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Title: Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: April 6, 2009 [EBook #28522]

Language: English

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[Transcriber's note: Anonymous, _Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her
Lover_ (1890) A classic Victorian erotic novel]

Laura Middleton; HER BROTHER AND HER LOVER.

ST. KITT'S.
1890.

The remarks which Emily had made regarding the share Laura Middleton
had had in opening up her ideas on the subject of the mysteries in
which she had now been fully initiated had not escaped my observation.
It so happened that at that very time I was under an engagement to pay
a visit to the Middletons, who were very distant relations of my
mother. It of course occurred to me that it was possible I might be
able to turn the information I had thus acquired to some account. Laura
and I were old friends. She was about two years older than I, a very
handsome, fine-looking girl but, as I had then fancied, upon rather a
larger scale than quite suited my taste. We had always been on very
good terms as children, but she had a sort of haughty, imperious air
which, joined to the difference in our ages, had operated in a manner
that would have prevented me from thinking of taking any liberties with
her; and she was about the last person in the world I should have been
disposed to imagine addicted to the amusements in which Emily had
participated with her.

When I again met her on arriving at their country seat, I found that a
considerable change had taken place in her person, but probably this
was merely the natural result that the preceding two years, during
which I had not seen her, had worked upon a girl at her time of life,
by fully developing the proportions and fining down the parts of the
figure which at an earlier period might have appeared too prominent. I
too had grown considerably during this period, more so in proportion
than she had, and now her height by no means appeared to me to be too
great; and, altogether, I