I recollect, and that after the fuck we both fell asleep, and were
awakened by a knock at the door. It was late in the morning, and broad
daylight, Laura was knocking. I opened the door. Laura looked at me, and
then at Mabel, and said, "Well the sooner I send you back the better."
There was a somewhat bitter row between them, short but sharp, in which
Mabel gave as good as she got. Laura went away. Mabel turned round and
wept; then we fucked, and went to sleep again.

This is the only point in my history with Mabel much worth noting,
except that when I knew her from top to bottom, and found she got out of
bed, and washed her cunt after my sperming it, I asked her, "Why did you
not wash the first night?" "Because it's unlucky," said she, and I never
got any more out of her; but she had known the sensation of a prick in
her cunt before mine, that I found out the first night.

She was a well-arsed, well-made, plump girl about twenty-one years old,
and had a wonderfully white skin. She had been fucked before, but I
believed from all I learnt from her, Laura and Fred, that for two years
a prick had not entered her. A man who had paid his addresses to her had
deceived her, then cleared off, I expect after tailing her.

I did not profess to keep Mabel after this, but paid for the
second-floor rooms (Fred had taken the upper part of the house, three
bed- and one sitting-room), and my share of the living, and slept with
her almost regularly for a short time, gave her money, dressed her, and
did all a man does who keeps a woman; but I never cared much about her,
and was not constant.

She like Laura was fairly educated. A few months afterwards she went
back to her native town, and although she wrote to me, I never saw her
again, and had some idea that Lord A.... kept her, why I shall tell
further on. One reason of my being indifferent to her was that she never
properly washed herself. Her beautiful white flesh never seemed to need
it, but I did not like a woman who just smeared her face and neck, and
never below. I told her of it, and she was offended.

About three weeks after I first had Mabel, Fred and I went to shoot with
some friends at----shire; it was towards the end of November, all the
leaves were well off the trees.

As said I had female cousins by several aunts, two of them about
seventeen or eighteen years of age were at a finishing-school for young
ladies. It was a large old-fashioned house kept by three ladies