Leonardo Durant, the eldest son of the Marquis Durant family, is four years older than Aurelio. When she first entered Arnold Public School, Leonardo Durant happened to have just graduated and left. But the other party was a popular figure in the public school before. At least in the first year of her enrollment, the other party's name was always mentioned in her ears. Even she, who was obsessed with studying at the time and couldn't extricate herself, was deeply impressed by this name. After all, the name "Leonardo Durant" is not only mentioned frequently by students, but also by teachers from time to time during lectures.
Agnes actually doesn't quite understand why teachers and classmates still love to talk about each other after Leonardo Durant has graduated. She asked Penny, who had a good relationship with her, and Penny replied:
"A person like Leonardo, who is a gentleman, has profound knowledge, strong leadership skills and an extraordinary family, will definitely become a star figure in Feneport's political arena in the future."
So Agnes understood, the focus was on "the future star figure in Feneport's political arena."
The exchanges between Marquis Durant's family and Count Pagani's family suddenly became more frequent this year. Before, although the social interactions between the two families were not indifferent, they were not very enthusiastic either. But it is not surprising that the exchanges have increased this year. Marquis Durant, like his father, is a representative of the new aristocracy. Under this year's special situation, it is almost inevitable that the exchanges between members of the new aristocracy will increase.
As far as Agnes knows, her mother has attended many balls or dinners hosted by Marquise Durant in the past six months, and Marquise Durant has also attended many balls or banquets hosted by her mother. The two families have invited each other. It has become commonplace this year.
However, Agnes did not appear in many social situations in Feneport City. It could even be said to be very rare. After all, she spent one-third of the time in the church underground in the past six months, and the rest of the time she also Not very keen on socializing.
Although Agnes only started attending dances and dinners at the beginning of this year, in fact, she is still young and has not officially entered the social circle of Feneport City. After all, she will not turn 14 in two months. .
She could only recognize the Marquis Durant and his family in person, and this was due to her good memory. In fact, she could recognize all the nobles in Feneport City when she saw them, after all, she had specially memorized them.
Although Agnes did not expect Leonardo Durant to invite her to dance, she was not surprised either. After all, today is the ball hosted by Mrs. Durant. As the eldest son of the Durant family, when he saw the embarrassing situation that she was not invited, he would naturally choose to invite her out of politeness to avoid her being unhappy with the ball. Good impression.
Agnes and Leonardo Durant entered the dance floor together.
Agnes noticed that Leonardo slowed down slightly, allowing Agnes to walk onto the dance floor first, and then guided Agnes to start dancing where Agnes had stopped.
Agnes felt that Leonardo's right hand did not put the palm of his hand on her waist, but instead held her gently with the back of his thumb, palm down; Leonardo's left hand gently held her He held his right hand and did not raise it very high. Although it was not elegantly raised to the level with the shoulder, this height was more comfortable for Agnes and prevented Agnes from feeling like she was being hung. Looks the same. After all, Agnes' height only reached Leonardo's shoulders, and that was because she wore high heels today.
Agnes sighed silently in her heart. She was embarrassed to play such a gentleman.
"Are you the daughter of Count Pagani and Aurelio's sister?" Leonardo asked in a low voice.
Agnes nodded, deliberately lowering her voice and said: "Well, Agnes Pagani. Hello, nice to meet you, Mr. Durant."
Leonardo showed a smile and said: "Actually, you can just call me Leonardo. Aurelio and I have a pretty good relationship. I also graduated from Arnold Public School, so I can be considered your senior."
Agnes nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, Senior Leonardo."
Leonardo responded with a smile.
"You don't seem to show up to balls very often."
Agnes nodded and said seriously: "After all, I am still young and not an adult yet."
Leonardo couldn't help but show a less reserved smile, and then quickly retracted it, returning to his elegant and calm smile, very quickly, but Agnes was sure she saw it.
"Then what do you usually do at home? You graduated from public school more than two years ago. Wouldn't it be boring to stay at home every day?" Leonardo asked.
Agnes was stunned for a moment. The fact that she graduated from a public school at the age of 11 was spread so widely?
But Leonardo knew it wasn't strange, after all, he also graduated from Arnold Public School. If you really have a good relationship with Aurelio and still pay a lot of attention to the public school, it wouldn't be strange to know this.
"It's not boring," Agnes explained with a serious face: "I want to learn music and think."
"What are you thinking about?"
"I think about the world." Agnes said with a smile.
"Thinking about the world?" Leonardo laughed and asked, "Have you thought about it and come to any conclusions?"
Agnes glanced at Leonardo with a clear smile and said, "We can never truly understand this world."
"When I face the sun and I close my eyes, I feel the warmth and start thinking of many fiery things."
"But when I opened my eyes and saw the sun, I realized that everything I had been thinking about disappeared. The sun was just the sun, not anything I had been thinking about."
"When I touch the earth, I think of the abundant harvest in autumn and the food that fills my stomach."
"I tried to bite the earth, but the earth is not something that can be bitten."
“Then I discovered that the things I was thinking about were almost never themselves, because I didn’t fully understand the things I was thinking about.”
“Just as the sun is not the fiery thing I think of, the earth is not the bountiful harvest I think of.”
"We cannot truly recognize the things we are in contact with. We can only infer the whole picture of an object through what we recognize. Just like a blind person touching an elephant or looking at a leopard through a small hole, he only understands things. Part of us can only speculate based on part of what we know, and that often leads to incorrect conclusions.”
"A blind man touches an elephant and looks at a leopard through a small hole. I have heard these two sentences. This is from the quotations of Emperor Roselle." Leonardo, who had been listening to Agnes's words in silence, finally When he found an opportunity to interject, he still maintained an elegant and calm smile, and didn't seem to be embarrassed at all.
Agnes couldn't help but smile a little.
