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Title: The Power of Mesmerism
A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: April 6, 2009 [EBook #28521]

Language: English

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[Transcriber's note: Anonymous, _The power of mesmerism_ (1891),
1891 edition. A classic Victorian erotic novel]

THE POWER OF MESMERISM

A HIGHLY EROTIC NARRATIVE OF VOLUPTUOUS FACTS AND FANCIES.

PRINTED FOR THE NIHISLISTS. MOSCOW 1891

Brackley Hall was a fine old place in the lovely country of Devon and
had been in the possession of the Etheridges for centuries.

The park was beautifully wooded, and stretched down on one side to the
coast, commanding in all directions the most enchanting views.

Mr. Etheridge was a man of some forty years of age, of singularly
handsome appearance, and bore evident traces of the Italian blood which
flowed in his veins. He had the appearance of a man having strong
amorous passions, but his manners were as gentle as those of a woman,
and he was universally popular throughout the whole county.

His wife was a woman of unusual beauty. Descended from an old Spanish
family, she had married when but sixteen years of age; Mr. Etheridge
having met her at the house of some friends, and as they mutually fell
in love with each other, their united entreaties overcame the objection
raised on account of her youth, and in fact the warm blood that flowed
in her veins had ripened her beauty to an extent almost unusual in
those of more phlegmatic races.

She was now in her thirty-fifth year, and in the full zenith of her
charms. An exquisitely shaped head graced a neck and shoulders white as
alabaster, large liquid eyes, and long drooping lashes, a nose of
perfect form, and two ruby pouting lips that seemed made to be kissed.

Her form was magnificent, of commanding height, widely spreading hips,
and a bosom of massive proportions, the firmness of which rendered
stays entirely unnecessary; a fact that was evident on