The Mysteries of the Court of London by Pauline Clarendon — page 387: what you’re looking at

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od4 THE COURT OF LONDON were as chaste and pure as sisters bestow on each other, — gentle caresses, and not the long, ardent, and impassioned enjoyments of a love kindling with desire. Nevertheless the lady, unable to restrain the natural ardour of her tempera- ment, clung fervently to him, with her ‘arms embracing his neck tenaciously, almost violently. But, gently disengaging himself from her embrace, he with difficulty subdued the pro- found sigh that rose from his very heart’s core; while Eleanor, resuming her seat on the sofa, blushed through shame at the evidence of an indomitable sensuality into which her passion had betrayed her. Gomicboo <S (Elo) m