Sarah was his third wife and he had had little luck breeding sons with the other two. The first, chosen by the former marquis, his father, when he was seventeen, was the sixth and last unmarried daughter of an earl. Older than himself and very plain, it was no love match and, preferring horses to men, she had died in a riding accident on the hunting field. He had no better luck with the second, his own choice this time, a wealthy young widow with a town house in London and an estate some forty miles away. After several miscarriages she had died in the attempt to produce a daughter, premature, and no bigger than a skinned rabbit.Sir Joseph had tried to hide his disappointment through the years but she had survived, to plague him and his third wife, the voluptuous Sarah Flint whom he met at a London meeting of the Hellfire Club.Growing old and desperate by now, he realised that even after two marriages, although he knew how one performed to beget children, which in his case was a fumble in the dark under the bedclothes, he was just learning about the more wicked goings-on with a whore, the acts that she could perform for a man, which could take his breath away.And Sir Joseph developed a new emotion.
What do You think about The Stuart Sapphire (2013)?
