Naturally, chocolates cannot be accompanied, and Miss Audrey ordered the maids to take care of the cats. After watching her master and the bold woman leave, Chocolate still lay lazily on the sofa.
Raising its amber eyes, seeing that the maids were not here for the time being, it lazily got up, jumped onto the table, and opened the two cards that had not been opened.
Representing the past is a blank card. This card is like the King in poker, or the Fool in the Tarot. Its meaning in occultism is more inclined to the concept of beginning, unknown and mystery. It is the most special card among the main cards.
Representing the future is a blue cross-shaped symbol with a ring on top. This symbol is the letter of a lost language, and its pronunciation is similar to "Anka", so it is often called "Anka Cross", which represents the meaning of eternal life or resurrection.
The cat narrowed its eyes, put the cards back in place with its paws, then wagged its tail and waited for the servant to bring the food. Even if their owner is not someone who cares about quality of life, cats are still noble cats.
Although the bestower can use rituals to create many time-limited supernatural items, such as spells, the cost of these things is in units of "ten pounds". Moreover, the bestowers have extremely strong perception abilities, using ordinary spells, just tell others "this is not my true face", and the bestowers who pay a little attention can tell that this is fake at a glance.
Higher-end spells, such as the "Elegant Lady's Makeup Charm" from Hathaway, have more advantages in concealment, and the cost is higher. That's why she just cross-dresses and doesn't use spells when she attends Mr. Hood's party.
Although the spell came for nothing, Jenkins was also distressed.
Like ordinary men and women, he and Miss Audrey fell far behind the man while talking. Just when he was considering whether to end the pursuit and change the road to avoid being suspected, the man suddenly turned into an alley.
Without catching up immediately, Jenkins pulled Miss Audrey to stop outside a store, and the two talked about the clothes and accessories on the dummy in the window before walking towards the alley.
It was a dead end, less than 20 meters away from the entrance of the alley was an unpainted brick wall with messy garbage and suspicious excrement at the corner. On both sides are two-story buildings without any climbing points except for the windows. On the left wall, there is a tightly closed iron door.
The iron door was rusted, but judging by the scratches on the floor and the cleanliness of that piece, the door was still in use recently.
"I have confirmed just now that it is an ordinary person, so it is impossible for him to fly away."
The only way for the man to disappear is that wall or that door.
Fortunately, it was Miss Audrey, who was good at divination, who acted with Jenkins this time. She asked Jenkins to stand in the alley to block the sight of others, then pulled a thread from Jenkins' neckline, and took out a bag from her pocket. A white crystal stone is tied to the thread.
Jenkins noticed that one of Miss Audrey's ability spots was shining brightly, and after a while, the hanging spar defied the force of gravity and turned towards the door.
"it's here."
"my clothes… "
He said with some complaints that Mary bought this suit for him when he hadn't moved out of the house, and that was the time when he participated in the reading salon.
The woman didn't apologize, but handed over the thread: "Give it back to you."
Jenkins took it immediately, thinking about whether to throw it away for a while or sew it back when he went home.
Miss Audrey certainly didn't expect him to do this, she was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled indifferently.
Jenkins turned and reached into his pocket for two coins. Seeing a black and thin boy walking towards this side while kicking stones, he threw a copper coin with a face value of 1 pence at his feet.
The boy was frightened by the money that suddenly rolled over, he subconsciously went to pick it up, then when he looked up, he saw the scary young man standing at the entrance of the dark alley, his face turned pale.
"First, sir, I'm sorry, is this yours, is it yours?"
He stammered and put the money in his hand, and moved a few steps earlier, but he never had the courage to approach the alley.
Jenkins tried to show a kind smile, who knew that the boy's body trembled even more.
"Am I that scary?"
He thought to himself, and then looked around. There were very few pedestrians on this street, and no one paid attention to this side.
"Answer me a question, this silver coin is also yours."
He waved his shilling, and the boy looked at him in horror, nodding like a chicken pecking at rice.
"Are you someone nearby?"
"Yes, yes sir."
Jenkins suspected that at any moment he might faint from fear.
"Then do you know where this door leads to?"
He pointed to the door behind him. The boy looked into the darkness and backed away in fear again: "Sorry sir, I don't know, I never take the initiative to enter such a remote alley. But I know that the house here belongs to the Bronte Club."
Club culture is a unique and sick cultural trend of this era. In this era, steam trains and carriages drove side by side, gentlemen wore high collars that could cut their throats if they were not careful, and ladies were wrapped in layers of lace bondage.
Wherever there is depression, there must be release. The more intense the pressure on the surface, the more rampant the undercurrent will be. Although the original owner wandered around the streets all day long, he was just doing some unrealistic pranks with a group of young people of the same age around him. According to the looming dark side that Jenkins came into contact with after coming to this world: the extremely prosperous underground love affair Sex culture, male prostitutes and secret prostitutes in slums, noble women indulging in psychics, in fact, from the perspective of gentlemen's clubs in pornographic clubs, this is no different from the steam era in memory.
The almost fanatical obsession with gentlemen's clubs is a cultural phenomenon of this era, and it is also a vulgar phenomenon that people like Jenkins hate and cannot understand. Due to the club's strict privacy rules and strict membership system, gentlemen's clubs exist in every corner of the city as a half-open and half-closed social organization. It is worth noting that the club is not simply a geographical building or institution, but an important social element in the male social field that Jenkins is also unfamiliar with. It represents a social style and survival routine based on a certain consensus. At the same time, in the world belonging to Jenkin, it is also regarded as one of the iconic symbols of British culture in the nineteenth century.
All of the above is just to illustrate that it would be very difficult for Jenkins and Miss Audrey to enter this club called "Bronte" without someone introducing them.
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