Ashcombe-TheMasksofDesire02

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% l" n! h' ~* B9 ~3 m(Ch. 02)soppingwetpanties a read, One: A Conscience. guidance. a fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, merchandise, companies, author's a manner. persons, dead, coincidental. 18 older.* * * wasn't a conversation. hour. bachelors, Martin, Montreval, Lydia's entrance. all, Ashecombe's ton, indispensable. Fairleigh, flushed, a ballroom."It a tear. a minutes. You've card. delivered!" mother's stare. estate, a repaired. Instead, Fournier's Delacroix, Haversham's cottage, Gilbert's Monique's womanhood. a Fairleigh, twenty, a system, a revelation, desires."I'm mama. a repair. here?" offered. tear. excuse. a glance, away."I there's you're me.""It's truth," sputtered. wasn't.* * * couldn't home, mother, coach. worried. a girl, impressionable, a elements, good. something. mother. traffic, Lydia, form. darkness, a wasn't friend's Chadwick's a Lisette, Fournier, Monique. a road. estate, a Crescent, Ashecombe. patriarch, Fairleigh, prior, Fairleigh, attractive, wealthy, widow. daughters, Eleanor, estate, Anne, Pembroke, youngest, Lydia, daughters.Lydia's door."Miss Lydia," said, down. vehicle, pavement. impressive, a columns, forty. door, her. couldn't mind."You'll you're ready," night. a expected, forgotten. nothing. bedroom, a study. wasn't a children's floor. a a bedroom, study. home, mattress. Monique's Gilbert's again, legs, pleasure. time, though, touch. it, Gilbert's Monique's vagina, Lydia's presence. d, untamed, squeeze. Gilbert's Monique's tongue, seed, a impropriety, a blonde.Lydia's bed, quivered. tightly, eyelids. forbidden. shameful. wicked. glorious.* * * normal, a air. a a walks. windows, a twenty, a morning. breakfast. ham, toast, apples, currant, garden. Clara. chatter, ball. plate. noticed."Lydia," said, cup, "you a down.""I tired.""Tired?" pleasantly. "One ball."A Lydia's lips."Nearly dance," corrected."Indeed," said. Lydia's Lydia's ball. up. observation. nothing. a uncomfortable."What?" asked."Nothing.""You me.""I am.""Then thinking." a toast."I witness."Lydia's teacup. eyebrow."Interesting," said. "I thing.""Whatever mean?" a Eleanor."There a morning.""A glow?""Yes." laughed."I glow.""There is," replied. "You a secret.""I secret.""No?""No."A tea. a quickly. exchange."You a evening.""I I going.""To repaired.""It repair.""And yet," said, "you expected.""The time.""I see." concentration. chair."And time?""Of course.""How fortunate." sharply."What mean?""Nothing all.""It something." coffee."Then I a seamstress." a napkin. cheeks. tea. breakfast. questions. Lydia's disappearance. Delacroix's approximately period. Fournier's cottage. together. listened. indeed. (and wiser) sister."You me.""Not slightest," immediately. laughed. convinced. teacup. made. offered. Lydia's words. cottage, thing. happened. Lydia's arose, indeed.* * * changed.Nothing, truth, outwardly. Manor's gardens. room. bachelors, cards, entertainments. a before. a axis. a irrelevant. Fournier, Delacroix, cottage, vividly. Monique's command. Gilbert's submission. forbidden.* * * day, sale. encouraged. appointment, Fairleigh, Refuge. Lisette, Fournier, question. mother."No dawdling," leave."I fabrics.""Then I ones." dutifully.* * * a sky, familiar, different. there, a cottage. happened, altered, a woman. distance, window. there? a it? a arrival. silk, starch, lavender, her, her, comfort. a room. ever, a wool, standards, elegance. A wrists. A neck. pins, eyes. Lydia. wasn't a a greeting, a satisfaction. returned. ball.Now, again, herself. force. tightened. quickened. breathing. it."It's you, Fairleigh," said, cottage.Lydia's shop. Fournier."Where Madame...""In Paris, mother. ago." alone. Suddenly, didn't a business, Monique's lair. a haltingly."About night..." interrupted. "It calling, not? truth." time. there, crossed, waiting."I I away.""You doing. back.""How I shadows? truth. I'm deception, I it."Monique's serious."You cautious." voice. tighten."What openly," continued. gaze. true. painful."That fair.""No," softly. "It not." a spoke. a silence. eyes."Then I things?"A Monique's lips."I that." blinked."You have?" nodded."Several ago." her. a longing, planning."How?""There a I know."Lydia's darkened. laughed."Oh, alarmed.""I alarmed.""You are." Frenchwoman's widened."It charming." arms."Who gentleman?""Lord Blackthorne." familiar. so, enough."The Yorkshire?""The same."Lydia's rose. money. nobility, wealthy, influential, exceptionally connected. nodded."He father's death.""And him?""Quite well." intended. twenty, accounts, Oxford, a shipping, banking, holdings. a residence, Richmond, Yorkshire, a Ashecombe. importantly, unmarried."Why this?""Because I him." stared, Monique's a stranger."You what?" herself."I you."A fear, embarrassment Lydia."What him?""That intelligent, beautiful, stubborn, worry." cheeks. continued."And a gentleman.""Monique.""It true." unsuccessfully a smile."What say?""He agreed.""Agreed what?""To acquaintance." closer."He I asked." immediately. world.A behind. voice."There masks, Lydia. imagine."Monique's sparkled."Within a days, society.""And delighted.""Ecstatic." herself. still. eyes."Invitations ordinary.""And respectable," in."Exactly." a anticipation.

"You detail."

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6 B* b% \  ]2 J5 m2 y9 R"For a week?" smiled.
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"For week." met. them. uncomfortable. awkward. dangerous. quietly.

"And now, lesson."

, K; u" t' M0 M2 p+ I"You young. things?" asked.

* `8 T0 d: T% O' ^" w: ]* ~5 C"From mother, course."
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* * * workroom, a curtain. Fournier's street. building, piles. Fournier's bolt. room. tables.
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7 A- K) h1 ~2 w$ j1 o$ D"You be," started. "You time. leave?" a breath.
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. t9 x. O6 G; \' E2 {+ e"No." Lydia's floor, her.
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"You've a man, you?" asked.
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"No." shoulders.

; i3 w* B' l& H# W# @5 a"You a woman. you. here."

"My trust," continued. "If forward, other."

6 i: f/ t' P, d. ]1 G+ g* j"I understand," said, didn't. princess. a pleasure. a Monique's captivated.

"You don't, will," her. "The friends, members. lives, soul, other. bond. built, boundless. relationship."

& |, B1 _3 e; x5 Q"I me," confessed.
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"Of not. I'm read. meet." a calfskin. Paris. Lydia.
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# N9 b& W$ N# e- A( _& l( |"A book?" asked.
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$ L# v8 Y1 \' c- X( k"It a book. It's a lifestyle. me," said. before. herself. Désir

2 v; O8 `7 y5 q; z4 H  ?. j/ l8 N(The Desire)

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, i+ H1 x/ h3 x% t: B- W- h2 @"This book. about?" innocently. a smile. A times. story.

9 q3 h4 k2 @: {# \3 P( P1 d"It masks," answered, question. "The us, ourselves. a a woman, Celeste, obedience. a unquestionable world."

"A memoir. true?"

! K( x' ?; \8 ?* Z. q1 I( a/ G"So claims." nervously, over, reference. page, shivered.

"Is wicked?" asked, was.
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7 l4 [# }9 a6 m( x- |% l"Oh, terribly," lightly. "At that's interesting. it, I answer. That's here." silent. closer. Monique's perfume, Paris, a Blackthorne.
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3 b9 L. C; |& P2 X1 L8 N$ t"It a children, Lydia." a comment.
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"I a child."
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) i6 ]; n5 K" e# A- Z"No, cheri, not. I it." argument. book? nature? desires? why. louder. wonderment.

"I Celeste," her. impressed. a her. beautiful. she, pleasurable. quickly.
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- f- d1 F" Z0 ]" j) ^"The Blackthorne."
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% m1 \! |6 e7 j7 X  K"That correct."

, P: d; x9 T2 U3 `; [0 v/ G( G1 }5 _7 ]8 v"And you... comtesse."
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  W4 a8 M  B4 b: O! d' L; k0 u"That's you, Lydia. I other."

: O* g& w' L  w  b4 {" d+ iLydia's off. much, fast. mother, family, with.

"I'm afraid, Monique." hand. woman, embrace.
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  C6 l& Y* \0 e- o"All well," Lydia's ear. "I protected. one, book." cheek, a affection.
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"Someday, pet, Blackthorne."

) I, J4 l+ R, m8 B* * * Fournier's shop. darker, menacing, home, Lydia's ball. material.

$ ?% C2 `. C; r3 q+ w9 {"For discretion," smile. Marquis. same, thought.
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/ j1 w$ x6 o! [5 A& KLydia's silk. Désir Desire. dangerous. roads, a cottage. acts. more. it. Instead, it. her. book. a choice. refused. not. not. uncomfortably seat, guilt. literature. astray. it, it. a warmth. pages. curiosity. more. bedroom. door.

: W$ O7 V# q5 I2 B5 f" g"Shall I bedroom, Lydia?" asked, silk.

"No!" back, footman, a back.

$ P, ?, k* Y2 [9 n" }"Apologies," said. composure. "Thank you, Thomas, I myself."
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6 d9 w/ ^, V# s& m2 ]+ S2 |"As wish," answered, eye.
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* * * still. a club, presided, Refuge, Eleanor. arm, floor. Clara. Eleanor's blonde, landing.

"You're here," exclaimed, throat.

"I I here," factly.
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6 h, w1 f. z& g0 L2 J"But... I Clara," stammered, composure.
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6 ]1 m* T* x1 k3 L5 z  p2 r% @"I I behind. I home?"

! t( A. d4 L4 w/ r2 ^" C"Of not," said, stairs. sister, silk.
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"Is dress?" asked. "May I it?" Lydia.

1 y7 ?" B& d( A7 u: \"No!" a home. forcefully. Eleanor's sharpened. amiss.

"Since me?" refused. Eleanor's matters.

"I away," said. fabric. sister, Lydia's a thud. react. book's cover, a title.

"A French?"
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"It's mine." hands.
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"It's concern." along. sister.
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2 j( f( T* t2 q; }- `"Lydia, tone." chest.
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( Z& l2 W  @5 @" g"It's mine," insisted, door.

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% d- n8 k' U9 ~3 h5 p. L7 XLydia's hammering. wrong? sister, a for. it. trouble. a bed. a day. rug. couldn't a a opener. board, a up. down. morning. didn't door. hidden. much.

* * * uncomfortable dinner. Lydia, hostile, a book. room.
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"What wrong, Eleanor? Speak," daughter. plainly, her.

" X( C% q( }5 W3 |& x"It concern, mother," said, contact. uncharacteristic brushoff, beloved.
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"Please, Eleanor, us," implored. a breath. Lydia. suspicions, weren't mother, Clara.

"I time." voice. closed. now. Eleanor's forget.

! P' }" D" @7 Y/ g; k' G0 B* * * night, bed, uncomfortably. curtains, floorboards. her, bed. Monique's mind. vice. side, novel. ideas, impossible. her. Insistent. hands? her? frustration, a sigh, loud, "Oh, well," book. bed, prison, cover, it, it, it. a a hearth, embers. book. Désir she'd a pages, story, tame. d'Aubigny, a blonde, twenty, aunt, dazzling, society. There, Rochefort, a beauty, Lydia. Valley. young, handsome, perceptive. a perversions. a extraordinary beauty, world's deceptions, name. a propriety, restraint. desires. d windows, French, Latin, centerpiece, a a overhead. fireplace, height, limestone, chamber. escritoire, breeches, knees. a leather, a a low.
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"You tremble, love," observed.
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+ B, B% P% k& M" g. k: q0 }Celeste's tightened.
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"I not." a laugh. "Then I with." smiled.

"You friends, mademoiselle," said.
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"An answer," replied, amused, "how refreshing."

. J* }' m0 c1 _! b4 z; {"You I naïve," retorted. softly. "My dear, naïve something."

0 J- A# g' K% u, g' k6 ["And I naïve about?" Marquis, seduction.

5 U5 U( b* F5 W" @; p"Power," answered.
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( |- K/ f" l- C6 c# I7 O; G"I well. it. it. A them." head. "There a household." her.

3 l5 |9 d5 H. o. r. t"You me?"
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"I neither."
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. h: N7 e8 j4 S1 m& D; ["You independence?"

"It surrender, a trust." difference. face.
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  E4 O8 M, k! h8 Z5 U0 f7 e! v"Tell me, a General?"
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2 `, Y9 P- W! f4 K$ q"No."
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"Or a doctor?"
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"You weakness, mademoiselle," softly. "There one's another.' gaze, fear, moment. a dignity, desires. twice, a time. cheeks. indecent. Indeed, words. deeply. humiliation. choice, offered. further, weary, Eleanor, mother, sleep, place, forgotten.
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* * * a breakfast. Refuge. alone, life. room, bed, wear, floorboard.

' W# J. H3 h& M) e. y# M2 H4 T"Have forgotten?" daughter. forgotten. confusion.
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"We morning. ball. Honestly, I don't what's you," frustration.

7 d. [) U8 K' i" n. t) O"Of course, I'm sorry," said. hadn't so.
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"You recently. Montreval." left, didn't. couldn't shore.
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* * * Crescent, residence, mansion, neighbors, Fairleighs. silence, Lydia's lap. her, a posture, face. stone, door. authority. years, a hand, disputes, introductions, family, Fairleighs, [ed. A Conscience]. birth, Lydia's infant. Montreval's butler, Mr. Pritchard, hall, a chandelier, a Montreval, family. room, house, a garden, sunlight. surface. chair, a a service, toast, preserves. conversations. years, uncertainties courtship, ton. fifties, figure, features, eyes.
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"Lydia, dear," entered. "How you, I circumstances." deeply.
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"Lady Montreval, I Haversham's ball. I I part."

; q$ K) l; y+ m( \"Nonsense," replied. "Though disappearance eyebrows, a ball. unnecessarily." forward, hand.

"Thank understanding," said, face.

"Lydia, Mr. conservatory. Mrs. roses, I year." departed, Fairleigh's expression.
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7 @& K' M5 h$ Y6 |' C"You candidly," observed. a breath.
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1 {, @  H6 ]7 p3 J8 F$ \"I do."

"Continue."
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7 z, p1 v6 X$ k"I ball. repair, then. well."

1 b1 ~  K6 \+ q* z4 |' \" A"You indiscretion?" Fairleigh's a ball.

"I suspect. It's a mother's instinct, maiden." replying.
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"You imply."

"I do," answered, "which I room."

"I walk. I women. occurred, I reputations."

- R5 J  Z7 \) c* u2 w1 i) ?"You investigate?"

. B$ o. X; c& a"I confidence. more. gossip." next.

" ^  S) v9 B8 Q+ K  r2 _"Unless otherwise, innocence."

"Of course."

"Sometimes harmless. welcomed."
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9 ~7 W" Q, a: |% ^1 d! j1 h6 T  B8 M* Z"Understood." spoke, ton. Fairleigh. a dangerous.

7 p  F) g& N8 `) @* * * not. Instead, Montreval's audience, hallway, servants, Lydia's room. sister's room, edge. anxiety. a book. Lydia's board. floor. Désir English.

$ }- l: ~1 i% PEleanor's pages, Celeste's Paris, Marquis, him. core. Sodomy... incest... flagellation. couldn't filth. a ruin. unthinkable.

9 u" S# T# G; x8 `5 zShe'd a enough. suspicion. discovery? mother? Lydia. nothing? a she'd read. Eleanor's desires.
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5 _$ p' c' S7 QLydia's Montreval's a woman. reservation. mother, however, ever, her. mistaken. sister. wickedness. seated, usual, Eleanor, Lydia, intentions.
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( K: |5 P2 j1 W" s" Z"You distracted, Lydia. thoroughly?" straight. a worshipped. odds.
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* S& W5 u# z6 q( \; v; {  }7 J"I'm well, you. I a Montreval. It's a I'm tired." a Eleanor. didn't either. forward. Fairleigh.
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( ~4 ~; F' s/ b  j* {( ]0 _"You've late. isn't you?" sister's gaze. "Nothing a night's won't cure." silence. moment, leave.
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. W9 K- k) H6 E2 t- u5 b"I I early," announced, "so you'll me." bedroom's boards.
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* * * book, unread, moment. suspicious. trouble. carefully, back, a relief. interrogation. a bowstring. yet, a flame. Désir mind. fruit. a nightgown, lace, wrists. a knees. hands, desires.

She'd over.
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0 N$ S7 |5 ?9 a1 T! @"You pleasure, haven't it," maiden. "Let Comtesse." over, chaise, pantaloons. garments, exposed. watched, her, not, regions... covers, shaking. a revulsion. felt, there, a experienced, dark, virulent. pleasure, desire. inside. resisting, clenching... throbbing... hand... aside... pleasure. indescribable.

2 Q* A9 |% ^8 F1 n9 K/ dA shudder.
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; K; z6 O/ D3 t9 hA teeth. fists, bedsheets. contentment, satisfying, a slumber, arms. Blackthorne, her, broad, soul... him, alone.
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