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Waiting for Judicial Corporal Punishment

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Catherine heard the music and boisterous voices from her cell. The Lord’s eldest son Edward had wed her one-time friend Celeste, but it could have been her instead. Just months ago, Catherine refused his proposal. She was in love with Henry, a boy she had long adored and now a Lieutenant in the King’s Regiment. Catherine could not bear to betray him, the brave soldier fighting in a foreign land, even for a life of wealth and ease.

Though their betrothal was announced, Celeste viewed Catherine’s presence as a threat. Edward, his ego still bruised by her rejection, was easily convinced to petition his father for Catherine’s arrest on false charges. As the happy couple boarded a ship for their sun-drenched honeymoon, Catherine stood trembling at a whipping post, tears stinging her eyes and slender arms stretched high. Her damp naked chest heaved in fear at the forty lashes to come.

Upon his return from the war, Henry found that his love had been shipped to a far-away prison colony for ten years and sank to his knees in despair at the thought of her whipping. His friends did not tell of Catherine’s desperate screams during her punishment and the pitiful moaning of Henry’s name as she was dragged away with the skin of her bloodied back in tatters.
 
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