Chapter 51: The Feelings of Two People
48, 49, 50, 51 >>281867887
Greetings OP
>>281947584Hi OP
>>281947603>>281947614Meido!
Hey OP
>>281947631Only a woman could've drawn this page
>>281947634Heyo
>>281947631>>281947647for the love of God have sex already. MARRY AND REPRODUCE
>>281947714moist
>>281947846The Forgotten.
>>281947918fuck off Viviwhole chapter ruined
>>281947918I swear she didn't always look this young
>>281948038>William mindbroke Eleanor so hard she's institutionalising herself What a man he is
>>281948050I can see why Monica married him
>>281948070I'll miss her fringe
>>281948101This bitch Sure it's not quite the same as not wanting a paper perfect marriage so you can shack up with a maid, but this has ruined my largely neutral opinion of Grace
And that's it. Her smile is restored.Do you stick up for your friends for doing dumb shit?
>>281948135This kid is getting taken for rides left, right and centre
>>281948145cute!>>281948160Thanks, OP. The FUCK is a flen?
>>281948145Good.
>>281948160Thanks OP Sometimes the friendliest thing you can do is telling someone to stop being an idiot. Unless you mean defending them to others, in which case yes, that's different
>>281947631Oh my>>281948050Lmao>>281948160Glad she got a good ending at leastYes, but if it's detrimental to them I will let them know what I thinkThanks as always OP!
>>281947714My mom once told me that the secret to a happy relationship is blowjobs
>>281948360what if I prefer paizuri
>>281947967>pfft the viscount a shit, bro
>>281947584>Chapter 51>>281947587>48, 49, 50, 51
>>281948360There's a song for children about that.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2yOYIof8EA&list=RDe2yOYIof8EA&start_radio=1
>>281947714EMMA NO NOT IN FRONT OF THE IN-LAWS
>>281948050Monica is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but her husband is an outright imbecile.They better not breed...
Did Hakim just leave after brnging them back on his boat? Bro come back. >>281948605They don't need children, they seem to have adopted 3 little girls.
>>281948496You're stuck in a time loop, dude.
>>281948049It really is just a resort that she goes off to stay at though
>>281947885I choose to take him not cutting Will out as tacitly admitting he's right, but he just has to be a cunt about it
>>281948496lmao OP is so dumb, he is really dumb, for real
>>281948496heh, classic OP
>>281948496about what
>>281948070Such a loyal servant.Annie is probably the best friend Eleanor has.
>>281947935She's smol when standing in front of her father.
>>281947587Sex? Right there in the entryway?
>>281948049Maybe she actually realized the whole lot of them are treating her like a fucking football so she's using it as an excuse to take her maidbro and fuck off from everything
>>281947918Rare Vivi not polishing railings with her derriere
>>281948003>>281948016Best siscon
>>281948135>Colin would go on to be the most successful businessman of his family line
>>281948145Very cute.She should get a top hat though. It would look stunning on her when she's older.
>>281949320Imagine Vivi polishing my cock with her derriere
My little sister is so fucking cute
>>281949694Your little sister is my little wife
>>281949694Mini-Relena
>>281947631Oh, my.
>>281947714It'd be really hot if he came on her glasses.
>>281949755You treat her well or I'll box your ears!
>>281949755She better behave or I'll box her ears!
>>281948135Whenever this little cherub appears, my senses become overwhelmed and my mind loses any semblance of coherence. How can such adorableness exist in this disgusting world? The very thought of Colin ever encountering any harm at all greatly distresses me. Therefore, I must take him with me and fake his death or something of that sort, in order to ensure that he will never get entangled in the ensuing war.
>>281950267>>281950363Don't worry, dear brothers. Vivi is such a cute little wife and we take care of each other very intimately. She loves it when I box her cranny.
>>281948135>William married a pleb>Arthur is Oxfordsexual>Colin will die in the warwhat now for the Jones family
>>281951007Colin will [spoiler die in a gas attack that will melt his lungsAs he drowns in his own fluids he will remember the times when his family treated him like garbage and wonder why he was born.[/spoiler]
which way, maid-loving Victorian man?>Emma>Tasha>Polly>Alma>Adele>Maria (lol)
>>281951007Vivi will have to bring it back.
>>281947935How can someone so small be so angry all the time
>>281951185Tasha
>>281951185Alma is slept on. Not as autistically serious as Adele but still stern enough to be a perfect Victorian maid/mistress
>>281951185Shirley
>>281947901What about Grace's friendship with Eleanor?
>>281951196And I'll help
>>281948070>>281948085servant sticking with his master beyond his duties is my favorite trope
>>281947918>>281947935Vivi looks extra tiny next to her father. He must be a tall man.
>>281947967based ladprobably killed a few Boers
>>281953490Vivi is a small girl
>>281951185Maria 100%
>>281947768Remind me, has Aurelia moved back to London or is she still in Yorkshire?
>>281953557Vivi’s bloomers must be extra small sized
>>281948135Mark my words. Colin may be a timid boy now but he will grow into a fine young man.
>>281953702why.
>>281951185Mori
>>281954044Sluts like maria will give you the best time.
>>281927002Was reminded from >>281953806post but underwear is really important to consider with female characters. Panties represents a girls personality a lot and should be considered whenever you are designing a character.
>>281948145I'm liking the shift of William making little girls happy. Now he just needs to make things right with this flower girl.
>>281954459William loves little girls!
>>281954459She probably died or something
>>281954459Probably died of starvation or of being beaten for not selling enough flowers. >>281954654This
>>281954459Flower Girl would later join a revolutionary party wanting to bring down the aristocratic class.
I hope you guys haven't been pronouncing viscount like 'vis-count'
>>281953806>>281954453Vivi wears kuma panties
>>281947610>got back his topper just so it could dramatically fall off in the embreaceMori, you saucy minx.>>281948070LOYALTY! I love to see it.
>>281954946In an ideal world yes but I don’t think those exist yet
>>281954935In this instance I've been pronouncing it as 'dickhead'
I want to marry Kaoru Mori
>>281947731finally
>>281948605I'd say he's kindly letting old man Campbell save face for being such a faggot to him by looking at it positively instead, maybe.
>>281954459William and Emma must start an organization to save all flower girls.
>>281948160Thanks, anonsito.
>>281953903Yeah, the courage he mustered up after his eldest brother told him he may have to become man of the house shows he's got the potential for it. Maybe he'll get to be an officer for the war and keep himself and his men from going over the top to die for nothing.
>>281947731You can't just suddenly make a woman stupidly horny and then propose to her. That's like a flower girl dragging you into an alley, sucking you off, and then asking if you'll buy her flowers right before you're about to cum.
>>281956052There's no way a flower girl can drag you into an alley. If you ended up there, you chose to be there.
>>281948160Depends on the dumb shit. I once caused a friend to go for a relationship he was going to avoid, because the girl was another friend's little sister, by telling him he was being a "dumb faggot" and that his previous girl troubles were mostly do to his love/lust for high school girls while this girl was closer to our ages, early 20s, while he had stupidly built up a retard superstition where he blamed it on the girls all being blonds, with this girl also being blond, and that if he liked her the other friend could deal with it. They're now married and have one son.
>>281956052>That's like a flower girl dragging you into an alley, sucking you off, and then asking if you'll buy her flowers right before you're about to cum.Am I meant to say no?
>>281955943He will die together with his men after leading the charge he knows is doomed, but they have no choice, as in war those in cozy chairs sacrifice the men of their generation to the mud and mustard in the name of 'honor'.
>>281955943It's either they go over the top, they get shot by blocking detachments for refusing to obey commands, or they get the firing squad for insubordination after a military trial
>>281951740She's Edwardian not Victorian. Luckily she and Miss Bennett should be safe from any real troubles during the war at least.
>>281956122Well sure, but she's clearly manipulating you to give her your wallet, much like getting Emma soaked and then asking her to marry you.>>281956203>Am I meant to say no?Of course not. But if you do say no, she'll start using her teeth. Choose wisely with that information.
>>281956226>>281956286Ever seen Blackadder Goes Forth? With the guy who would later be doomed to be Mr Bean for eternity? Colin can try some of the ideas from that, and probablyend up like the ending from it too but a man can hope for a good kid to make it out safe. J.R.R Tolkien managed to not die despite all the suffering after all.
>>281956448He'll be fucked up either way. I've been reading a lot of books on everest and exploration in the post war era in general and almost every single one of these guys got fucked in the head hard by that war. Colin is screwed.
>>281947714talk about shameless.>>281948101>>281948119this fucker wants to give lesson to others when he acted like a retard and a piece of shit since the start of this story.
>>281933966>its not like the west makes shows or books or comics about japan.the fuck did anon mean by this?
>>281956602He's a tard who's never heard of books like Shogun, or operas like Madame Butterfly, or cartoons like Kappa Mikey.
>>281948605Nah, he's being kind.
>>281954935Haha of course not. We all know how to pronounce it...
>>281948145Nice her smile is restored. William is a nice guy>>281948160Yes nothing egregious but it usually becomes a running joke within the friend group. Thanks btw
>>281956356>Choose wisely with that information.Anon, if flower purchases came with complementary middle schooler blowjobs, I'd be a regular customer
Do you like William now?
>>281957425No. He can't make it up to poor Ele.
>>281954255and std.
>>281957540At least we know she bathes.
>>281954935I've been saying 'vis-cunt' personally
>>281949534I don't know why but this made me roar with laugher
>>281957425I never stopped
>>281951185it's pretty much Polly yeahcheck out this original ink I purchased a few days ago, nothing to do with Emma I just love this time setting that much
>>281957647actually it's vice-cunt
She's TOO cute
>>281957788It's strange that they have vice-cunts but not the actual cunts themselves
>>281955878She is a big believer in education, as is her brother in-law. Some sort of scholarship foundation, or apprenticeship placement testing.
>>281948145>Hat girl becomes doll girlWell that ruined my fantasy>>281948160Thanks for the dump OPUsually it's me doing the dumb shit
>>281949578>She should get a top hat though. It would look stunning on her when she's older.I think Mori would agree.>>281958522>Well that ruined my fantasyThere's always imagination.
>>281958796
>>281948135Does Colin ever speak in the manga?
>>281958817The timeline where she keeps the hat and gets taken in by a legalist house>>281958796Big Carmen Santiago vibes
>>281958891He will.
>>281957735>original inkby mori?
>>281948050Seeing this makes me think that I find a weak man like Monica's husband more unbearable to watch than an arrogant, spiteful man like the viscount.
>>281955943>>281956226He will survive but not before he shoots Erich who was forced to join the German side by his father out of national pride, even though Vivi is waiting for him back home with their child. Vivi will never forgive him for this.
>>281959260god no, just some illustrator who lives in my town
>>281953794Still hanging out in the boonies, yeah
>>281947930>after all, matters of the heart are outside the scope of human intellectan amusing line if you read his later appearance at the club as indicating his "confirmed bachelor"-ness. Though it's only an amusing interpretation of that scene, there's no particular reason to think he's gay in general.
>>281958796Truly, Mori is a genius among geniuses
>>281954459This panel showed his development quite well..Asking a dirt poor flower girl for help and then not even buying a flower from her to allow her to afford a meal was an absolute asshole move.If Emma had seen him then, she'd have dumped him and there would be no story at all.
>>281954935No."viscunt"
>>281957863It implies that there is an even bigger cunt somewhere out there, which is hardly believable.
>>281951185AnnieShe's fiercly loyal to her mistress and really seems to love the girl, yet she never forgets her station and always acts respectfully and calls her "Miss".
>>281954935More like Discount lmao
if only william was a thricecount...
>>281960291"The discount viscount"Would be a fine name for a crappy dollar store with an owner with a giant ego...
>>281955439Too late, she would've "educated" some other virile Japanese male assistant who can draw by now >>257807175
>>281948082Say what you want, he's still a a ten times better husband than Monicas father is to her mother.
>>281948143I mean, it also killed her friendship with Eleanor, and potentially many others.
>>281867887Yeah, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been translated into Japanese: https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E9%8A%80%E6%B2%B3%E3%83%92%E3%83%83%E3%83%81%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89-%E6%B2%B3%E5%87%BA%E6%96%87%E5%BA%AB-%E3%83%80%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%80%E3%83%A0%E3%82%B9/dp/4309462553I don't know how famous it is over there, but it is true that a lot of famous American sci-fi/fantasy got translated and was read by young nerds back in the day. Haigo Moto has an entire collection of adaptations she's done of Bradbury stories. And of course there was that movie a few years back.
>>281961328Strange post
>>281948050>girlboss dyke marries spineless morontale as old as time
>>281961328"No sexual depictions" my ass, Mori
>>281947714Meido broken!
>>281954459It's okay if you remember correctly she joined the harem of daughter wives
>>281947714>literally made her weak at the knees
>>281947631Hope you guys learn from this. Start by teasing her neck then her ears before going in for the kiss.
>>281964859> Yes. Good. Nibbling the earlobe, uhh, kneading the buttocks, and so on and so forth. So, we have all these possibilities before we stampede towards the clitoris, Watson.
>>281948145I'm impressed that I got so invested in this little side story about a girl and a hat.
>>281948143>Ruins her relationship with her best friend>"Damn, why is she upset?"
>>281961950It's been translated to a lot of languages, it's a famous book
>>281951185I have a soft spot for Nanette the thief, liar and love victim from the anime.
She sip
>>281950833If only he had a giant robot to keep him safe.
>>281950833Based
>>281947584no
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jones_(mathematician)>William Jones, FRS [...] was a Welsh mathematician best known for his use of the symbol π (the Greek letter Pi) to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jones_(philologist)>Sir William Jones FRS FRAS FRSE [...] was a British scholar and judge. Born in Westminster, London to Welsh mathematician William Jones, he moved to the Bengal Presidency where Jones served as a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William and also became a scholar of ancient Indian history. As part of his research, he was the first to assert the kinship of the Indo-European languages.damn he's been busy hasn't he
>>281970295>your only legacy as a mathematician is being remembered as the first one to use a certain greek symbolI'd be rolling in my grave.
>>281970754Are you joking? Being known as THE guy who coined the term for pi has to be amazing. Every single day for the rest of time, humanity is using what you gave them
>>281970807And there are people who'd love to ruin that by arguing for the use of tau = 2pi in its place.
>>281970807Nah it's a circumstantial contribution at best. Anyone important at the time when these values were being symbolised would've influenced it just by virtue of being at the right place at the right time. It seems he was quite chummy with Newton too which makes it even more unimpressive.
>>281971155Contribution is contribution. You're forgetting that 99.99% of mathematicians are forgotten
>>281971373I guess you're right but I think most mathematicians would rather be remembered for the things they put actual work into.
>>281971452Yeah, shame the guy is only remembered for choosing the symbol for one of the most foundational aspects of mathematics
Its pronounced Vis a cunt
>>281971498It's like being remembered primarily for coining the term "manga".
>>281971769your image is very fitting. most know who hokusai is, but few know he only did the designs and never carved or pressed his woodblocks. his editors usually changed some things around like in this case the dark band highlighting mr. fuji, which wasn't present in earlier prints. being known for something centuries later is pretty hard.
>>281971769Tsukushi doesn't mind that honor
>>281951185Tasha. She's the cutest maid.
>>281965878Not even the slightest bit related to the point I made
>>281973816William deserves all the scorn he gets from Grace.
>>281947631SCANDALOUS!
>>281947584Final Chapter: The Blessed Flowers
>>281977367Hi OP
>>281977370>>281977375>>281977384Hiya
>>281977472Our guy
oh god Vivi is gonna ruin the whole chapter
>>281977564Imagine punching Vivi in the head
>>281977564imagine removing Vivi from this manga
>>281977564>Vivi is hereChapter saved!
>>281977638>>281977656What the fuck man Worst boy
>>281977542She got Arthur. He's blushing. I was wrong he does like girls.
>>281977564Imagine making Vivi a young mother
>>281977638>>281977656Go Hakim, shoot your shot. India sequel when?
>>281977708>everyone knows
>>281977602Cucked already?
>>281977723I can't help but feel like Emma's ended up a bit of a non-character to a degree
>>281977564Still a child and already a classist cunt.
>>281977769based
>>281977791They don't make breasts like this anymore
>>281977818ruined
>>281977818Eh
>>281977861Maid and glasses outfit is better
>>281977872Something something Freud
>>281977902wew
>>281977935Awwwww
>>281977935someone edited her glasses in
>>281977950And bow.
>>281977861It looks better in other pages but this shot makes her hair look like Marge Simpson. Also not a fan of the poofy shoulders.
>>281977967MOOOOOOOOOORIIIIIIIIIIIIII
And that's it. This is the end of the main storyline but not the end of Emma. The manga continues with few more volumes of side stories. So, what did you think of their romance?
>>281977997Cute detailed Mori I love her
>>281977950>The endI can't believe it's fucking over>>281977967yo Mori!>>281978022Thanks, OP. something something greatest love story ever told
>>281978022Thanks OP Very, very sweet before the drama, then William did some fucked shit but ultimately I'm happy for them
>>281977769Cute>>281977818Eh...>>281978022Looking forward to seeing the rest, it's a great mangaI enjoyed it Thanks as always OP!
>>281977619>>281977638>>281977656>>281977674What an NTRchad
>>281978012Hm, Hakim/Arthur...
Very serious when I say that Mori was best girl
>>281977687>>281977708Christ, Grace, you disappoint me more every chapter.
>>281978155You're not wrong
>>281977836Once a flower girl, always a flower girl..
>>281978022Better than Eleanor's crush
>>281977902>>281977915Uh, blue board?
>>281977564God I love Vivi so much
>>281977988I'll take both of those girls for myself
>>281977988Choose, anon
>>281977459Wasn't there an anon that hoped for this guy to be faced with the ultimate success of William and Emma's love? Well, there you go.
>>281978022>So, what did you think of their romance?Hakim waiting in the wings will keep William on edge to make sure he pleases and treats Emma properly.
>>281977818>removes glasses>gets cuterEvery time
>>281977638>pls can have bobs and vageneIndian to the core
>>281977459A man who realises he should have tried to go for the widow he had loved for decades.
>>281977564Shut up and stop filling Colin's head with false ideas.
>>281978022Thanks, OP.That was a great read.I only knew Emma from cosplay pictures, and imagined the basic storyline.I wasn't wrong in my guess, but the actual thing was far better. It was the little things and the side characters that make this so great.As this story lives from its side characters, I'm looking forward to the side stories.
One last panel to steal the show. She's so cute. The idea that she's been filling Collin's head with stories of Emma being a temptress is so adorableI love Vivi so very much
>>281977638>Jeet>sex pest
>>281978450..though I must say that seeing Colin try and fail to look intimidating is endearing. What he's displaying on that page is what I believe to be a core point of the appeal of shota: A boy's smallness standing in contrast to his attempts at appearing like a grown man. One might compare it to a roaring kitten.
>>281977638I knew I was right to dislike him from the start.
>>281977818Meh. My tastes might be too modern for that.
>>281978512>>281978836reminder to never trust a pajeet
Hakim did nothing wrong.
>>281977861ill be the sole person to compliment this. looking good
>>281977746Well.Her thing was that she was a good maid - one of the best. She had a bad childhood and started to flourish, when she became Kelly's maid. She was a good maid with the Mölders. To William's family (except Aurelia) she is only "the maid" even now.Now she isn't a maid anymore, s what's left of her?
>>281979217Nobody's perfect
>>281979269She's looking good, but without her glasses she isn't Emma anymore.Meganekko meido Emma.
>>281979452Soon the mother to the next Jones heir if William isn't a faggot
>>281977836>Lily of the vallleyNot again!
>>281977861>nuEmma looks completely different from the Emma on the cover
>>281977967Mori was the best girl until the end
So is this pretty much the last we see of William and Emma or do they just become side characters in the later volumes?
>>281980667We still need the wedding.
>>281977638>>281977656the real hero
>>281977564brat
>>281977638>>281977656>testing her integrity for williamhakim is a real bro
>>281977746I am pretty disappointed she isn't a maid anymore.
>>281977736i can't believe emma is fucking dead
>manga where the MC is a maid with glasses>the completion of her character development is her losing bothAnon, it's time to accept that megane and maids suck
>>281977791thank you mori
>>281977818look how they've massacred my maid... although that oh hoh hoh makes it worth it
>>281981634Man, the original version of Emma was so much more brutal. It's crazy how much they changed for the volume release.
>>281977602Hakim wait! Prima Noche is illegal now!
>>281977997Need meido
>>281977950wait WHAT? it was so short...
>>281982132It's debatable whether it existed in the first placeIt's the kind of law that the peasantry would just kill you for proposing
>>281978022maybe I've been conditioned by soap operas, but the whole thing felt pretty abrupt. I thought there was going to have many more chapters with emma as a maid and william trying to contact her.
>>281978155she is a fascinating person, it's incredible.
>>281981785
>>281982337It may or may not have been codified into law, but in practice higher status men have had first dibs on women under their rule since the beginning of time. Yeah sure occasionally a guy went full horny retard with disastrous consequences like Sextus Tarquinius, but in most cases the slave/servant/serf girl and her family had to shut up and accept his advances. If the man felt particularly generous he might arrange a match for the girl afterwards.
>>281977791>Bare shouldersmori... you better leave it at that with our Emma!!!!!!
>>281977564Imaging spanking Vivi on her bottom
>>281982334there's actually a shit load of post ending chapters lmao
>>281977988They're different people!?
waitso what happens to elanor huh...
>>281978022Thanks OP. I love this manga but I think Emma and William have the weakest on screen chemistry out of the Mori couples. It's by no means bad but Mori got so much better at writing couple interactions over time that this one feels weaker by comparison. Still one of my favourite stories that I reread every once in a while. Also I urge everyone reading it for to first time to stick around for the side stories. They're great and the finale is absolutely stellar.
>>281981931Agreed on both counts.
>>281984578We'll find out.
>>281958796Truly.
>>281977584>immediately changes his outfit
>>281984672then who are the best?
>>281977584>goes from his robes to his best suit in a single fast than the eye can see>>281977638>>281977656Will's been a cunt until like the last few months in-story and Emma is a treasure, I don't blame him in the least
>>281977736>>281977760I really want to believe his refusal to meet Emma is out of shame that he couldn't do for Aurelia what William did for her but I've got no proof
>>281977861breasts
>>281985180vivi and me
Vivi carried the manga
>>281985180The MoldersPariya and UmarThe twins and their two servantsAmir and KarlukBasically every couple in Otoyomegatari
>>281978022There wasn't actually much romance shown between William and Emma. The first chapters made me expect more. It was really a drama about the issues arising from two people from different social classes trying to marry which is great too. William's parents had more romantic chemistry in the few scenes they had when they were young in the flashbacks.
>>281978022Thanks, anonsito.
>>281985383Vivi is also carrying our first child
>>281977672Well, the closest thing he can manage to a blush.
>>281977791William would only last 2 seconds inside emma.
>>281977935>William, I can't see shit
>>281977564Colin BTFO.
>>281981438Mori really should've gone for the love triangle ending:William marries Eleanor, but takes Emma as their maid. He is all touchy-feely with her and fucks her on the side. Eleanor is jealous of the love between the two and treats Emma cruelly and with disdain. But she also uses her for her own pleasure, as the man she loves only rarely touches her.
>>281977564Colin will NTR William in the future
>>281951185Adele 100%. That said, i wouldn't be against impregnating Maria to trap her
>>281977367>Final Chapterthat was fast
>>281978022Thanks for the story OP. Overall it feels painfully short, there's still so many loose ends to tie up, mostly making sure the viscount eats a mountain of shit. Maybe there will be more someday.I guess now's a good time to confess. I'm not much into maids, I might be more about office ladies, though I feel more assured of a maid knowing how to behave.
>>281989615>Maybe there will be more somedayThere's literally 3 more volumes after this.
>>281977638she sure accepted the idea as an option fast. eleanor wins again.
>>281985180Pariya and UmarHenry and TalasMolder Family
>>281978022Emma as a romance is rough as hell. Mori in general doesn't seem to be very good at plotting, she's much better with small character moments. Which is why the best parts of Emma are in the epilogue and Otoyomemonogatari is effectively an anthology series. She shines when she's drawing stupidly detailed delicate interactions between two people, and when doing comedy. But any time she aims for fast-paced drama the story falls down. I can see what she was aiming for with Wil and Emma, she just doesn't hit it, and I think she kind of realised she didn't hit it because afterwards she settles into doing the stuff she's good at. Which is fine, all authors have their strong and weak points.
>>281978022thanks op. there was a very very cute eleanor scene that was anime only. the one about the umbrella, involving her cute feet. a pity it was anime only. manga is carried by the art, humour was quite good but the romance was just okay. and eleanor was better anyway. these dailies have been very fun though.
>>281989850the extra content makes me wish it were an series on the maids and their lives like Otoyomegatari wasn't focused on one single couple
>>281989885you talk like the extra content in the anime, right? i also liked the more time the maids had in it.
>>281989850Post it
>>281989885A maid's slice of life show?Like Downton Abbey or Upstairs Downstairs?Or Shirley with a bigger household?I guess she should draw a spin-off: The Mölders' maids.
>>281989885I can think of a number of (Japanese/Korean) series centered on a maid, but they're always a lady's maid more about her relationship with the lady (or master), rather than the household staff in general.
>>281951185Alma.
>>281993409Can't fucking believe this exists. Perhaps god is real.
>>281959698I don't understand why Aurelia was portrayed as having a long separation from her family but now it seems they can visit each other as they please.
Here are some passages from Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor about the life of flower girls in Victorian England:Of flower-girls there are two classes. Some girls, and they are certainly the smaller class of the two, avail themselves of the sale of flowers in the streets for immoral purposes, or rather, they seek to eke out the small gains of their trade by such practises. They frequent the great thoroughfares, and offer their bouquets to gentlemen, whom on an evening they pursue for a hundred yards or two in such places as the Strand, mixing up a leer with their whine for custom or for charity. Their ages are from fourteen to nineteen or twenty, and sometimes they remain out offering their flowers—or dried lavender when no fresh flowers are to be had—until late at night. They do not care, to make their appearance in the streets until towards evening, and though they solicit the custom of ladies, they rarely follow or importune them. Of this class I shall treat more fully under another head.The other class of flower-girls is composed of the girls who, wholly or partially, depend upon the sale of flowers for their own support or as an assistance to their parents. Some of them are the children of street-sellers, some are orphans, and some are the daughters of mechanics who are out of employment, and who prefer any course rather than an application to the parish. These girls offer their flowers in the principal streets at the West End, and resort greatly to the suburbs; there are a few, also, in the business thoroughfares. They walk up and down in front of the houses, offering their flowers to any one looking out of the windows, or they stand at any likely place. They are generally very persevering, more especially the younger children, who will run along, barefooted, with their “Please, gentleman, do buy my flowers. Poor little girl!”—“Please, kind lady, buy my violets. O, do! please! Poor little girl! Do buy a bunch, please, kind lady!”
The statement I give, “of two orphan flower-sellers” furnishes another proof, in addition to the many I have already given, of the heroic struggles of the poor, and of the truth of the saying, “What would the poor do without the poor?”The better class of flower-girls reside in Lisson-grove, in the streets off Drury-lane, in St. Giles’s, and in other parts inhabited by the very poor. Some of them live in lodging-houses, the stench and squalor of which are in remarkable contrast to the beauty and fragrance of the flowers they sometimes have to carry thither with them unsold.Of these girls the elder was fifteen and the younger eleven. Both were clad in old, but not torn, dark print frocks, hanging so closely, and yet so loosely, about them as to show the deficiency of under-clothing; they wore old broken black chip bonnets. The older sister (or rather half-sister) had a pair of old worn-out shoes on her feet, the younger was barefoot, but trotted along, in a gait at once quick and feeble—as if the soles of her little feet were impervious, like horn, to the roughness of the road. The elder girl has a modest expression of countenance, with no pretensions to prettiness except in having tolerably good eyes. Her complexion was somewhat muddy, and her features somewhat pinched. The younger child had a round, chubby, and even rosy face, and quite a healthful look. Her portrait is here given.
They lived in one of the streets near Drury-lane. They were inmates of a house, not let out as a lodging-house, in separate beds, but in rooms, and inhabited by street-sellers and street-labourers. The room they occupied was large, and one dim candle lighted it so insufficiently that it seemed to exaggerate the dimensions. The walls were bare and discoloured with damp. The furniture consisted of a crazy table and a few chairs, and in the centre of the room was an old four-post bedstead of the larger size. This bed was occupied nightly by the two sisters and their brother, a lad just turned thirteen....The three children paid 2s. a week for the roomThe elder girl said, in an English accent, not at all garrulously, but merely in answer to my questions: “I sell flowers, sir; we live almost on flowers when they are to be got. I sell, and so does my sister, all kinds...Gentlemen are our best customers. I’ve heard that they buy flowers to give to the ladies. Ladies have sometimes said: ‘A penny, my poor girl, here’s three-halfpence for the bunch.’ Or they’ve given me the price of two bunches for one; so have gentlemen. I never had a rude word said to me by a gentleman in my life. No, sir, neither lady nor gentleman ever gave me 6d. for a bunch of flowers. I never had a sixpence given to me in my life—never. I never go among boys, I know nobody but my brother. My father was a tradesman in Mitchelstown, in the County Cork. I don’t know what sort of a tradesman he was. I never saw him. He was a tradesman I’ve been told. I was born in London. Mother was a chairwoman, and lived very well. None of us ever saw a father.” [It was evident that they were illegitimate children, but the landlady had never seen the mother, and could give me no information.] “We don’t know anything about our fathers. We were all ‘mother’s children.’ Mother died seven years ago last Guy Faux day.
I’ve got myself, and my brother and sister a bit of bread ever since, and never had any help but from the neighbours. I never troubled the parish. O, yes, sir, the neighbours is all poor people, very poor, some of them. We’ve lived with her” (indicating her landlady by a gesture) “the two years, and off and on before that. I can’t say how long.” In answer to my inquiries the landlady assured me that these two poor girls, were never out of doors all the time she had known them after six at night. “We’ve always good health. We can all read.” [Here the three somewhat insisted upon proving to me their proficiency in reading, and having produced a Roman Catholic book, the “Garden of Heaven,” they read very well.] “I put myself,” continued the girl, “and I put my brother and sister to a Roman Catholic school—and to Ragged schools—but I could read before mother died. My brother can write, and I pray to God that he’ll do well with it.If it’s bad weather, so bad that we can’t sell flowers at all, and so if we’ve had to spend our stock-money for a bit of bread, she (the landlady) lends us 1s., if she has one, or she borrows one of a neighbour, if she hasn’t, or if the neighbours hasn’t it, she borrows it at a dolly-shop” (the illegal pawn-shop).We live on bread and tea, and sometimes a fresh herring of a night. Sometimes we don’t eat a bit all day when we’re out; sometimes we take a bit of bread with us, or buy a bit. My sister can’t eat taturs; they sicken her. I don’t know what emigrating means.” [I informed her and she continued]: “No, sir, I wouldn’t like to emigrate and leave brother and sister. If they went with me I don’t think I should like it, not among strangers. I think our living costs us 2s. a week for the two of us; the rest goes in rent. That’s all we make.”The brother earned from 1s. 6d. to 2s. a week, with an occasional meal, as a costermonger’s boy. Neither of them ever missed mass on a Sunday.
Some of these girls are, as I have stated, of an immoral character, and some of them are sent out by their parents to make out a livelihood by prostitution. One of this class, whom I saw, had come out of prison a short time previously. She was not nineteen, and had been sentenced about a twelvemonth before to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour, “for heaving her shoe,” as she said, “at the Lord Mayor, to get a comfortable lodging, for she was tired of being about the streets.” After this she was locked up for breaking the lamps in the street. She alleged that her motive for this was a belief that by committing some such act she might be able to get into an asylum for females. She was sent out into the streets by her father and mother, at the age of nine, to sell flowers. Her father used to supply her with the money to buy the flowers, and she used to take the proceeds of the day’s work home to her parents. She used to be out frequently till past midnight, and seldom or never got home before nine. She associated only with flower-girls of loose character. The result may be imagined. She could not state positively that her parents were aware of the manner in which she got the money she took home to them. She supposes that they must have imagined what her practices were. He used to give her no supper if she “didn’t bring home a good bit of money.” Her father and mother did little or no work all this while. They lived on what she brought home. At thirteen years old she was sent to prison (she stated) “for selling combs in the street” (it was winter, and there were no flowers to be had). She was incarcerated fourteen days, and when liberated she returned to her former practices.
The very night that she came home from gaol her father sent her out into the streets again. She continued in this state, her father and mother living upon her, until about twelve months before I received this account from her, when her father turned her out of his house, because she didn’t bring home money enough. She then went into Kent, hop-picking, and there fell in with a beggar, who accosted her while she was sitting under a tree. He said, “You have got a very bad pair of shoes on; come with me, and you shall have some better ones.” She consented, and walked with him into the village close by, where they stood out in the middle of the streets, and the man began addressing the people, “My kind good Christians, me and my poor wife here is ashamed to appear before you in the state we are in.” She remained with this person all the winter, and travelled with him through the country, begging. He was a beggar by trade. In the spring she returned to the flower-selling, but scarcely got any money either by that or other means. At last she grew desperate, and wanted to get back to prison. She broke the lamps outside the Mansion-house, and was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment. She had been out of prison nearly three weeks when I saw her, and was in training to go into an asylum. She was sick and tired, she said, of her life.
Thanks for the dump
My baby gets all the ice cream she wants
>>281997246She can't screw up their chances of joining the aristocracy more than William already has, so the embargo is lifted.
>>281977887>>281977902>>281977915Uh.. how can she see without glasses?
>>282000220She can't, which is why he has to hold her hand.
>>281988495Eleanor would never be so mean.
>>281999733intentionally leaving the ice cream in a place vivi can reach so you can scold and spank her for eating it without permission
>>281958817I can't believe the magistrate who sentenced me to hard labor breaking rocks in a chain gang is this cute!
>>281970754But it's like the most famous mathematical symbol of all time and even on a philosophical level is thought to be representative of the infinite complexity of creation. pi ain't something to sneeze at.
>>282001958Technically 0 is more famous and important.
>>281977861jubbly
>>281977988Hortense, the mule-faced girl!
>>281993409But is Mori aware of how superior Carolyn Jones is to Anjelica Huston? She must be, right?
>>281997797quite the talkative lass>>281997911>supporting a family at 9 years old on flower salesthanks for the detail, anon, very insightful about what're just generally spot characters in dime novels
My favorite part of the story was when we learned about human trafficking in 1880's London
>>281989615I disagree on that being a loose end. Contriving a way for the viscount to receive comeuppance because he deserves it detracts from the focus of the story. There's no good narrative reason for it. Real life doesn't work that way.
>>281981322copiumbro
Is this a stylized self-portrait?>imagines her ideal space, and puts the glasses woman in it.>this design appears multiple times through the illustration books without apparent reasonAlso a lot of naked women reading.
>>282000407Yeah, but what's the point of visiting that party while she can't even clearly see the faces of the people she's talking to?
>>281977564Colin LOVE, Vivi needs to die
>>282004938Socialization and learning how to pretend she can see and remember faces for the sake of keeping up appearances. The parties are just for upkeep on social duties anyway.
>>282004311Yes, a fan asked her why she always draws herself like a gremlin instead of a pretty girl, so the gag is that after reading that fan letter she draws herself like that. I could've sworn it was in an Emma volume omake.
>>282006061That one didn't have glasses or sharp eyes
Next chapter will be in a new thread.
>>281997797>>281997872>>281997911>>281997936It should be noted this was written in 1849, so by Emma's time conditions would be a lot better for most orphans, and even in those days most flower girls weren't whoring on the side.
>>282004311She looks exactly like this and I won't hear otherwise
>>282007549I dig it, but I like >>281977997, too.
>>282007651The obvious answer is she looks like >>281977997 naturally but >>282004311 when she puts her face on
>>282004311I want to marry her and live in a nice house with lots of Victorian-styled maids that we can molest together.
>>282008040sorry, mori's already married to me.
That's right, I killed OP
>>282009646I will not rest until you, too, are dead.
