and some shelves up, I know exactly the place."

Nothing stopped him, and after boring, prodding, and getting a chair to
stand on to find the right place, he at length made some cracks a few
inches long with a knife, and we saw day light through the bath, towels,
clothes-pegs, and a large cane settee or sofa. I would not look at
first, but so weak is man's nature concerning a woman, that at length I
did, and a thrill of pleasure shot through me as I thought of seeing the
naked girls, and strange enough I recollect a feeling of curiosity about
the figures my two cousin's would cut if they were naked. I thought of
the quims of his sisters some years before, and wondered what difference
between these and those.

Carefully locking the closet we went out. When we returned Fred peeped
at every opportunity, but saw nothing that day. The next morning Fred
awakened me. "Get up, they are going to bathe, a servant is filling
the baths." It was a cold dark morning. "I shan't." "Don't," and off
he went. In a minute or two however I was by his side. We saw two
young ladies enter, strip, and take their baths; the candle-light was
imperfect, but we saw them rub their bodies dry, and scrub the wet off
their cunts; we saw their hair above and below, and all their little
secrets. They were, we afterwards knew, sisters.

"I shall burst," said Fred, "how do you feel Walter?" I was maddened by
desire like him at the sight of the fresh, modest, naked girls cleaning
themselves so unsuspectingly; all this in whispers.

Another girl or two came in, they hurried through the operation as if
they did not like it. "Here is Carry," said Fred. I peeped and in came
my two cousins. "Lord what a lot of hair she has got on her cunt," said
my shameless cousin. "It's a damned ungentlemanly thing Fred." "Well
don't look then," said he. But I did,--I could not help it; my sense of
honor was strong, my lust stronger, and I saw both naked. "Holloa! here
is Mrs. Maria,"--it was. She stripped. A fine round, plump, middle-aged
woman with a mess of black hair between her thighs, that would have
sufficed to stuff a sofa-squab. Fred was smitten. "I'll be damned," said
he, "if I would not sooner have her than all the others." I could not
get his eyes away to let me have a full look, so much was he taken with
her. Indeed when she put one leg on the chair, and rubbed the towel well
round her cunt and arse, showing two big, well-set globes, and round
arms and thighs,