Yet oh! what an immense difference did I feel between this impression of a pleasure merely animal, and struck out of the collision of the sexes by a passive bodily effect, from that sweet fury, that rage of active delight which crowns the enjoyments4 of a mutual5 love-passion, where two hearts, tenderly and truly united, club to exalt6 the joy, and give it a spirit and soul that bids defiance7 to that end which mere momentary8 desires generally terminate in, when they die of a surfeit9 of satisfaction!
Mr. H— — whom no distinctions of that sort seemed to disturb, scarce gave himself or me breathing time from the last encounter, but, as if he had task’d himself to prove that the appearances of his vigour10 were not signs hung out in vain, in a few minutes he was in a condition for renewing the onset11; to which, preluding with a storm of kisses, he drove the same course as before, with unabated fervour; and thus, in repeated engagements, kept me constantly in exercise till dawn of morning; in all which time he made me fully12 sensible of the virtues14 of his firm texture15 of limbs, his square shoulders, broad chest, compact hard muscles, in short a system of namliness that might pass for no bad image of our ancient sturdy barons16, when they wielded17 the battle-ax: whose race is now so thoroughly18 refin’d and frittered away into the more delicate and modern-built frame of our pap-nerv’d softlings, who are as pale, as pretty, and almost as masculine as their sisters.
Mr. H— — content, however, with having the day break upon his triumphs, delivered me up to the refreshment19 of a rest we both wanted, and we soon dropped into a profound sleep.
Tho’ he was some time awake before me, yet did he not offer to disturb a repose20 he had given me so much occasion for; but on my first stirring, which was not till past ten o’clock, I was oblig’d to endure one more trial of his manhood.
About eleven, in came Mrs. Jones, with two basins of the richest soup, which her experience in these matters had mov’d her to prepare. I pass over the fulsome21 compliments, the cant22 of the decent procuress, with which she saluted23 us both; but tho’ my blood rose at the sight of her, I supprest my emotions, and gave all my concern to reflections on what would be the consequence of this new engagement.
But Mr. H— — who penetrated25 my uneasiness, did not long suffer me to languish26 under it. He acquainted me that, having taken a solid sincere affection to me, he would begin by giving me one leading mark of it by removing me out of a house which must, for many reasons, be irksome and disagreeable to me, into convenient lodgings27, where he would take all imaginable care of me; and desiring me not to have any explanations with my landlady28, or be impatient till he returned, he dress’d and went out, having left me a purse with two and twenty guineas in it, being all he had about him, as he expresst it, to keep my pocket till further supplies.
As soon as he was gone, I felt the usual consequence of the first launch into vice29 (for my love-attachment to Charles never appear’d to me in that light). I was instantly borne away down the stream, without making back to the shore. My dreadful necessities, my gratitude31, and above all, to say the plain truth, the dissipation and diversion I began to find, in this new acquaintance, from the black corroding32 thoughts my heart had been a prey33 to ever since the absence of my dear Charles, concurr’d to stun34 all contrary reflections. If I now thought of my first, my only charmer, it was still with the tenderness and regret of the fondest love, embitter’d with the consciousness that I was no longer worthy35 of him. I could have begg’d my bread with him all over the world, but wretch36 that I was, I had neither the virtue13 nor courage requisite37 not to outlive my separation from him!
Yet, had not my heart been thus pre-ingaged, Mr. H—— might probably have been the sole master of it; but the place was full, and the force of conjunctures alone had made him the possessor of my person; the charms of which had, by the bye, been his sole object and passion, and were, of course, no foundation for a love either very delicate or very durable38.
He did not return till six in the evening to take me away to my new lodgings; and my moveables being soon pack’d, and convey’d into a hackney-coach, it cost me but little regret to take my leave of a landlady whom I thought I had so much reason not to be overpleas’d with; and as for her part, she made no other difference to my staying or going, but what that of the profit created.
We soon got to the house appointed for me, which was that of a plain tradesman who, on the score of interest, was entirely40 at Mr. H——’s devotion, and who let him the first floor, very genteelly furnish’d, for two guineas a week, of which I was instated mistress, with a maid to attend me.
He stayed with me that evening, and we had a supper from a neighbouring tavern41, after which, and a gay glass or two, the maid put me to bed. Mr. H—— soon follow’d, and notwithstanding the fatigues43 of the preceding night, I found no quarter nor remission from him: he piqued44 himself, as he told me, on doing the honours of my new apartment.
The morning being pretty well advanc’d, we got to breakfast; and the ice now broke, my heart, no longer engross’d by love, began to take ease, and to please itself with such trifles as Mr. H——’s liberal liking45 led him to make his court to the usual vanity of our sex. Silks, laces, ear-rings, pearl-necklace, gold watch, in short, all the trinkets and articles of dress were lavishly46 heap’d upon me; the sense of which, if it did not create returns of love, forc’d a kind of grateful fondness something like love; a distinction it would be spoiling the pleasure of nine tenths of the keepers in the town to make, and is, I suppose, the very good reason why so few of them ever do make it.
I was now establish’d the kept mistress in form, well lodg’d, with a very sufficient allowance, and lighted up with all the lustre48 of dress.
Mr. H—— continu’d kind and tender to me; yet, with all this, I was far from happy; for, besides my regret for my dear youth, which, though often suspended or diverted, still return’d upon me in certain melancholic49, moments with redoubled violences, I wanted more society, more dissipation.
As to Mr. H— — he was so much my superior in every sense, that I felt it too much to the disadvantage of the gratitude I ow’d him. Thus he gain’d my esteem50, though he could not raise my taste; I was qualify’d for no sort of conversation with him except one sort, and that is a satisfaction which leaves tiresome51 intervals52, if not fill’d up by love, or other amusements.
Mr. H— — so experienc’d, so learned in the ways of women, numbers of whom had passed through his hands, doubtless soon perceiv’d this uneasiness, and without approving or liking me the better for it, had the complaisance53 to indulge me.
He made suppers at my lodgings, where he brought several companions of his pleasures, with their mistresses; and by this means I got into a circle of acquaintance that soo strip’d me of all the remains54 of bashfulness and modesty55 which might be yet left of my country education, and were, to a just taste, perhaps the greatest of my charms.
We visited one another in form, and mimic’d, as near as we could, all the miseries56, the follies57, and impertinences of the women of quality, in the round of which they trifle away their time, without its ever entering into their little heads that on earth there cannot subsist58 any thing more silly, more flat, more insipid59 and worthless, than, generally consider’d, their system of life is: they ought to treat the men as their tyrants60, indeed! were they to condemn61 them to it.
But tho’, amongst the kept mistresses (and I was now acquainted with a good many, besides some useful matrons, who live by their connexions with them), I hardly knew one that did not perfectly62 detest63 her keeper, and, of course, made little or no scruple64 of any infidelity she could safely accomplish, I had still no notion of wronging mine; for, besides that no mark of jealousy66 on his side induced in me the desire or gave me the provocation67 to play him a trick of that sort, and that his constant generosity68, politeness, and tender attentions to please me forc’d a regard to him, that without affecting my heart, insur’d him my fidelity65, no object had yet presented that could overcome the habitual69 liking I had contracted for him; and I was on the eve of obtaining, from the movements of his own voluntary generosity, a modest provision for life, when an accident happen’d which broke all the measures he had resolv’d upon in my favor.
I had now liv’d near seven months with Mr. H— — when one day returning to my lodgings from a visit in the neighbourhood, where I us’d to stay longer, I found the street door open, and the maid of the house standing42 at it, talking with some of her acquaintances, so that I came in without knocking; and, as I passed by, she told me Mr. H—— was above. I stept up-stairs into my own bed-chamber, with no other thought than of pulling off my hat, etc., and then to wait upon him in the dining room, into which my bed-chamber had a door, as is common enough. Whilst I was untying70 my hat-strings, I fancied I heard my maid Hannah’s voice and a sort of tussle71, which raising my curiosity, I stole softly to the door, where a knot in the wood had been slipt out and afforded a very commanding peep-hole to the scene then in agitation72, the actors of which had been too earnestly employ’d to hear my opening my own door, from the landing-place of the stairs, into my bed-chamber.
The first sight that struck me was Mr. H—— pulling and hauling this coarse country strammel towards a couch that stood in a corner of the dining room; to which the girl made only a sort of awkward boidening resistance, crying out so loud, that I, who listened at the door, could scarce hear her: “Pray sir, don’t . . ., let me alone . . . I am not for your turn . . . You cannot, sure, demean yourself with such a poor body as I . . . Lord! Sir, my mistress may come home . . . I must not indeed . . . I will cry out . . .” All of which did not hinder her from insensibly suffering herself to be brought to the foot of the couch, upon which a push of no mighty74 violence serv’d to give her a very easy fall, and my gentleman having got up his hands to the strong-hold of her VIRTUE, she, no doubt, thought it was time to give up the argument, and that all further defense75 would be in vain: and he, throwing her petticoats over her face, which was now as red as scarlet76, discover’d a pair of stout77, plump, substantial thighs78, and tolerably white; he mounted them round his hips80, and coming out with his drawn81 weapon, stuck it in the cloven spot, where he seem’d to find a less difficult entrance than perhaps he had flatter’d himself with (for, by the way, this blouze had left her place in the country, for a bastard), and, indeed, all his motions shew’d he was lodg’d pretty much at large. After he had done, his DEAREE gets up, drops her petticoats down, and smooths her apron82 and handkerchief. Mr. H—— look’d a little silly, and taking out some money, gave it her, with an air indifferent enough, bidding her be a good girl, and say nothing.
Had I lov’d this man, it was not in nature for me to have had patience to see the whole scene through: I should have broke in and play’d the jealous princess with a vengeance83. But that was not the case, my pride alone was hurt, my heart not, and I could easier win upon myself to see how far he would go, till I had no uncertainty84 upon my conscience.
The least delicate of all affairs of this sort being now over, I retir’d softly into my closet, where I began to consider what I should do. My first scheme, naturally, was to rush in and upbraid85 them; this, indeed, flatter’d my present emotions and vexations, as it would have given immediate86 vent87 to them; but, on second thoughts, not being so clear as to the consequences to be apprehended88 from such a step, I began to doubt whether it was not better to dissemble my discovery till a safer season, when Mr. H—— should have perfected the settlement he had made overtures89 to me of, and which I was not to think such a violent explanation, as I was indeed not equal to the management of, could possibly forward, and might destroy. On the other hand, the provocation seem’d too gross, too flagrant, not to give me some thoughts of revenge; the very start of which idea restor’d me to perfect composure; and delighted as I was with the confus’d plan of it in my head, I was easily mistress enough of myself to support the part of ignorance I had prescrib’d to myself; and as all this circle of reflections was instantly over, I stole a tip-toe to the passage door, and opening it with a noise, pass’d for having that moment come home; and after a short pause, as if to pull off my things, I opened the door into the dining room, where I found the dowdy90 blowing the fire, and my faithful shepherd walking about the room and whistling, as cool and unconcern’d as if nothing had happened. I think, however, he had not much to brag91 of having out-dissembled me: for I kept up, nobly, the character of our sex for art, and went up to him with the same air of frankness as I had ever receiv’d him. He stayed but a little while, made some excuse for not being able to stay the evening with me, and went out.
As for the wench, she was now spoil’d, at least for my servant; and scarce eight and forty hours were gone round, before her insolence92, on what had pass’d between Mr. H—— and her, gave me so fair an occasion to turn her away, at a minute’s warning, that not to have done it would have been the wonder: so that he could neither disapprove93 it nor find in it the least reason to suspect my original motive94. What became of her afterwards, I know not; but generous as Mr. H—— was, he undoubtedly95 made her amends96: though, I dare answer, that he kept up no farther commerce with her of that sort; as his stooping to such a coarse morsel97 was only a sudden sally of lust47, on seeing a wholesome98-looking, buxom99 country-wench, and no more strange than hunger, or even a whimsical appetite’s making a fling meal of neck-beef, for change of diet.
Had I consider’d this escapade of Mr. H—— in no more than that light and contented100 myself with turning away the wench, I had thought and acted right; but, flush’d as I was with imaginary wrongs, I should have held Mr. H—— to have been cheaply off, if I had not push’d my revenge farther, and repaid him, as exactly as I could for the soul of me, in the same coin.
Nor was this worthy act of justice long delay’d: I had it too much at heart. Mr. H—— had, about a fortnight before, taken into his service a tenant’s son, just come out of the country, a very handsome young lad scarce turn’d of nineteen, fresh as a rose, well shap’d and clever limb’d: in short, a very good excuse for any woman’s liking, even tho’ revenge had been out of the question; any woman, I say, who was disprejudic’d, and had wit and spirit enough to prefer a point of pleasure to a point of pride.
Mr. H—— had clap’d a livery upon him; and his chief employ was, after being shewn my lodgings, to bring and carry letters or messages between his master and me; and as the situation of all kept ladies is not the fittest to inspire respect, even to the meanest of mankind, and, perhaps, less of it from the most ignorant, I could not help observing that this lad, who was, I suppose, acquainted with my relation to his master by his fellow-servants, used to eye me in that bashful confus’d way, more expressive101, more moving and readier catch’d at by our sex, than any other declarations whatever: my figure had, it seems, struck him, and modest and innocent as he was, he did not himself know that the pleasure he took in looking at me was love, or desire; but his eyes, naturally wanton, and now enflam’d with passion, spoke102 a great deal more than he durst have imagin’d they did. Hitherto, indeed, I had only taken notice of the comeliness103 of the youth, but without the least design: my pride alone would have guarded me from a thought that way, had not Mr. H——’s condescension104 with my maid, where there was not half the temptation in point of person, set me a dangerous example; but now I began to look on this stripling as every way a delicious instrument of my design’d retaliation105 upon Mr. H—— of an obligation for which I should have made a conscience to die in his debt.
In order then to pave the way for the accomplishment106 of my scheme, for two or three times that the young fellow came to me with messages, I manag’d so, as without affectation to have him admitted to my bed-side, or brought to me at my toilet, where I was dressing107; and by carelessly shewing or letting him see, as if without meaning or design, sometimes my bosom108 rather more bare than it should be; sometimes my hair, of which I had a very fine head, in the natural flow of it while combing; sometimes a neat leg, that had unfortunately slipt its garter, which I made no scruple of tying before him, easily gave him the impressions favourable109 to my purpose, which I could perceive to sparkle in his eyes, and glow in his cheeks: then certain slight squeezes by the hand, as I took letters from him, did his business compleatly.
When I saw him thus mov’d, and fired for my purpose, I inflam’d him yet more, by asking him several leading questions, such as had he a mistress? . . . was she prettier than me? . . . could he love such a one as I was? . . . and the like; to all which the blushing simpleton answer’d to my wish, in a strain of perfect nature, perfect undebauch’d innocence110, but with all the awkwardness and simplicity111 of countrybreeding.
When I thought I had sufficiently112 ripen’d him for the laudable point I had in view, one day that I expected him at a particular hour, I took care to have the coast clear for the reception I design’d him; and, as I laid it, he came to the dining-room door, tapped at it, and, on my bidding him come in, he did so, and shut the door after him. I desir’d him, then, to bolt it on the inside, pretending it would not otherwise keep shut.
I was then lying at length upon that very couch, the scene of Mr. H——’s polite joys, in an undress which was with all the art of negligence113 flowing loose, and in a most tempting114 disorder115: no stay, no hoop116 . . . no incumbrance whatever. On the other hand, he stood at a little distance, that gave me a full view of a fine featur’d, shapely, healthy country lad, breathing the sweets of fresh blooming youth; his hair, which was of a perfect shining black, play’d to his face in natural side-curls, and was set out with a smart tuck-up behind; new buckskin breeches, that, clipping close, shew’d the shape of a plump, well made thigh79; white stockings, garter-lac’d livery, shoulder knot, altogether compos’d a figure in which the beauties of pure flesh and blood appeared under no disgrace form the lowness of a dress, to which a certain spruce neatness seems peculiarly fitted.
I bid him come towards me and give me his letter, at the same time throwing down, carelessly, a book I had in my hands. He colour’d, and came within reach of delivering me the letter, which he held out, awkwardly enough, for me to take, with his eyes riveted117 on my bosom, which was, through the design’d disorder of my handkerchief, sufficiently bare, and rather shaded than hid.
I, smiling in his face, took the letter, and immediately catching118 gently hold of his shirt sleeve, drew him towards me, blushing, and almost trembling; for surely his extreme bashfulness, and utter inexperience, call’d for, at least, all the advances to encourage him: his body was now conveniently inclin’d towards me, and just softly chucking his smooth beardless chin, I asked him if he was afraid of a lady? . . ., and, with that took, and carrying his hand to my breasts, I prest it tenderly to them. They were now finely furnish’d, and rais’d in flesh, so that, panting with desire, they rose and fell, in quick heaves, under his touch: at this, the boy’s eyes began to lighten with all the fires of inflam’d nature, and his cheeks flush’d with a deep scarlet: tongue-tied with joy, rapture119, and bashfulness, he could not speak, but then his looks, his emotion, sufficiently satisfy’d me that my train had taken, and that I had no disappointment to fear.
My lips, which I threw in his way, so as that he could not escape kissing them, fix’d, fired, and embolden’d him: and now, glancing my eyes towards that part of his dress which cover’d the essential object of enjoyment3, I plainly discover’d the swell120 and commotion121 there; and as I was now too far advanc’d to stop in so fair a way, and was indeed no longer able to contain myself, or wait the slower progress of his maiden122 bashfulness (for such it seem’d, and really was), I stole my hand upon his thighs, down one of which I could both see and feel a stiff hard body, confin’d by his breeches, that my fingers could discover no end to. Curious then, and eager to unfold so alarming a mystery, playing, as it were, with his buttons, which were bursting ripe from the active force within, those of his waistband and fore-flap flew open at a touch, when out IT started; and now, disengag’d from the shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a maypole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ’d, it must have belong’d to a young giant. Its prodigious123 size made me shrink again; yet I could not, without pleasure, behold124, and even ventur’d to feel, such a length, such a breadth of animated125 ivory! perfectly well turn’d and fashion’d, the proud stiffness of which distended126 its skin, whose smooth polish and velvet127 softness might vie with that of the most delicate of our sex, and whose exquisite128 whiteness was not a little set off by a sprout129 of black curling hair round the root, through the jetty sprigs of which the fair skin shew’d as in a fine evening you may have remark’d the clear light ether throught the branchwork of distant trees over-topping the summit of a hill: then the broad and blueish-casted incarnate130 of the head, and blue serpentines131 of its veins132, altogether compos’d the most striking assemblage of figure and colours in nature. In short, it stood an object of terror and delight.
But what was yet more surprising, the owner of this natural curiosity, through the want of occasions in the strictness of his home-breeding, and the little time he had been in town not having afforded him one, was hitherto an absolute stranger, in practice at least, to the use of all that manhood he was so nobly stock’d with; and it now fell to my lot ot stand his first trial of it, if I could resolve to run the risks of its disproportion to that tender part of me, which such an oversiz’d machine was very fit to lay in ruins.
But it was now of the latest to deliberate; for, by this time, the young fellow, overheated with the present objects, and too high mettled to be longer curb’d in by that modesty and awe133 which had hitherto restrain’d him, ventur’d, under the stronger impulse and instructive promptership of nature alone, to slip his hands, trembling with eager impetuous desires, under my petticoats; and seeing, I suppose, nothing extremely severe in my looks to stop or dash him, he feels out, and seizes, gently, the center-spot of his ardours. Oh then! the fiery134 touch of his fingers determines me, and my fears melting away before the glowing intolerable heat, my thighs disclose of themselves, and yield all liberty to his hand: and now, a favourable movement giving my petticoats a toss, the avenue lay too fair, too open to be miss’d. He is now upon me: I had placed myself with a jet under him, as commodious135 and open as possible to his attempts, which were untoward136 enough, for his machine, meeting with no inlet, bore and batter’d stiffly against me in random137 pushes, now above, now below, now beside his point; till, burning with impatience138 from its irritating touches, I guided gently, with my hand, this furious engine to where my young novice139 was now to be taught his first lesson of pleasure. Thus he nick’d, at length, the warm and insufficient140 orifice; but he was made to find no breach141 impracticable, and mine, tho’ so often enter’d, was still far from wide enough to take him easily in.
By my direction, however, the head of his unwieldy machine was so critically pointed39 that, feeling him foreright against the tender opening, a favourable motion from me met his timely thrust, by which the lips of it, strenuously142 dilated143, gave way to his thus assisted impetuosity, so that we might both feel that he had gain’d a lodgement. Pursuing then his point, he soon, by violent, and, to me, most painful piercing thrusts, wedges himself at length so far in, as to be now tolerably secure of his entrance: here he stuck, and I now felt such a mixture of pleasure and pain, as there is no giving a definition of. I dreaded144 alike his splitting me farther up, or his withdrawing; I could not bear either to keep or part with him. The sense of pain however prevailing145, from his prodigious size and stiffness, acting146 upon me in those continued rapid thrusts, with which he furiously pursu’d his penetration147, made me cry out gently: “Oh! my dear, you hurt me!” This was enough to check the tender respectful boy even in his midcareer; and he immediately drew out the sweet cause of my complaint, whilst his eyes eloquently148 express’d, at once, his grief for hurting me, and his reluctance149 at dislodging from quarters of which the warmth and closeness had given him a gust150 of pleasure that he was now desire-mad to satisfy, and yet too much a novice not to be afraid of my withholding151 his relief, on account ot the pain he had put me to.
But I was, myself, far from being pleas’d with his having too much regarded my tender exclaims; for now, more and more fired with the object before me, as it still stood with the fiercest erection, unbonnetted, and displaying its broad bermilion head, I first gave the youth a re-encouraging kiss, which he repaid me with a fervour that seem’d at once to thank me, and bribe152 my farther compliance153; and soon replac’d myself in a posture154 to receive, at all risks, the renew’d invasion, which he did not delay an instant: for, being presently remounted, I once more felt the smooth hard gristle forcing an entrance, which he achiev’d rather easier than before. Pain’d, however, as I was, with his efforts of gaining a complete admission, which he was so regardful as to manage by gentle degrees, I took care not to complain. In the meantime, the soft strait passage gradually loosens, yields, and, stretch’d to its utmost bearing, by the stiff, thick, indriven engine, sensible, at once, to the ravishing pleasure of the feel and the pain of the distension155, let him in about half way, when all the most nervous activity he now exerted, to further his penetration, gain’d him not an inch of his purpose: for, whilst he hesitated there, the crisis of pleasure overtook him, and the close compressure of the warm surrounding fold drew from him the extatic gush156, even before mine was ready to meet it, kept up by the pain I had endur’d in the course ot the engagement, from the insufferable size of his weapon, tho’ it was not as yet in above half its length.
I expected then, but without wishing it, that he would draw, but was pleasantly disappointed: for he was not to be let off so. The well breath’d youth, hot-mettled, and flush with genial157 juices, was now fairly in for making me know my driver. As soon, then, as he had made a short pause, waking, as it were, out of the trance of pleasure (in which every sense seem’d lost for a while, whilst, with his eyes shut, and short quick breathing, he had yielded down his maiden tribute), he still kept his post, yet unsated with enjoyment, and solacing158 in these so new delights; till his stiffness, which had scarce perceptibly remitted159, being thoroughly recovered to him, who had not once unsheath’d, he proceeded afresh to cleave160 and open to himself an entire entry into me, which was not a little made easy to him by the balsamic injection with which he had just plentifully161 moisten’d the whole internals of the passage. Redoubling, then, the active energy of his thrusts, favoured by the fervid162 appetite of my motions, the soft oiled wards73 can no longer stand so effectual a picklock, but yield, and open him an entrance. And now, with conspiring163 nature, and my industry, strong to aid him, he pierces, penetrates164, and at length, winning his way inch by inch, gets entirely in, and finally mighty thrust sheaths it up to the guard; on the information of which, from the close jointure of our bodies (insomuch that the hair on both sides perfectly interweav’d and incircl’d together), the eyes of the transported youth sparkl’d with more joyous165 fires, and all his looks and motions acknowledged excess of pleasure, which I now began to share, for I felt him in my very vitals! I was quite sick with delight! stir’d beyond bearing with its furious agitations166 within me, and gorged167 and cramm’d, even to surfeit. Thus I lay gasping168, panting under him, till his broken breathings, faltering169 accents, eyes twinkling with humid fires, lunges more furious, and an increased stiffness, gave me to hail the approaches of the second period: it came . . . and the sweet youth, overpower’d with the extasy, died away in my arms, melting in a flood that shot in genial warmth into the innermost recesses170 of my body; every conduit of which, dedicated171 to that pleasure, was on flow to mix with it. Thus we continued for some instants, lost, breathless, senseless of every thing, and in every part but those favourite ones of nature, in which all that we enjoyed of life and sensation was now totally concentre’d.
When our mutual trance was a little over, and the young fellow had withdrawn172 that delicious stretcher, with which he had most plentifully drowned all thoughts of revenge in the sense of actual pleasure, the widen’d wounded passage refunded173 a stream of pearly liquids, which flowed down my thighs, mixed with streaks174 of blood, the marks of the ravage175 of that montrous machine of his, which had now triumph’d over a kind of second maidenhead. I stole, however, my handkerchief to those parts, and wip’d them as dry as I could, whilst he was re-adjusting and buttoning up.
I made him now sit down by me, and as he had gather’d courage from such extreme intimacy176, he gave me an aftercourse of pleasure, in a natural burst of tender gratitude and joy, at the new scenes of bliss177 I had opened to him: scenes positively178 new, as he had never before had the least acquaintance with that mysterious mark, the cloven stamp of female distinction, tho’ nobody better qualify’d than he to penetrate24 into its deepest recesses, or do it nobler justice. But when, by certain motions, certain unquietnesses of his hands, that wandered not without design, I found he languish’d for satisfying a curiosity, natural enough, to view and handle those parts which attract and concentre the warmest force of imagination, charmed as I was to have any occasion of obliging and humouring his young desires, I suffer’d him to proceed as he pleased, without check or control, to the satisfaction of them.
Easily, then, reading in my eyes the full permission of myself to all his wishes, he scarce pleased himself more than me when, having insinuated179 his hand under my petticoat and shift, he presently removed those bars to the sight by slyly lifting them upwards180, under favour of a thousand kisses, which he thought, perhaps, necessary to divert my attention from what he was about. All my drapery being now roll’d up to my waist, I threw myself into such a posture upon the couch, as gave up to him, in full view, the whole region of delight, and all the luxurious181 landscape round it. The transported youth devour’d every thing with his eyes, and try’d, with his fingers, to lay more open to his sight the secrets of that dark and delicious deep: he opens the folding lips, the softness of which, yielding entry to any thing of a hard body, close round it, and oppose the sight: and feeling further, meets with, and wonders at, a soft fleshy excrescence, which, limber and relaxed after the late enjoyment, now grew, under the touch and examination of his fiery fingers, more and more stiff and considerable, till the titillating182 ardours of that so sensible part made me sigh, as if he had hurt me; on which he withdrew his curious probing fingers, asking me pardon, as it were, in a kiss that rather increased the flame there.
Novelty ever makes the strongest impressions, and in pleasures, especially; no wonder, then, that he was swallowed up in raptures183 of admiration184 of things so interesting by their nature, and now seen and handled for the first time. On my part, I was richly overpaid for the pleasure I gave him, in that of examining the power of those objects thus abandon’d to him, naked and free to his loosest wish, over the artless, natural stripling: his eyes streaming fire, his cheeks glowing with a florid red, his fervid frequent sighs, whilst his hands convulsively squeez’d, opened, pressed together again the lips and sides of that deep flesh wound, or gently twitched185 the overgrowing moss186; and all proclaimed the excess, the riot of joys, in having his wantonness thus humour’d. But he did not long abuse my patience, for the objects before him had now put him by all his, and, coming out with that formidable machine of his, he lets the fury loose, and pointing it directly to the pouting187-lipt mouth, that bid him sweet defiance in dumb-shew, squeezes in the head, and, driving with refreshed rage, breaks in, and plugs up the whole passage of that soft pleasure-conduit, where he makes all shake again, and put, once more, all within me into such an uproar188, as nothing could still but a fresh inundation189 from the very engine of those flames, as well as from all the springs with which nature floats that reservoir of joy, when risen to its flood-mark.
I was now so bruised190, so batter’d, so spent with this over-match, that I could hardly stir, or raise myself, but lay palpitating, till the ferment191 of my sense subsiding192 by degrees, and the hour striking at which I was oblig’d to dispatch my young man, I tenderly advised him of the necessity there was for parting; which I felt as much displeasure at as he could do, who seemed eagerly disposed to keep the field, and to enter on a fresh action. But the danger was too great, and after some hearty193 kisses of leave, and recommendations of secrecy194 and discretion195, I forc’d myself to send him away, not without assurances of seeing him again, to the same purpose, as soon as possible, and thrust a guinea into his hands: not more, lest, being too flush of money, a suspicion or discovery might arise from thence, having every thing to fear from the dangerous indiscretion of that age in which young fellows would be too irresistible196, too charming, if we had not that terrible fault to guard against.
Giddy and intoxicated197 as I was with such satiating draughts198 of pleasure, I still lay on the couch, supinely stretched out, in a delicious languor199 diffus’d over all my limbs, hugging myself for being thus revenged to my heart’s content, and that in a manner so precisely200 alike, and on the identical spot in which I had received the supposed injury. No reflections on the consequences ever once perplex’d me, nor did I make myself one single reproach for having, by this step, completely entered myself of a profession more decry’d than disused. I should have held it ingratitude201 to the pleasure I had received to have repented202 of it; and since I was now over the bar, I thought, by plunging203 over head and ears into the stream I was hurried away by, to drown all sense of shame or reflection.
Whilst I was thus making these laudable dispositions204, and whispering to myself a kind of tacit vow205 of incontinency, enters Mr. H—— The consciousness of what I had been doing deepen’d yet the glowing of my cheeks, flushed with the warmth of the late action, which, joined to the piquant206 air of my dishabille, drew from Mr. H—— a compliment on my looks, which he was proceeding207 to back the sincerity208 of with proofs, and that with so brisk an action as made me tremble for fear of a discovery from the condition of those parts were left in from their late severe handling: the orifice dilated and inflamed209, the lips swollen210 with their uncommon211 distension, the ringlets press down, crushed and uncurl’d with the over-flowing moisture that had wet every thing round it; in short, the different feel and state of things would hardly have passed upon one of Mr. H——’s nicety and experience unaccounted for but by the real cause. But here the woman saved me: I pretended a violent disorder of my head, and a feverish212 heat, that indisposed me too much to receive his embraces. He gave in to this, and good-naturedly desisted. Soon after, an old lady coming in made a third, very a-propos for the confusion I was in, and Mr. H— — after bidding me take care of myself, and recommending me to my repose, left me much at ease and reliev’d by his absence.
In the close of the evening, I took care to have prepar’d for me a warm bath of aromatick and sweet herbs; in which having fully laved and solaced213 myself, I came out voluptuously214 refresh’d in body and spirit.
The next morning, waking pretty early, after a night’s perfect rest and composure, it was not without some dread30 and uneasiness that I thought of what innovation that tender, soft system of mine might have sustained from the shock of a machine so sized for its destruction.
Struck with this apprehension215, I scarce dared to carry my hand thither, to inform myself of the state and posture of things.
But I was soon agreeably cur’d of my fears.
The silky hair that covered round the borders, now smooth’d and re-pruned, had resumed its wonted curl and trimness; the fleshy pouting lips that had stood the brunt of the engagement, were no longer swollen or moisturedrenched; and neither they, nor the passage into which they opened, that suffered so great a dilatation, betray’d any the least alteration216, outward or inwardly, to the most curious research, notwithstanding also the laxity that naturally follows the warm bath.
This continuation of that grateful stricture which is in us, to the men, the very jet of their pleasure, I ow’d, it seems, to a happy habit of body, juicy, plump and furnished towards the texture of those parts, with a fullness of soft springy flesh, that yielding sufficiently, as it does, to almost any distension soon recovers itself so as to retighten that strict compression of its mantlings and folds, which form the sides of the passage, wherewith it so tenderly embraces and closely clips any foreign body introduc’d into it, such as my exploring finger then was.
Finding then every thing in due tone and order, I remember’d my fears, only to make a jest of them to myself. and now, palpably mistress of nay217 size of man, and triumphing in my double achievement of pleasure and revenge, I abandon’d myself entirely to the ideas of all the delight I had swam in. I lay stretching out, glowingly alive all over, and tossing with burning impatience for the renewal218 of joys that had sinned but in a sweet excess; now did I loose my longing219, for about ten in the morning, according to expectation, Will, my new humble220 sweetheart, came with a message from his master, Mr. H— — to know how I did. I had taken care to send my maid on an errand into the city, that I was sure would take up time enough; and, from the people of the house, I had nothing to fear, as they were plain good sorts of folks, and wise enough to mind no more other people’s business than they could well help.
All dispositions then made, not forgetting that of lying in bed to receive him, when he was entered the door of my bed-chamber, a latch221, that I governed by a wire, descended222 and secur’d it.
I could not but observe that my young minion223 was as much spruced out as could be expected from one in his condition: a desire of pleasing that could not be indifferent to me, since it prov’d that I pleased him; which, I assure you, was now a point I was not above having in view.
His hair trimly dressed, clean linen224, and, above all, a hale, ruddy, wholesome country look, made him out as pretty a piece of woman’s meat as you could see, and I should have thought nay one much out of taste that could not have made a hearty meal of such a morsel as nature seemed to have design’d for the highest diet of pleasure.
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refreshment
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requisite
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durable
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pointed
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tavern
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fatigues
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piqued
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liking
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lavishly
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lust
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lustre
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melancholic
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tiresome
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intervals
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complaisance
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modesty
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miseries
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follies
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fidelity
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