from relatives; and then also my mother, at the advice of an
uncle, who pointed out that in a year and a half I could not be kept out
of my property, allowed me a fair monthly stipend.

I now found out that women of a superior class, were to be had much
cheaper, than my great friends used to talk of; but at the time I write
of, a sovereign would get any woman, and ten shillings as nice a one
as you needed. Two good furnished rooms near the Clubs, could be had
by women for from fifteen to twenty shillings per week, a handsome silk
dress for five or ten pounds, and other things in proportion. So cunt
was a more reasonable article than it now is, and I got quite nice
girls at from five to ten shillings a poke, and had several in their own
rooms, but sometimes paying half-a-crown extra for a room elsewhere.

When with but little money, I used to take out my best silk
handkerchiefs, and give them with money, and once or twice I gave
nothing else. One night to a nice-looking girl I said I could give her
nothing but a handkerchief. "All right," said she without a murmur. When
I had fucked her, she laid still on the bed and before she washed her
cunt examined the handkerchief very carefully. "It's a rare good new
one, it will pop for half-a-crown where I am known, where did you prig
it?" looking at me as she spoke, and then added, "Yet you look like a
gentleman too." I recollect it as well as if it were yesterday. I at
that time used to take pleasure in laying as long as I could after I had
spent, then getting up and kneeling between the girl's legs opening her
cunt and watching the spunk at the mouth, or the big drops rolling down
between the cheeks of her bum. I was kneeling so then, and was not a
little shocked at her remark. That girl was young, handsome, well made,
and in the Hay-market would now get anything from one to five pounds,
yet I had her several times for three and four shillings a time.

CHAPTER X.

A big cunted one.--Sister Mary.--A wet dream.--Charlotte
reappears.--Consequences.--My first child.--Cook Brown, and
housemaid Harriet.--Masturbation and foolscap.--A deaf
relative.--An uncomfortable pudendum.--A lacerated penis.--
Sudden dismissals.

Just at this time the following incident occurred. Going one Saturday
night up Granby street, Waterloo road, then full of women who used to
sit at the windows half naked; two or three together at times in the
same room on the ground-f