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Princess Leone possesses many male lovers other than her prince, with whom she spends time very often. Everything she carries out with her lovers, she confides in Piccoline. Piccoline resents her very much for this. “When she calls me into her chamber and whisperingly confides her messages to me, hiding the love letters under my jerkin, then I shiver all over and the blood rushes to my head. But she notices nothing, she never gives a thought to the fact th
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Sometimes in the morning, Teodora allows Piccoline to enter her chamber before she has risen and exposes herself to him, while she asks Piccoline to help her pick out what jewels to wear for her next lover. Throughout the story, Piccoline declares that he is not capable of love, but later in the book, Piccoline looks back and reflects on his life, and admits that if he were to ever love a woman, he feels it would be her, although he isn’t sure why.
Each time anything in the nature of love or sexuality takes place in the book, Piccoline expresses how it make him want to vomit, and that he utterly despises it. ”
Many times throughout the story, Piccoline calls Teodora a whore, and expresses that he hates her with a passion. A whore in the bed of a magnificent prince… The scent of her around her bed makes me retch.
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