Just as you Like

[eglantine_br]

Title: Just as you Like

Author Eglantine_br

Rating R for het smut

Word Count 2256

********* I want to point out, before beginning, that the word 'pretty' as late as the 18th century was both stronger and less gender specific. I hope the use of it is not to jarring. Also, I am pretty sure that Polly knows what she is talking about.

“Third on the left.

Comments

[bauhiniakapok]

Poor William. The little detail about the better knot, both the nauticalness and the caring, the wishing he could have a woman of his own ...

And Polly seems so real too, playing a part but genuinely kind, and a little sad.

[eglantine_br]

I think Polly was relieved to have someone young and clean, and decently kind. Obviously she has little choice who comes down the hall. She is a bit apprehensive.

William thinks of women as real people. He might visit a brothel, but he would not be rude.