The sound of the piano played and there she was as perfect as every day. No matter how disheveled she was, when she was sitting the piano keys became heavenly between her fingers, how I wished I could have cheered those sad eyes with the deep love I felt for her in silence.
Miss Salisbury did not adorn herself with pearls, but she adorned those sumptuous pearls given to her by lords all over the kingdom yet she seemed unhappy with the life she had been given, she would sit at the window of her room and seem to be absorbed or lost in the vastness of the green of the adjacent hills.
I who could not stop looking at her grew up accompanying my father always to his service duties, of course I could never get beyond where I was supposed to be. But that did not stop me from witnessing the direction that the young lady's life would take, she was someone different, she did not want to get married, have children, much less confine herself to a house to serve a husband with a very active sex life. On the contrary, Annalise wanted to study and be something important, she did not conform to the whims of her time nor did she consent to meetings with other young ladies.
El sonido del piano sonaba y all铆 estaba ella tan perfecta como cada d铆a. No importa que tan despeinada estuviera, cuando estaba sentada las teclas del piano se volv铆an celestiales entre sus dedos, cuanto hubiera deseado yo aquellos ojos tristes poder alegrar con el amor tan profundo que sent铆a por ella en silencio.
La Se帽orita Salisbury no se adornaba con perlas, sino que ella adornaba aquellas perlas suntuosas que le regalaban se帽ores de todo el reino sin embargo ella parec铆a no estar feliz con la vida que le hab铆a tocado, se sentaba en la ventana de su cuarto y parec铆a estar absorta o perdida en la inmensidad del verde de las colinas adyacentes.
Yo que no pod铆a parar de mirarla crec铆 acompa帽ando a mi padre siempre a sus labores de servicio, por supuesto nunca pude acceder m谩s all谩 de donde se supon铆a deb铆a estar. Pero eso no me impidi贸 ser testigo del rumbo que tomar铆a la vida de la se帽orita, ella era alguien diferente no quer铆a casarse, tener hijos ni mucho menos confinarse en una casa para servir a un esposo con una vida sexual muy activa. Por el contrario Annalise quer铆a estudiar y ser algo importante, no se conformaba con los caprichos de su 茅poca ni consent铆a reuniones con otras se帽oritas.
In many circles of the city it was rumored how masculine and unladylike Lord Salisbury's daughter was, but those were the lies of those women who surely envied her courage to oppose the standards of her time. Even I have no doubt that there was not a more beautiful and feminine woman in all London than Miss Annalise, who with her class stole the glances of all and sundry in the kingdom.
She had been orphaned at a very early age, but her father had done all he could after the cancer that consumed his wife's term by arranging for the nanny Edith to bring up his firstborn and his youngest son, Master Connor. She never said it but the absence of her mother ended up plunging her into a deep depression that would last until her puberty, time after the courtship of Duke Wes who years later would go to study in France leaving Annalise with the promise to return.
Some time later it was known that the Duke was courting a wicked Parisian, Miss Salisbury never had any love option again and on the contrary she found love in every boy she liked. It was an open secret of the amorous wanderings that scandalized the city to the point of arousing the curiosity of her respected father who patiently demanded her behavior.
But she and her brother would mark the beginning of a generation that would no longer have to conform to obsolete social norms. They both seemed to be ahead of their time and I enjoyed watching them defy the imposed moral codes and of course I grew up in love with Miss Annalise and wanting to be like Master Connor when I grew up.
En muchos c铆rculos de la ciudad se rumoreaba lo masculina y poca f茅mina que era la hija del Se帽or Salisbury, pero aquellas eran patra帽as de aquellas mujeres que seguramente envidiaban su valent铆a de oponerse a los est谩ndares de su tiempo. Incluso no tengo dudas de que no exist铆a en toda Londres una mujer m谩s hermosa y femenina que la se帽orita Annalise, quien con su clase robaba las miradas de propios y extra帽os del reino.
Hab铆a quedado huerfana de madre a muy temprana edad, pero su padre hab铆a hecho cuanto pod铆a despu茅s del c谩ncer que consumi贸 a su mujer t茅rmino disponiendo de la nana Edith para la crianza de su primog茅nita y su hijo menor el Se帽orito Connor. Ella nunca lo dijo pero la ausencia de su madre la termin贸 sumiendo en una profunda depresi贸n que durar铆a hasta su pubertad, tiempo despu茅s que llegaran los cortejos del Duque Wes quien a帽os despu茅s se ir铆a a estudiar en Francia dejando a Annalise con la promesa de regresar.
Tiempo despu茅s se supo que el Duque cortejaba a una malvada parisina, la Se帽orita Salisbury nunca volvi贸 a tener ninguna opci贸n amorosa y por el contrario encontraba el amor en cuanto muchacho le gustaba. Era un secreto a voces de las andanzas amorosas que escandalizaban a la ciudad hasta el punto de despertar la curiosidad de su respetado padre que con paciencia le reclamaba su comportamiento.
Pero ella y su hermano marcar铆an el inicio de una generaci贸n que ya no tendr铆a que complacer normas sociales obsoletas. Ambos parec铆an estar adelantados a su tiempo y yo disfrutaba verlos desafiar los c贸digos morales impuestos y por supuesto crec铆 enamorado de la Se帽orita y queriendo ser como el Se帽orito Connor cuando creciera.
But although I wanted her and her immense beauty to someday be noticed by that son of a worker, it never happened. I only remember one opportunity when I could see a part of her torso, when without caring she left her room towards the hallway where I was petrified and with an erection that I would not even notice until the Se帽orita noticed it and gave me the most beautiful gift I had ever received in my life, a moment that not even the most forgetful of gentlemen could forget.
One kiss would mark the beginning of my sex life, I indulged in onanism like a born addict all the week after that event, sadly I would never see Miss Annalise Salisbury again who a month later would die in a terrible accident in her car leaving that teenager grief stricken and dreaming every night of the perfect relationship we would have had. I would never get over the loss of my first love and my parents never understood the bitter emptiness left in my life by the woman who with a single kiss had made me hers for life, even though she herself did not understand it.
Pero aunque quise que alg煤n d铆a ella y su inmensa belleza se fijaran en aquel hijo de obrero eso nunca ocurri贸. Solo recuerdo una oportunidad cuando sin querer pude ver una parte de su torso, cuando sin importarle sali贸 de su habitaci贸n hacia el pasillo donde estaba yo petrificado y con una erecci贸n que ni siquiera llegar铆a notar hasta que la Se帽orita lo not贸 y me dio el regalo m谩s hermoso que en mi vida recib铆, un momento que ni siquiera el m谩s olvidadizo de los caballeros podr铆a olvidar.
Un beso marcar铆a el inicio de mi vida sexual, me entregu茅 al onanismo como un adicto nato toda la semana posterior a ese acontecimiento, lamentablemente nunca m谩s volver铆a a ver a la Se帽orita Annalise Salisbury quien un mes despu茅s morir铆a en un terrible accidente en su autom贸vil dejando a aquel adolescente acongojado y so帽ando cada noche con la relaci贸n perfecta que hubi茅ramos tenido. Yo nunca superar铆a la perdida de mi primer amor y mis padres nunca comprendieron el amargo vac铆o que dej贸 en mi vida la mujer que con un solo beso me hab铆a hecho suyo de por vida, aunque ni ella misma lo comprendiera.
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