Status Updates From Blackbird

He groaned when she gently lowered herself onto him. He gasped when her slender brown body, glistening in the darkness, began to play upon his own, like a rare and beautiful Stradivari, stroking a firm but sensitive bow. When she began to move in rapidly quickening motions, Stonehouse wondered if his heart could possibly withstand the reverberations of the fast approaching crescendo. But by then he didn't care.

`I'm sure after Madam Jane drives some discipline and respect into the Kanaka, she will be the most sought after whore in the house,' he said. `And she will learn to accept her position in life, which will be flat on her back, and no doubt the clientele of The Gables will drive a lot more into her than just discipline and respect.'

This is historical fiction of Australia, which I know just about nothing unless you count what I may have "learned" in the Crocodile Dundee movies or in the 1980s songs by Men at Work.