secretary-lover

Updated: June 2, 2025

Mademoiselle gave no outward sign of the deep wound her pride was receiving. The girl of nineteen, who had scorned the young secretary-lover in the park of Bellecour that morning four years ago, was developed into a handsome lady of three-and-twenty. "It would be beneath the dignity of his station to soil his hands in such a conflict as my father has suggested," she said at last.

Rafael Sabatini - The Trampling of the Lilies