Chapter 15: Chapter 18 : Nobles and desserts
Rawls listened quietly, nodding from time to time in agreement, without interrupting Delia's story.
Delia continued to introduce:
"Mr. Norman, 55 years old, once served the Pringle family and was the housekeeper of Earl Pringle. Because of a conflict with the eldest son of Earl Pringle, Viscount Murray, he chose to leave. He is the Lord of the Storm. A shallow believer, there is no problem with character, and his political leaning is also Conservative, and his salary is 110 pounds."
Conflict with his future master should be related to management. It seems that this Viscount Murray does not want Mr. Norman to continue to be his housekeeper. This kind of thing often happens when the title is inherited, but it always ends when the housekeeper leaves voluntarily. Even the most favored housekeeper, there is no close relationship that comes from flesh and blood.
Although Delia calls Murray a viscount, he does not have a title. His father was both an earl and a viscount, but he passed the viscount title to his eldest son, Murray Pringle.
In the Loen Kingdom, a person can be granted multiple titles at the same time. Earls, marquis, dukes may also be barons or viscounts at the same time, and even dukes may also be earls at the same time, and they will transfer their lower titles to the eldest son and Heir meaning.
And if the eldest son is not transferred to the title, it means that the status of the heir is unstable, and he can only be called a lord like his other brothers, of course, it is limited to dukes and marquis.
Because even if the sons of dukes and marquises do not inherit the title, they can still rise to high positions by virtue of their family connections, such as Prime Minister Aguchid.
Of course, sometimes the son of the earl can also be, and now the Loen Kingdom's highest naval commander in the Central Sunia Sea, Admiral Amelius Levitt, and his younger brother Oravi's governor, Auston Levitt. Their father was an earl, but the title was inherited by their eldest brother, Aldridge Leavitt, a member of the House of Lords.
After the introduction, Delia handed out the stack of documents and said:
"Mr. Adrian, who do you want to choose?"
Rawls pondered for a few seconds, then said with a smile:
"Well, let the two of them come to my place at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, I will meet with them, have a talk, and finally make a decision."
He knows that similar associations do not provide accommodation, but are purely intermediaries. Even if he decides the candidate now, he will not be able to see his butler until the afternoon or tomorrow. What's more, he needs to learn more about it and choose the one who is more suitable for his intentions. Now it's all just paper materials, it's more appropriate to meet each other.
"No problem." Delia smiled, "What's your address?"
Rawls could finally drink the cup of Marquis black tea with lemon slices. He took a sip from the white-glazed porcelain teacup with gold slices, and finally neutralized the bitter taste of Palmer.
"45 Gatton Street, West End."
After Delia wrote it down, she stood up and said:
"You also need to pay a deposit of two pounds."
Rawls took out his wallet from his trench coat pocket, and took out two £1 notes with the portrait of William Augustus VI from it.
After Delia received the money, she went to the front desk to register.
Rawls drank a few more sips of black tea, chatted a few words with Beileen, who was still sitting on the long sofa, and agreed to get up and say goodbye after meeting at St. Samuel's Church in the evening.
Delia and Beileen kept him outside the door and watched him board the carriage.
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Rawls, who was sitting in the carriage, took out his pocket watch and opened it with a tap, only to find that it was almost eleven o'clock, and he was a little hungry again.
The breakfast in the Ruen Kingdom is not only simple, but it is also difficult to supply the energy for a normal man to work for a morning. There is also a historical reason for this. Before Roselle started the Industrial Revolution, middle-class men didn't have to work all day, so there was no breakfast in the Loen Kingdom.
Even now, many nobles are gradually getting used to eating breakfast, but the types of breakfast are still the same. But there are many old-fashioned people who keep the tradition of thinking that nobles don't need to eat breakfast, that they belong to the middle class and only need wage slaves. In order to express their disdain, they are not even willing to sit down while eating.
In order to prevent the waiting time from being too long, and he couldn't help himself, Rawls simply asked Fitch, the coachman, to drive to Lapori now.
The head chef of La Borre Restaurant is said to have come from Earl Hall's house, providing rich people, barristers, and senior government employees with aristocratic flavors that are usually difficult to touch. This restaurant specializes in local Backlund dishes and is very famous for its desserts.
Sometimes when the predecessor was too busy to choose lunch, he would go to La Borre with his trainee lawyer or the waiter in the firm to buy a few desserts for afternoon tea.
As for this is the first time, Rawls only hopes that the chefs here only have the craftsmanship of the noble family, and not learn the bad atmosphere of the noble dessert banquet.
The predecessor used to follow his father Mason Adrian to attend a Viscount's birthday banquet, and everything was fine until the dessert banquet. The most important thing in Loen's dessert feast is not desserts, but sugar sculptures. The significance of these candy sculptures is mainly for entertainment, and some of them are not even edible at all.
The sugar sculpture at the Viscount's birthday banquet was even more "amazing". The sugar sculpture his dessert cook made for this Viscount was "the Viscount accepts everyone's birthday wishes". UU reading www.uukanshu.com
The whole sugar sculpture is almost without sugar, it is carved from plaster and wood, and then dyed with different colors of syrup. What's more important is that the sugar sculptures in general dessert banquets are to be broken, and this can't be broken at all, and no one dares to break it.
This candy sculpture directly shocked the gentlemen and ladies present, but the back is even more wonderful. The viscount asked the servant to serve two large plates covered by the cover of the dining plate, and asked people to guess what food was inside, but no one guessed at all.
One of the lids was lifted, and a few frogs jumped out, causing the ladies present to scream and jump; while the other lid was lifted first, and a few birds flew out.
This scene of birds flying and frogs jumping made the whole hall "very lively", crying out to the sky. In the end, the viscount was impeached by many members of the House of Commons because of this matter, and was then demoted to a baron by George III.
Rawls didn't want to spend money, so he bought a bunch of candy sculptures that could only be seen but not eaten.
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The carriage was driven fast by Fitch, and it was not yet the lunch break, so there were not many pedestrians on the road. In addition, although the "Metropolitan Helping Domestic Servants Association" is located in the Chorwood area, it is very close to the Lapori restaurant in the Hillston area. In less than 20 minutes, Rolls has arrived at the Lapori restaurant.
He jumped out of the carriage and walked to the door. While Rawls handed the trench coat, hat, and cane to a waiter in a red vest and white shirt, he asked him:
"At this time, it shouldn't take a long time."
"Not at this time." The red vest waiter obviously knew that his restaurant was very popular, and asked humbly, "Sir, do you have only one?"
Rollsstein nodded, smiled and said:
"Yes."
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