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But that’s not the problem
Then what is?
His eyes board into hers. It’s finding someone to do nothing with, that’s the real test. Someone with whom you just sit and read by the fire…

Someone to do nothing with, that is an excellent line almost redeemed the narrative, almost

Unpardonable treacle
Between Harriet and her father
Honestly, this title has retreated to the saccharin and juvenile dialogue of the first of the series. But reader Be cheered, the second title was very good.

For the rushed and happy ending of the narrative, the facts are the Cataract Surgery in 1815 had a very lengthy recuperative., About two weeks. The success rate was only 50%. But for the plot, the compressed timeframe was acceptable. And of course the hero was heroic and the villain, whose presence was only a few pages was vanquished

Let us not forget the knees to jelly

And here we cue in Bob Dylan’s ‘ shelter from the storm’

Lord Byron’s affair with Lady Oxford lasted for about eight months—from October 1812 to June 1813—and it went remarkably well compared to his usual chaotic standards. For Byron, it was a peaceful, highly sensual interlude that he recalled with deep affection for the rest of his life.

Those are the days when at least adults were screwing other adults and not children. As we have a pedophile president and the Epstein papers, that they so violently are protecting.

Because Lady Oxford’s six children were widely known to have been fathered by different lovers, high society cheekily nicknamed her children the "Harleian Miscellany" (a play on her married surname, Harley.

The "Harleian Miscellany": Lady Oxford was famous in Regency London high society for her ultra-liberal upbringing, radical politics, and numerous love affairs. Her husband, the Earl of Oxford, turned a blind eye to her infidelity.

• The Counter-Caroline: While Caroline Lamb was notoriously erratic, thin, and dramatic, the 40-year-old Lady Oxford was celebrated by Byron as a beautifully mature, voluptuous, and remarkably calm alternative.

Lord Byron began his passionate affair with Lady Oxford in August 1812, immediately after disentangling himself from the obsessive and highly volatile five-month relationship with Lady Caroline Lamb

Caroline's Fixation: Caroline refused to accept the breakup, staging a dramatic bonfire where she burned his gifts and dressing her pages in buttons that read "Ne crede Byron" (Do not believe Byron)

The Affair: Lady Caroline and Lord Byron had a turbulent, highly public affair in 1812 after she famously called him "mad, bad, and dangerous to know".
• The Breakup: Byron grew exhausted by Caroline's obsessive behavior and public jealousy, eventually ending the relationship to pursue other companions like Lady Oxford

The gesture had been for dramatic effect, but it was the start of Lady Caroline’s eventual blackballing from society. Harriet had vowed then and there never to make such a fool of herself over a man.

Three years ago the papers had been full of the salacious affair between Lady Carolyn and Lamb and Lord Byron, and the disastrous outcome to that had seem to Harriet well tragic and completely predictable. She’s been at the ball in honor of the Duke of Wellington when Byron tired of his lover, had publicly spurned her. Lady Carolyn had smashed a wine glass and threatened to cut her own wrists…

Oh yeah, and he also had his boots on. You might be buried in your boots but you shouldn’t fuck in them. Note to the author.

I am sorry but this is sadly hilarious. And Just embarrassing

He made love to her (he fucked her) with his breeches on, and his flap down. And now she wonders whether he will remove them.
That is one sorry ass picture in the mind
Take your pants off why don’t you?

So the lovemaking with the soundtrack in the background
definitely JJ Cale, cocaine
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie
Cocaine.
That is one sweet seduction

So this is what it is all about

And then they were doing the dirty

Did I mention her heart? And hands. And his jaw and her cheeks.

Her senses, her insides, her lips, his lips, his shoulders, his breeches…

Also, the layers of her dress, her palms. Her legs her knees, her arms her head her hair it’s all there, too much of it

Her breath, her stomach, her liver, her skin she just finds all parts of her body that goes sideways when she’s dealing with Captain Davies. It gets old, the constant anatomy. The editor should’ve taken out the red pen

Captain Davie ship HMS Briseis is named after the trophy that Achilles took in one of the skirmishes before the walls of Troy. Her name was Briseis. (Homer’s Iliad)
When Agamemnon was forced to give up his captive Chryseis he seized Briseis from Achilles, thus sparking a grievous grievance. Which eventually led to the death of Achilles

We are really not that complex, we like to pretend we are, but we are usually just thinking about food, women, sports, or business. A nine times out of 10, it’s women. Just so you know

And that my friends is the answer to the mystery of life, and why women need a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Gloria Stein him

The origins of cataract surgery are embedded in antiquity, with the very first procedures performed in the fifth century BC¹. The procedure at the time used a technique called couching, and was performed only in extremely advanced cataracts.

Continued, not for the squeamish
The Success Rate: Roughly 50%. While it actually removed the source of the blindness, the huge, unstitched wound left the eye highly vulnerable to aggressive infections. Patients were forced to lie perfectly still in bed for weeks with sandbags holding their heads in place to keep the eye from leaking or bursting open.

London, 1815 – Cataract Surgery
Do not read if you are squeamish
Fit for only a medical historian
Following breakthroughs by French and British surgeons in the mid-1700s, this was the most "advanced" method available.

He gave her a set of 10 erotic prints that were without shame. His second kiss had her undressed from her neck to her waist. The adjectives of how her stomach moved were getting very boring, especially as Greek medicine thought the uterus wandered, not the stomach. And then he tells her that the third kiss, the second one was on her breast, would be between her legs. He is anything but delicate.

Jeanne Baret unintentionally became the first woman to circumnavigate the world. It is only in recent years that Baret’s story has resurfaced. A plant named after her was reclassified to obliterate her name. She is a perfect example of what history does to women when they make history.