rench servant. Some
years afterwards it turned out that the woolen shop was used by the
foreigners for forging foreign notes; the cloth business was but a mask.
Camille had been there two years.

Off Camille went. That same day I was at the house. Madame, Louise said,
had gone for ten days into the country, and had left word that no one
was to be let in. I went upstairs saying I should come when I liked,
that as Camille had gone, we could do as we liked. She looked hard at
me.

"I expect Madame has gone off with some man," said I, "she will get a
good lot of fucking." She had heard me talking baudy, and knew that word
in English and French. Then we had breakfast together, and I made love
to her.

Louise was as vain as a peacock, and excessively fond of her stomach.
When she had a glass of champagne, she used to swallow it as fast as
she could. This weakness and inclination in any woman places her at the
mercy of a man who will spend his money; and though I did not then see
the advantages of money as plainly as I see it now, I instinctively used
it.

"This is jolly," said I, "we will go and have dinner, then go to the
theatre, do what we like afterwards." Her eyes sparkled, but she feared
to go, for "Madame was such a demon when offended." "Who would know? The
people in the house would not know what we did," I replied.

It was yet only mid-day. "Nobody can interrupt us, let's have luncheon
here, I will get the wine." A french restaurateur sent in a hot luncheon.
I fetched champagne, then bethought myself of something which had not
occurred to me before.

Camille had as said a big album full of voluptuous pictures. When she
went to fetch Louise I asked her to leave it with me till her return.
She said, "I will pawn it to you for ten pounds." I lent that sum. Since
her return she had not asked for it, maybe thinking I would ask for my
ten pounds. I knew now well the effect of baudy pictures in exciting
lust, so I fetched it. We had luncheon and champagne, she laughed,.
talked, objected to sit down with me, but at last was thoroughly at home
with me, and for the first time talked freely of her mistress, whom
she feared. She disclosed a deal of simplicity and a very great deal of
vulgarity, for she was an utter vulgar peasant girl; but I didn't mind
anything to get up her cunt.

Good living heats the body and stimulates randi-ness; there is fifty
times as much danger in leaving a young couple together with their
st