On the landing-place of the first pair of stairs, we
were met by a young gentleman, extremely well dress'd, 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 adapted to every demand of
the most study'd luxury; now too it was, by means of a pro-
fuse illumination, enliven'd by a light scarce inferior, and
perhaps more favourable to joy, more tenderly pleasing, than
that of broad sun-shine.
On my entrance into the room, I had the satisfaction to
hear a buzz of approbation run through the whole company
which now consisted of four gentlemen, including my parti-
cular (this was the cant-term of the house for one's gallant
for the time), the three young women, in a neat flowing
dishabille, the mistress of the academy, and myself. I was
welcomed 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.
Aw'd and confounded as I was at seeing myself sur-
rounded, caress'd, and made court to by so many strangers,
I could not immediately familiarize myself to all that air
of gaiety and joy which dictated their compliments, and
animated their caresses.
They assur'd me that I was so perfectly to their taste
as to have but one fault against me, which I might easily be
cur'd of, and that was my modesty: this, they observ'd, might
pass for a beauty the more with those who wanted it for a
heightener; but their maxim was, that it was an impertinent
mixture, and dash'd the cup so as to spoil the sincere draught
of pleasure; they consider'd it accordingly as their mortal
enemy, and gave it no quarter wherever they met with it.
This was a prologue not unworthy of the revels that ensu'd.
In the midst of all the frolic and wantonnesses, which
this joyous band had presently, and all naturally, run into,
an elegant supper was serv'd 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 banish'd all reserve; the conversation grew as 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 snatch'd at times, or where a
handkerchief round the neck interpos'd its feeble barrier, 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 instru-
ments were in tune. This was a signal for preparation, that
the complaisant Mrs. 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 us the field, to fight it out at discretion.
As soon as she was gone, the table was remov'd form the
middle, and became a side-board; a couch was brought into
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 humour their taste of variety in pleasures, and
by an open publick enjoyment, to see me broke of any taint
of reserve or modesty, which they look'd 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 indulg'd themselves in the
delights of a practical instruction of all the pretty women
they lik'd well enough to bestow it upon, and who fell pro-
perly 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 devolv'd in
favour of the first experiment; but that still I was per-
fectly at my liberty to refuse the party, which being in its
nature one of pleasure, suppos'd 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 up, to open the ball, were a cor-
net of horse, and that sweetest of olive-beauties, the soft
and amorous Louisa. He led her to the couch "nothing loth,"
on which he gave her the fall, and extended her at her
length with an air of roughness and vigour, relishing high
of amorous eagerness and impatience. The girl, spreading
herself to the best advantage, with her head upon the pillow,
was so concentred 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 turn'd legs and thighs that could be imagined, and in
broad display, that gave us a full view of that 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 disencumber'd himself from his cloaths,
overloaded with lace, and presently, his shirt removed, shew'd
us his 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 receiv'd
him as he pushed at once dead at mark like a heroine, without
flinching; for surely never was girl constitutionally truer
to the taste of joy, or sincerer in the expressions of its
sensations, than she was: we could observe pleasure lighten
in her eyes, as he introduc'd his plenipotentiary instrument
into her; till, at length, having indulg'd her to its utmost
reach, its irritations grew so violent, and gave her the
spurs so furiously, that collected within herself, and lost
to everything but the enjoyment of her favourite 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 number'd the strokes in agitation by
their distinct murmurs, whilst her active limbs kept wreath-
ing and intertwisting with his, in convulsive folds: then
the turtle-billing kisses, and the poignant painless love-
bites, which they both exchang'd in a rage of delight, all
conspiring towards the melting period. It soon came on when
Louisa, in the ravings of her pleasure-frenzy, impotent of
all restraint, cried out: "Oh Sir! . . . Good Sir! . . .
pray do not spare me! ah! ah! . . ." All her accents now
faltering into heart-fetched sighs, she clos'd her eyes in
the sweet death, in the instant of which she was embalm'd by
an injection, of which we could easily see the signs in the
quiet, dying, languid posture of her late so furious driver,
who was stopp'd 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
side-board, to which she was herself handed 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. My gentle esquire
came to acquaint me with it, and brought me back to the
scene of action.
And, 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
breath'd only unreserv'd, 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 publick open enjoyment, doted on her to dis-
traction, and had, by dint of love and sentiments, touched
her heart, tho' for a while 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 look'd at me, and with eyes made to justify
any thing, tenderly bespeaking of me the most favourable
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 thro' with the scene; and as he kiss'd,
he gently 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 countenanc'd and endear'd her fall to her.
There, as if he had guess'd our wishes, or meant to gratify
at once his pleasure and his pride, in being the master, by
the title of 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 moulded! small, round, firm,
and excellently white: the grain of their skin, so soothing,
so flattering to the touch! and their nipples, that crown'd
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, the proceeded downwards.
Her legs still kept the ground; and now, with the ten-
derest 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
speak more properly, display'd the greatest parade in nature
of female charms. The whole company, who, except myself,
had often seen them, seemed as much dazzled, surpriz'd and
delighted, as any one could be who had now beheld them for
the first time. Beauties so excessive could not but enjoy
the privileges of eternal novelty. Her thighs were so ex-
quisitely 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
enrich'd and adorn'd them, was the sweet intersection formed,
where they met, at the bottom of the smoothest, roundest,
whitest belly, by that central furrow which nature had sunk
there, between, the soft relieve of two pouting ridges, and
which in this was in perfect symmetry of delicacy and minia-
ture 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 over-arched it bestowed, on the luxury of
the landscape, a touching warmth, a tender finishing, beyond
the expression of words, or even the paint of thought.
Her truly enamour'd 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 him-
self at length to the materials of enjoyment, and lifting
the linen veil that hung between us and his master member of
the revels, exhibited one whose eminent size proclaimed the
owner a true woman's hero. He was, besides, in every other
respect an accomplish'd gentleman, and in the bloom and
vigour of youth. Standing then between Harriet's legs, which
were supported by her two companions at their widest exten-
sion, 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 fin-
gers, received its broad shelving head of coral hue: and
when he had nestled it in, he hovered there a little, and
the girls then deliver'd 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, till at length it was wholly taken into the
soft laboratory of love, and the mossy mounts of each fairly
met together. In the mean time, we could plainly mark the
prodigious effect the progressions of this delightful energy
wrought in this delicious girl, gradually heightening her
beauty as they heightened 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 ten-fold lustre; her languor was vanish'd, and she
appeared, quick spirited, and alive all over. He 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 confriction, he awaken'd,
rous'd, and touch'd her so to the heart, that unable to
contain herself, she could not but reply to his motions as
briskly as her nicety of frame would admit of, till the
raging stings of the pleasure rising towards the point, 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 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 extasy,
which she critically joined in, as she felt the melting
symptoms from him, in the nick of which glewing more ardently
than ever his lips to hers, he shewed all the signs of that
agony of bliss being strong upon him, in which he gave her
the finishing titillation; inly thrill'd with which, we saw
plainly that she answered it down with all effusion of spirit
and matter she was mistress of, whilst a general 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, shewing, through the nearly
closed lids of her eyes, just the edges of their black, the
rest being rolled strongly upwards in their extasy; then her
sweet mouth appear'd languishingly open, with the tip of her
tongue leaning negligently towards the lower range of her
white teeth, whilst the natural ruby colour of her lips
glowed with heightened life. Was not this a subject to
dwell upon? And accordingly her lover 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 satisfy'd desires, but unextinguish'd love.
As soon as he was off, I ran to her, and sitting down
on the couch by her, rais'd her head, which she declin'd
gently, and hung on my bosom, to hide her blushes and con-
fusion at what had pass'd, 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
re-adjusting his affairs and buttoning up; after which he
led her, leaning 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
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 ot the most striking of the
fair ones.
Her gallant began first, as she stood, to disengage her
breasts, and restore them to the liberty 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 superiourly shining was their whiteness;
then they rose in so happy a swell as to compose her a well-
formed fulness of bosom, that had such an effect on 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 lustre of its colours, white veined with blue.
Refrain who could from such provoking enticements to it in
reach? He touched her breasts, first lightly, when the
glossy smoothness of the skin eluded his hand, and made it
slip along the surface; he press'd them, and the springy
flesh that filled them thus pitted by force, rose again
reboundingly with his hand, and on the instant effac'd the
pressure: and alike indeed was the consistence of all those
parts of her body throughout, where the fulness of flesh
compacts and constitutes all that fine firmness which the
touch is so highly attach'd to. When he had thus largely
pleased himself with this branch of dalliance and delight,
he truss'd up her petticoat and shift in a wisp to her waist,
where being tuck'd in, she stood fairly naked on every side;
a blush at this overspread her lovely face, and her eyes down
cast to the ground seemed to be for quarter, when she had so
great a right to triumph in all the treasures of youth and
beauty that she now so victoriously display'd. Her legs were
perfectly well shaped and her thighs, which she kept pretty
close, shewed so white, so round, so substantial and abound-
ing in firm flesh, that nothing could offer a stronger recom-
mendation 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 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 pleas-
ing variety from the surrounding white, whose lustre too,
their gentle embrowning shade, considerably raised. Her
spark then endeavoured, 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 the couch, and bringing
to it one of the pillows, gently inclin'd her head down, so
that as she leaned with it over her crossed hands, strad-
dling with her thighs wide spread, and jutting her body out,
she presented a full back view of her person, naked to the
waist. Her posteriours, plump, smooth, and prominent,
form'd 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 vale, and was there stopt, and attracted by the em-
bowered bottom-cavity, that terminated this delightful
vista 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 glossiest white satin. Her gallant,
who was a gentleman about thirty, somewhat inclin'd 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 disproportion'd to
its breadth, was the more surprizing, 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
her's tallying with the hollow made with the bent of his
belly and thighs, as they curved inwards, brought all those
parts, surely not undelightfully, into warm touch, and close
conjunction; his hands he kept passing round her body, and
employed 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 turning her neck, without
much straining, but her cheeks glowing with the deepest scar-
let, and a smile of the tenderest satisfaction, met the kiss
he press'd 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 and as favourably 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 vio-
lence of them; then ever as he backen'd from her, we could
see between them part of his long whitestaff foamingly in
motion, till, as he went on again and closed with her, 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 sub-
jects of his soft blockade, which he squeez'd, grasp'd and
play'd with, till at length a pursuit of driving, so hotly
urged, brought on the height of the fit, with such overpower-
ing 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 un-
able to keep her legs, and yielding to the mighty intoxica-
tion, she reeled, and falling forward on the couch, made it
a necessity for him, if he would preserve the warm pleasure-
hold, to fall upon her, where they perfected, in a continued
conjunction of body and extatic flow, their scheme of joys
for that time.
As soon as he had disengag'd, the charming Emily got up,
and we crowded round her with congratulations and other offi-
cious 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
observ'd: here was no gross ribaldry, no offensive or rude
behaviour, or ungenerous reproaches to the girls for their
compliance with the humours 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 the respect and tenderness due to our sex,
and even to those of it 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 sci-
ence of pleasure, who never shew'd these votaries of theirs a
more tender respect than at the time of those exercises of
their complaisance, when they unlock'd their treasures of
concealed beauty, and shewed 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 frolick was now come round to me, and it being my
turn of subscription to the will and pleasure of my particu-
lar elect, as well 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 author-
iz'd the hopes of, and at the same time repeated to me that
if all this force of example had not surmounted any repug-
nance I might have to concur with the humours 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 any thing, sooner than be the instrument of im-
posing a disagreeable task on me.
To this I answered, without the least hesitation or
mincing grimace, that had I not even contracted a kind of
engagement to be at his disposal without the least reserve,
the example of such agreeable companions would alone deter-
mine me and that I was in no pain about any thing 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 pleas'd them all; my particular was
complimented on his acquisition, and, by way of indirect
flattery to me, openly envied.
Mrs. Cole, 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, inde-
pendent of his noble birth and the great fortune he was heir
to, his person was even uncommonly pleasing, well shaped and
tall; his face mark'd with the small-pox, but no more than
what added a grace of more manliness to features rather turn-
ed to softness and delicacy, was marvellously enliven'd 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 to the cock-pit of our match,
where, as I was dressed in nothing but a white morning gown,
he vouchsafed to play the male-Abigail on this occasion, and
spared me the confusion that would have attended the forward-
ness of undressing myself: my gown then was loosen'd in a
trice, and I divested of it; my stay next offered an obstacle
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 lib-
erty they could wish. Here I imagin'd the stripping was to
stop, but I reckoned short: my spark, at the desire of the
rest, tenderly begged that I would not suffer the small re-
mains of a covering to rob them of a full view of my whole
person; and for me, who was too flexibly obsequious to dis-
pute any point with them, and who considered the little more
that remain'd as very immaterial, I readily assented to what-
ever 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 fasten'd, 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 ring-
lets, over my neck and shoulders, to the not unfavourable
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 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 pleni-
tude, maintained a firmness and steady independence of 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 grate-
ful to the senses of sight and touch, which I owed to the
health and youth of my constitution. I had not, however, so
thoroughly renounc'd all innate shame as not to suffer great
confusion at the state I saw myself in; but the whole troop
round me, men and women, relieved me with every mark of ap-
plause 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, infinitely out-
shone all other birthday finery whatever; so that had I leave
to set down, for sincere, all the compliments these connois-
seurs overwhelmed me with upon this occasion, I might flatter
myself with having pass'd my examination with the approbation
of the learned.
My friend however, who for this time had alone the dis-
posal of me, humoured 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 as-
pect of it, not without such parentheses of kisses, such in-
flammatory liberties of his roving hands, as made all shame
fly before them, and a 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 excus'd the strictest visitation;
nor was it but agreed, that I had not the least reason to be
diffident of passing even for a maid, on occasion: so incon-
siderable a flaw had my preceding adventures created there,
and so soon had the blemish of an over-stretch 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 touch or sight, or whether he was now ungovern-
ably 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, when his breeches, before loosen'd, now gave up their
contents to view, and shew'd in front the enemy I had to en-
gage 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-siz'd instruments, of which
the masters have a better command than the more unwieldy,
inordinate siz'd ones are generally under. Straining me
then close to his bosom, as he stood up fore-right against
me and applying to the obvious niche its peculiar idol, he
aimed at inserting it, which, as I forwardly favoured, he
effected at once by canting 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 glew'd to
his; he carried me once round the couch, on which he then,
without quitting the middle-fastness, or dischannelling, laid
me down, and began the pleasure-grist. 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 up my inwards from him, but I was punctually on
flow, to share the momentary extasy; but I had yet greater
reason to boast of out harmony: for finding that all the
flames of desire were not yet quench'd within me, but that
rather, like wetted coals, I glowed the fiercer for this
sprinkling, my hot-mettled spark, sympathizing with me, and
loaded for a double fire, recontinu'd the sweet battery with
undying vigour; greatly pleas'd at which I gratefully endea-
voured to accommodate all my motions to his best advantage
and delight; kisses, squeezes, tender murmurs, all came into
play, till our joys, growing 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 plea-
sures, into which we both plunged together in a transport of
taste. Now all the impressions of burning desire, from the
lively scenes I had been spectatress of, ripened by the heat
of this exercise, and collecting to a head, throbb'd and agi-
tated me with insupportable irritations: I did not now enjoy
a calm of reason enough to perceive, but I extatically, in-
deed, felt the 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 of it, all conspiring to rise my delight by assur-
ing me of his. Lifted then to the utmost pitch of joy that
human life can bear,undestroyed by excess, I touch'd that
sweetly critical point, whence scarce prevented by the injec-
tion from my partner, I dissolved, and breaking out into a
deep drawn sigh, sent my whole sensitive soul down to that
passage where escape was denied it, by its being so delici-
ously plugged and chok'd up. Thus we lay a few blissful in-
stants, overpowered, still, and languid; till, as the sense
of pleasure stagnated, we recover'd from out trance, and he
slipt out of me, not however before he had protested his ex-
treme 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, help'd me to hurry on my cloaths
in an instant, and complimented me on the sincere homage
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 dress'd again, signaliz'd, above all, a fondness unbated
by the circumstance of recent enjoyment; the girls too kiss'd
and embraced me, assuring me that for that time, or indeed
any other, unless I pleased, I was to go thro' no farther
publick trials, and that I was now consummatedly initiated,
and one of them.
As it was an inviolable law for every gallant to keep to
his partner, for the night especially, and even till he
relinquish'd possession over to the community, in order to
preserve a pleasing property and to avoid the disgusts and
indelicacy 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
pairs. Mrs. Cole had prepared my spark and me an occasional
field-bed, to which we retir'd, and there ended the night in
one continued strain of pleasure, sprightly and uncloy'd
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 assurances of a particular
regard for me, left me to the composure and refreshment of a
sweet slumber; waking out of which, and getting up to dress
before Mrs. Cole should come in, I found in one of my pockets
a purse of guineas, which he had slipt there; and just as I
was musing on a liberality I had certainly not expected, Mrs.
Cole came in, to whom I immediately communicated the present,
and naturally offered her whatever share she pleas'd: but
assuring me that the gentleman had very nobly rewarded her,
she would on no terms, no entreaties, no shape I could put it
in, receive any part of it. Her denial, she observed, was
not affectation of grimace, 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
to in the course of my acquaintance with the town. After
which, changing the discourse, she fell on the pleasures of
the preceding night, where I learn'd, without much surprize,
as I began to enter on her character, that she had seen every
thing that had passed, from a convenient place managed solely
for that purpose, and of which she readily made me the
confidante.
She had scarce finish'd this, when the little troop of
love, the girls my companions, broke in and 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 directress. They went
down then to figure it, as usual, in the shop, whilst I
repair'd to my lodgings, where I employed myself till I
returned to dinner at Mrs. Cole's.
Here I staid in constant amusement, with one or other
of these charming girls, till about five in the evening; when
seiz'd with a sudden drowsy fit, I was prevailed on to go up
and doze it off on Harriet's bed, who left me on it to my
repose. There then I lay down in my cloaths and fell fast
asleep, and had now enjoyed, by guess, about an hour's rest,
when I was pleasingly disturbed by my new and favourite gal-
lant, who, enquiring for me, was readily directed where to
find me. Coming then into my chamber, and seeing me lie
alone, with my face turn'd 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 the prospect of the back avenue to the genial seat of
pleasure; where, as I lay at my side length, inclining rather
face 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 thighs and belly close to me, and the endeavours of that
machine, whose touch has something so exquisitely singular in
it, to make its way good into me. I wak'd pretty much star-
tled 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 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
term'd it, from 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, urg'd
him to action, which now prosecuting with all the usual 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 draughts of
pleasure in us.
With this noble and agreeable youth liv'd I in perfect
joy and constancy. He 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 a post 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
propos'd, and I had consented 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 king-
dom, he chose the wiser part, and forebore sending for me, but
at the same time took care that I should receive a very magni-
ficent present, which did not however compensate for all my
deep regret on my loss of him.
This event also created a chasm in our little society,
which Mrs. Cole, on the foot of her usual caution, was in no
haste to fill up; but then it redoubled her attention to pro-
cure me, in the advantages of a traffic for a counterfeit
maidenhead, some consolation for the sort of widowhood I had
been left in; and this was a scheme she had never lost pro-
spect of, and only waited for a proper person to bring it to
bear with.
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 pass'd near a month in the enjoyment of all
the pleasures of familiarity and society with my companions,
whose particular favourites (the baronet excepted, who soon
after took Harriet home) had all, on the terms of community
establish'd in the house, solicited the gratification of
their taste for variety in my embraces; but I had with the
utmost art and address, on 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 seem'd, from jealousy, could
not but in secret like me the better for the regard I 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 with the following adventure.
Whilst I was chaffering for the fruit I wanted, I ob-
serv'd myself follow'd by a young gentleman, whose rich
dress first attracted my notice; for the rest, he had no-
thing remarkable in his person, except that he was pale,
thin-made, and ventur'd himself upon legs rather 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 ask'd for the fruit, began his approaches. Now most
certainly I was not at all out of figure to pass for a modest
girl. I had neither the feathers nor fumet of a taudry town-
miss: a straw hat, a white gown, clean linen, and above all,
a certain natural and easy air of modesty (which the appear-
ances of never forsook me, even on those occasions that I
most broke in upon it, in practice) were all signs that gave
him no opening to conjecture my condition. He spoke to me;
and this address from a stranger throwing a blush into my
cheeks that still set him wider off the truth, I answered
him with an aukwardness and confusion the more apt to impose,
as there was really a mixture of the genuine in them. But
when proceeding, on the foot of having broken the ice, 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, 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
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 serv'd 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 liv'd
journey-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 favour of the growing passion I
had inspir'd him with. After he had next got out of me,
very dextrously as he thought, what I had no sort of design
to make reserve of, my own, my mistress's name, and place 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 Mrs. Cole's, I related to her
all that passed, on which she very judiciously concluded
that if he did not come after me there was no harm done, and
that, if he did, as 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 mean
time nothing was easier than my part in it, since no more
rested on me than to follow her cue and promptership through-
out, to the last act.
The next morning, after an evening spent on his side, as
we afterwards learnt, in perquisitions into Mrs. Cole's char-
acter in the neighbourhood (than which nothing could be more
favourable to her design upon him), my gentleman came in his
chariot to the shop, where Mrs. Cole alone had an inkling of
his errand. Asking then for her, he easily made a beginning
of acquaintance by be-speaking 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,
Mrs. Cole took notice that the first impressions I made on
him ran no risk of being destroyed by those of Louisa and
Emily, who were then sitting at work by me. After vainly
endeavouring 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 Mrs. Cole direction
when to bring the 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.
