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- MORE MOD NOTES: Alright guys I know this fandom is really into historical accuracy and all that jazz but here's the thing. This is a KINK MEME and therefore historical accuracy is not ( Read more... )
Chapter 6
In which the Rev. St. John repents His Weakness, rides in a Howdah, makes an Unpleasant Realization and begins to reconsider His Mission.
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St. John emerged from his bed as the last stars were leaving the sky and walked along the road to the entrance of the great estate. He tried to compose himself to the extent that he could look Cpt. Aquilaine in the eye without blushing in shame or worse-his dream had awoken not only debased thoughts but unexpectedly fond feelings as well. Have I long felt thus about the Captain, or am I merely deceived by the echoes of this impure vision? I pray it is the latter; brotherly affections are a gift from God, but what my soul and body seem to hope for is something tainted.He recited psalms, sang a hymn and, in short, made nearly every good attempt to purge his ( ... )
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As I said, it was just a quick question about a detail and I didn't mean to offend.
My comment focused mainly on how much I like your characters and the universe you created. :-)
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swooning over everything! especially St. John's jealousy, omg. He considered-for a moment only-leaping from his elephant, demanding satisfaction from Cpl. Fitzpatrick and then beating the man with his own bejeweled cane until he begged for relief. LOL <3
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Chapter 7
In which the Rev. St. John consults the Leading Medical Authorities, leads Cpt. Aquilaine astray, voices His Opinion on Modern Music, and learns several Worthwhile Minutiae.He hears strange noises coming from behind the door at the end of the hallway and wants to hear more, wants to draw closer. He walks into a plain room with benches, a single desk and a cheap painting of Queen Victoria on the wall. It is a schoolroom; the day's lesson is geometry: isosceles, hypotenuse, base and apex, Pythagoras, oblique. Quill pens and slates are scattered about; the students have been careless again and he will have to speak to them about being properly ( ... )
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As he stumbled out of his nightshirt and into his clothes, cursing his corrupted flesh and promptly regretting that he had thought the word flesh, he again recalled Christ's warning: Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: but I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. By this law he, Rev. St. John Rivers, was now as much a sinner as the whore, the adulterer, or the sodomite.
And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better ( ... )
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He scanned the collection of medical, surgical, anatomical, and curative texts for a book he had long known of but up until now refused to seek out. Clutching the desired volume, recommended to him from the days of University when a certain fellow theology-student had troubled his sleep, he retreated to a little-used corner of the reading room. St. John opened to the index and followed the column of chapter headings down with a slightly trembling finger. The Oxford Companionate Medical Advisor: Cardiac, Blood & Marrow, Respiration, Skeleton & ( ... )
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“Reverend! I was nearly wondering if I had seen the last of you-are you well? Have you received bad news? Have you been given extra parish duties?” He paused and glanced around; the room was empty except for a footman. His voice dropped to a quieter tone. “I have not seen you in a week. If it is to do with our visit to Cpl. Fitzpatrick, or something I have done to … offend you, will you speak plainly on it? I cannot abide being the cause of your unhappiness.” The uneasy look that crossed his face sent a great pain through St. John's heart.
How he suffers, worrying about me! And he wishes to ease my sorrows, thinking I am love-sick like a youth inadvertently led into an understanding he could ( ... )
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It being Tuesday morning, he realized speed was of the essence. The Medical Advisor's recommendations produced a slow, gentle decrease of symptoms-appropriate, perhaps, for lesser men, but St. John was made of steelier stuff. He had every confidence he could endure a full course of the necessary deprivations and treatments in a shortened time period and thus achieve at least partial success by Friday evening. And so, within a quarter hour of his conversation with the Captain, he had requested cool water to be brought up from the well, slipped out of morning dress and begun to take his first cold-water bath ( ... )
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St. John cut the Captain off before he could speak further. Clergyman he may have been, but he was also human, and listening to those first stammering words already strained him; he could not endure a full recounting of his friend's deeds. “If you are wanting to confess your affaire de coeur I can assure you I am already well aware of it. You know what the Scriptures say on the subject; you know that I have said I would always grant you forgiveness.” His voiced faded; he desperately wished to be alone. “You must ask God for forgiveness, not me. You already have mine ( ... )
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