, Anna had to go to aunt tyrier's with her brother and them.
She didn't like the aunt very much, but she wasn't loved very much.
Like this lady, Anna knows that she praises her only because she has a family name in her blood, not the excellence of her niece.
So when Anna kisses her aunt on the cheek, she suspects that she is kissing a mask, not a human face.
”I'm happy for you, skilvard. The inheritance of the o'bronsky family needs your wife to give you more children.” Madame tiriere's calm voice was like a cold wind.
When she saw Tao Li's stomach, she pulled a reserved and noble smile on her face.
But the smile had nothing to do with warmth, and she nodded as if the o'bronsky family would welcome another newcomer, not because her nephew and niece's daughter-in-law would have their first child, just like a furry little thing.
The brother and sister winked at each other and kept snickering, until Madame tiriere looked at them, and then shut up in terror.
”And you, my dear?” Madame tiriere laid her eyes on Anna, then looked down a little, and looked at Anna's stomach.
It's embarrassing.
Anna instinctively wanted to wriggle, but her reason restrained her and answered her aunt's questions with a proper smile and a respectful tone.
”There's no news yet, but I'll remember.”
Madame tiriere nodded, and she said something else, but between the lines she conveyed a message to these young people, not to disgrace the o'bronsky family.
Later, after lunch, Anna and they all went to their respective rooms to rest.
Although aunt tyrier was not very close to them, only poor families would not keep rooms for the younger generation.
This big house is really desolate, although luxurious, but lifeless.
Anna missed the afternoon tea time with the cooks, who always had a lot of witticism.
Not long after she sat down, the door was knocked.
Anna opened the door and saw that it was Tao Li, whose face was worried.
”What's the matter? Tao Li. ”
She opened her mouth, hesitated, and finally said, ”I heard from skyward that Alexei had been dropped out of school and they were not going to pick him up.”
Anna knows Alexei, though she hasn't seen a real person.
It was her cousin's illegitimate son, and a maid's child before his cousin married his sister-in-law. Besides, there is another reason why she cares.
Aunt tyrier was very angry, but the child was a boy and of o'bronsky's blood, so she expelled the child's mother. But she could not accept that a foreign inferior gene had polluted the blood of o'bronsky, so she did not pay attention to this child.
After he could go to boarding school, he was sent over, and he was not allowed to come back easily.
”But he is only fourteen years old, and he is still a child.” Anna said in some surprise, and then she calmed down.
”What did skyward say?”
”He wants to go, but I'm afraid...” Tao Li didn't go on. Anna knew her concerns. Their cousins are not easy to get along with.
”Where's your aunt?”
”She seems to have forgotten about it.” Tao Li sighed.
”Probably not.” Anna said, then thought, ”let me go.”
”But...”
Anna patted dolly on the arm and said, ”I'll go.”
Anna cleaned up. She said a few words to skyward, and then went to her cousin, who was also there. What were the twins doing.
She went over and tried to kiss the children with a smile, but she was dodged and made a face at her.
”Children are not sensible and a little afraid of strangers, Anna. Don't mind. ” Sister in law said with a smile, a white face expression is really uncomfortable.
”Of course not.” Anna decided not to care or to beat around the Bush, then put on a smiling face: ”I was just about to tell you something.”
”What's the matter?”
The other side is suspicious. A sharp one was raised.
Anna said, ”I heard that Alexei was coming back. Although I knew that my cousin would go to pick him up, you must have planned that, but I haven't seen the child for a long time, so I wanted to say, let me pick him up.”
The cousin's face was a little ugly.
”Do you still decide to pick up the child yourself?” Anna asked cautiously
”Of course I think so, but I'm always willing to help you, my dear.” She said with a smile.
Anna smiles. ”I knew you would agree.”
After leaving the room, Anna quickened her pace. She knew that, according to her character, she would go to her aunt later, but on the whole, aunt Terrier would not blame her.Unwillingness is one thing, but the obronski family cannot be another Moscow joke.
Anna felt a little heavy at the thought.
As a woman, she would sympathize with each other, but in fact, her prejudice against her cousin made it impossible for her to ignore the child like her aunt and family.
She took a carriage to the Moscow railway station, and made the coachman faster along the way, but arrived a little late.
By this time the crowd was much less, and Anna soon found Alexei, with his servants nearby.
Both the master and the servant were very thin, and the servant was not old enough. They were clearly two and a half year old children.
It was Alexei in the White Gold uniform, and Anna seemed to know why aunt tyrier didn't like the child so much.
Unlike the traditional black hair of the o'bronsky family, the child has pure blonde hair. His pale gray eyes and pale skin make him look very thin.
He can hardly find the shadow of the o'bronsky family in him. Both Anna and skyward belong to the healthy type, and there is not much anger in the child.
The unhealthy look is quite different from Aunt tyrier's efforts to make the o'bronsky family flourish.
Anna pauses for a moment, then comes forward and shouts, ”Alexei.”
The young man turned his head, and his half long golden hair almost covered his eyes, showing only his thin eyelids.
”Aunt Anna.” Alexei whispered, the voice of the child in the transformation period is somewhat astringent.
Anna kisses the child on the cheek and the valet says hello to her.
”Let's go home.” Anna said with a smile. She took Alexey's hand, but the latter was stunned. She raised her thin eyelids. Her eyelashes were slightly drooping, and her pupils were clear, but the pale gray pupils seemed to be full of melancholy.
These are the eyes.
Anna gives a soothing smile, and she pinches each other's hands.
The young man's heart vibrated, but in the end she followed Anna back without saying a word.
It was quiet at the long table at night.
Originally, it was quiet, but at the moment, there are more emotions similar to resentment.
Alexei did not eat in the kitchen like a servant. He still had the treatment that a noble young master should have in his family.
But judging from his reticent character and pale face, it was not warm that the family gave him.