panting, fainting and dying as he discharged; which she no sooner felt
the killing sweetness of, than unable to keep her legs, and yielding to
the mighty intoxication, she reeld, and falling forward on the couch,
made it a necessity for him, if he would preserve the warm-pleasure
hold, to fall upon her, where they perfected, in a continued conjunction
of body and extatic flow, their scheme of joys for that time.

As soon as he had disengaged, the charming Emily got up, and we crowded
round her with congratulations and other officious little services; for
it is to be noted, that though all modesty and reserve were banished
from the transaction of these pleasures, good manners and politeness
were inviolably observed: there was no gross ribaldry, no offensive
or rude behaviour, or ungenerous reproaches to the girls for their
compliance With the humours and desires of the men. On the contrary,
nothing was wanting to soothe, encourage, and soften the sense of their
condition to them. Men know not in general how much they destroy of
their own pleasure, when they break through the respect and tenderness
due to our sex, and even to those of it who live only by pleasing
them. And this was a maxim perfectly well understood by these polite
voluptuaries, these profound adepts in the great art and science of
pleasure, who never shewed these votaries of theirs a more tender
respect than at the time of those exercises of their complaisance, when
they unlocked their treasures of concealed beauty, and shewed out in the
pride of their native charms, ever more touching surely than when they
parade it in the artificial ones of dress and ornament.

The frolic was now come round to me, and it being my turn of
subscription to the will and pleasure of my particular elect, as well
as to that of the company, he came to me, and saluting me very tenderly,
with a flattering eagerness, put me in mind of the compliances my
presence there authorized the hopes of, and at the same time repeated to
me, "that if all this force of example had not surmounted any repugnance
I might have to concur with the humours and desires of the company, that
though the play was bespoke for my benefit, and great as his own private
disappointment might be, he would suffer any thing, sooner than be the
instrument of imposing a disagreeable task."

To this I answered, without the least hesitation, or mincing grimace,
"that had I not even contracted a kind of engagement to