title: His Lordship's Desire
author:  Joan Wolf 
description: "A refreshing change from the usual . . . this is a strong read." -- <i>All About Romance on To the Castle</i><br /><br />"The always-awesome Joan Wolf proves she is a master in any format or genre." -- <i>Romantic Times BOOKclub</i>
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  # The Electric Sword-Swallowers  
  by Kenneth Bulmer
  
  
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  ## I
  
  
  ## DELILAH EXERTS HERSELF
  
  
  Slinkily, Ferdie Foxlee's Delilah reclined on the white amorous battleground
  of the bed. She looked more beautiful, more desirable, more satisfying than
  any mortal woman could hope to be. Transparently, Councillor Robert Markgrof
  thought all those things, which wrought him into a highly emotional state. He
  panted. He drooled. His pop eyes bulged lasciviously.
  
  
  Looking on that bedroom scene through the polarized glass with a pleased
  proprietal air, young Ferdie Foxlee nudged Madam Councillor Robert Markgrof.
  
  
  "She's a bewitching piece of pulchritude if ever I made one," he observed with
  the loftily detached air of the true scientist.
  
  
  "Look at him!" The wife of the now hastily disrobing councillor fumed like a
  pregnant volcano. "He never looks at me like that thes