The fabric, a soft green, felt smooth under her water-shrunken fingers, although the nap caught on her roughened hands.

When he finally lowered the heavy bulk of his sweating body onto the bed beside her, his roughened hands pressed her small thighs wide and he forced himself into her immediately, ignoring her repeated cries of pain.

He kissed her hard in response, his large roughened hand rising to squeeze her breast, to pull it towards him.

"Life is very hard," she said, wiping a roughened hand over her lined face.

It was only when she raised roughened hands to push back her hood that he realized the newcomer was a woman.

He cupped my breast and I could tell someone had given him a salve for softening roughened hands as well.

The fear and shock had overtaken her mind for a long time, but then he had taken her into the shower and as his roughened hands traveled over her body, the shaking changed from tremors of fear to tremors of need.

But whatever her social status tinder the old regime or the new, her roughened hands showed that she had been no idle lady.

The maids twittered to each other like a flock of her little birds, exclaiming over her roughened hands and sore feet, and the state of her hair.