Run Away With Me
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"She's a beauty. Look at how pale she is. Come on son choose her."
Based off of the painting The Babylonian Marriage Market by Edwin Long, follow Dimitri Fresch an upper-classman in the search of the most beautiful women that he is to marry.
"Come one come all! Here we have our finest, the palest and beautiful women here tonight!"
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I mean not to harm or offend anyone in this story. I have tried not to make any racial slurs in it but the story itself is set in an era where such slurs were common. I know I am possibly risking getting foul comments by posting this story but I feel as if the historical factor needs to be known. Everything mentioned is based in the Victorian Era (1800) therefore all language will be alike what it was back then. Thank you.
Bit of History- The Babylonian Marriage Market is an 1875 painting by the British painter Edwin Long of young women being auctioned into marriage.
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