Mr. H... had clapped a livery upon him; and his chief employ was, after

being shewn my lodgings, to bring and carry letters or messages between

his master and me; and as the situation of all kept ladies is not the

fittest to inspire respect, even to the meanest of mankind, and,

perhaps, less of it from the most ignorant, I could not help observing

that this lad, who was, I suppose, acquainted with my relation to his

master by his fellow servants, used to eye me in that bashful confused

way, more expressive, more moving and readier caught at by our sex,

than any other declarations whatever: my figure had, it seems, struck

him, and modest and innocent as he was, he did not himself know that

the pleasure he took in looking at me was love, or desire; but his

eyes, naturally wanton, and now inflamed with passion, spoke a great

deal more than he durst have imagined they did. Hitherto, indeed, I had

only taken notice of the comeliness of the youth, but without the least

design: my pride alone would have guarded me from a thought that way,

had not Mr. H....’s condescension with my maid, where there was not

half the temptation, in point of person, set me a dangerous example;

but now I began to look on this stripling as every way a delicious

instrument of my designed retaliation upon Mr. H.... of an obligation

for which I should have made a conscience to die in his debt.

In order then to pave the way for the accomplishment of my scheme, for

two or three times that the young fellow came to me with messages, I

managed so, or without affectation to have him admitted to my bed side,

or brought to me at my toilet, where I was dressing; and by carelessly

shewing or letting him, as if without meaning or design, sometimes my

bosom rather more bare than it should be; sometimes my hair, of which I

had a very fine head, in the natural flow of it while combing;

sometimes a neat leg, that had unfortunately slipt its garter, which I

made no scruple of tying before him, easily gave him the impressions

favourable to my purpose, which I could perceive to sparkle in his

eyes, and glow in his cheeks: then certain slight squeezes by the hand,

as I took letters from him, did his business completely.

When I saw him thus moved, and fired for my purpose, I inflamed him yet

more, by asking him several leading questions, such as: “Had he a

mistress?... was she prettier than me?... could he love such a one as I

was?...” and the like; to all which the blushing simpleton answered to

my wish, in a strain of perfect nature, perfect undebauched innocence,

but with all the awkwardness and simplicity of country breeding.

When I thought I had sufficiently ripened him for the laudable point I

had in view, one day that I expected him at a particular hour, I took

care to have the coast clear for the reception I designed him; and, as

I laid it, he came to the dining room door, tapped at it, and, in my

bidding him come in; he did so, and shut the door after him. I desired

him, then, to bolt it on the inside, pretending it would not otherwise

keep shut.

I was then lying at length upon that very couch, the scene of Mr.

H....’s polite joys, in an undress, which was with all the art of

negligence flowing loose, and in a most tempting disorder: no stays, no

hoop..., no incumbrance whatever. On the other hand, he stood at a

little distance, that gave me a full view of a fine featured, shapely,

healthy country lad, breathing the sweets of fresh blooming youth; his

hair, which was of a perfect shining black, played to his face in

natural side curls, and was set out with a smart tuck-up behind; new

buckskin breechs, that, clipping close, shewed the shape of a plump,

well made thigh; white stockings, garter-laced livery, shoulder knot,

altogether composed a figure of pure flesh and blood, and appeared

under no disgrace from the lowness of a dress, to which a certain

spruce neatness seems peculiarly fitted.

I bid him come towards me, and give me his letter, at the same time

throwing down, carelessly, a book I had in my hands. He coloured, and

came within reach of delivering me the letter, which he held out,

awkwardly enough, for me to take, with his eyes rivetted on my bosom,

which was, through the designed disorder of my handkerchief,

sufficiently bare, and rather than hid.

I, smiling in his face, took the letter, and immediately catching hold

of his shirt sleeve, drew him towards me, blushing, and almost

trembling; for surely his extreme bashfulness, and utter inexperience

called for, at least, all the advances to encourage him: his body was

now conveniently inclined toward me, and just softly chucking his

beardless chin, I asked him: “If he was afraid of a lady?...” and with

that took, and carrying his hands to my breasts, I press it tenderly to

them. They were now finely furnished, and raised in flesh, so that,

panting with desire, they rose and fell, in quick heaves, under his

touch: at this, the boy’s eyes began to lighten with all the fires of

inflamed nature, and his cheeks flushed with a deep scarlet:

tongue-tied with joy, rapture, and bashfulness, he could not speak, but

then his looks, his emotion, sufficiently satisfied me that my train

had taken, and that I had no disappointment to fear.

My lips, which I threw in his way, so that he could not escape kissing

them, fixed, fired, and emboldened him: and now, glancing my eyes

towards that part of his dress which covered the essential object of

enjoyment, I plainly discovered the swell and commotion there; and as I

was now too far advanced to stop in so fair a way, and was indeed no

longer able to contain myself, or wait the slower progress of his

maiden bash-fulness (for such it seemed, and really was), I stole my

hands upon his thighs, down one of which I could both see and feel a

stiff hard body, confined by his breeches, that my fingers could

discover no end to. Curious then, and eager to unfold so alarming a

mystery, playing, as it were, with his buttons, which were bursting

ripe from the active force within, those of his waistband and fore-flap

flew open at a touch, when out IT started; and now, disengaged from the

shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play thing of a

boy, not the weapon of a man, but a Maypole, of so enormous a standard,

that had proportions been observed, it must have belonged to a young

giant. Yet I could not, without pleasure, behold, and even venture to

feel, such a length, such a breadth of animated ivory! perfectly well

turned and fashioned, the proud stiffness of which distented its skin,

whose smooth polish and velvet softness might vie with that of the most

delicate of our sex, and whose exquisite whiteness was not a little set

off by a sprout of black curling hair round the root: through the jetty

springs of which the fair skin shewed as in a fine evening you may have

remarked the clear light through the branchwork of distant trees

over-topping the summit of a hill: then the broad of blueish-casted

incarnate of the head, and blue serpentines of its veins, altogether

composed the most striking assemblage of figure and colours in nature.

In short, it stood an object of terror and delight.

But what was yet more surprising, the owner of this natural curiosity,

through the want of occasions in the strictness of his home breeding,

and the little time he had been in town not having afforded him one;

was hitherto an absolute stranger, in practice at least, to the use of

all that manhood he was so nobly stocked with; and it now fell to my

lot to stand his first trial of it, if I could resolve to run the risks

of its disproportion to that tender part of me, which such an oversized

machine was very fit to lay in ruins.

But it was now of the latest to deliberate, for, by this time, the

young fellow, over heated with the present objects, and too high metled

to be longer curbed in by that modesty and awe which had hitherto

restrained him, ventured, under the stronger impulse, and instructive

promptership of nature alone, to slip his hands, trembling with eager

impetuous desires, under my petticoats; and seeing, I suppose, nothing

extremely severe in my looks, to stop or dash him, he feels out, and

seizes, gently, the center spot of his ardours. Oh then! the fiery

touch of his lingers determines me, and my fears melting away before

the glowing intolerable heat, my thighs disclose of themselves, and

yield all liberty to his hand: and now, a favourable movement giving my

petticoats a toss, the avenue lay too fair, too open to be missed. He

is now upon me: I had placed myself with a jerk under him, as

commodious and open as possible to his attempts, which were untoward

enough, for his machine, meeting with no inlet, bore and battered

stiffly against me in random pushes, now above, now below, now beside

his point; till, burning with impatience from its irritating touches, I

guided gently, with my hand, this furious fescue to where my young

novice was now to be taught his first lesson of pleasure. Thus he

nicked, at length, the warm and insufficient orifice; but he was made

to find no breach impracticable, and mine, though so often entered, was

still far from wide enough to take him easily in.

By my direction, however, the head of his unwieldy machine was so

critically pointed, that, feeling him fore-right against the tender

opening, a favourable motion from me met his timely thrust, by which

the lips of it, strenuously dilated, gave way to his thus assisted

impetuosity, so that we might both feel that he had gained a lodgment.

Pursuing then his point, he soon, by violent, and, to me, most painful

piercing thrusts, wedges himself at length so far in, as to be now

tolerably secure of his entrance: here he stuck, and I now felt such a

mixture of pleasure and pain, as there is no giving a definition of. I

dreaded alike his splitting me farther up, or his withdrawing; I could

not bear either to keep or part with him. The sense of pain, however,

prevailing, from his prodigious size and stiffness, acting upon me in

those continued rapid thrusts, with which he furiously pursued his

penetration, made me cry out gently: “Oh, my dear, you hurt me!” This

was enough to check the tender respectful boy even in his mid-career;

and he immediately drew out the sweet cause of my complaint, whilst his

eyes eloquently expressed, at once, his grief for hurting me, and his

reluctance at dislodging from quarters, of which the warmth and

closeness had given him a gust of pleasure, that he was now desire mad

to satisfy, and yet too much a novice not to be afraid of my

withholding his relief, on account of the pain he had put me to.

But I was, myself, far from being pleased with his having too much

regarded my tender exclaims; for now, more fired with the object before

me, as it still stood with the fiercest erection, unbonneted, and

displayed its broad vermilion head, I first gave the youth a

re-encouraging kiss, which he repaid me with a fervour that seemed at

once to thank me, and bribe my further compliance; and soon replaced

myself in a posture to receive, at all risk, the renewed invasion,

which he did not delay an instant: for, being presently remounted, I

once more felt the smooth hard gristle forcing an entrance, which he

achieved rather easier than before. Pained, however, as I was, with his

efforts of gaining a complete admission, which he was so regardful as

to manage by gentle degrees, I took care not to complain. In the mean

time, the soft strait passage gradually loosens, yields, and, stretched

to its utmost bearing, by the stick, thick, indriven engine, sensible,

at once, to the ravishing pleasure of the feel and the pain of the

distension, let him in about half way, when all the most nervous

activity he now exerted, to further his penetration, gained him not an

inch of his purpose: for, whilst he hesitated there, the crisis of

pleasure overtook him, and the close compressure of the warm

surrounding flow drew from him the ecstatic gush, even before mine was

ready to meet it, kept up by the pain I had endured in the course of

the engagement, from the insufferable size of his weapon, though it was

not as yet in above half its length.

I expected then, but without wishing it, that he would draw, but was

pleasingly disappointed: for he was not to be let off so. The well

breathed youth, hot-mettled, and flush with genial juices, was now

fairly in for making me know my driver. As soon, then, as he had made a

short pause, waking, as it were, out of the trance of pleasure (in

which every sense seemed lost for a while, whilst, with his eyes shut,

and short quick breathings, he had yielded down his maiden tribute), he

still kept his post, yet unsated with enjoyment, and solacing in these

so new delights; till his stiffness, which had scarce perceptibly

remitted, being thoroughly recovered to him, who had not once

unsheathed, he proceeded afresh to cleave and open to himself an entire

entry into me, which was not a little made easy to him by the balsamic

injection, with: which he had just plentifully moistened the whole

internals of the passage. Redoubling, then, the active energy of his

thrusts, favoured by the fervid appetency of my motions, the soft oiled

wards can no longer stand so effectual a picklock, but yield, and open

him an entrance. And now, with conspiring nature, and my industry,

strong to aid him, he pierces, penetrates, and at length, winning his

way inch by inch, gets entirely in, and finally, a home made thrust

sheaths it up to the guard; on the information of which, from the close

jointure of our bodies (insomuch that the hair on both sides perfectly

interweaved and incircled together), the eyes of the transported youth

sparkled with more joyous fires, and all his looks and motions

acknowledged excess of pleasure, which I now began to share, for I felt

him in my very vitals! I was quite sick with delight! stirred beyond

bearing with its furious agitations within me, and gorged and crammed,

even to a surfeit. Thus I lay gasping, panting under him, till his

broken breathings, faultering accents, eyes twinkling with humid fires,

lunges more furious, and an increased stiffness, gave me to hail the

approaches of the second period: it came... and the sweet youth,

overpowered with the ecstasy, died away in my arms, melting a flood

that shot in genial warmth into the innermost recesses of my body;

every conduit of which, dedicated to that pleasure, was on flow to mix

with it. Thus we continued for some instants, lost, breathless,

senseless of every thing, and in every part but those favourite ones of

nature, in which all that we enjoyed of life and sensation was now

totally concentered.

When our mutual trance was a little over, and the young fellow had

withdrawn that delicious stretcher, with which he had most plentifully

drowned all thoughts of revenge, in the sense of actual pleasure, the

widened wounded passage refunded a stream of pearly liquids, which

flowed down my thighs, mixed with streaks of blood, the marks of the

ravage of that monstrous machine of his, which had now triumphed over a

kind of second maidenhead. I stole, however, my handkerchief to those

parts, and wiped them as dry as I could, whilst he was re-adjusting and

buttoning up.

I made him sit down by me, and as he had gathered courage from such

extreme intimacy, he gave me an aftercourse of pleasure, in a natural

burst of tender gratitude and joy, at the new scenes of bliss I had

opened to him: scenes positively new, as he had never before had the

least acquaintance with that mysterious mark, the cloven stamp of

female distinction, though nobody better qualified than he to penetrate

into its deepest recesses, or do it nobler justice. But when, by

certain motions, certain unquietness of his hands, that wandered not

without design, I found he languished for satisfying a curiosity,

natural enough, to view and handle those parts which attract and

concenter the warmest force of imagination, charmed, as I was, to have

any occasion of obliging and humouring his young desires, I suffered

him to proceed as he pleased, without check or control, to the

satisfaction of them.

Easily, then, reading in my eyes the full permission of myself to all

his wishes, he scarce pleased himself more than me; when, having

insinuated his hand under my petticoat and shift, he presently removed

those bars to the sight, by slily lifting them upwards, under favour of

a thousand kisses, which he thought, perhaps, necessary to divert my

attention from what he was about. All my drapery being now rolled up to

my waist, I threw myself into such a posture upon the couch, as gave up

to him, in full view, the whole region of delight, and all the

luxurious landscape around it. The transported youth devoured every

thing with his eyes, and tried, with his fingers, to lay more open to

his sight the secrets of that dark and delicious deep: he opens the

folding lips, the softness of which, yielding entry to any thing of a

hard body, close round it, and oppose the sight; and feeling further,

meets with, and wonder at, a soft fleshy excrescence, which, limber and

relaxed after the late enjoyment, now grew, under the touch and

examination of his fiery fingers, more and more stiff and considerable,

till the titillating ardours of that so sensible part made me sigh, as

if he had hurt me; on which he withdrew his curious probing fingers,

asking me pardon, as it were, in a kiss that rather increased the flame

there.

Novelty ever makes the strongest impressions, and in pleasures,

especially; no wonder then, that he was swallowed up in raptures of

admiration of things so interesting by their nature, and now seen and

handled for the first time. On my part, I was richly overpaid for the

pleasure I gave him, in that of examining the power of those objects

thus abandoned to him, naked and free to his loosest wish, over the

artless, natural stripling: his eyes streaming fire, his cheeks glowing

with a florid red, his fervid frequent sighs, whilst his hands

convulsively squeezed, opened, pressed together again the lips and

sides of that deep flesh wound, or gently twitched the over-growing

moss; and all proclaimed the excess, the riot of joys, in having his

wantonness thus humoured. But he did not long abuse my patience, for

the objects before him had now put him by all his, and, coming out with

that formidable machine of his, he lets the fury loose, and pointing it

directly to the pouting-lip mouth, that bid him sweet defiance in dumb

shew, squeezes in his head, and, driving with refreshed rage, breaks

in, and plugs up the whole passage of that soft pleasure-conduit pipe,

where he makes all shake again, and put, once more, all within me into

such an uproar, as nothing could still, but a fresh inundation from the

very engine of those flames, as well as from all the springs with which

nature floats that reservoir of joy, when risen to its floodmark.

I was now so bruised, so battered, so spent with this overmatch, that I

could hardly stir, or raise myself, but lay palpitating, till the

ferment of my senses subsiding by degrees, and the hour striking at

which I was obliged to dispatch my young man, I tenderly advised him of

the necessity there was for parting; at which I felt so much

displeasure as he could do, who seemed eagerly disposed to keep the

field, and to enter on a fresh action. But the danger was too great,

and after some hearty kisses of leave, and recommendations of secrecy

and discretion, I forced myself to send him away, not without

assurances of seeing him again, to the same purpose, as soon as

possible, and thrust a guinea into his hands: not more, less, being too

flush of money, a suspicion or discovery might arise from thence;

having everything to fear from the dangerous indiscretion of that age

in which young fellows would be too irresistible, too charming, if we

had not that terrible fault to guard against.

Giddy and intoxicated as I was with such satiating draughts of

pleasure, I still lay on the couch, supinely stretched out, in a

delicious languor diffused over all my limbs, hugging myself for being

thus revenged to my heart’s content, and that in a manner so precisely

alike, and on the identical spot in which I had received the supposed

injury. No reflections on the consequences ever once perplexed me, nor

did I make myself one single reproach for having, by this step,

completely entered myself into a profession more decried than disused.

I should have held it ingratitude to the pleasure I had received, to

have repented of it; and since I was now over the bar, I thought, by

plunging head and ears into the stream I was hurried away by, to drown

all sense of shame or reflection.

Whilst I was thus making these laudable dispositions, and whispering to

myself a kind of tacit vow of incontinency, enters Mr. H... The

consciousness of what I had been doing deepened yet the glowing of my

cheeks, flushed with the warmth of the late action, which, joined to

the piquant air of my dishabile, drew from Mr. H.... a compliment on my

looks, which he was proceeding to bask the sincerity of with proofs,

and that with so brisk an action, as made me tremble for fear of a

discovery from the condition those parts were left in from their late

severe handling: the orifice dilated and inflamed, the lips swollen

with their uncommon distension, the ringlets pressed down, crushed and

uncurled with the over flowing moisture that had wet everything round

it; in short, the different feel and state of things would hardly have

passed upon one of Mr. H.....’s nicety and experience unaccounted for

but by the real cause. But here the woman saved me: I pretended a

violent disorder of my head, and a feverish heat, that indisposed me

too much to receive his embraces. He gave in to this, and good

naturedly desisted. Soon after, an old lady coming in made a third,

very apropos for the confusion I was in, and Mr. H...., after bidding

me take care of myself, and recommending me to my repose, left me much

at ease and relieved by his absence.

In the close of the evening, I took care to have prepared for me a warm

bath of aromatik and sweet herbs; in which having fully laved and

solaced myself, I came out voluptuously refreshed in body and spirit.

The next morning waking pretty early, after a night’s perfect rest and

composure, it was not without some dread and uneasiness that I thought

of what innovation that tender soft system of mine might have

sustained, from the shock of a machine so sized for its destruction.

Struck with this apprehension, I scarce dared to carry my hand thither,

to inform myself of the state and posture of things.

But I was soon agreeably cured of my fears.

The silky hair that covered round the borders, now smoothed and

re-pruned, had resumed its wonted curl and trimness; the fleshy pouting

lips that had stood the brunt of the engagement, were no longer swollen

or moisture-drenched; and neither they, nor the passage into which they

opened, that had suffered so great a dilation, betrayed any the least

alteration, outwardly or inwardly, to the most curious research,

notwithstanding the laxity that naturally follows the warm bath.

This continuation of that grateful stricture which is in us, to the

men, the very jet of their pleasure, I owed, it seems, to a happy habit

of body, juicy, plump and furnished, towards the texture of those

parts, with a fullness of soft springy flesh, that yielding

sufficiently, as it does, to almost any distension soon recovers itself

so as to re-tighten that strict compression of its mantlings and folds,

which form the sides of the passage, wherewith it so tenderly embraces

and closely clips any foreign body introduced into it, such as my

exploring finger then was.

Finding then every thing in due tone and order, I remember my fears,

only to make a jest of them to myself. And now, palpably mistress of

any size of man, and triumphing in my double achievement of pleasure

and revenge, I abandoned myself entirely to the ideas of all the

delight I had swam in. I lay stretching out, glowingly alive all over,

and tossing with burning impatience for the renewal of joys that had

sinned but in a sweet excess; nor did I lose my longing, for about ten

in the morning, according to expectation, Will, my new humble

sweetheart, came with a message from his master, Mr. H...., to know how

I did. I had taken care to send my maid on an errand into the city,

that I was sure would take up time enough; and, from the people of the

house, I had nothing to fear, as they were plain good sort of folks,

and wise enough to mind no more other people’s business than they could

well help.

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