But he said nothing, running the ruddied thongs through his gnarled fingers.
“At least gag me,” she said. “There's a pear in that drawer also.”
And a minute later pretty Jacqueline Bellais was perfectly placed for the maximum infliction of pain.
She was face down across the table, her booted ankles held in the stocks that had held her victims' wrists. Her hips came just to the side of the table, over which her upper body dangled, arms locked behind elbow-to-wrist. Nervous flutterings spasmed the tender underbuttock spread out for the flail in this abandoned pose, through which the healthy, thick-lipped quim pouched up.
The Sergeant-Major stood in front of her by a good two paces and laid the ends of his thongs in measuring aim on the cringing skin. Then with all his strength he whistled the keen fangs down, and in.
No more than a strangled croak escaped her throat but her upper body, hanging down, bounded about like that of some stranded trout. The tough strands had painted vertical dark lines along her buttock and two of them, nipping into the furrow, had cut the skin at once.
And one of them had sliced into the seam of the very underbelly.
The Sergeant-Major of the 15th. Dragoon Guards drew breath. He was going to lash her to the blood and, oh, beyond. Jacqueline Bellais was about to learn the true meaning of Prussian discipline.
Here is the story of Schloss Rutenberg, a Prussian ladies' seminary of 1729, devoted not only to the corporal correction of its high-born pupils but also of its mistresses. An erotic memoir of girls' dormitories and corridors that, although from a vanished age, can still cause the skin to tingle.