 desire than modesty, whilst the candle, left (to be sure not
undesignedly) burning, threw a full light on my whole body.
    »No!« says Phoebe, »you must not, my sweet girl, think to hide all these
treasures from me. My sight must be feasted as well as my touch ... I must
devour with my eyes this springing BOSOM... Suffer me to kiss it ... I have not
seen it enough ... Let me kiss it once more ... What firm, smooth, white flesh
is here! ... How delicately shaped! ... Then this delicious down! Oh! let me
view the small, dear, tender cleft! ... This is too much, I cannot bear it! ...
I must ... I must ...« Here she took my hand, and in a transport carried it
where you will easily guess. But what a difference in the state of the same
thing! ... A spreading thicket of bushy curls marked the full-grown, complete
woman. Then the cavity to which she guided my hand easily received it; and as
soon as she felt it within her, she moved herself to and fro, with so rapid a
friction that I presently withdrew it, wet and clammy, when instantly Phoebe
grew more composed, after two or three sighs, and heart-fetched Oh's! and giving
me a kiss that seemed to exhale her soul through her lips, she replaced the
bed-cloaths over us. What pleasure she had found I will not say; but this I
know, that the first sparks of kindling nature, the first ideas of pollution,
were caught by me that night; and that the acquaintance and communication with
the bad of our own sex, is often as fatal to innocence as all the seductions of
the other. But to go on. When Phoebe was restor'd to that calm, which I was far
from the enjoyment of myself, she artfully sounded me on all the points
necessary to govern the designs of my virtuous mistress on me, and by my
answers, drawn from pure undissembled nature, she had no reason but to promise
herself all imaginable success, so far as it depended on my ignorance, easiness,
and warmth of constitution.
    After a sufficient length of dialogue, my bedfellow left me to my rest, and
I fell asleep, through pure weariness from the violent emotions I had been led
into, when nature (which had been too warmly stir'd and fermented
