He was very attractive, yes. Dark hair and dark eyes, with high cheekbones and a quick smile . . . you would have fancied him too, I suspect.
And it was both. I was using him for sex, but I cannot deny I was attracted to him. He was unlike anyone I had ever met before, and I was fascinated by how he could charm anyone, myself included.
As for gossip . . . let's see, now. Some of it was dull: impending divorces or infidelities, things of that nature. Who was promised to whom, who was courting whom, things like that. Whether or not it was a scandal that I myself had no intention to marry, and was particularly vocal about that opinion . . . but hm.
It was a widely known thing that the men of Oxbridge were expected to sleep about; less so for the women, not that such a thing stopped Victoria. She was rumored to have not only slept with at least three men before I met her, with two of them occurring at once, which was nigh-unheard of. She had piercings, too, which was less uncommon than I suspect you might think, though still stunning to me. As for Henry . . . well, more of the same. Sex parties and the like, alongside fucking anything that moved, male or female— the former of which wasn't so scandalous, but he was obvious about it, when it was a far more unspoken thing.
I learned a great deal about what consti
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And it was both. I was using him for sex, but I cannot deny I was attracted to him. He was unlike anyone I had ever met before, and I was fascinated by how he could charm anyone, myself included.
As for gossip . . . let's see, now. Some of it was dull: impending divorces or infidelities, things of that nature. Who was promised to whom, who was courting whom, things like that. Whether or not it was a scandal that I myself had no intention to marry, and was particularly vocal about that opinion . . . but hm.
It was a widely known thing that the men of Oxbridge were expected to sleep about; less so for the women, not that such a thing stopped Victoria. She was rumored to have not only slept with at least three men before I met her, with two of them occurring at once, which was nigh-unheard of. She had piercings, too, which was less uncommon than I suspect you might think, though still stunning to me. As for Henry . . . well, more of the same. Sex parties and the like, alongside fucking anything that moved, male or female— the former of which wasn't so scandalous, but he was obvious about it, when it was a far more unspoken thing.
I learned a great deal about what consti
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I learned a great deal from him.