Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.
"Might is Right". Book by Ragnar Redbeard, Chapter 6: Love, and Women, and War, 2, 1890.
Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.