Chapter 10: Alone

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Hey OP

>>280848422
Meido!

>>280848531
Oh RIP

>>280848735
Fuck off, Yon

>>280848735
a right honorable cat! how delightful!

And that's it. FUCK.
Are you alone?

>>280848867
Thanks, OP. Nyo.

>>280848460
Comfy room

>>280848867
I didn't expect her to die already. What a shame
With all the daily anons? No.
Thanks as always OP!

>>280848837
;_;

>>280848867
>Are you alone?
I am always close to you, OP.

>>280848837
Poor girl

>>280848695
I love Emma's expressions

>>280848735
Lot of cat anus in dailies lately

>>280848784
What a woman

>>280848837
I wonder if her mistress left her anything
It's shoujo thinking, but if she was left the house it could maybe sway William's father

>>280848848
How disloyal they become...

>>280848867
Thanks OP
Despite it all, no

>>280848867
All my life.

Well, alone aside from you Anons.

>>280848867
RIP

I have family but live alone. I will probably die alone.

>>280849294
I don't think she owned the place

>>280848397 (OP)
Is this based off that one book? I think Jane Austen?

>>280850839
No

>>280848531
:(

rip bozo

>>280848867
It all began on the day of my actual birth: both of my parents failed to show up.

>>280848531
Fuck that was fast.

>>280853954
These things have a tendency to spiral quickly

>>280853965
a tendency to what

>>280854042

>>280848397 (OP)
alone again

>>280848867
Thanks OP
What happens to maids when their lady dies? Do they revert back to the state?

>>280855377
They marry wealthy young masters

>>280848397 (OP)
together

>>280848867
Thank you for posting.

>>280848867
Thanks, anonsito.

>>280855377
They're employees, not slaves

>>280848397 (OP)
maybe

>>280848867
Thanks OP
>Are you alone?
Near totally, to a point that it's probably done lasting psychological damage

>>280856575
Would be hotter if they were

>>280848448
Neat detail here: Kelly is wearing an 80s-style bustle dress.

One thing that sucks about the new Anne of Green Gables anime is the lack of care put into depicting how the fashion changes as she grows up. It helps convey the passage of time.

>>280858439
>80s-style
I assume you don't mean 1980's.

>>280848397 (OP)
forever alone

>>280858876
Nah, the fluffy butts of the 1880s. 1980s is funny because it has the big puffy sleeves of the 1890s, but also the drop waist of the 1920s.

Fashion is so interesting because a lot of it is just silhouettes cycling in and out of style. I didn't realize it recently until I saw it pointed out, but the 2010s for example was big on the top, skinny on the bottom. Zoomers love to make fun of the skinny jeans.

>>280855377
"Forced" into lesbian prostitution.

>>280859737
>Zoomers love to make fun of the skinny jeans.
All the jeans I wear become skinny jeans because my ass is too fat!

>>280853736
Did they later disown you and you had to get raised by ocelots?

>>280859737
>Zoomers love to make fun of the skinny jeans
A-are they not cool anymore?

>>280862594
Big on top, skinny on the bottom was more of a 2010s silhouette, and side parted hairstyles out as well. Zoomers love to make fun of millennials for these.

It's shit you never notice until it's been pointed out to you.

>>280850839
There are multiple manga adaptations of Jane Austen's Emma. This is not one of them.

>>280848695
She's so beautiful no wonder it was love at first sight

>>280848784
Ankle! How lewd!

Since we're on the subject of fashion, why did he do it bros?

>>280848848
Damn, the translation I'd read earlier made me think the cat returned to her that night. Now I realise she was truly alone ;_;

donmai me, just cleaning this thread

>>280859737
>Zoomers love to make fun of the skinny jeans.
Pfft, I was making fun of skinny jeans before it was cool.

>>280848867
Not as long as I have you guys.

>>280864935
Because he was an absolute stuck-up bellend, come down from that window and throw fists you damn foppish brat! Or are too scared your nose is going to bleed all over your kerchief and ruin your sprezzatura! Well deserved to rot with The French Disease in debtor's jail!
Though I do agree with his perception on matters of fit and quality materials, I'd hope he'd be as bothered as myself with the amount of plastic clothing today.

>>280848867
Thanks.
Heavy chapter.

>>280866518
finally, this place has been a mess ever since the bodily fluid discussion.

>>280867505
Unless he's educated on all the problems plastic has caused in the modern world, he'd absolutely love plastic clothing. It's definitely a quality material, it's just absurdly cheap to produce and even cheaper to produce poorly.

I won't let the Emma thread be alone.

>>280871298
Most of it is abysmal quality.

>>280864935
>>280867505
Ok, nerds, explain who this cat is and why he matters

>>280875333
Here's your reading homework. https://www.gentlemansgazette.com/beau-brummell-the-original/

>>280875430
I was kind of hoping you'd be some kind of savant who would leap at the chance to condense everything into 2000 characters or less

>>280875505
Fruity fag convinces men not to dress so fruity.

>>280874746
Yeah that's what I said. Plastic is just too damn easy to mass produce and even easier at lower quality.

>>280876096
Naruhodo. Am I supposed to hate him? It sounds like a good thing

>>280876291
How do you feel about /fa/ggots?
He's their great granddaddy.

>>280876329
I'm confused. How did convincing men to dress LESS fruity create /fa/ggots?

>>280876291
He's the reason men no longer wear capes. Decide for yourself.

>>280876673
I want him and his descendants flayed, hung, drawn and quartered

>>280876673
He's the reason men aren't held to as high a standard as women? My hero

>>280876673

>>280876673

>>280848848
FUCKING TREACHEROUS SLATTERN SLUT

soon

>>280848397 (OP)
Chapter 11: Eleanor at the Banquet

Hey OP

>>280878727
Ahoy

>>280878709
Hi OP

>>280878747
Heyo

>>280878791
KANPAI

>>280878739
I like her eyes
And Will really isn't fucking helping himself

>>280878802
Cutie

>900x1291
resolution for ants; is there a higher res out there I can download for reading?

>>280878900
god she is cute

>>280878900
Man this is gonna hurt

>>280878944
Mind your business old man

>>280878983
All these old-timey games have such charming names

And that's it. Poor girl has no idea she's up against a maid.
What's for dinner?

>>280879056
Thanks, OP. I just finished baking a lemon pound cake.

>>280879056
Woah mama
Anyway thanks OP
I'm away right now so instant stuff

>>280878818
Was this not the era where lobster was seen as commoner's food?

>>280878802
Wise girl

>>280879056
She's a good girl, shame that she's stuck in this competition with Emma that she can't win
I'll have pizza tomorrow
Thanks as always OP!

>>280879033
A bit of a hollow victory, but when you have nothing you take what you get.

>>280878907
Looks like this is the official digital release. Bigger resolution thus is only likely to be from someone scanning physical books or maybe pasting the translation into japanese raws of higher quality. Contemporary scanlations are just as like to be of similar resolution.

>>280879088
let the commoners eat sea bugs, oh ho ho ho

>>280879088
Wow I can't believe this author is a HACK

>>280879088
You're probably thinking of oysters

>>280879088
It didn't become food of the elites yet, but by the turn of the century it was slowly becoming more acceptable to eat in upper class settings, so I am willing to believe it wouldn't cause a commotion were it served at a banquet like this, especially prepared well like that
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-history-of-gourmet-lobster-2013-8

>>280879056
Thanks OP
I can't stand tradition, it's such nonsense. Forcing people to jump through hoops just because the past did too, it's meaningless.
Probably pizza

>>280879033
No

>>280879033
maybe

>>280878983
what are they gonna do to pope joan

>>280879939
No, I heard that thing about the lobsters too.

Is Emma a prime English rose?

>>280884248
No, she's like 30

>>280878956
whiskey and cigars time, hell yeah
>>280879056
thanks, OP. She's trying her hardest, bless her
I'm waiting for the rain to end, then I'll walk into town
>>280879088
it was the evolution of times, since lobster became "elitist" during the mid 1800's due to railroads and canneries being able to transport them far distances. I can't find anything specifically about European lobster habits, but they appear to mirror the American trend
https://10best.usatoday.com/food-drink/how-lobster-went-from-prison-trash-food-to-delicacy/
https://www.bestwestern.co.uk/travel-stories/food-drink/when-did-lobster-become-food-for-the-rich/

>>280885312
wait a minute, here's a good piece about Euros, from a Canadian magazine
https://backyardhistory.ca/f/from-pauper-to-proper-the-story-of-lobster-in-the-maritimes
>Europeans were not unfamiliar with lobsters, as they had their own back home. However, the types of lobster they had were much smaller than the massive Homarus Americannus, with its enormous snapping claws, which we are familiar with today.
>By the end of the 1700s, the lobster was a bona fide French culinary sensation among their elites and was served with fancy sauces with exotic toppings such as truffles or nutmeg from Indonesia. Special boats were invented by the Dutch called ‘smacks’ , which had pools built into them that allowed seawater to circulate, permitting fresh lobsters to make it back to Europe.
>While in Europe, cooking techniques tended to dress up and highlight the lobster, in North America, the goal was still to make it unrecognizable. Lobster would never be served whole on a plate like now. Rathe,r it would be stewed, devilled, made into sauces, and surprisingly frequently turned into salad.
>The way people ate food and what they could experience for food, was completely revolutionized after 1810, when Peter Durand patented the tin can. It now became possible to preserve and transport large amounts of food safely all over the world....Hoops made from wheels with nets fastened around them became popular, if crude, lobster fishing traps.

>>280879033

>>280884248
She's the whole garden.

>>280887773
rude

I prefer the Regency over the Victorian Era.
>the superior Emma

>>280878900
>>280878917
she's too cute bros
>>280879056
thanks op.

>>280880055
Tradition exists for a reason, no one creates customs out of no reason, there's always some necessity behind it. Which isn't to say that sometimes said necessities become superfluous and thus the tradition associated can be abandoned, but to hate all tradition without thinking is being mindless.

>>280864935
Something I noticed is that in a lot of fantasy works where the female clothing and perhaps general setting leans more 19th century inspired, the male clothes usually take more inspiration from the 18th century instead. Sucks when you want colorful clothing and embellishments for the men too.

>>280884302
Anon she's in her early 20s, same as Will.

>>280889491
It's just funny to call her old

One of the things I like about Mori's manga is that she portrays different cultures and kinds of people without prejudice. I naturally dislike the upperclass ballroom scenes, the effininate men, the snobbery and value set that was prevalent in upper class society and feel more warmly abou, and more affinity to, the lower class and more rustic character but Mori doesn't play stuff or show a bias either way. She writes/draws it straight and unaffected so get get an accurate(fictionalised) portrayal of how things just were for people. Part of me thinks this is just a liking she has for high society stuff, and obviously she likes Victorian era things and this is part of that, but I don't think she could have done this entirely unconciously. If she hadn't have done it this way you 'd go through the whole manga prompted to have in the back of your mind "hell, these awful upper class people and their arrogance and snobbery" and enjoy the manga less.

>>280889491
So old

>>280876673
We should thank him. No capes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z_GF0KAAkg

>>280877370
For fashion? When has that not been the case? For everything else? HAHAHAHAHA

>>280892394
If I was Arthur I'd just marry her so my dad stops hassling me and enter a loveless relationship where resentment builds for decades before one day I snap on her out of nowhere and irrevocably ruin both of our lives

>>280891158
It helps that the Joneses are not actually nobility. It's a pretty interesting time period to set a story in because so much is changing. Mori does go out of her way to avoid the unpleasant stuff that would also have been happening at the time. It is kind of funny in a ironic sense to see her (later on in the series) write an Orientalist from the perspective of a Japanese person though

>>280891665
You mad, Elanor?

>>280878944
Cute drunk maiden!

>>280879033
Sex with her

>>280878900
>>280878917
>>280878983
>>280879056
Why was this character created? Just to hurt me?

>>280893054
She's mine.

Wife Material!

>>280893054
That's a maid. You can't sex a maid, she's a peasant.

>>280896460
You can't stop me!

>>280892445
Could always hire someone to seduce her and use that blackmail to force an open marriage. Maybe keep him as a servant afterwards as her consolation prize.

>>280895399
She probably is someone's wife. He probably works on the estate too.

>>280896460
What if I were also a peasant?

I watched Downton Abbey because Mori is a apparently a big fan. Really liked the show but couldn't bring myself to continue after THAT.

>>280899714
Sir, we don't mention THAT here.

>>280899961
We shall speak no more on this matter.

>>280892803
She's too pure for that kind of bitterness