gown and cap, with two lighted
wax candles, and bolting the door, gave me, tho' I expected him, some sort of
alarm. He came a tip-toe to the bed-side, and said with a gentle whisper: »Pray,
my dear, do not be startled ... I will be very tender and kind to you.« He then
hurry'd off his cloaths, and leap'd into bed, having given me openings enough,
whilst he was stripping, to observe his brawny structure, strong-made limbs, and
rough shaggy breast.
    The bed shook again when it receiv'd this new load. He lay on the outside,
where he kept the candles burning, no doubt for the satisfaction of ev'ry sense;
for as soon as he had kiss'd me, he rolled down the bed-cloaths, and seemed
transported with the view of all my person at full length, which he cover'd with
a profusion of kisses, sparing no part of me. Then, being on his knees between
my legs, he drew up his shirt and bared all his hairy thighs, and stiff staring
truncheon, red-topt and rooted into a thicket of curls, which covered his belly
to the navel and gave it the air of a flesh brush; and soon I felt it joining
close to mine, when he had drove the nail up to the head, and left no partition
but the intermediate hair on both sides.
    I had it now, I felt it now, and, beginning to drive, he soon gave nature
such a powerful summons down to her favourite quarters, that she could no longer
refuse repairing thither; all my animal spirits then rush'd mechanically to that
center of attraction, and presently, inly warmed, and stirr'd as I was beyond
bearing, I lost all restraint, and yielding to the force of the emotion, gave
down, as mere woman, those effusions of pleasure, which, in the strictness of
still faithful love, I could have wished to have held up.
    Yet oh! what an immense difference did I feel between this impression of a
pleasure merely animal, and struck out of the collision of the sexes by a
passive bodily effect, from that sweet fury, that rage of active delight which
crowns the enjoyments of a mutual love-passion, where two hearts, tenderly and
truly united, club to exalt the joy, and give it a spirit and soul that bids
defiance to that end which mere momentary desires generally terminate in, when
they die of
