Here he thank’d me for the extreme pleasure I had procured1 him, and seeing, perhaps, some marks in my countenance2 of terror and apprehension3 of retaliation4 on my own skin, for what I had been the instrument of his suffering in his, he assured me, that he was ready to give up to me any engagement I might deem myself under to stand him, as he had done me, but if that proceeded in my consent to it, he would consider the difference of my sex, its greater delicacy5 and incapacity to undergo pain. Rehearten’d at which, and piqu’d in honour, as I thought, not to flinch6 so near the trial, especially as I well knew Mrs. Cole was an eye-witness, from her stand of espial, to the whole of our transactions, I was now less afraid of my skin than of his not furnishing me with an opportunity of signalizing my resolution.
Consonant7 to this disposition8 was my answer, but my courage was still more in my head, than in my heart; and as cowards rush into the danger they fear, in order to be the sooner rid of the pain of that sensation, I was entirely9 pleas’d with his hastening matters into execution.
He had then little to do, but to unloose the strings10 of my petticoats, and lift them, together with my shift, navelhigh, where he just tuck’d them up loosely girt, and might be slipt up higher at pleasure. Then viewing me round with great seeming delight, he laid me at length on my face upon the bench, and when I expected he would tie me, as I had done him, and held out my hands, not without fear and a little trembling, he told me he would by no means terrify me unnecessarily with such a confinement11; for that though he meant to put my constancy to some trial, the standing12 it was to be completely voluntary on my side, and therefore I might be at full liberty to get up whenever I found the pain too much for me. You cannot imagine how much I thought myself bound, by being thus allow’d to remain loose, and how much spirit this confidence in me gave me, so that I was even from my heart careless how much my flesh might suffer in honour of it.
All by back parts, naked half way up, were now fully14 at his mercy: and first, he stood at a convenient distance, delighting himself with a gloating survey of the attitude I lay in, and of all the secret stores I thus expos’d to him in fair display. Then, springing eagerly towards me, he cover’d all those naked parts with a fond profusion16 of kisses; and now, taking hold of the rod, rather wanton’d with me, in gentle inflictions on those tender trembling masses of my flesh behind, than in any way hurt them, till by degrees, he began to tingle17 them with smarter lashes19, so as to provoke a red colour into them, which I knew, as well by the flagrant glow I felt there, as by his telling me, they now emulated20 the native roses of my other cheeks. When he had thus amus’d himself with admiring and toying with them, he went on to strike harder, and more hard; so that I needed all my patience not to cry out, or complain at least. At last, he twigg’d me so smartly as to fetch blood in more than one lash18: at sight of which he flung down the rod, flew to me, kissed away the starting drops, and sucking the wounds eased a good deal of my pain. But now raising me on my knees, and making me kneel with them straddling wide, that tender part of me, naturally the province of pleasure, not of pain, came in for its share of suffering: for now, eyeing it wistfully, he directed the rod so that the sharp ends of the twigs21 lighted there, so sensibly, that I could not help wincing22, and writhing23 my limbs with smart; so that my contortions24 of body must necessarily throw it into infinite variety of postures26 and points of view, fit to feast the luxury of the eye. But still I bore every thing without crying out: when presently giving me another pause, he rush’d, as it were, on that part whose lips, and round-about, had felt this cruelty, and by way of reparation, glews his own to them; then he opened, shut, squeez’d them, pluck’d softly the overgrowing moss27, and all this in a style of wild passionate28 rapture29 and enthusiasm, that express’d excess of pleasure; till betaking himself to the rod again, encourag’d by my passiveness, and infuriated with this strange taste of delight, he made my poor posteriours pay for the ungovernableness of it; for now shewing them no quarter the traitor30 cut me so, that I wanted but little of fainting away, when he gave over. And yet I did not utter one groan31, or angry expostulation; but in heart I resolv’d nothing so seriously, as never to expose myself again to the like serverities.
You may guess then in what a curious pickle32 those soft flesh-cushions of mine were, all sore, raw, and in fine, terribly clawed off; but so far from feeling any pleasure in it, that the recent smart made me pout33 a little, and not with the greatest air of satisfaction receive the compliments, and after-caresses34 of the author of my pain.
As soon as my cloaths were huddled35 on in a little decency36, a supper was brought in by the discreet37 Mrs. Cole herself, which might have piqued38 the sensuality of a cardinal40, accompanied with a choice of the richest wines: all which she set before us, and went out again, without having, by a word or even by a smile, given us the least interruption or confusion, in those moments of secrecy41, that we were not yet ripe to the admission of a third to.
I sat down then, still scarce in charity with my butcher, for such I could not help considering him, and was moreover not a little piqued at the gay, satisfied air of his countenance, which I thought myself insulted by. But when the now necessary refreshment42 to me of a glass of wine, a little eating (all the time observing a profound silence) had somewhat cheer’d and restor’d me to spirits, and as the smart began to go off, my good humour return’d accordingly: which alteration43 not escaping him, he said and did everything that could confirm me in, and indeed exalt44 it.
But scarce was supper well over, before a change so incredible was wrought45 in me, such violent, yet pleasingly irksome sensations took possession of me that I scarce knew how to contain myself; the smart of the lashes was now converted into such a prickly heat, such fiery46 tinglings, as made me sigh, squeeze my thighs47 together, shift and wriggle48 about my seat, with a furious restlessness; whilst these itching49 ardours, thus excited in those parts on which the storm of discipline had principally fallen, detach’d legions of burning, subtile, stimulating50 spirits, to their opposite spot and centre of assemblage, where their titillation51 rag’d so furiously, that I was even stinging mad with them. No wonder then, that in such a taking, and devour’d by flames that licked up all modesty52 and reserve, my eyes, now charg’d brimful of the most intense desire, fired on my companion very intelligible53 signals of distress54: my companion, I say, who grew in them every instant more amiable55, and more necessary to my urgent wishes and hopes of immediate56 ease.
Mr. Barville, no stranger by experience to these situations, soon knew the pass I was brought to, soon perceiv’d my extreme disorder57; in favour of which, removing the table out of the way, he began a prelude58 that flatter’d me with instant relief, to which I was not, however, so near as I imagin’d: for as he was unbuttoned to me, and tried to provoke and rouse to action his unactive torpid59 machine, he blushingly own’d that no good was to be expected from it unless I took it in hand to re-excite its languid loitering powers, by just refreshing60 the smart of the yet recent blood-raw cuts, seeing it could, no more than a boy’s top, keep up without lashing61. Sensible then that I should work as much for my own profit as his, I hurried my compliance62 with his desire, and abridging63 the ceremonial, whilst he lean’d his head against the back of a chair, I had scarce gently made him feel the lash, before I saw the object of my wishes give signs of life, and presently, as it were with a magic touch, it started up into a noble size and distinction indeed! Hastening then to give me the benefit of it, he threw me down on the bench; but such was the refresh’d soreness of those parts behind, on my leaning so hard on them, as became me to compass the admission of that stupendous head of his machine, that I could not possibly bear it. I got up then, and tried, by leaning forwards and turning the crupper on my assailant, to let him at the back avenue: but here it was likewise impossible to stand his bearing so fiercely against me, in his agitations64 and endeavours to enter that way, whilst his belly65 battered66 directly against the recent sore. What should we do now? both intolerably heated; both in a fury; but pleasure is ever inventive for its own ends: he strips me in a trice, stark67 naked, and placing a broad settee-cushion on the carpet before the fire, oversets me gently, topsy-turvy, on it; and handling me only at the waist, whilst you may be sure I favour’d all my dispositions68, brought my legs round his neck; so that my head was kept from the floor only by my hands and the velvet69 cushion, which was now bespread with my flowing hair: thus I stood on my head and hands, supported by him in such manner, that whilst my thighs clung round him, so as to expose to his sight all my back figure, including the theatre of his bloody70 pleasure, the centre of my fore13 part fairly bearded the object of its rage, that now stood in fine condition to give me satisfaction for the injuries of its neighbours. But as this posture25 was certainly not the easiest, and our imaginations, wound up to the height, could suffer no delay, he first, with the utmost eagerness and effort, just lip-lodg’d that broad acorn-fashion’d head of his instrument; and still frenzied71 by the fury with which he had made that impression, he soon stuffed in the rest; when now, with a pursuit of thrusts, fiercely urg’d, he absolutely overpower’d and absorb’d all sense of pain and uneasiness, whether from my wounds behind, my most untoward72 posture, or the oversize of his stretcher, in an infinitely73 predominant delight; when now all my whole spirits of life and sensation, rushing impetuously to the cock-pit, where the prize of pleasure was hotly in dispute and clustering to a point there, I soon receiv’d the dear relief of nature from these over-violent strains and provocations74 of it; harmonizing with which, my gallant75 spouted76 into me such a potent77 overflow78 of the balsamic injection, as soften’d and unedg’d all those irritating stings of a new species of titillation, which I had been so intolerably madden’d with, and restor’d the ferment79 of my senses to some degree of composure.
I had now achiev’d this rare adventure ultimately much more to my satisfaction than I had bespoken80 the nature of it to turn out; nor was it much lessen’d, you may think, by my spark’s lavish81 praises of my constancy and complaisance82, which he gave weight to by a present that greatly surpassed my utmost expectation, besides his gratification to Mrs. Cole.
I was not, however, at any time, re-enticed to renew with him, or resort again to the violent expedient83 of lashing nature into more haste than good speed: which, by the way, I conceive acts somewhat in the manner of a dose of Spanish flies; with more pain perhaps, but less danger; and might be necessary to him, but was nothing less so than to me, whose appetite wanted the bridle84 more than the spur.
Mrs. Cole, to whom this adventurous85 exploit had more and more endear’d me, looked on me now as a girl after her own heart, afraid on nothing, and, on a good account, hardy86 enough to fight all the weapons of pleasure through. Attentive87 then, in consequence of these favourable88 conceptions, to promote either my profit or pleasure, she had special regard for the first, in a new gallant of a very singular turn, that she procur’d for and introduced to me.
This was a grave, staid, solemn, elderly gentleman whose peculiar89 humour was a delight in combing fine tresses of hair; and as I was perfectly90 headed to his taste, he us’d to come constantly at my toilette hours, when I let down my hair as loose as nature, and abandon’d it to him to do what he pleased with it; and accordingly he would keep me an hour or more in play with it, drawing the comb through it, winding91 the curls round his fingers, even kissing it as he smooth’d it; and all this led to no other use of my person, or any other liberties whatever, any more than if a distinction of sexes had not existed.
Another peculiarity92 of taste he had, which was to present me with a dozen pairs of the whitest kid gloves at a time: these he would divert himself with drawing on me, and then biting off the fingers’ ends; all which fooleries of a sickly appetite, the old gentleman paid more liberally for than most others did for more essential favours. This lasted till a violent cough, seizing and laying him up, deliver’d me from this most innocent and insipid93 trifler, for I never heard more of him after his first retreat.
You may be sure a by-job of this sort interfer’d with no other pursuit, or plan of life; which I led, in truth, with a modesty and reserve that was less the work of virtue94 than of exhausted95 novelty, a glut96 of pleasure, and easy circumstances, that made me indifferent to any engagements in which pleasure and profit were not eminently97 united; and such I could, with the less impatience98, wait for at the hands of time and fortune, as I was satisfy’d I could never mend my pennyworths, having evidently been serv’d at the top of market, and even been pamper’d with dainties: besides that, in the sacrifice of a few momentary99 impulses, I found a secret satisfaction in respecting myself, as well as preserving the life and freshness of my complexion100. Louisa and Emily did not carry indeed their reserve so high as I did; but still they were far from cheap or abandon’d tho’ two of their adventures seem’d to contradict this general character, which, for their singularity, I shall give you in course, beginning first with Emily’s:
Louisa and she went one night to a ball, the first in the habit of a shepherdess, Emily in that of a shepherd: I saw them in their dresses before they went, and nothing in nature could represent a prettier boy than this last did, being so fair and well limbed. They had kept together for some time, when Louisa, meeting an old acquaintance of hers, very cordially gives her companion the drop, and leaves her under the protection of her boy’s habit, which was not much, and of her discretion101, which was, it seems, still less. Emily, finding herself deserted102, sauntered thoughtless about a-while, and, as much for coolness and air as anything else, at length pull’d off her mask and went to the sideboard; where, eyed and mark’d out by a gentleman in a very handsome domino, she was accosted103 by, and fell into chat with him. The domino, after a little discourse104, in which Emily doubtless distinguish’d her good nature and easiness more than her wit, began to make violent love to her, and drawing her insensibly to some benches at the lower end of the masquerade room, for her to sit by him, where he squeez’d her hands, pinch’d her cheeks, prais’d and played with her fine hair, admired her complexion, and all in a style of courtship dash’d with a certain oddity, that not comprehending the mystery of, poor Emily attributed to his falling in with the humour of her disguise; and being naturally not the cruellest of her profession, began to incline to a parley105 on those essentials. But here was the stress of the joke: he took her really for what she appear’d to be, a smock-fac’d boy; and she, forgetting her dress, and of course ranging quite wide of his ideas, took all those addresses to be paid to herself as a woman, which she precisely106 owed to his not thinking her one. However, this double error was push’d to such a height on both sides, that Emily, who saw nothing in him but a gentleman of distinction by those points of dress to which his disguise did not extend, warmed too by the wine he had ply’d her with, and the caresses he had lavished107 upon her, suffered herself to be persuaded to go to a bagnio with him; and thus, losing sight of Mrs. Cole’s cautions, with a blind confidence, put herself into his hands, to be carried wherever he pleased. For his part, equally blinded by his wishes, whilst her egregious108 simplicity109 favoured his deception110 more than the most exquisite111 art could have done, he supposed, no doubt, that he had lighted on some soft simpleton, fit for his purpose, or some kept minion112 broken to his hand, who understood him perfectly well and enter’d into his designs. But, be that as it would, he led her to a coach, went into it with her, and brought her to a very handsome apartment, with a bed in it; but whether it was a bagnio or not, she could not tell, having spoken to nobody but himself. But when they were alone together, and her enamorato began to proceed to those extremities113 which instantly discover the sex, she remark’d that no description could paint up to the life the mixture of pique39, confusion and disappointment that appeared in his countenance, joined to the mournful exclamation114: “By heavens, a woman!” This at once opened her eyes, which had hitherto been shut in downright stupidity. However, as if he had meant to retrieve115 that escape, he still continu’d to toy with and fondle her, but with so staring an alteration from extreme warmth into a chill and forced civility, that even Emily herself could not but take notice of it, and now began to wish she had paid more regard to Mrs. Cole’s premonitions against ever engaging with a stranger. And now and excess of timidity succeeded to an excess of confidence, and she thought herself so much at his mercy and discretion, that she stood passive throughout the whole progress of his prelude: for now, whether the impressions of so great a beauty had even made him forgive her her sex, or whether her appearance of figure in that dress still humour’d his first illusion, he recover’d by degrees a good part of his first warmth, and keeping Emily with her breeches still unbuttoned, stript them down to her knees, and gently impelling117 her to lean down, with her face against the bed-side, placed her so, that the double way, between the double rising behind, presented the choice fair to him, and he was so fairly set on a mis-direction, as to give the girl no small alarms for fear of losing a maidenhead she had not dreamt of. However, her complaints, and a resistance, gentle, but firm, check’d and brought him to himself again; so that turning his steed’s head, he drove him at length in the right road, in which his imagination having probably made the most of those resemblances that flatter’d his taste, he got, with much ado, to his journey’s end: after which, he led her out himself, and walking with her two or three streets’ length, got her a chair, when making her a present not any thing inferior to what she could have expected, he left her, well recommended to the chairman, who, on her directions, brought her home.
This she related to Mrs. Cole and me the same morning, not without the visible remains118 of the fear and confusion she had been in still stamp’d on her countenance. Mrs. Cole’s remark was that her indescretion proceeding119 from a constitutional facility, there were little hopes of any thing curing her of it, but repeated severe experience. Mine was that I could not conceive how it was possible for mankind to run into a taste, not only universally odious120, but absurd, and impossible to gratify; since, according to the notions and experience I had of things, it was not in nature to force such immense disproportions. Mrs. Cole only smil’d at my ignorance, and said nothing towards my undeception, which was not affected121 but by ocular demonstration122, some months after, which a most singular accident furnish’d me, and which I will here set down, that I may not return again to so disagreeable a subject.
I had, on a visit intended to Harriet, who had taken lodgings123 at Hampton-court, hired a chariot to go out thither124, Mrs. Cole having promis’d to accompany me; but some indispensable business intervening to detain her, I was obliged to set out alone; and scarce had I got a third of my way, before the axle-tree broke down, and I was well off to get out, safe and unhurt, into a publick-house of a tolerable handsome appearance, on the road. Here the people told me that the stage would come by in a couple of hours at farthest; upon which, determining to wait for it, sooner than lose the jaunt125 I had got so far forward on, I was carried into a very clean decent room, up one pair of stairs, which I took possession of for the time I had to stay, in right of calling for sufficient to do the house justice.
Here, whilst I was amusing myself with looking out of the window, a single horse-chaise stopt at the door, out of which lightly leap’d two gentlemen, for so they seem’d, who came in only as it were to bait and refresh a little, for they gave their horse to be held in readiness against they came out. And presently I heard the door of the next room, where they were let in, and call’d about them briskly; and as soon as they were serv’d, I could just hear that they shut and fastened the door on the inside.
A spirit of curiosity, far from sudden, since I do not know when I was without it, prompted me, without any particular suspicion, or other drift or view, to see what they were, and examine their persons and behaviour. The partition of our rooms was one of those moveable ones that, when taken down, serv’d occasionally to lay them into one, for the conveniency of a large company; and now, my nicest search could not shew me the shadow of a peep-hole, a circumstance which probably had not escap’d the review of the parties on the other side, whom much it stood upon not to be deceived in it; but at length I observed a paper patch of the same colour as the wainscot, which I took to conceal126 some flaw: but then it was so high, that I was obliged to stand upon a chair to reach it, which I did as softly as possibly, and, with a point of a bodkin, soon pierc’d it. And now, applying my eye close, I commanded the room perfectly, and could see my two young sparks romping127 and pulling one another about, entirely, to my imagination, in frolic and innocent play.
The eldest128 might be, on my nearest guess, towards nineteen, a tall comely129 young man, in a white fustian130 frock, with a green velvet cape116, and a cut bob-wig.
The youngest could not be above seventeen, fair, ruddy, compleatly well made, and to say the truth, a sweet pretty stripling: he was — I fancy, too, a country-lad, by his dress, which was a green plush frock and breeches of the same, white waistcoat and stockings, a jockey cap, with his yellowish hair, long and loose, in natural curls.
But after a look of circumspection131, which I saw the eldest cast every way round the room, probably in too much hurry and heat not to overlook the very small opening I was posted at, especially at the height it was, whilst my eye close to it kept the light from shining through and betraying it, he said something to his companion and presently chang’d the face of things.
For now the elder began to embrace, to press and kiss the younger, to put his hands into his bosom132, and give him such manifest signs of an amorous133 intention, as made me conclude the other to be a girl in disguise: a mistake that nature kept me in countenance for, for she had certainly made one, when she gave him the male stamp.
In the rashness then of their age, and bent134 as they were to accomplish their project of preposterous135 pleasure, at the risk of the very worst of consequences, where a discovery was nothing less than improbable, they now proceeded to such lengths as soon satisfied me what they were.
The criminal scene they acted, I had the patience to see to an end, purely136 that I might gather more facts and certainly against them in my design to do their deserts instance justice; and accordingly, when they had readjusted themselves, and were preparing to go out, burning as I was with rage and indignation, I jumped down from the chair, in order to raise the house upon them, but with such an unlucky impetuosity, that some nail or ruggedness137 in the floor caught my foot, and flung me on my face with such violence that I fell senseless on the ground, and must have lain there some time e’er any one came to my relief: so that they, alarmed, I suppose, by the noise of my fall, had more than the necessary time to make a safe retreat. This they effected, as I learnt, with a precipitation nobody could account for, till, when come to myself, and compos’d enough to speak, I acquainted those of the house with the whole transaction I had been evidence to.
When I came home again, and told Mrs. Cole this adventure, she very sensibly observ’d to me that there was no doubt of due vengeance138 one time of other overtaking these miscreants139, however they might escape for the present; and that, had I been the temporal instrument of it, I should have been at least put to a great deal more trouble and confusion that I imagined; that, as to the thing itself, the less said of it was the better; but that though she might be suspected of partiality, from its being the common cause of woman-kind, out of whose mouths this practice tended to take something more than bread, yet she protested against any mixture of passion, with a declaration extorted140 from her by pure regard to truth; which was that whatever effect this infamous141 passion had in other ages and other countries, it seem’d a peculiar blessing142 on our air and climate, that there was a plague-spot visibly imprinted143 on all that are tainted144 with it, in this nation at least; for that among numbers of that stamp whom she had known, or at least were universally under the scandalous suspicion of it, she would not name an exception hardly of one of them, whose character was not, in all other respects, the most worthless and despicable that could be, stript of all the manly145 virtues146 of their own sex, and fill’d up with only the worst vices148 and follies149 of ours: that, in fine, they were scarce less execrable than ridiculous in their monstrous150 inconsistence, of loathing151 and condemning152 women, and all at the same time apeing all their manners, air, lips, skuttle, and, in general, all their little modes of affectation, which become them at least better than they do these unsex’d malemisses.
But here, washing my hands of them, I re-plunge into the stream of my history, into which I may very properly ingraft a terrible sally of Louisa’s, since I had some share in it myself, and have besides engag’d myself to relate it, in point of countenance to poor Emily. It will add, too, one more example to thousands, in confirmation153 of the maxim154 that when women get once out of compass, there are no lengths of licentiousness155 that they are not capable of running.
One morning then, that both Mrs. Cole and Emily were gone out for the day, and only Louisa and I (not to mention the house-maid) were left in charge of the house, whilst we were loitering away the time in looking through the shop windows, the son of a poor woman, who earned very hard bread indeed by mending stockings, in a stall in the neighbourhood, offer’d us some nosegays, ring’d round a small basket; by selling of which the poor boy eked156 out his mother’s maintenance of them both: nor was he fit for any other way of livelihood157, since he was not only a perfect changeling, or idiot, but stammer’d so that there was no understanding even those sounds his halfdozen, at most, animal ideas prompted him to utter.
The boys and servants in the neighbourhood had given him the nick-name of Good-natured Dick, from the soft simpleton’s doing everything he was bid at the first word, and from his naturally having no turn to mischief158; then, by the way, he was perfectly well made, stout159, clean-limb’d, tall of his age, as strong as a horse and, withal, pretty featur’d; so that he was not, absolutely, such a figure to be snuffled at neither, if your nicety could, in favour of such essentials, have dispens’d with a face unwashed, hair tangled160 for want of combing, and so ragged161 a plight162, that he might have disputed points of shew with e’er a heathen philosopher of them all.
This boy we had often seen, and bought his flowers, out of pure compassion163, and nothing more; but just at this time as he stood presenting us his basket, a sudden whim164, a start of wayward fancy, seiz’d Louisa; and, without consulting me, she calls him in, and beginning to examine his nosegays, culls165 out two, one for herself, another for me, and pulling out half a crown, very currently gives it him to change, as if she had really expected he could have changed it: but the boy, scratching his head, made his signs explaining his inability in place of words, which he could not, with all his struggling, articulate.
Louisa, at this, says: “Well, my lad, come up-stairs with me, and I will give you your due,” winking166 at the same time to me, and beckoning167 me to accompany her, which I did, securing first the street-door, that by this means, together with the shop, became wholly the care of the faithful housemaid.
As we went up, Louisa whispered to me that she had conceiv’d a strange longing168 to be satisfy’d, whether the general rule held good with regard to this changeling, and how far nature had made him amends169, in her best bodily gifts, for her denial of the sublimer170 intellectual ones; begging, at the same time, my assistance in procuring171 her this satisfaction. A want of complaisance was never my vice147, and I was so far from opposing this extravagant172 frolic, that now, bit with the same maggot, and my curiosity conspiring173 with hers, I enter’d plum into it, on my own account.
Consequently, as soon as we came into Louisa’s bedchamber, whilst she was amusing him with picking out his nosegays, I undertook the lead, and began the attack. As it was not then very material to keep much measures with a mere174 natural, I made presently very free with him, though at my first motion of meddling175, his surprize and confusion made him receive my advances but aukwardly: nay176, insomuch that he bashfully shy’d, and shy’d back a little; till encouraging him with my eyes, plucking him playfully by the hair, sleeking177 his cheeks, and forwarding my point by a number of little wantonness, I soon turn’d him familiar, and gave nature her sweetest alarm: so that arous’d, and beginning to feel himself, we could, amidst all the innocent laugh and grin I had provoked him into, perceive the fire lighting15 in his eyes, and, diffusing178 over his cheeks, blend its glow with that of his blushes. The emotion in short of animal pleasure glar’d distinctly in the simpleton’s countenance; yet, struck with the novelty of the scene, he did not know which way to look or move; but tame, passive, simpering, with his mouth half open in stupid rapture, stood and tractably179 suffer’d me to do what I pleased with him. His basket was dropt out of his hands, which Louisa took care of.
I had now, through more than one rent, discovered and felt his thighs, the skin of which seemed the smoother and fairer for the coarseness, and even dirt of his dress, as the teeth of Negroes seem the whiter for the surrounding black; and poor indeed of habit, poor of understanding, he was, however, abundantly rich in personal treasures, such as flesh, firm, plump, and replete180 with the juices of youth, and robust181 well-knit limbs. My fingers too had now got within reach of the true, the genuine sensitive plant, which, instead of shrinking from the touch, joys to meet it, and swells182 and vegetates183 under it: mine pleasingly informed me that matters were so ripe for the discovery we meditated184, that they were too mighty185 for the confinement they were ready to break. A waistband that I unskewer’d, and a rag of a shirt that I removed, and which could not have cover’d a quarter of it, revealed the whole of the idiot’s standard of distinction, erect186, in full pride and display: but such a one! it was positively187 of so tremendous a size, that prepared as we were to see something extraordinary, it still, out of measure, surpass’d our expectation, and astonish’d even me, who had not been used to trade in trifles. In fine, it might have answered very well the making a show of; its enormous head seemed, in hue188 and size, not unlike a common sheep’s heart; then you might have troll’d dice189 securely along the broad back of the body of it; the length of it too was prodigious190; then the rich appendage191 of the treasure-bag beneath, large in proportion, gather’d adn crisp’d up round in shallow furrows193, helped to fill the eye, and complete the proof of his being a natural, not quite in vain; since it was full manifest that he inherited, and largely too, the prerogative194 of majesty195 which distinguishes that otherwise most unfortunate condition, and gives rise to the vulgar saying “A fool’s bauble196 is a lady’s playfellow.” Not wholly without reason: for, generally speaking, it is in love as it is in war, where longest weapon carries it. Nature, in short, had done so much for him in those parts, that she perhaps held herself acquitted197 in doing so little for his head.
For my part, who had sincerely no intention to push the joke further than simply satisfying my curiosity with the sight of it alone, I was content, in spite of the temptation that star’d me in the face, with having rais’d a May-pole for another to hang a garland on: for, by this time, easily reading Louisa’s desires in her wishful eyes, I acted the commodious198 part and made her, who sought no better sport, significant terms of encouragement to go through-stitch with her adventure; intimating too that I would stay and see fair play: in which, indeed, I had in view to humour a new-born curiosity, to observe what appearances active nature would put on in a natural, in the course of this her darling operation.
Louisa, whose appetite was up, and who, like the industrious199 bee, was, it seems, not above gathering200 the sweets of so rare a flower, tho’ she found it planted on a dunghill, was but too readily disposed to take the benefit of my cession201. Urg’d then strongly by her own desires, and embolden’d by me, she presently determined202 to risk a trial of parts with the idiot, who was by this time nobly inflam’d for her purpose, by all the irritations203 we had used to put the principles of pleasure effectually into motion, and to wind up the springs of its organ to their supreme204 pitch; and it stood accordingly stiff and straining, ready to burst with the blood and spirits that swelled205 it . . . to a bulk! No! I shall never forget it.
Louisa then, taking and holding the fine handle that so invitingly206 offer’d itself, led the ductile207 youth by that master-tool of his, as she stept backward towards the bed; which he joyfully208 gave way to, under the incitations of instinct and palpably deliver’d up to the goad209 of desire.
Stopped then by the bed, she took the fall she lov’d, and lean’d to the most, gently backward upon it, still holding fast what she held, and taking care to give her cloaths a convenient toss up, so that her thighs duly disclos’d, and elevated, laid open all the outward prospect210 of the treasury211 of love: the rose-lipt overture212 presenting the cock-pit so fair, that it was not in nature even for a natural to miss it. Nor did he, for Louisa, fully bent on grappling with it, and impatient of dalliance or delay, directed faithfully the point of the battering-piece, and bounded up with a rage of so voracious213 appetite, to meet and favour the thrust of insertion, that the fierce activity on both sides effected it with such pain of distention, that Louisa cry’d out violently that she was hurt beyond bearing, that she was killed. But it was too late: the storm was up, and force was on her to give way to it; for now the man-machine, strongly work’d upon by the sensual passion, felt so manfully his advantages and superiority, felt withal the sting of pleasure so intolerable, that maddening with it, his joys began to assume a character of furiousness which made me tremble for the too tender Louisa. He seemed, at this juncture214, greater than himself; his countenance, before so void of meaning, or expression, now grew big with the importance of the act he was upon. In short, it was not now that he was to be play’d the fool with. But, what is pleasant enough, I myself was aw’d into a sort of respect for him, by the comely terrors his motions dressed him in: his eyes shooting sparks of fire; his face glowing with ardours that gave another life to it; his teeth churning; his whole frame agitated215 with a raging ungovernable impetuosity: all sensibly betraying the formidable fierceness with which the genial216 instinct acted upon him. Butting217 then and goring218 all before him, and mad and wild like an over-driven steer219, he ploughs up the tender furrow192, all insensible to Louisa’s complaints; nothing can stop, nothing can keep out a fury like his: with which, having once got its head in, its blind rage soon made way for the rest, piercing, rending220, and breaking open all obstructions221. The torn, split, wounded girl cries, struggles, invokes222 me to her rescue, and endeavours to get from under the young savage223, or shake him off, but alas224! in vain: her breath might as soon have still’d or stemm’d a storm in winter, as all her strength have quell’d his rough assault, or put him out of his course. And indeed, all her efforts and struggles were manag’d with such disorder, that they serv’d rather to entangle225, and fold her the faster in the twine226 of his boisterous227 arms; so that she was tied to the stake, and oblig’d to fight the match out, if she died for it. For his part, instinct-ridden as he was, the expressions of his animal passion, partaking something of ferocity, were rather worrying than kisses, intermix’d with eager ravenous228 love-bites on her cheeks and neck, the prints of which did not wear out for some days after.
Poor Louisa, however, bore up at length better than could have been expected; and though she suffer’d, and greatly too, yet, ever true to the good old cause, she suffer’d with pleasure and enjoyed her pain. And soon now, by dint229 of an enrag’d enforcement, the brute-machine, driven like a whirlwind, made all smoke again, and wedging its way up, to the utmost extremity230, left her, in point of penetration231, nothing to fear or to desire: and now,
“Gorg’d with the dearest morsel232 of the earth,” (Shakespeare.) Louisa lay, pleas’d to the heart, pleas’d to her utmost capacity of being so, with every fibre in those parts, stretched almost to breaking, on a rack of joy, whilst the instrument of all this overfulness searched her senses with its sweet excess, till the pleasure gained upon her so, its point stung her so home, that catching233 at length the rage from her furious driver and sharing the riot of his wild rapture, she went wholly out of her mind into that favourite part of her body, the whole intenseness of which was so fervously fill’d, and employ’d: there alone she existed, all lost in those delirious234 transports, those extasies of the senses, which her winking eyes, the brighten’d vermilion of her lips and cheeks, and sighs of pleasure deeply fetched, so pathetically express’d. In short, she was now as mere a machine as much wrought on, and had her motions as little at her own command as the natural himself, who thus broke in upon her, made her feel with a vengeance his tempestuous235 tenderness, and the force of the mettle236 he battered with; their active loins quivered again with the violence of their conflict, till the surge of pleasure, foaming237 and raging to a height, drew down the pearly shower that was to allay238 this hurricane. The purely sensitive idiot then first shed those tears of joy that attend its last moments, not without an agony of delight and even almost a roar of rapture, as the gush239 escaped him; so sensibly too for Louisa, that she kept him faithful company, going off, in consent, with the old symptoms: a delicious delirium240, a tremulous convulsive shudder241, and the critical dying Oh! And now, on his getting off, she lay pleasuredrench’d, and re-gorging its essential sweets; but quite spent, and gasping242 for breath, without other sensation of life than in those exquisite vibrations243 that trembled yet on the strings of delight, which had been too intensively touched, and which nature had been so intensly stirred with, for the senses to be quickly at peace from.
As for the changeling, whose curious engine had been thus successfully played off, his shift of countenance and gesture had even something droll244, or rather tragi-comic in it: there was now an air of sad repining foolishness, superadded to his natural one of no-meaning and idiotism, as he stood with his label of manhood, now lank245, unstiffen’d, becalm’d, and flapping against his thighs, down which it reach’d half-way, terrible even in its fall, whilst under the dejection of spirit and flesh, which naturally followed, his eyes, by turns, cast down towards his struck standard, or piteously lifted to Louisa, seemed to require at her hands what he had so sensibly parted from to her, and now ruefully miss’d. But the vigour246 of nature, soon returning, dissipated the blast of faintness which the common law of enjoyment247 had subjected him to; and now his basket re-became his main concern, which I look’d for, and brought him, whilst Louisa restor’d his dress to its usual condition, and afterwards pleased him perhaps more by taking all his flowers off his hands, and paying him, at his rate, for them, than if she had embarrass’d him by a present that he would have been puzzled to account for, and might have put others on tracing the motives248 of.
Whether she ever return’d to the attack I know not, and, to say the truth, I believe not. She had had her freak out, and had pretty plentifully249 drown’d her curiosity in a glut of pleasure, which, as it happened, had no other consequence than that the lad, who retain’d only a confused memory of the transaction, would, when he saw her, for some time after, express a grin of joy and familiarity, after his idiot manner, and soon forgot her in favour of the next woman, tempted250, on the report of his parts, to take him in.
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delicacy
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fiery
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stimulating
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titillation
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modesty
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distress
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disorder
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compliance
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procuring
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