Under the Rose 1: The Winter Tale by Funato Akari ISBN#4-344-80316-7 Please do not alter this document. Translation by Janet Losey. [] indicate lines in handwriting P.2 Under the Rose 1: The Winter Tale Contents Chapter 1 Parting From the Sea ...003 Chapter 2 Stanley ...035 Chapter 3 The Roar of the Sea ...071 Chapter 4 Landscape of the Heart ...105 Chapter 5 Beinz ...139 Chapter 6 Emotion ...178 Afterword Extra Manga Margaret-san ...211 P.3 [Click] P.4 Last Christmas, Grace King filled this tumbledown house with hothouse-grown flowers. P.5 Chapter 1 Parting From the Sea And before the leaves withered, she returned with easy steps to her lover's pleasure garden. P.6 Laurence: I want to eat more. ???: There is no more. That's all. Linus: ...I'll give you mine, Laurence. Linus: I'm going to get ready. Burnett: Laurence-bouchan, thank Linus-sama. Laurence: Mm, Niichan, fankyoo. Duke King: ...How many times must I tell you before you'll learn? P.7 Duke King: Do not speak with a spoon in your mouth! Do not gobble your food like a pig! It's as if you were a common laborer - I cannot believe you are a member of the King family. Does your lack of dignity stem from your father? Is it the Roland blood?! Burnett: Miss Grace would've let him eat more. Laurence: Mummy? [Thump] Old Man: Do not speak of her! Linus: Burnett! Dismiss this stupid girl right now! [Bang] P.8 Linus: She did something with my overcoat! Maid: I'm begging you Master Linus, I really don't know! Burnett: Which overcoat was it? Linus: The grey-blue one. Duke King: I sold that one! For the two of you for your traveling expenses to Roland! Linus: ......What about the money that Roland sent? Duke King: The Duke of King accepts no charity from a mere Count!! Linus: Oh really... [Bang] P.9 Laurence: Are you coming too, Burnett? Old Maid: No, only you young masters will be going to your father's house. I must stay here and look after the master. Laurence: If I wet the bed, can I call for you, Burnett? Burnett: Roland is too far away. Coachman: This makes luggage for two. Linus: Let's go. Coachman: But there's still no one to see you off... Coachman: ......... Understood... P.10 Maid: I despise you, Master Linus!! God himself wouldn't forgive you, you alone! A person who loves no one won't be loved by anyone! Linus: Hah! Such pitiful creatures, you servants. Is that all you wanted to say? (Sneer at the hovel where the last Duke of the King family resides.) Maid: There will come a day someday when you will suffer! (I Hate the grey sea.) Laurence: Look, nii-chan! Linus: ! Laurence: It's the house we lived in when we were little! (Hate the manor that was so empty.) P.11 Coachman: Brings back memories, doesn't it? It was two years ago, wasn't it? I hear the owner now is a baron home from India. Laurence: At that house, there's a grave for my cat, Shimasuke... Coachman: The servants are mostly the same as before, so I think that they are looking after it. Laurence: I wonder if there are cats at Roland? Does Father like cats? Coachman: Well... I wouldn't know that. Laurence: Nii-chan! What's Father like? Linus: ...Whose? Laurence: Our father! Linus: Like I would know... I've never even seen him before. P.12 Roland: Ah... That's me. Roland: I am Roland's...... Coachman: So you're the steward! I've been searching for you. Roland: Ah... [Thump] Coachman: Your attendants are... You're alone, aren't you? Here is the luggage. Coachman: Please take care of the young masters. Roland: Yes... (Not a face I remember.) Coachman: Well... This is it for me. I'm off to a new employer's place. Goodbye little master. Be well! Laurence: ... Roland: You must be tired from being shaken about in that carriage. Today I've gotten a room in a London hotel. I'll giude you there. Linus: ! P.13 [Smack] Linus: Don't touch me as if you have some right to it, servant! Laurence: Don't touch! Roland: Excuse me... Laurence: My book isn't here!! Roland: Let's search for it together. What sort of book is it? Laurence: The picture book, huh... Give it up. Stop crying. (It was sold.) Laurence: No! Laurence: Mother gave it to me! Roland: ...Perhaps God carried it away, so that you might read books with stories in them instead, young master. P.14 Laurence: Waa! Thank you, Mister Steward! Linus: Have a reciept written for the Count, since you bought that without permission. Roland: It'll be fine. If there is a book you would like, Master Linus, please feel free. Linus: I don't need any... Laurence: Nii-chan, look! There are lots of words! I'm gonna have Mother read it to me! Linus: Read it yourself.