Chasing Time

“Next, we have the most noble recipient of the Order of the Garter, the Grand Cross of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Grand Cross of the Bath, the Victoria Cross and the lower grades of Knighthood, the leader of the anti-colonial movement, the bell-ringer of the East India Company, the hero of the Crimean War, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a lifelong dear friend of literary giants such as Dickens and Great Dumas, a steadfast supporter of scientific luminaries like Faraday and Darwin, having served as assistant under-secretary, deputy under-secretary, and permanent under-secretary in departments of the Home Office and the Navy Department of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the inaugural Cabinet Secretary and head of the civil service, the first graduate and most distinguished alumnus of our school. Please welcome Sir Arthur Hastings to deliver a speech on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of London.”
Arthur's gaze swept across the crowd before him, looking at the young faces and murmured, “Agares, what do you think I should say?”
The Red Devil's wraith hovered behind him, saliva almost dribbling from the corner of his mouth, “Look at these ignorant souls; they still worship you as a hero. Why not say something they'd like to hear?”
Arthur took a deep breath and let out a deafening roar, “Oxford is a bunch of whores' bastards!”
“Oh!!!!”
The audience erupted into thunderous applause.
“Cambridge is the same!” he added immediately.
The applause grew even more fervent...
(The protagonist, possessed by a devil, travels through 19th-century Britain in a world without magic)

The Shadow of Great Britain

Heine asked, "Why do you all want to leave Germany?"


They answered, "The land is good, and we really want to stay there."


These honest farmers, fleeing from Germany, of course did not possess Heine's flamboyant rhetoric; they simply used plain language to tell Heine of the hardships of living in Germany, to tell of all the schemes of the German rulers.


An eighty-year-old man explained to Heine that they left their homeland for their children, who were still young and more adaptable to life abroad, possibly finding happiness there in the future: "Otherwise, what do you expect us to do? Start a revolution?"


Their narrations and lamentations nearly tore Heine's heart apart, making him feel both angry and somewhat sorrowful.


Chapter 268: The King's Power (4K6)_2