He means to snatch the laurels from his brow, / At all his boasted pluck and prowess smile, / And give him pepper in superior style.

He experienced erotic arousal, which included the slow secretion of genital moistness, from being with her, and also from girlwatching.

Lord Avonleigh had decided on taking refuge in wounded dignity, when he was again addressed by the King. The castle holds another prisoner, to whom I intend extending the best prerogative of my crown—mercy. Will you order Robert Evelyn to be brought before me?

Emmy, he remembered, was at one time cruelly and deservedly jealous of Rebecca, […] .