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If it had not been for the jagged rocks on that shore, Rhiannon might have achieved her purpose. Since it was barely possible for Simon to find two stones large enough and flat enough to sit on, he did not long consider an immediate coupling. To remount and to look deliberately for a place was a crudity Simon did not contemplate in connection with the woman he loved. One sought the nearest hedge or ditch with a whore or a serf girl off the land. With a lady, time and place must flow together with feelingand more especially with Rhiannon, who was so sensitive. |
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When they were seated, Simon opened his mouth to ask Rhiannon how she thought their problem could be resolved, but she beat him with a question about his errand from Pembroke to her father. Simon obliged with the very shortest précis he could give of the situation and tried to switch the talk back to private matters. |
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"No," Rhiannon said. "I do not wish to talk about us, |
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