Geist Foundation

The Geist Foundation is a charity in the name of Lady Geist, and Lady Geist presides over it in person. It gives money to schools, to expeditions and to institutions of every kind, and its good name has travelled far.

The foundation once paraded street urchins before the cameras for good press. The child who would one day become Pocket was one of them.

“You were of the urchins my foundation paraded around for good press weren't you.”

“你就是当年我的基金会为了博取媒体好感而带出去宣传的那些流浪儿之一，对吧？”

Among those it funds is Blackmore Academy. The Graves family has given to it regularly, and Graves has studied at a school that benefits from its money; the lady has some pointed things to say about how the school spends it.

“Correct, that's why there was no question mark. I see the money I give them isn't being used to hire quality educators.”

“没错，所以我才没用问号。看来我捐给他们的钱，没用来聘请像样的教师。”TL

Its most famous grant went to Kelvin’s Arctic expedition. Kelvin still admits that without the money there would have been no expedition at all; but once the expedition failed, the lady came to regard the money as a squandered investment, and declared it withdrawn.

“I'm serious. Obviously the expedition didn't go as planned, but we wouldn't have had the opportunity were it not for your funding.”

“我是认真的。显然，远征没有按计划进行，但如果不是你的资金，我们就没有机会了”

“Consider this the official removal of my funding.”

“请将此视为我资金的正式撤回”

Silver knows full well what the foundation’s money is worth, and is sure that Kelvin, with it in hand, can afford a guide’s fee.

“Oh come on, you have Geist Foundation money!”

“得了吧，你手里可是有盖斯特基金会的钱！”TL