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qualities that he would have accepted some sexual failings. He had known she was not frigid from her response in the cove near Aber, but her eagerness was more than he had expected and her perception of his need was a real blessing. There would be nothing to teach her except the skills and refinements that prolonged joy. |
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"But do not trouble yourself about it," he went on. |
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"You have done marvelous well for your first and second lessons. There will be time enough to learn the fine points." |
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"And I could not have a more experienced teacher, could I?" Rhiannon remarked a little sharply. |
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"No, you could not, so be properly grateful," Simon responded, laughing. Then he grew serious, sitting up so he could look into her face. "I have sworn I will be faithful in the future. There is no way to change the past. Moreover, you would be a fool to wish it changed. A man without experience always wonders whether there is something he has missed. For me, there have been so many women that I can never doubt I have finally found the one. I need seek no further, eneit." |
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Eneit, he had called herhis soul, his inner lifein the old language, and his eyes with their gold and green flecks were clear, hiding nothing. Rhiannon very nearly cried out that she would yield and be his wife, but she could not say the words. Thus far she had been the winner. Simon was her lover, and she had promised no more than she ever intendedto be faithful to him as long as he was faithful to her. But to be a wife. . . . A wife swore faith no matter what her husband didand could be harshly punished, imprisoned, or killed, if she paid back his false coin with false coin of her own. |
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