It is so natural to a Parisienne, even when passion has almost mastered her, to hesitate and pause before taking the plunge.

He was indeed as bitter an enemy to the savage authority too often exercised by husbands and fathers, over the young and lovely of the other sex, as ever knight-errant was to the barbarous power of enchanters; nay, to say truth, I have often suspected that those very enchanters with which romance everywhere abounds were in reality no other than the husbands of those days; and matrimony itself was, perhaps, the enchanted castle in which the nymphs were said to be confined.

This ceremony seals the covenant in the flesh of the male generative organ.

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