August 19, 2025 • 52 mins
07 - Section 07. Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland.
This book has been notorious since it first appeared and had been banned several times and in several countries. It is a fictional work that details the adventures of an orphaned girl who ends up working in a brothel in London. Early on she falls in love with a young man named Charles, but only to end up being separated from him. She then recounts her experiences as a prostitute who, in spite of her circumstances, manages to retain her humanity and undying faith in true love.
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This book has been notorious since it first appeared and had been banned several times and in several countries. It is a fictional work that details the adventures of an orphaned girl who ends up working in a brothel in London. Early on she falls in love with a young man named Charles, but only to end up being separated from him. She then recounts her experiences as a prostitute who, in spite of her circumstances, manages to retain her humanity and undying faith in true love.
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Section sevenov Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. This LibriVox
recording is in the public domain. Memoirs of a Woman
of Pleasure by John Cleland letter the second part seven.
On the landing place of the first pair of stairs,
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we were met by a young gentleman, extremely well dressed,
and a very pretty figure, to whom I was to
be indebted for the first essay of the pleasures of
the house. He saluted me with great gallantry and handed
me into the drawing room, the floor of which was
overspread with a turkey carpet, and all its furniture voluptuously
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adapted to every demand of the most studied luxury. Now too,
it was by means of a profuse illumination, enlivened by
a light scarce inferior and perhaps more favorable to joy,
more tenderly pleasing than that of broad sunshine. On my
entrance into the room, I had a satisfaction to hear
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a buzz of approbation run through the whole company, which
now consisted of four gentlemen, including my particular. This was
the cant term of the house for one's gallant for
the time. The three young women in a neat flowing Dissabielle,
the mistress of the Academy, and myself, I was welcomed
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and saluted by a kiss all round, in which, however,
it was easy to discover, in the superior warmth of
that of the men, the distinction of the sexes awed
and confounded. As I was at seeing myself surrounded, caressed,
and made court to by so many strangers, I could
not immediately familiarize myself to all that air of gaiety
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and joy which dictated their compliments and animated their caresses.
They assured me that I was so perfectly to their
taste as to have but one fault against me, which
I might easily be cured off, and that was my modesty. This,
they observed, might pass for a beauty, the more with
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those who wanted it for a heightener. But their maxim
was that it was an impertinent mixture, and dashed the
cup so as to spoil the sincere draft of pleasure.
They considered it accordingly as their mortal enemy, and gave
it no quarter wherever they met with it. This was
a prolog not unworthy of the rebels that ensued in
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the midst of all the frolic and wantonness, which this
joyous band had presently and all naturally run into. An
elegant supper was served in and we sat down to it,
my spark elect placing himself next to me, and the
other couples without order or ceremony. The delicate cheer and
good wine soon banished all reserve. The conversation grew as
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lively as could be wished without taking too loose a turn.
These professors of pleasure knew too well to stale impressions
of it or evaporate the imagination in words before the
time of action. Kisses, however, were snatched at times, or
where a handkerchief round the neck interposed its feeble barrier,
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it was not extremely respected. The hands of the men
went to work with their usual petulance, till the provocations
on both sides rose to such a pitch that my
particular's proposal for beginning the country dances was received with
instant assent, for, as he laughingly added, he fancied the
instruments were in tune. This was a signal for preparation
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that the complaisant missus Cole, who understood life, took for
her cue of disappearing no longer so fit for personal
service herself, and content with having settled the order of battle,
she left as the field to fight it out at discretion.
As soon as she was gone, the table was removed
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from the middle and became a sideboard. A couch was
brought in to its place, of which, when I whisperingly
inquired the reason of my particular he told me that
as it was chiefly on my account that this convention
was met, the parties intended at once to humor their
taste of variety and pleasures, and by an open public
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enjoyment to see me broke of any taint of reserve
or modesty, which they looked on as the poison of joy.
That though they occasionally preached pleasure and lived up to
the text, they did not enthusiastically set up for missionaries,
and only indulged themselves in the delights of a practical
instruction of all the pretty women they liked well enough
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to bestow it upon, and who fell properly in the
way of it. But that, as such a proposal might
be too violent, too shocking for a young beginner, the
old standers were to set an example, which he hoped
I would not be averse to follow, since it was
to him I was devolved in favor of the first experiment.
But that still I was perfectly at my liberty to
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refuse the party, which, being in its nature one of pleasure,
supposed an exclusion of all force or constraint. My countenance
expressed no doubt my surprise, as my silence did my acquiescence.
I was now embarked and thoroughly determined on any voyage
the company would take me on. The first that stood
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up to open the ball were a cornet of a horse,
and that sweetest of olive beauties, the soft and amorous Louisa.
He led her to the couch nothing loath, on which
he gave her the fall, and extended her at her length,
with an air of roughness and vigor, relishing high of
amorous eagerness and impatience. The girl, spreading herself to the
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best advantage with her head upon the pillow, was so
concentrated in what she was about that our presence seemed
the least of her care and concern. Her petticoats thrown
up with her shift discovered to the company the finest
turned legs and thighs that could be imagined, and in
broad display that gave us a full view of that
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delicious cleft of flesh into which the pleasing hair grown
mount over it parted and presented a most inviting entrance
between two close hedges, delicately soft and pouting. Her gallant
was now ready, having disencumbered himself from his clothes overloaded
with lace, and presently his shirt removed, showed us his
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forces in high plight, bandied and ready for action. But
giving us no time to consider the dimensions, he threw
himself instantly over his charming antagonist, who received him as
he pushed at once, dead at mark like a heroine,
without flinching. For surely never was girl constitutionally truer to
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the taste of joy or sincereer in the expressions of
its sensations than she was. We could observe pleasure lightened
in her eyes as he introduced his plenipotentiary instrument into
her till at length, having indulged her to its utmost reach,
its irritations grew so violent and gave her the spurs
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so furiously that collected within herself and lost to everything
but the enjoyment of her favorite feelings. She retorted his
thrusts with a just concert of springy heaves, keeping time
so exactly with the most pathetic sighs that one might
have numbered the strokes in agitation by their distinct murmurs,
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whilst her active limbs kept wreathing and inter twisting with
his in convulsive folds. Then the turtle billing kisses, and
a poignant, painless love bites, which they both exchanged in
a rage of delight, all conspiring towards the melting period.
It soon came on when Louisa, in the ravings of
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her pleasure frenzy, impotent of all restrained, cried out, oh, sir,
good sir, pray, do not spare me, ah ah, All
her accents now faltering into heart fetched sighs, she closed
her eyes in the sweet death, in the instant of
which we could easily see the signs in the quiet, dying,
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languid posture of her late so furious driver, who was
stopped of a sudden breathing, short panting, and for the
time giving up the spirit of pleasure. As soon as
he was dismounted, Louisa sprung up, shook her petticoats, and
running up to me, gave me a kiss. And drew
me to the sideboard, to which she was herself handed
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by her gallant, where they made me pledge them in
a glass of wine and toast a droll health of
Louisa's proposal in high frolic. By this time the second
couple was ready to enter the lists, which were a
young baronet and that delicatest of charmers, the winning tender, Harriet.
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My gentle esquire, came to acquaint me with it, and
brought me back to the scene of action. Anne surely
never did one of her profession accompany her dispositions. For
the bare faced part, she was engaged to play with
such a peculiar grace of sweetness, modesty, and yielding coyness
as she did. All her air and motions breathed only unreserved,
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unlimited complaisance, without the least mixture of impudence or prostitution.
But what was yet more surprising, her spark elect in
the midst of the dissolution of a public open enjoyment,
doated on her to distraction, and had, by dint of
love and sentiments, touched her heart. Though for a while
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the restraint of their engagement to the house laid him
under a kind of necessity of complying with an institution
which himself had had the greatest share in establishing. Harriet
was then led to the vacant couch by her gallant
blushing as she looked at me, and with eyes made
to justify anything tenderly bespeaking of me the most favorable
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construction of the step. She was thus irresistibly drawn into
her lover. For such he was sat her down at
the foot of the couch, and passing his arm round
her neck, preluded with a kiss fervently applied to her
lips that visibly gave her life and spirit to go
through with the scene. And as he kissed, he gently
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inclined her head till it fell back on a pillow,
disposed to receive it, and leaning himself down all the
way with her, at once countenanced and endeared her fall
to her There as if he had guessed our wishes,
or meant to gratify at once his pleasure and his
pride in being the man master by the title of
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present possession of beauties delicate beyond imagination. He discovered her
breasts to his own touch and our common view. But oh,
what delicious manuals of love devotion, how inimitable, fine molded, small, round,
firm and excellently white, the grain of their skin so soothing,
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so flattering to the touch, and their nipples that crowned
them the sweetest buds of beauty. When he had feasted
his eyes with the touch and perusal, feasted his lips
with kisses of the highest relish imprinted on those all
delicious twin orbs, he proceeded downwards. Her legs still kept
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the ground, and now with the tenderest attention not to
shock or alarm her too, suddenly he by degrees rather
stole than rolled up her petticoats, at which, as if
a signal had been given, Louisa and Emily took hold
of her legs in pure wantonness, and in ease to her,
kept them stretched wide abroad. Then lay exposed, or to
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speak more properly, displayed the greatest parade in nature of
female charms. The whole company, who except myself, had often
seen them, seemed as much dazzled, surprised, and delighted as
any one could be who had now beheld them for
the first time. Beauty so excessive, could not but enjoy
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the privileges of eternal novelty. Her thighs were so exquisitely
fashioned that, either more in or more out of flesh
than they were, they would have declined from that point
of perfection they presented. But what infinitely enriched and adorned
them was the sweet intersection formed where they met at
the bottom of the smoothest, roundest, whitest belly, by that
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central furrow which nature had sunk there between the soft
relief of two pouting ridges, and which in this was
in perfect symmetry of delicacy and miniature. With the rest
of her frame, No nothing in nature could be of
a beautifuller cut then the dark umbrage of the downy
spring moss that overarched it bestowed on the luxury of
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the landscape, a touching warmth, a tender finishing beyond the
expression of words or even the paint of thought. Her
truly enamored gallant, who had stood absorbed and engrossed by
the pleasure of the sight long enough to afford us
time to feast ours no fear of glutting, addressed himself
at length to the materials of enjoyment, and lifting the
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linen veil that hung between us and his master member
of the rebels exhibited one whose eminent size proclaimed the
owner a true woman's hero. He was, besides, in every
other respect, an accomplished gentleman, and in the bloom and
vigor of youth. Standing then between Harriet's legs, which supported
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by her two companions at their widest extension, with one hand,
he gently disclosed the lips of that luscious mouth of nature,
whilst with the other he stooped his mighty machine to
its lure from the height of his stiff stand up
towards his belly. The lips, kept open by his fingers,
received its broad shelving head of coral hue, And when
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he had nestled it in, he hovered there a little,
and the girl's den delivered over to his hips the
agreeable office of supporting her thighs. And now, as if
meant to spin out his pleasure and give it the
more play for its life, he passed up his instrument
so slow that we lost sight of it inch by inch,
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till at length it was wholly taken into the soft
laboratory of love, and the mossy mounts of each fairly
met together. In the meantime we could plainly mark the
prodigious effect the progressions of this delightful energy wrought in
this delayious girl, gradually heightening her beauty. As they heightened
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her pleasure, her countenance and whole frame grew more animated.
The faint blush of her cheeks, gaining ground on the white,
deepened into a florid, vivid, vermilion glow. Her naturally brilliant
eyes now sparkled with tenfold luster. Her languor was vanished,
and she appeared quick, spirited and alive all over. He
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now fixed nailed this tender creature with his home driven wedge,
so that she lay passive by force and unable to stir,
till beginning to play a strain of arms against this
vein of delicacy. As he urged the to and fro
con friction, he awakened, roused, and touched her so to
the heart that, unable to contain herself, she could not
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but reply to his motions as briskly as her nice
tea of frame would admit of till the raging stings
of the pleasure rising towards the made her wild with
the intolerable sensations of it, and she now threw her
legs and arms about at random, as she lay lost
in the sweet transport, which on his side declared itself
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by quicker, eager thrusts, convulsive gasps, burning sighs, swift laborious breathings,
eyes darting, humid fires, all faithful tokens of the imminent
approaches of the last gasp of joy. It came on
at length. The baronet led the ecstasy, which she critically
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joined in, as she felt the melting symptoms from him,
in the nick of which, glowing more ardently than ever
his lips to hers, he showed all the signs of
that agony of bliss being strong upon him, in which
he gave her the finishing titillation, in the thrilled with
which we saw plainly that she entered it down with
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all effusion of spirit and matter she was mistress of,
whilst a general's soft shudder ran through all her limbs,
which she gave a stretch out of, and lay motionless, breathless,
dying with dear delight, and in the height of its expression,
showing through the nearly closed lids of her eyes, just
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the edges of their black the rest being rolled strongly
upwards in their ecstasy. Then her sweet mouth appeared languishingly open,
with the tip of her tongue leaning negligently towards the
lower range of her white teeth, whilst the natural ruby
color of her lips glowed with heightened life. Was not
this a subject to dwell upon? And accordingly her lover
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still kept on her with an abiding delectation, till compressed, squeezed,
and distilled to the last drop. He took leave with
one fervent kiss, expressing satisfied desires but unextinguished love. As
soon as he was off, I ran to her, and,
sitting down on the couch by her, raised her head,
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which she declined gently and hung on my bosom to
hide her plushes and confusion at what had passed till
by degrees. She recomposed herself and accepted of a restorative
glass of wine from my spark, who had left me
to fetch it her whilst her own was readjusting his
affairs and buttoning up, after which he led her, leaning
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languishingly upon him, to our stand of view round the couch.
And now Emily's partner had taken her out for her
share in the dance. When this transcendently fair and sweet
tempered creature readily stood up, and if a complexion to
put the rose and lily out of countenance, extreme pretty
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features and that florid health and bloom for which the
country girls are so lovely might pass her. For a beauty,
this she certainly was, and one of the most striking
of the fair ones. Her gallant began first as she stood,
to disengage her breaths and restore them to the liberty
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of nature from the easy confinement of no more than
a pair of jumps. But on their coming out to view,
we thought a new light was added to the room,
so superiorly shining with their whiteness. Then they rose in,
so happy as well as to compose her a well
formed fullness of bosom that had such an effect on
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the eye as to seem flesh hardening into marble, of
which it emulated the polished gloss, and far surpassed even
the whitest in the life and luster of its colors,
white veined with blue refrain. Who could from such provoking
enticements to it in reach? He touched her breasts first, lightly,
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when the glossy smoothness of his skin eluded his hand
and made its slip along the surface. He pressed them,
and the springy flesh that filled them, thus pitted by force,
rose again reboundingly with his hand, and on the instant
effaced the pressure. And alike indeed was the consistence of
all those parts of her body throughout where the fullness
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of flesh compacts and constitutes all that fine firmness which
that touch is so highly attached to. When he had
thus largely pleased himself with this branch of dalliance and delight,
he trussed up her petticoat and shift in a wisp
to her waist, where being tucked in, she stood fairly
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naked on every side. A blush at this overspread her
lovely face and her eyes downcast to the ground, seemed
to be for a quarter, when she had so great
a right to triumph in all the treasures of youth
and beauty that she now so victoriously displayed. Her legs
were perfectly well shaped, and her thighs, which she kept
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pretty close, showed so white, so round, so substantial, and
abounding in firm flesh, that nothing could offer a stronger
recommendation to the luxury of the touch, which he accordingly
did not fail to indulge himself in. Then gently removing
her hand, which, in the first emotion of natural modesty,
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she had carried thither, he gave us rather a glimpse
than a view of that soft, narrow chink, running its
little length downwards and hiding the remains of it between
her thighs. But plain was to be seen the fringe
of light brown curls in beauteous growth over it, that,
with their silky gloss, created a pleasing variety from the
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surrounding white, whose luster, too, their gentle and browning shade
considerably raised her spark. Then endeavored as she stood by
disclosing her thighs to gain us a completer sight of
that central charm of attraction, but not obtaining it so conveniently.
In that attitude, he led her to the foot of
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the couch, and, bringing to it one of the pillows,
gently inclined her head down, so that as she leaned
with it over her crossed hands, straddling with her thighs
widespread and jutting her body out, she presented a full
back view of her person, naked to the waist, her
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posteriors plump, smooth, and prominent formed luxuriant tracts of animated
snow that splendidly filled the eye till it was commanded
down the parting or separation of those exquisitely white cliffs
by their narrow veil, and was there stopped and attracted
by the embowered bottom cavity that terminated this delightful vista,
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and stood moderately gaping from the influence of her bended posture,
so that the agreeable interior red of the sides of
the orifice came into view, and with respect to the
white that dazzled round it, gave somewhat the idea of
a pink slash in the gloss siest white satin. Her gallant,
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who was a gentleman about thirty, somewhat inclined to a
fatness that was in no sort displeasing, improving the hint,
thus tendered him of this mode of enjoyment. After settling
her well in this posture and encouraging her with kisses
and caresses to stand him through, drew out his affair,
ready erected, and whose extreme length, rather disproportioned to its breath,
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was the more surprising, as that excess is not often
the case with those of his corpulent habit, making then
the right and direct application, he drove it up to
the guard, whilst the round bulge of those Turkish beauties
of hers, tallying with the hollow made with the bent
of his belly and thighs as they curved inwards, brought
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all those parts surely not undelightfully into warm touch and
close conjunction his hands. He kept passing round her body,
and eployed in toying with her enchanting breasts. As soon too,
as she felt him at home as he could reach,
she lifted her head a little from the pillow, and
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turning her neck without much straining, but her cheeks glowing
with the deepest scarlet, and the smile of the tenderest
satisfaction met the kiss he pressed forward to give her,
as they were thus close joined together. When leaving him
to pursue his delights, she hid again her face and
blushes with her hands and pillow, and thus stood passively
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and as favorably too as she could, whilst he kept
laying at her with repeated thrusts, and making the meeting
flesh on both sides resound again with the violence of them.
Then ever, as he beckoned from her, we could see
between them part of his long white staff, foamingly in motion,
till as he went on again and closed with her,
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the interposing hillocks took it out of sight. Sometimes he
took his hands from the semi globes of her bosoms
and transferred the pressure of them to those larger ones,
the present subjects of his soft blockade, which he squeezed, grasped,
and played with till at length A pursuit of driving
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so hotly urged brought on the height of the fit
with such overpowering pleasure that his fair partner became now
necessary to support him, panting, fainting, and dying as he discharged,
which she no sooner felt the killing sweetness of than.
Unable to keep her legs and yielding to the mighty intoxication,
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she reeled and falling forward on the couch. Made it
a necessity for him if he would preserve that warm
pleasure hold to fall upon her, where they perfected in
a continued conjunction of body and ecstatic flow, their scheme
of joys for that time. As soon as he had
disengaged the charm ming, Emily got up and recrowded round
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her with congratulations and other officious little services. For it
is to be noted that though all modesty and reserve
were banished from the transaction of these pleasures, good manners
and politeness were inviolably observed. Here was no gross rivalry,
no offensive or rude behavior, or ungenerous reproaches to the
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girls for their compliance with the humors and desires of
the men. On the contrary, nothing was wanting to soothe, encourage,
and soften the sense of their condition to them. Men
know not, in general how much they destroy of their
own pleasure when they break through their respect and tenderness
due to our sex, and even to those of it
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who live only by pleasing them. And this was a
maxim perfectly well understood by these polite voluptuaries, these profound
adepts in the great art and science of pleasure, who
never showed these votaries of theirs a more tender respect
than at the time of those exercises of their complaisance,
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when they unlocked their treasures of concealed beauty and showed
out in the pride of their native charms, ever more touching,
surely than when they paraded it in the artificial ones
of dress and ornament. The frolic was now come round
to me, and it being my turn of subscription to
the will and pleasure of my particular elect as well
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as to that of the company. He came to me, and,
saluting me very tenderly with a flattering eagerness, put me
in mind of the compliances my presence there authorized the
hopes of and at the same time repeated to me
that if all this force of example had not surmounted
any repugnance, I might have to concur with the humors
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and desires of the company, that though the play was
bespoke for my benefit, and great as his own private
disappointment might be, he would suffer anything sooner than be
the instrument of imposing a disagreeable task. To this, I answered,
without the least hesitation or mincing grimace, that I had
not even contracted a kind of engagement to be at
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his disposal, without the least reserve. The example of such
agreeable companions would alone determine me, And that I was
in no pain about anything but my appearing to so
great a disadvantage after such superior beauties. And take notice
that I thought, as I spoke the frankness of the
answer pleased them all, My particular, was complimented on his acquisition,
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and by way of indirect flattery to me openly envied.
Missus Skole, by the way, could not have given me
a greater mark of her regard than in managing for
me the choice of this young gentleman for my master
of the ceremonies, for independent of his noble birth and
the great fortune he was heir too, his person was
even uncommonly pleasing, well shaped, and to his face marked
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with a small pox, but no more than what added
a grace of more manliness to features, rather turned to
softness and delicacy, was marvelously enlivened by eyes which were
of the clearest, sparkling black. In short, he was one
whom any woman would, in the familiar style, readily call
a very pretty fellow. I was now handed by him
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to the cockpit of our match, where as I was
dressed in nothing but a white morning gown. He vouchsafed
to play the male Abigail in this occasion, and spared
me the confusion that would have attended the forwardness of
undressing myself. My gown then was loosened in a trice,
and I divested of it. My stay next offered an obstacle,
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which readily gave way Louisa very readily furnishing a pair
of scissors to cut the lace. Off went that shell,
and dropping my upper coat, I was reduced to my
under one and my shift, the open bosom of which
gave the hands and eyes all the liberty they could wish. Here,
I imagined the stripping was to stop, but I reckoned short.
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My spark at the desire of the rest tenderly begged
that I would not suffer the small remains of a
covering to rob them of a full view of my
whole person. And for me, who was too flexibly obsequious
to dispute any point with them, and who considered a
little more that remained as very immaterial, I readily assented
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to whatever he pleased in an instant. Then my under
petticoat was untied and at my feet, and my shift
drawn over my head, so that my cap, slightly fastened,
came off with it, and brought all my hair down,
of which be it again remembered without vanity that I
had a very fine head in loose, disorderly ringlets over
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my neck. And shoulders to the not unfavorable set off
of my skin. I now stood before my judges in
all the truth of nature, to whom I could not
appear a very disagreeable figure. If you please to recollect
what I have before said of my person, which time
that at certain periods of life robs us every instant
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of our charms had at that of mine, then greatly
improved into full and open bloom. For I wanted some
months of eighteen. My breasts, which in the state of
nudity are ever capital points, now in no more than
in graceful plenitude, maintained a firmness and steady independence of
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any stay or support that dared and invited the test
of the touch. Then I was as tall as slim
shaped as could be consistent with all that juicy plumpness
of flesh. Ever, the most grateful to the senses of
sight and touch, which I owed to the health and
youth of my constitution. I had not, however, so thoroughly
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renounced all INNI each shame as not to suffer a
great confusion at the state I saw myself in. But
the whole troope round me, men and women relieved me
with every mark of applause and satisfaction, every flattering attention
to raise and inspire me with even sentiments of pride.
On the figure I made, which my friend gallantly protested,
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infinitely outshone all other birthday finery whatever, so that had
I leave to set down for sincere all the compliments
these connoisseurs overwhelmed me with. Upon this occasion, I might
flatter myself with having passed my examination with the approbation
of the learned. My friend, however, who for this time
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had alone the disposal of me, humored their curiosity and
perhaps his own, so far that he placed me in
all the variety of postures and lights imaginable, pointing out
every beauty under every aspect of it, not without such
parentheses of kisses, such inflammatory liberties of his roving hands,
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as made all shame fly before them, and the blushing
glow give place to a warmer one of desire, which
led me even to find some relish in the present scene.
But in this general survey, you may be sure the
most material spot of me was not excused the strictest visitation,
nor was it but agreed that I had not the
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least reason to be diffident of passing even for a maid.
One occasion so inconsiderable of law had by preceding adventures
created there, and so soon had the blemish of an
overstretch been repaired and worn out at my age, and
in my naturally small make in that part. Now, whether
my partner had exhausted all the modes of regaling the
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touch or sight, or whether he was now ungovernably wound
up to strike, I know not, But briskly throwing off
his clothes, the prodigious heat bred by a close room,
a great fire, numerous candles, and even the inflammatory warmth
of these scenes induced him to lay aside his shirt too.
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When his breeches, before loosened, now gave up their content
to view, and showed in front the enemy I had
to engage with, stiffly bearing up the port of its head,
unhooded and glowing red. Then I plainly saw what I
had to trust to. It was one of those just
true sized instruments of which the masters have a better
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command than the more unwieldy, inordinate sized ones are generally
under straining me. Then close to his bosom, as he
stood up for right against me, and applying to the
obvious niche its peculiar idol, he aimed at inserting it, which,
as I forwardly favored, he effected at once by canting
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up my thighs over his naked hips, and made me
receive every inch and close home, so that stuck upon
the pleasure pivot, and clinging round his neck, in which
and in his hair, I hid my face burningly, flushing
with my present feelings as much as with shame, my
bosom glued to his. He carried me once round the couch,
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on which he, then, without quitting the middle fastness or
this channeling, laid me down and began the pleasure. Gristed,
but so provokingly predisposed and primed as we were by
all the moving sights of the night, our imagination was
too much heated not to melt us of the soonest,
And accordingly I no sooner felt the warm spray darted
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up my inwards from him. But I was punctually on
flow to share the momentary ecstasy. But I had yet
greater reason to boast of for harmony, for finding that
all the flames of desire were not yet quenched within me,
but that, rather like wetted coals, I glowed the fiercer
for this sprinkling my hot metaled spark, sympathizing with me,
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and loaded for a double fire. Recontinued the sweet battery
with undying vigor, greatly pleased, at which I gratefully endeavored
to accommodate all my motions to his best advantage and delight. Kisses, squeezes,
tender murmurs all came into play till our joys, growing
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more turbulent and riotous, threw us into a fond disorder,
and as they raged to a point, bore us far
from ourselves into an ocean of boundless pleasures, into which
we both plunged together in a transport of taste. Now,
all the impressions of burning desire from the lively scenes
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I had been spectatorous of, ripened by the heat of
this exercise, and collecting to a head, throbbed and agitated
me with insupportable irritations. I perfectly fevered and maddened with
their excess. I did not now enjoy a calm of
reason enough to perceive, but I ecstatically indeed felt the
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power of such rare and exquisite provocatives as the examples
of the night had proved towards, thus exalting our pleasures,
which with great joy I sensibly found my gallant shared
in by his nervous and home expressions of it, his
eyes flashing eloquent flames, his action infuriated with the stings
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of it, all conspiring to rise my delight by assuring
me of his lifted then to the utmost pitch of
joy that human life can bear. Undestroyed by excess, I
touched that sweetly critical point whence scarce prevented by the
injection from my partner, I dissolved, and, breaking out into
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a deep drawn sigh, sent my whole sensitive soul down
to that passage where escape was denied it by its
being so deliciously plugged and choked up. Thus we lay
a few places, instants, overpowered, still and languid, till as
the sense of pleasure stagnated, we recovered from our trends,
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and he slipped out of me. Not, however, before he
had protested his extreme satisfaction by the tenderest kiss and embrace,
as well as by the most cordial expressions. The company,
who had stood round us in a profound silence when
all was over, helped me to hurry on my clothes
in an instant and complimented me on the sincere homage.
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They could not escape observing had been done, as they
termed it to the sovereignty of my charms in my
receiving a double payment of tribute at one juncture. But
my partner, now dressed again, signalized above all a fondness
unabated by the circumstance of recent enjoyment. The girls too
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kissed and embraced me, assuring me that for that time,
or indeed any other, unless I pleased, I was to
go through no further public trials, and that I was
now consummatedly initiated and one of them. As it was
an inviable law for every gallant to keep to his
partner for the night, especially and even till he relinquished
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possession over to the community, in order to preserve a
pleasing property and to avoid the disgusts and in delicacy
of another arrangement. The company, after a short refection of
biscuits and wine, tea and chocolate served in at now
about one in the morning, broke up and went off
in pears. Missus Cole had prepared my spark and me
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an occasional field bed to which we retired, and there
ended the night in one continued strain of pleasure, sprightly
and uncloyed enough for us not to have formed one
wish for its ever knowing an end. In the morning,
after a restorative breakfast in bed, he got up and,
with very tender assurance as of ape particular regard for me,
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left me to the composure and refreshment of a sweet slumber.
Waking out of which and getting up to dress before
missus Cole should come in, I found in one of
my pockets a purse of guineas, which he had slipped there,
And just as I was musing on a liberality I
had certainly not expected, missus Cole came in, to whom
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I immediately communicated a present, and naturally offered her whatever
share she pleased, but assuring me that the gentleman had
very nobly rewarded her, she would on no terms, no entreaties,
no shape I could put in receive any part of it.
Her denial, she observed, was not a fectation of grimace,
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and proceeded to read me such admirable lessons on the
economy of my person and my purse, as I became
amply paid for my general attention and conformity too in
the course of my acquaintance with the town, after which,
changing the discord, she fell on the pleasures of the
preceding night, where I learned, without much surprise as I
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began to enter on her character, that she had seen
everything that had passed from a convenient place, managed solely
for that purpose, and of which she readily made me
the confidante she had scarce finished this when the little
troop of love the girls my companions, broke in and
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renewed their compliments and caresses. I observed with pleasure that
the fatigues and exercises of the night had not usurped
in the least on the life of their complexion or
the freshness of their bloom. This, I found, by their confession,
was owing to the management and advice of our rare directors.
They went down then to figure it as usual in
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the shop, whilst I repaired to my lodgings, where I
employed myself till I returned to dinner at missus Cole's.
Here I stayed in constant amusement with one or other
of these charming girls till about five in the evening,
when seized with a sudden drowsy fit, I was prevailed
on to go up and doze it off on Harriet's bed,
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who left me on it to my repose. There Then
I lay down in my clothes and fell fast asleep,
and had now enjoyed by guess about an hour's rest,
when I was pleasingly disturbed by my new and favorite gallant, who,
inquiring for me, was readily directed where to find me,
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Coming then into my chamber, and seeing me lie alone
with my face turned from the light towards the inside
of the bed, he without more ado, just slipped off
his breeches for the greater ease and enjoyment of the
naked touch, and softly turning up my petticoat and shift behind,
opened a prospect of the back avenue to the genial
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siege of pleasure. Where As I lay at my side
length inclining rather faced downward, I appeared full, fair and
liable to be entered. Laying himself then gently down by me,
he invested me behind, and giving me to feel the
warmth of his body as he applied his sighs and
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belly close to me, and the endeavors of that machine
whose touch has something so exquisitely singular in it to
make its way good into me. I waked pretty much
startled at first, but seeing who it was, disposed myself
to turn to him. When he gave me a kiss, and,
desiring me to keep my posture, just lifted up my
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upper thigh, and ascertaining the right opening, soon drove it
up to the farthest, Satisfied with which, and solacing himself
with lying so close in those parts, he suspended motion,
and thus steeped in pleasure, kept me lying on my
side into him spoon fashion as he termed it from
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the snug indent of the back part of my thighs
and all upwards into the space of the bending between
his thighs and belly, till after some time that restless
and turbulent inmate, impatient by nature of longer quiet, urged
him to action, which, now prosecuting with all the usual
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train of toying, kissing, and the like, ended at length
in the liquid, proof on both sides that we had
not exhausted, or at least were quickly recruited of last
night's drafts of pleasure in us. With this noble and
agreeable youth lived I in perfect joy and constancy. He
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was full bent on keeping me to himself for the
honey month at least, But his stay in London was
not even so long, his father, who had opposed in Ireland,
taking him abruptly with him on his repairing thither. Yet
even then I was near keeping hold of his affection
and person, as he had proposed, and I had consented
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to follow him in order to go to Ireland after
him as soon as he could be settled there. But
meeting with an agreeable and advantageous match in that kingdom,
he chose the wiser part and forebore sending for me,
but at the same time took care that I should
receive a very magnificent present, which did not, however, compensate
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for all my deep regret on my loss of him.
This event also created a chasm in our little society,
which missus Cole, on the foot of her usual caution,
was in no haste to fill up. But then it
redoubled her attention to procure me in the advantages of
a traffic for a counterfeit maidenhead some consolation for the
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sort of widowhood I had been left in. And this
was a scheme she had never lost prospect of, and
only waited for a proper person to bring it to
bear therewith. But I was, it seems, fated, to be
my own caterer in this, as I had been in
my first trial of the market. I had now passed
near a month in the enjoyment of all the pleasures
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of familiarity and society with my companions, whose particular favorites
the Baronet excepted, who soon after took Harry at home,
had all, on the terms of community established in the house,
solicited the gratification of their taste for variety in my embraces.
But I had, with the utmost art in address, on
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various pretexts, eluded their pursuit without giving them cause to complain.
And this reserve I used neither out of dislike of
them or disgust of the thing. But my true reason
was my attachment to my own and my tenderness of
invading the choice of my companions, who, outwardly exempt as
they seemed from jealousy, could not but in secret like
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me the better for their regard had for without making
a merit of it to them, Thus easy and beloved
by the whole family. Did I go on? When one
day that about five in the afternoon, I stepped over
to a fruiterer's shop in Covent Garden to pick some
table fruit for myself and the young women I met
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with the following adventure. Whilst I was chaffering for the
fruit I wanted, I observed myself followed by a young gentleman,
whose rich dress first attracted my notice. For the rest
he had nothing remarkable in his person, except that he
was pale, thin maid, and ventured himself upon legs rather
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of the slenderest easy was it to perceive, without seeming
to perceive it, that it was me he wanted to
be at, and keeping his eyes fixed on me till
he came to the same basket that I stood at,
and cheapening, or rather giving the first price asked for
the fruit, began his approaches. Now, most certainly I was
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not at all out of figure to pass for a
modest girl. I had neither the feathers nor fumet of
a tawdry town, miss a straw hat, a white gown,
clean linen, and above all a certain natural and easy
air of modesty, which the appearances of never forsook me,
even on those occasions that I most broke in upon it.
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In practice were all signs that gave him no opening
to conjecture my condition. He spoke to me in this
address from a stranger, throwing a blush into my cheeks,
that still set him wider off the truth. I answered
him with an awkwardness and confusion, the more apt to impose,
as there was really a mixture of the genuine in them.
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But when proceeding on the foot of having broken the
eyes to join discourse, he went into other leading questions.
I put so much innocence, simplicity, and even childishness into
my answers, that on no better foundation, liking my person
as he did, I will answer for it. He would
have been sworn for my modesty. There is, in short
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in the men, when once they are caught by the eye,
especially a fund of cullibility that their lordly wisdom little
dreams of, and in virtue of which the most sagacious
of them are seen so often our dupes. Amongst other
queries he put to me, one was whether I was married.
I replied that I was too young to think of that,
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This many a year to that of my age, I answered,
and sunk a year upon him, passing myself for not seventeen.
As to my way of life, I told him I
had served an apprenticeship to a milliner in Preston, and
was come to town after a relation that I had
found on my arrival was dead and now lived journey
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woman to a milliner in town. That last article, indeed,
was not much of the side of what I pretended
to pass for, but it did pass under favor of
the growing passion I had inspired him with. After he
had next got out of me very dexterously, as he
thought what I had no sort of design to make
a reserve of my own my mistress name the place
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of abode. He loaded me with fruit, all the rarest
and dearest he could pick out, and sent me home,
pondering on what might be the consequence of this adventure.
As soon then as I came to missus Cole's, I
related to her all that passed, on which she very
judiciously concluded that if he did not come after me,
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there was no harm done, and that if he did,
her presage suggested to her he would his character and
his views should be well sifted so as to know
whether the game was worth the springs, that in the
meantime nothing was easier than my part in it, since
no more rested on me than to follow her cue
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and promptorship throughout to the last act. The next morning,
after an evening spent on his side, as we afterwards
learned in perquisitions into missus Cole's character in the neighborhood
than which nothing could be more favorable to her design
upon him, my gentleman came in his chariot to the
shop where missus Cole alone had an inkling of his
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errand asking then for her, he easily made a beginning
of acquaintance by bespeaking some millinery ware. When as I sat,
without lifting up my eyes and pursuing the hem of
a ruffle with the utmost composure and simplicity of industry,
missus Cole took notice that the first impressions I made
on him ran no risk of being destroyed by those
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of Louisa and Emily, who were then sitting at work
by me. After vainly endeavoring to catch my eyes in
re encounter with his, as I held my head down,
affecting a kind of consciousness of guilt for having by
speaking to him, given him encouragement and means of following me,
and after giving missus Cole direction when to bring the
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things home herself and the time he should expect them,
he went out, taking with him some goods that he
paid for liberally, for the better grace of his introduction.
End of Section seven.
Section sevenov Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. This LibriVox
recording is in the public domain. Memoirs of a Woman
of Pleasure by John Cleland letter the second part seven.
On the landing place of the first pair of stairs,
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we were met by a young gentleman, extremely well dressed,
and a very pretty figure, to whom I was to
be indebted for the first essay of the pleasures of
the house. He saluted me with great gallantry and handed
me into the drawing room, the floor of which was
overspread with a turkey carpet, and all its furniture voluptuously
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adapted to every demand of the most studied luxury. Now too,
it was by means of a profuse illumination, enlivened by
a light scarce inferior and perhaps more favorable to joy,
more tenderly pleasing than that of broad sunshine. On my
entrance into the room, I had a satisfaction to hear
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a buzz of approbation run through the whole company, which
now consisted of four gentlemen, including my particular. This was
the cant term of the house for one's gallant for
the time. The three young women in a neat flowing Dissabielle,
the mistress of the Academy, and myself, I was welcomed
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and saluted by a kiss all round, in which, however,
it was easy to discover, in the superior warmth of
that of the men, the distinction of the sexes awed
and confounded. As I was at seeing myself surrounded, caressed,
and made court to by so many strangers, I could
not immediately familiarize myself to all that air of gaiety
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and joy which dictated their compliments and animated their caresses.
They assured me that I was so perfectly to their
taste as to have but one fault against me, which
I might easily be cured off, and that was my modesty. This,
they observed, might pass for a beauty, the more with
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those who wanted it for a heightener. But their maxim
was that it was an impertinent mixture, and dashed the
cup so as to spoil the sincere draft of pleasure.
They considered it accordingly as their mortal enemy, and gave
it no quarter wherever they met with it. This was
a prolog not unworthy of the rebels that ensued in
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the midst of all the frolic and wantonness, which this
joyous band had presently and all naturally run into. An
elegant supper was served in and we sat down to it,
my spark elect placing himself next to me, and the
other couples without order or ceremony. The delicate cheer and
good wine soon banished all reserve. The conversation grew as
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lively as could be wished without taking too loose a turn.
These professors of pleasure knew too well to stale impressions
of it or evaporate the imagination in words before the
time of action. Kisses, however, were snatched at times, or
where a handkerchief round the neck interposed its feeble barrier,
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it was not extremely respected. The hands of the men
went to work with their usual petulance, till the provocations
on both sides rose to such a pitch that my
particular's proposal for beginning the country dances was received with
instant assent, for, as he laughingly added, he fancied the
instruments were in tune. This was a signal for preparation
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that the complaisant missus Cole, who understood life, took for
her cue of disappearing no longer so fit for personal
service herself, and content with having settled the order of battle,
she left as the field to fight it out at discretion.
As soon as she was gone, the table was removed
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from the middle and became a sideboard. A couch was
brought in to its place, of which, when I whisperingly
inquired the reason of my particular he told me that
as it was chiefly on my account that this convention
was met, the parties intended at once to humor their
taste of variety and pleasures, and by an open public
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enjoyment to see me broke of any taint of reserve
or modesty, which they looked on as the poison of joy.
That though they occasionally preached pleasure and lived up to
the text, they did not enthusiastically set up for missionaries,
and only indulged themselves in the delights of a practical
instruction of all the pretty women they liked well enough
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to bestow it upon, and who fell properly in the
way of it. But that, as such a proposal might
be too violent, too shocking for a young beginner, the
old standers were to set an example, which he hoped
I would not be averse to follow, since it was
to him I was devolved in favor of the first experiment.
But that still I was perfectly at my liberty to
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refuse the party, which, being in its nature one of pleasure,
supposed an exclusion of all force or constraint. My countenance
expressed no doubt my surprise, as my silence did my acquiescence.
I was now embarked and thoroughly determined on any voyage
the company would take me on. The first that stood
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up to open the ball were a cornet of a horse,
and that sweetest of olive beauties, the soft and amorous Louisa.
He led her to the couch nothing loath, on which
he gave her the fall, and extended her at her length,
with an air of roughness and vigor, relishing high of
amorous eagerness and impatience. The girl, spreading herself to the
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best advantage with her head upon the pillow, was so
concentrated in what she was about that our presence seemed
the least of her care and concern. Her petticoats thrown
up with her shift discovered to the company the finest
turned legs and thighs that could be imagined, and in
broad display that gave us a full view of that
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delicious cleft of flesh into which the pleasing hair grown
mount over it parted and presented a most inviting entrance
between two close hedges, delicately soft and pouting. Her gallant
was now ready, having disencumbered himself from his clothes overloaded
with lace, and presently his shirt removed, showed us his
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forces in high plight, bandied and ready for action. But
giving us no time to consider the dimensions, he threw
himself instantly over his charming antagonist, who received him as
he pushed at once, dead at mark like a heroine,
without flinching. For surely never was girl constitutionally truer to
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the taste of joy or sincereer in the expressions of
its sensations than she was. We could observe pleasure lightened
in her eyes as he introduced his plenipotentiary instrument into
her till at length, having indulged her to its utmost reach,
its irritations grew so violent and gave her the spurs
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so furiously that collected within herself and lost to everything
but the enjoyment of her favorite feelings. She retorted his
thrusts with a just concert of springy heaves, keeping time
so exactly with the most pathetic sighs that one might
have numbered the strokes in agitation by their distinct murmurs,
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whilst her active limbs kept wreathing and inter twisting with
his in convulsive folds. Then the turtle billing kisses, and
a poignant, painless love bites, which they both exchanged in
a rage of delight, all conspiring towards the melting period.
It soon came on when Louisa, in the ravings of
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her pleasure frenzy, impotent of all restrained, cried out, oh, sir,
good sir, pray, do not spare me, ah ah, All
her accents now faltering into heart fetched sighs, she closed
her eyes in the sweet death, in the instant of
which we could easily see the signs in the quiet, dying,
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languid posture of her late so furious driver, who was
stopped of a sudden breathing, short panting, and for the
time giving up the spirit of pleasure. As soon as
he was dismounted, Louisa sprung up, shook her petticoats, and
running up to me, gave me a kiss. And drew
me to the sideboard, to which she was herself handed
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by her gallant, where they made me pledge them in
a glass of wine and toast a droll health of
Louisa's proposal in high frolic. By this time the second
couple was ready to enter the lists, which were a
young baronet and that delicatest of charmers, the winning tender, Harriet.
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My gentle esquire, came to acquaint me with it, and
brought me back to the scene of action. Anne surely
never did one of her profession accompany her dispositions. For
the bare faced part, she was engaged to play with
such a peculiar grace of sweetness, modesty, and yielding coyness
as she did. All her air and motions breathed only unreserved,
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unlimited complaisance, without the least mixture of impudence or prostitution.
But what was yet more surprising, her spark elect in
the midst of the dissolution of a public open enjoyment,
doated on her to distraction, and had, by dint of
love and sentiments, touched her heart. Though for a while
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the restraint of their engagement to the house laid him
under a kind of necessity of complying with an institution
which himself had had the greatest share in establishing. Harriet
was then led to the vacant couch by her gallant
blushing as she looked at me, and with eyes made
to justify anything tenderly bespeaking of me the most favorable
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construction of the step. She was thus irresistibly drawn into
her lover. For such he was sat her down at
the foot of the couch, and passing his arm round
her neck, preluded with a kiss fervently applied to her
lips that visibly gave her life and spirit to go
through with the scene. And as he kissed, he gently
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inclined her head till it fell back on a pillow,
disposed to receive it, and leaning himself down all the
way with her, at once countenanced and endeared her fall
to her There as if he had guessed our wishes,
or meant to gratify at once his pleasure and his
pride in being the man master by the title of
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present possession of beauties delicate beyond imagination. He discovered her
breasts to his own touch and our common view. But oh,
what delicious manuals of love devotion, how inimitable, fine molded, small, round,
firm and excellently white, the grain of their skin so soothing,
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so flattering to the touch, and their nipples that crowned
them the sweetest buds of beauty. When he had feasted
his eyes with the touch and perusal, feasted his lips
with kisses of the highest relish imprinted on those all
delicious twin orbs, he proceeded downwards. Her legs still kept
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the ground, and now with the tenderest attention not to
shock or alarm her too, suddenly he by degrees rather
stole than rolled up her petticoats, at which, as if
a signal had been given, Louisa and Emily took hold
of her legs in pure wantonness, and in ease to her,
kept them stretched wide abroad. Then lay exposed, or to
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speak more properly, displayed the greatest parade in nature of
female charms. The whole company, who except myself, had often
seen them, seemed as much dazzled, surprised, and delighted as
any one could be who had now beheld them for
the first time. Beauty so excessive, could not but enjoy
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the privileges of eternal novelty. Her thighs were so exquisitely
fashioned that, either more in or more out of flesh
than they were, they would have declined from that point
of perfection they presented. But what infinitely enriched and adorned
them was the sweet intersection formed where they met at
the bottom of the smoothest, roundest, whitest belly, by that
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central furrow which nature had sunk there between the soft
relief of two pouting ridges, and which in this was
in perfect symmetry of delicacy and miniature. With the rest
of her frame, No nothing in nature could be of
a beautifuller cut then the dark umbrage of the downy
spring moss that overarched it bestowed on the luxury of
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the landscape, a touching warmth, a tender finishing beyond the
expression of words or even the paint of thought. Her
truly enamored gallant, who had stood absorbed and engrossed by
the pleasure of the sight long enough to afford us
time to feast ours no fear of glutting, addressed himself
at length to the materials of enjoyment, and lifting the
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linen veil that hung between us and his master member
of the rebels exhibited one whose eminent size proclaimed the
owner a true woman's hero. He was, besides, in every
other respect, an accomplished gentleman, and in the bloom and
vigor of youth. Standing then between Harriet's legs, which supported
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by her two companions at their widest extension, with one hand,
he gently disclosed the lips of that luscious mouth of nature,
whilst with the other he stooped his mighty machine to
its lure from the height of his stiff stand up
towards his belly. The lips, kept open by his fingers,
received its broad shelving head of coral hue, And when
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he had nestled it in, he hovered there a little,
and the girl's den delivered over to his hips the
agreeable office of supporting her thighs. And now, as if
meant to spin out his pleasure and give it the
more play for its life, he passed up his instrument
so slow that we lost sight of it inch by inch,
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till at length it was wholly taken into the soft
laboratory of love, and the mossy mounts of each fairly
met together. In the meantime we could plainly mark the
prodigious effect the progressions of this delightful energy wrought in
this delayious girl, gradually heightening her beauty. As they heightened
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her pleasure, her countenance and whole frame grew more animated.
The faint blush of her cheeks, gaining ground on the white,
deepened into a florid, vivid, vermilion glow. Her naturally brilliant
eyes now sparkled with tenfold luster. Her languor was vanished,
and she appeared quick, spirited and alive all over. He
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now fixed nailed this tender creature with his home driven wedge,
so that she lay passive by force and unable to stir,
till beginning to play a strain of arms against this
vein of delicacy. As he urged the to and fro
con friction, he awakened, roused, and touched her so to
the heart that, unable to contain herself, she could not
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but reply to his motions as briskly as her nice
tea of frame would admit of till the raging stings
of the pleasure rising towards the made her wild with
the intolerable sensations of it, and she now threw her
legs and arms about at random, as she lay lost
in the sweet transport, which on his side declared itself
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by quicker, eager thrusts, convulsive gasps, burning sighs, swift laborious breathings,
eyes darting, humid fires, all faithful tokens of the imminent
approaches of the last gasp of joy. It came on
at length. The baronet led the ecstasy, which she critically
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joined in, as she felt the melting symptoms from him,
in the nick of which, glowing more ardently than ever
his lips to hers, he showed all the signs of
that agony of bliss being strong upon him, in which
he gave her the finishing titillation, in the thrilled with
which we saw plainly that she entered it down with
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all effusion of spirit and matter she was mistress of,
whilst a general's soft shudder ran through all her limbs,
which she gave a stretch out of, and lay motionless, breathless,
dying with dear delight, and in the height of its expression,
showing through the nearly closed lids of her eyes, just
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the edges of their black the rest being rolled strongly
upwards in their ecstasy. Then her sweet mouth appeared languishingly open,
with the tip of her tongue leaning negligently towards the
lower range of her white teeth, whilst the natural ruby
color of her lips glowed with heightened life. Was not
this a subject to dwell upon? And accordingly her lover
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still kept on her with an abiding delectation, till compressed, squeezed,
and distilled to the last drop. He took leave with
one fervent kiss, expressing satisfied desires but unextinguished love. As
soon as he was off, I ran to her, and,
sitting down on the couch by her, raised her head,
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which she declined gently and hung on my bosom to
hide her plushes and confusion at what had passed till
by degrees. She recomposed herself and accepted of a restorative
glass of wine from my spark, who had left me
to fetch it her whilst her own was readjusting his
affairs and buttoning up, after which he led her, leaning
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languishingly upon him, to our stand of view round the couch.
And now Emily's partner had taken her out for her
share in the dance. When this transcendently fair and sweet
tempered creature readily stood up, and if a complexion to
put the rose and lily out of countenance, extreme pretty
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features and that florid health and bloom for which the
country girls are so lovely might pass her. For a beauty,
this she certainly was, and one of the most striking
of the fair ones. Her gallant began first as she stood,
to disengage her breaths and restore them to the liberty
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of nature from the easy confinement of no more than
a pair of jumps. But on their coming out to view,
we thought a new light was added to the room,
so superiorly shining with their whiteness. Then they rose in,
so happy as well as to compose her a well
formed fullness of bosom that had such an effect on
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the eye as to seem flesh hardening into marble, of
which it emulated the polished gloss, and far surpassed even
the whitest in the life and luster of its colors,
white veined with blue refrain. Who could from such provoking
enticements to it in reach? He touched her breasts first, lightly,
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when the glossy smoothness of his skin eluded his hand
and made its slip along the surface. He pressed them,
and the springy flesh that filled them, thus pitted by force,
rose again reboundingly with his hand, and on the instant
effaced the pressure. And alike indeed was the consistence of
all those parts of her body throughout where the fullness
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of flesh compacts and constitutes all that fine firmness which
that touch is so highly attached to. When he had
thus largely pleased himself with this branch of dalliance and delight,
he trussed up her petticoat and shift in a wisp
to her waist, where being tucked in, she stood fairly
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naked on every side. A blush at this overspread her
lovely face and her eyes downcast to the ground, seemed
to be for a quarter, when she had so great
a right to triumph in all the treasures of youth
and beauty that she now so victoriously displayed. Her legs
were perfectly well shaped, and her thighs, which she kept
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pretty close, showed so white, so round, so substantial, and
abounding in firm flesh, that nothing could offer a stronger
recommendation to the luxury of the touch, which he accordingly
did not fail to indulge himself in. Then gently removing
her hand, which, in the first emotion of natural modesty,
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she had carried thither, he gave us rather a glimpse
than a view of that soft, narrow chink, running its
little length downwards and hiding the remains of it between
her thighs. But plain was to be seen the fringe
of light brown curls in beauteous growth over it, that,
with their silky gloss, created a pleasing variety from the
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surrounding white, whose luster, too, their gentle and browning shade
considerably raised her spark. Then endeavored as she stood by
disclosing her thighs to gain us a completer sight of
that central charm of attraction, but not obtaining it so conveniently.
In that attitude, he led her to the foot of
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the couch, and, bringing to it one of the pillows,
gently inclined her head down, so that as she leaned
with it over her crossed hands, straddling with her thighs
widespread and jutting her body out, she presented a full
back view of her person, naked to the waist, her
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posteriors plump, smooth, and prominent formed luxuriant tracts of animated
snow that splendidly filled the eye till it was commanded
down the parting or separation of those exquisitely white cliffs
by their narrow veil, and was there stopped and attracted
by the embowered bottom cavity that terminated this delightful vista,
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and stood moderately gaping from the influence of her bended posture,
so that the agreeable interior red of the sides of
the orifice came into view, and with respect to the
white that dazzled round it, gave somewhat the idea of
a pink slash in the gloss siest white satin. Her gallant,
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who was a gentleman about thirty, somewhat inclined to a
fatness that was in no sort displeasing, improving the hint,
thus tendered him of this mode of enjoyment. After settling
her well in this posture and encouraging her with kisses
and caresses to stand him through, drew out his affair,
ready erected, and whose extreme length, rather disproportioned to its breath,
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was the more surprising, as that excess is not often
the case with those of his corpulent habit, making then
the right and direct application, he drove it up to
the guard, whilst the round bulge of those Turkish beauties
of hers, tallying with the hollow made with the bent
of his belly and thighs as they curved inwards, brought
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all those parts surely not undelightfully into warm touch and
close conjunction his hands. He kept passing round her body,
and eployed in toying with her enchanting breasts. As soon too,
as she felt him at home as he could reach,
she lifted her head a little from the pillow, and
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turning her neck without much straining, but her cheeks glowing
with the deepest scarlet, and the smile of the tenderest
satisfaction met the kiss he pressed forward to give her,
as they were thus close joined together. When leaving him
to pursue his delights, she hid again her face and
blushes with her hands and pillow, and thus stood passively
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and as favorably too as she could, whilst he kept
laying at her with repeated thrusts, and making the meeting
flesh on both sides resound again with the violence of them.
Then ever, as he beckoned from her, we could see
between them part of his long white staff, foamingly in motion,
till as he went on again and closed with her,
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the interposing hillocks took it out of sight. Sometimes he
took his hands from the semi globes of her bosoms
and transferred the pressure of them to those larger ones,
the present subjects of his soft blockade, which he squeezed, grasped,
and played with till at length A pursuit of driving
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so hotly urged brought on the height of the fit
with such overpowering pleasure that his fair partner became now
necessary to support him, panting, fainting, and dying as he discharged,
which she no sooner felt the killing sweetness of than.
Unable to keep her legs and yielding to the mighty intoxication,
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she reeled and falling forward on the couch. Made it
a necessity for him if he would preserve that warm
pleasure hold to fall upon her, where they perfected in
a continued conjunction of body and ecstatic flow, their scheme
of joys for that time. As soon as he had
disengaged the charm ming, Emily got up and recrowded round
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her with congratulations and other officious little services. For it
is to be noted that though all modesty and reserve
were banished from the transaction of these pleasures, good manners
and politeness were inviolably observed. Here was no gross rivalry,
no offensive or rude behavior, or ungenerous reproaches to the
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girls for their compliance with the humors and desires of
the men. On the contrary, nothing was wanting to soothe, encourage,
and soften the sense of their condition to them. Men
know not, in general how much they destroy of their
own pleasure when they break through their respect and tenderness
due to our sex, and even to those of it
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who live only by pleasing them. And this was a
maxim perfectly well understood by these polite voluptuaries, these profound
adepts in the great art and science of pleasure, who
never showed these votaries of theirs a more tender respect
than at the time of those exercises of their complaisance,
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when they unlocked their treasures of concealed beauty and showed
out in the pride of their native charms, ever more touching,
surely than when they paraded it in the artificial ones
of dress and ornament. The frolic was now come round
to me, and it being my turn of subscription to
the will and pleasure of my particular elect as well
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as to that of the company. He came to me, and,
saluting me very tenderly with a flattering eagerness, put me
in mind of the compliances my presence there authorized the
hopes of and at the same time repeated to me
that if all this force of example had not surmounted
any repugnance, I might have to concur with the humors
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and desires of the company, that though the play was
bespoke for my benefit, and great as his own private
disappointment might be, he would suffer anything sooner than be
the instrument of imposing a disagreeable task. To this, I answered,
without the least hesitation or mincing grimace, that I had
not even contracted a kind of engagement to be at
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his disposal, without the least reserve. The example of such
agreeable companions would alone determine me, And that I was
in no pain about anything but my appearing to so
great a disadvantage after such superior beauties. And take notice
that I thought, as I spoke the frankness of the
answer pleased them all, My particular, was complimented on his acquisition,
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and by way of indirect flattery to me openly envied.
Missus Skole, by the way, could not have given me
a greater mark of her regard than in managing for
me the choice of this young gentleman for my master
of the ceremonies, for independent of his noble birth and
the great fortune he was heir too, his person was
even uncommonly pleasing, well shaped, and to his face marked
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with a small pox, but no more than what added
a grace of more manliness to features, rather turned to
softness and delicacy, was marvelously enlivened by eyes which were
of the clearest, sparkling black. In short, he was one
whom any woman would, in the familiar style, readily call
a very pretty fellow. I was now handed by him
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to the cockpit of our match, where as I was
dressed in nothing but a white morning gown. He vouchsafed
to play the male Abigail in this occasion, and spared
me the confusion that would have attended the forwardness of
undressing myself. My gown then was loosened in a trice,
and I divested of it. My stay next offered an obstacle,
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which readily gave way Louisa very readily furnishing a pair
of scissors to cut the lace. Off went that shell,
and dropping my upper coat, I was reduced to my
under one and my shift, the open bosom of which
gave the hands and eyes all the liberty they could wish. Here,
I imagined the stripping was to stop, but I reckoned short.
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My spark at the desire of the rest tenderly begged
that I would not suffer the small remains of a
covering to rob them of a full view of my
whole person. And for me, who was too flexibly obsequious
to dispute any point with them, and who considered a
little more that remained as very immaterial, I readily assented
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to whatever he pleased in an instant. Then my under
petticoat was untied and at my feet, and my shift
drawn over my head, so that my cap, slightly fastened,
came off with it, and brought all my hair down,
of which be it again remembered without vanity that I
had a very fine head in loose, disorderly ringlets over
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my neck. And shoulders to the not unfavorable set off
of my skin. I now stood before my judges in
all the truth of nature, to whom I could not
appear a very disagreeable figure. If you please to recollect
what I have before said of my person, which time
that at certain periods of life robs us every instant
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of our charms had at that of mine, then greatly
improved into full and open bloom. For I wanted some
months of eighteen. My breasts, which in the state of
nudity are ever capital points, now in no more than
in graceful plenitude, maintained a firmness and steady independence of
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any stay or support that dared and invited the test
of the touch. Then I was as tall as slim
shaped as could be consistent with all that juicy plumpness
of flesh. Ever, the most grateful to the senses of
sight and touch, which I owed to the health and
youth of my constitution. I had not, however, so thoroughly
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renounced all INNI each shame as not to suffer a
great confusion at the state I saw myself in. But
the whole troope round me, men and women relieved me
with every mark of applause and satisfaction, every flattering attention
to raise and inspire me with even sentiments of pride.
On the figure I made, which my friend gallantly protested,
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infinitely outshone all other birthday finery whatever, so that had
I leave to set down for sincere all the compliments
these connoisseurs overwhelmed me with. Upon this occasion, I might
flatter myself with having passed my examination with the approbation
of the learned. My friend, however, who for this time
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had alone the disposal of me, humored their curiosity and
perhaps his own, so far that he placed me in
all the variety of postures and lights imaginable, pointing out
every beauty under every aspect of it, not without such
parentheses of kisses, such inflammatory liberties of his roving hands,
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as made all shame fly before them, and the blushing
glow give place to a warmer one of desire, which
led me even to find some relish in the present scene.
But in this general survey, you may be sure the
most material spot of me was not excused the strictest visitation,
nor was it but agreed that I had not the
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least reason to be diffident of passing even for a maid.
One occasion so inconsiderable of law had by preceding adventures
created there, and so soon had the blemish of an
overstretch been repaired and worn out at my age, and
in my naturally small make in that part. Now, whether
my partner had exhausted all the modes of regaling the
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touch or sight, or whether he was now ungovernably wound
up to strike, I know not, But briskly throwing off
his clothes, the prodigious heat bred by a close room,
a great fire, numerous candles, and even the inflammatory warmth
of these scenes induced him to lay aside his shirt too.
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When his breeches, before loosened, now gave up their content
to view, and showed in front the enemy I had
to engage with, stiffly bearing up the port of its head,
unhooded and glowing red. Then I plainly saw what I
had to trust to. It was one of those just
true sized instruments of which the masters have a better
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command than the more unwieldy, inordinate sized ones are generally
under straining me. Then close to his bosom, as he
stood up for right against me, and applying to the
obvious niche its peculiar idol, he aimed at inserting it, which,
as I forwardly favored, he effected at once by canting
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up my thighs over his naked hips, and made me
receive every inch and close home, so that stuck upon
the pleasure pivot, and clinging round his neck, in which
and in his hair, I hid my face burningly, flushing
with my present feelings as much as with shame, my
bosom glued to his. He carried me once round the couch,
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on which he, then, without quitting the middle fastness or
this channeling, laid me down and began the pleasure. Gristed,
but so provokingly predisposed and primed as we were by
all the moving sights of the night, our imagination was
too much heated not to melt us of the soonest,
And accordingly I no sooner felt the warm spray darted
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up my inwards from him. But I was punctually on
flow to share the momentary ecstasy. But I had yet
greater reason to boast of for harmony, for finding that
all the flames of desire were not yet quenched within me,
but that, rather like wetted coals, I glowed the fiercer
for this sprinkling my hot metaled spark, sympathizing with me,
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and loaded for a double fire. Recontinued the sweet battery
with undying vigor, greatly pleased, at which I gratefully endeavored
to accommodate all my motions to his best advantage and delight. Kisses, squeezes,
tender murmurs all came into play till our joys, growing
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more turbulent and riotous, threw us into a fond disorder,
and as they raged to a point, bore us far
from ourselves into an ocean of boundless pleasures, into which
we both plunged together in a transport of taste. Now,
all the impressions of burning desire from the lively scenes
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I had been spectatorous of, ripened by the heat of
this exercise, and collecting to a head, throbbed and agitated
me with insupportable irritations. I perfectly fevered and maddened with
their excess. I did not now enjoy a calm of
reason enough to perceive, but I ecstatically indeed felt the
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power of such rare and exquisite provocatives as the examples
of the night had proved towards, thus exalting our pleasures,
which with great joy I sensibly found my gallant shared
in by his nervous and home expressions of it, his
eyes flashing eloquent flames, his action infuriated with the stings
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of it, all conspiring to rise my delight by assuring
me of his lifted then to the utmost pitch of
joy that human life can bear. Undestroyed by excess, I
touched that sweetly critical point whence scarce prevented by the
injection from my partner, I dissolved, and, breaking out into
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a deep drawn sigh, sent my whole sensitive soul down
to that passage where escape was denied it by its
being so deliciously plugged and choked up. Thus we lay
a few places, instants, overpowered, still and languid, till as
the sense of pleasure stagnated, we recovered from our trends,
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and he slipped out of me. Not, however, before he
had protested his extreme satisfaction by the tenderest kiss and embrace,
as well as by the most cordial expressions. The company,
who had stood round us in a profound silence when
all was over, helped me to hurry on my clothes
in an instant and complimented me on the sincere homage.
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They could not escape observing had been done, as they
termed it to the sovereignty of my charms in my
receiving a double payment of tribute at one juncture. But
my partner, now dressed again, signalized above all a fondness
unabated by the circumstance of recent enjoyment. The girls too
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kissed and embraced me, assuring me that for that time,
or indeed any other, unless I pleased, I was to
go through no further public trials, and that I was
now consummatedly initiated and one of them. As it was
an inviable law for every gallant to keep to his
partner for the night, especially and even till he relinquished
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possession over to the community, in order to preserve a
pleasing property and to avoid the disgusts and in delicacy
of another arrangement. The company, after a short refection of
biscuits and wine, tea and chocolate served in at now
about one in the morning, broke up and went off
in pears. Missus Cole had prepared my spark and me
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an occasional field bed to which we retired, and there
ended the night in one continued strain of pleasure, sprightly
and uncloyed enough for us not to have formed one
wish for its ever knowing an end. In the morning,
after a restorative breakfast in bed, he got up and,
with very tender assurance as of ape particular regard for me,
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left me to the composure and refreshment of a sweet slumber.
Waking out of which and getting up to dress before
missus Cole should come in, I found in one of
my pockets a purse of guineas, which he had slipped there,
And just as I was musing on a liberality I
had certainly not expected, missus Cole came in, to whom
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I immediately communicated a present, and naturally offered her whatever
share she pleased, but assuring me that the gentleman had
very nobly rewarded her, she would on no terms, no entreaties,
no shape I could put in receive any part of it.
Her denial, she observed, was not a fectation of grimace,
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and proceeded to read me such admirable lessons on the
economy of my person and my purse, as I became
amply paid for my general attention and conformity too in
the course of my acquaintance with the town, after which,
changing the discord, she fell on the pleasures of the
preceding night, where I learned, without much surprise as I
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began to enter on her character, that she had seen
everything that had passed from a convenient place, managed solely
for that purpose, and of which she readily made me
the confidante she had scarce finished this when the little
troop of love the girls my companions, broke in and
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renewed their compliments and caresses. I observed with pleasure that
the fatigues and exercises of the night had not usurped
in the least on the life of their complexion or
the freshness of their bloom. This, I found, by their confession,
was owing to the management and advice of our rare directors.
They went down then to figure it as usual in
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the shop, whilst I repaired to my lodgings, where I
employed myself till I returned to dinner at missus Cole's.
Here I stayed in constant amusement with one or other
of these charming girls till about five in the evening,
when seized with a sudden drowsy fit, I was prevailed
on to go up and doze it off on Harriet's bed,
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who left me on it to my repose. There Then
I lay down in my clothes and fell fast asleep,
and had now enjoyed by guess about an hour's rest,
when I was pleasingly disturbed by my new and favorite gallant, who,
inquiring for me, was readily directed where to find me,
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Coming then into my chamber, and seeing me lie alone
with my face turned from the light towards the inside
of the bed, he without more ado, just slipped off
his breeches for the greater ease and enjoyment of the
naked touch, and softly turning up my petticoat and shift behind,
opened a prospect of the back avenue to the genial
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siege of pleasure. Where As I lay at my side
length inclining rather faced downward, I appeared full, fair and
liable to be entered. Laying himself then gently down by me,
he invested me behind, and giving me to feel the
warmth of his body as he applied his sighs and
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belly close to me, and the endeavors of that machine
whose touch has something so exquisitely singular in it to
make its way good into me. I waked pretty much
startled at first, but seeing who it was, disposed myself
to turn to him. When he gave me a kiss, and,
desiring me to keep my posture, just lifted up my
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upper thigh, and ascertaining the right opening, soon drove it
up to the farthest, Satisfied with which, and solacing himself
with lying so close in those parts, he suspended motion,
and thus steeped in pleasure, kept me lying on my
side into him spoon fashion as he termed it from
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the snug indent of the back part of my thighs
and all upwards into the space of the bending between
his thighs and belly, till after some time that restless
and turbulent inmate, impatient by nature of longer quiet, urged
him to action, which, now prosecuting with all the usual
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train of toying, kissing, and the like, ended at length
in the liquid, proof on both sides that we had
not exhausted, or at least were quickly recruited of last
night's drafts of pleasure in us. With this noble and
agreeable youth lived I in perfect joy and constancy. He
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was full bent on keeping me to himself for the
honey month at least, But his stay in London was
not even so long, his father, who had opposed in Ireland,
taking him abruptly with him on his repairing thither. Yet
even then I was near keeping hold of his affection
and person, as he had proposed, and I had consented
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to follow him in order to go to Ireland after
him as soon as he could be settled there. But
meeting with an agreeable and advantageous match in that kingdom,
he chose the wiser part and forebore sending for me,
but at the same time took care that I should
receive a very magnificent present, which did not, however, compensate
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for all my deep regret on my loss of him.
This event also created a chasm in our little society,
which missus Cole, on the foot of her usual caution,
was in no haste to fill up. But then it
redoubled her attention to procure me in the advantages of
a traffic for a counterfeit maidenhead some consolation for the
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sort of widowhood I had been left in. And this
was a scheme she had never lost prospect of, and
only waited for a proper person to bring it to
bear therewith. But I was, it seems, fated, to be
my own caterer in this, as I had been in
my first trial of the market. I had now passed
near a month in the enjoyment of all the pleasures
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of familiarity and society with my companions, whose particular favorites
the Baronet excepted, who soon after took Harry at home,
had all, on the terms of community established in the house,
solicited the gratification of their taste for variety in my embraces.
But I had, with the utmost art in address, on
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various pretexts, eluded their pursuit without giving them cause to complain.
And this reserve I used neither out of dislike of
them or disgust of the thing. But my true reason
was my attachment to my own and my tenderness of
invading the choice of my companions, who, outwardly exempt as
they seemed from jealousy, could not but in secret like
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me the better for their regard had for without making
a merit of it to them, Thus easy and beloved
by the whole family. Did I go on? When one
day that about five in the afternoon, I stepped over
to a fruiterer's shop in Covent Garden to pick some
table fruit for myself and the young women I met
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with the following adventure. Whilst I was chaffering for the
fruit I wanted, I observed myself followed by a young gentleman,
whose rich dress first attracted my notice. For the rest
he had nothing remarkable in his person, except that he
was pale, thin maid, and ventured himself upon legs rather
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of the slenderest easy was it to perceive, without seeming
to perceive it, that it was me he wanted to
be at, and keeping his eyes fixed on me till
he came to the same basket that I stood at,
and cheapening, or rather giving the first price asked for
the fruit, began his approaches. Now, most certainly I was
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not at all out of figure to pass for a
modest girl. I had neither the feathers nor fumet of
a tawdry town, miss a straw hat, a white gown,
clean linen, and above all a certain natural and easy
air of modesty, which the appearances of never forsook me,
even on those occasions that I most broke in upon it.
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In practice were all signs that gave him no opening
to conjecture my condition. He spoke to me in this
address from a stranger, throwing a blush into my cheeks,
that still set him wider off the truth. I answered
him with an awkwardness and confusion, the more apt to impose,
as there was really a mixture of the genuine in them.
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But when proceeding on the foot of having broken the
eyes to join discourse, he went into other leading questions.
I put so much innocence, simplicity, and even childishness into
my answers, that on no better foundation, liking my person
as he did, I will answer for it. He would
have been sworn for my modesty. There is, in short
(49:08):
in the men, when once they are caught by the eye,
especially a fund of cullibility that their lordly wisdom little
dreams of, and in virtue of which the most sagacious
of them are seen so often our dupes. Amongst other
queries he put to me, one was whether I was married.
I replied that I was too young to think of that,
(49:30):
This many a year to that of my age, I answered,
and sunk a year upon him, passing myself for not seventeen.
As to my way of life, I told him I
had served an apprenticeship to a milliner in Preston, and
was come to town after a relation that I had
found on my arrival was dead and now lived journey
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woman to a milliner in town. That last article, indeed,
was not much of the side of what I pretended
to pass for, but it did pass under favor of
the growing passion I had inspired him with. After he
had next got out of me very dexterously, as he
thought what I had no sort of design to make
a reserve of my own my mistress name the place
(50:15):
of abode. He loaded me with fruit, all the rarest
and dearest he could pick out, and sent me home,
pondering on what might be the consequence of this adventure.
As soon then as I came to missus Cole's, I
related to her all that passed, on which she very
judiciously concluded that if he did not come after me,
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there was no harm done, and that if he did,
her presage suggested to her he would his character and
his views should be well sifted so as to know
whether the game was worth the springs, that in the
meantime nothing was easier than my part in it, since
no more rested on me than to follow her cue
(50:58):
and promptorship throughout to the last act. The next morning,
after an evening spent on his side, as we afterwards
learned in perquisitions into missus Cole's character in the neighborhood
than which nothing could be more favorable to her design
upon him, my gentleman came in his chariot to the
shop where missus Cole alone had an inkling of his
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errand asking then for her, he easily made a beginning
of acquaintance by bespeaking some millinery ware. When as I sat,
without lifting up my eyes and pursuing the hem of
a ruffle with the utmost composure and simplicity of industry,
missus Cole took notice that the first impressions I made
on him ran no risk of being destroyed by those
(51:42):
of Louisa and Emily, who were then sitting at work
by me. After vainly endeavoring to catch my eyes in
re encounter with his, as I held my head down,
affecting a kind of consciousness of guilt for having by
speaking to him, given him encouragement and means of following me,
and after giving missus Cole direction when to bring the
(52:04):
things home herself and the time he should expect them,
he went out, taking with him some goods that he
paid for liberally, for the better grace of his introduction.
End of Section seven.
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