Mistress of Pleasure
Chapter One
Lesson One
What defines a woman?
Why, she does, of course.
-The School of Gallantry
London, England-May 1830
When Maybelle first discovered at the tender age
of twelve that her beautiful, silver-haired grandmother
was in fact a French courtesan, it had been
most ... awkward. Yet equally fascinating, to say the
least.
Being left in the care of such a sexually liberated
woman certainly made for an unusual upbringing.
For instance, French was taught, not out of cultural
or educational necessity, but because her grandmother
believed that the rolling off of French from
one's tongue was erotic. As such, French words always
had to be sprinkled here and there like powdered
sugar over the not-so-orgasmic English language. At
fourteen, Maybelle refused to adhere to the woman's
ridiculous French/English rule. Mostly because she
felt like a want-wit who couldn't decide between two
languages.
At fifteen, Maybelle was further astonished to discover
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