CH 122

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After reading The Elegant Lady’s Evening, Il Valeno went to the garden feeding station and picked up one of the feathers of a small bird that had just been shed.

Taking a small hidden knife from his waist belt, he shaved off the feather branch.

The floppy, colored feather fell off, leaving only a thin, white shaft in Il Valeno’s hand.

Holding it up to the sun, he spun it around and shaved off the remaining shavings.

Finally, the feather was smooth and clean. Nodding his head in satisfaction, Il Valeno rolled it around in his hand and returned to the mansion.

When he returned to Diana’s room, she was writing a letter.

It was a letter to her brother, Cain, who was studying abroad.

“Even close friends have manners. Even if it’s a letter to your relatives, follow the protocol.”

With that, she writes under the watchful eye of her tutor, Cyrus, who is in charge of training her.

“Cyrus, I’m sure my brother will read my letter as he wants to know what’s going on with me as soon as possible. If I write a lengthy greeting like this, won’t it make him feel uncomfortable? Wouldn’t it be strange if I were to make the recipient feel uncomfortable?”

Diana is asking Cyrus a question with a straight face.

She was asking the question as if it were a legitimate question, but Il Valeno was listening to her, thinking that she was simply having trouble writing the usual greetings.

“Cain will be delighted just to see the letters that Diana has written. The more words, the more pleasure. Long, useless greetings are the best way to make up the number of words, so don’t bother writing them.”

“I see.”

Diana was convinced and went back to the letter-writing process “Letter Greetings”.

Diana was satisfied, but Il Valeno had a number of points in his mind that made him think, “What the heck?”

Cyrus threw a glance toward Il Valeno, who was standing by the door.

“I’m available if you have any questions.”

“Are you sure?”

I have a few classes that Diana and I are allowed to take together, but not the discipline classes. He said he would answer questions from Il Valeno, who was not even a student.

“Among the servants, those who work close to the master may also write letters on their behalf. It is good to learn how to write letters. It is a chance to write letters to people who are not offended by ill-mannered and rude letters. If you like, I can write your letter too.”

Saying this, Cyrus took two sheets of white letter paper and put them on the low table. Then he turned his hand to the sofa and gestured Il Valeno to sit down.

“You said that the doctor was wasting his time with long greeting letters and other word-counting stuff…..”

“Yes, the greeting in the letter is a long and useless word-counting exercise. The longer they are, the more aristocratic they are praised.”

“Why is that?”

Il Valeno sat down and picked up the two sheets of letterhead in front of him and looked at Cyrus.

Cyrus nodded lightly as he put his hand to his chin.

“First of all, it is considered impolite to end a letter with a single sheet of letterhead. There is an option to finish the requirements on one sheet and include an extra blank sheet, but that is considered a last resort and not smart.”

“It is impolite to use only one piece of paper…”

“Nobles are proud, and they don’t want to be thought of as stingy for sending only one piece of paper.”

“Is that the reason?”

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Cyrus stood behind Diana and watched her flip through the greeting book. He nodded once to Diana, who was seriously selecting one and looked again at Il Valeno.

“Greetings, etc. Good morning in the morning. Good morning in the morning, good afternoon in the afternoon, good evening in the evening, good night in the evening. Good evening and good night. That’s all right. But then, ‘Maybe you don’t have a big enough vocabulary to say hello?’ ‘Maybe you’re not educated enough.’ ‘Don’t you think I’m not worthy of greeting you?’ So, I greet them with a few words.”

“So people will be insulted if you greet them easily?”

“In reality, few people would feel that way. It is the problem of the person who greets the other person.”

“Are you saying that you do this because you feel safer if you greet people in a more respectful manner?”

“That’s right. You are very quick to understand.”

Cyrus looked again at Diana. She was reading the greeting card with great concentration.

When he looked closely, he saw that she was not reading the contents of the book, but rather counting the number of words.

Diana was looking at the book with her head down, and her eyelashes were casting shadows around her eyes.

Seeing this, Il Valeno remembered what she was about to do.

Ill Valeno stood up without a sound and walked to Diana’s side, his presence gone.

He plucked the feather shaft in his hand between his fingers and gently placed it on Diana’s eyelashes.

“I’m on it…….”

“Nnnghhhh …… Five”

After Il Valeno mumbled a thought, I heard a voice erupt from behind me. I turned to see Cyrus, who had been peering at Diana through Il Valeno, with a balled fist on his mouth and one eyebrow raised.

A feather shaft fell from Diana’s eyelashes as she looked up, recognizing the voice, and rolled across the desk with a clonk.

“What are you doing? Both of you.”

Diana stares at them lightly with a dubious look on her face. Il Valeno picked up the rolling feather shaft and looked into Diana’s eyes with a smile.

“Miss Diana, you are qualified to be a noblewoman, aren’t you?”

“Kifujin.. what?”

‘Hahaha”

In the background, Cyrus is holding back a laugh.

Cyrus, who always keeps a straight face and never loses facial expression, holds his hand over his mouth and shakes his shoulders.

Diana’s cheeks puff up when she sees Il Valeno and Cyrus, who doesn’t usually laugh, laughing.

“Oh my God! What? You two are smiling at each other! It’s not fair! Tell Di about it!”

In “The Evening of the Elegant Lady,” which Il Valeno read at Diana’s request, there is a scene in which the perfect maid of honor trims the princess’s eyelashes.

The scene describes how the princess’s eyelashes are so long that they cast shadows over her eyes, and how they curl naturally and color her eyes even without much work.

“My wife and daughter have been reading ‘Your Ladyship’s Evening’. You read it, too?”

“Yes, I did. Yes, I read it, but only up to the middle. It’s full of adjectives, ornaments, and so on, and I got tired of reading it all the time.”

Cyrus nodded gently at Il Valeno’s words, then turned to Diana and gave her a serious look.

“Lady Diana liked to read books, didn’t she? Please read half of “The Evening of the Elegant Lady” …no, just the first three stories. There are a lot of aristocratic word counts in the book. If you are patient, by the time you finish reading the whole book, you may get used to the useless word-counting and find it useful for letter-writing.”

“I’m going to read it because both you and the teacher say it’s interesting. Il, lend it to me later.”

“Yes, I will bring it to your room.”

While bowing to Diana, Il Valeno was strangely satisfied with the contents of the book, which was difficult to read, wondering if it was a waste of words after all.