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

For this very reason, the ladies were always fond of Viscount Melbourne, and these female supporters of the viscount could not tolerate attacks on him. So, when the extramarital affair case first came out, many upper-class ladies and middle-class female novelists came forward to support him.


On one side were the growing calls for the dismissal of ministers with unclean morals, and on the other were the incessant condemnations of brutal husbands shaming their wives.


Corresponding to the cliff-like drop in port throughput during the cholera period was the explosive growth of London's print media, skyrocketing like a rocket.


When Arthur heard this, he suddenly turned to the Great Dumas, who was listening with great interest, and said, "Alexander, has Charles's 'The Pickwick Papers' finale not been sent out yet?"


Chapter 309: The Bigwig of the East India Company_2