Word: amber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Luke ran away with all her money, Amber found herself first in debt and then in Newgate Prison. There she met Highwayman Black Jack Mallard ("earrings seemed only to accentuate his almost threatening masculinity"). When he was finally hanged, Amber became an actress...
...success was terrific. "The new wench. By Jesus, but she's handsome!" cried the gallants. Guards Captain Rex Morgan was bowled over. "I'm fretting my bowels to fiddle-strings over you," he moaned. Amber "felt herself sliding toward surrender and had no inclination to stop." Captain Morgan rented rooms...
Then one fine day Lord Bruce Carlton came back and killed the Captain. Amber suggested marriage to his Lordship, whose reply was to rush off to Virginia, leaving Amber with nothing but "two or three soiled shirts which carried [his] strong male smell...
...Amber married three others (in due succession), became a rich, widowed Countess. That was her high estate when she met King Charles II. "His dark lazy eyes stirred the embers of desire, at which [her husbands] had rudely raked but never once brought into flame." Charles made Amber a Duchess and Lady of the Bedchamber, had her painted "on a heap of black cushions, unashamedly naked...
...Amber set the Court vogue for mixed nude bathing in the Thames and for low-necked dresses. "Ods-fish, madame," cracked the King, "the greatest display that ever I've seen . . . since I was weaned!" All the best people came to see the Duchess taking her bath in asses' milk, attended by Herman, her Algerian eunuch. "Pray, no ceremony here," Amber would cry, rising from her marble tub: "Herman-fling me a towel...