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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, 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 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 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 science 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 particular 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 authoriz'd 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 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 imposing a disagreeable task on me.
    To this I answered, without the
