Venus in India

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Charles Devereaux. Venus in India

Contents

1 A Call to Arms

2 A Position of Trust

3 Captain Devereaux Bows to-the Inevitable

4 Forbidden Fruit

5 Sibling Rivalry

Epilogue Mabel Has Her Way With Me

Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics

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Venus in India or Love Adventures in Hindustan

‘CAPTAIN CHARLES DEVEREAUX’

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‘Well! Major Searle,’ I replied, ‘I am a married man and so I hope less liable to temptation from the path of duty than the unfortunate bachelor. Many thanks, however, for your timely warning, for of course I know that, married or single, a man may become the victim of his passions, especially when taken off his guard by a pretty woman!’

I had not lived so long a life in the worship of Venus without having seen a good deal of the hidden springs of men’s minds, and I came to the conclusion that this tirade of friend Major Searle’s was not altogether spoken on the side of virtue, or caution, but that it was a kind of warning, ‘Don’t you touch that woman, she is my preserve, and no one hunts in the forest between her thighs but myself!’

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